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<font face="Times New Roman">Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana, in collaboration with several partners, is proud
to announce:<br>
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><small><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 16pt" size="4"><small><i><b>Networked
Disruption</b></i></small></font></font></small><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><i><b>Rethinking
Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and Business</b></i></font><font
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size="3"><i><font color="#000000"><span lang="sl-SI">Group
exhibition and side programme </span></font></i></font></font><font
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli</font></font><font
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size="3"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption"><span
style="font-weight: normal">www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption</span></a></font></font><font
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size="3"><b><span lang="en-GB">Exhibition @ </span></b><b><span
lang="en-GB">Škuc Gallery</span></b><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background: transparent">, Stari trg 21,
Ljubljana, Slovenia / March 11 – April 3, 2015</span></span></font></font><font
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size="3"><b><span lang="nb-NO"><span style="background:
transparent">Seminar @ </span></span></b><span
lang="nb-NO"><b><span style="background: transparent">Kino
Šiška</span></b></span><span lang="nb-NO"><span
style="background: transparent">, Trg prekomorskih
brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia /</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="background: transparent"> March
11 – 12, 2015</span></span><font color="#000000"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span></span></font></font></font><font
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size="3"><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
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href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/networked.disruption.zip"><span
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><b>Networked Disruption</b></i></span><span
lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">is an
exhibition and a series of events produced by </span><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Aksioma </b></span><span lang="en-GB">and</span><span
lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Drugo
more </b></span><span lang="en-GB">in collaboration with
several partners and curated by </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Tatiana
Bazzichelli</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-weight: normal">. </span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background: transparent">The exhibition,</span></span><span
lang="en-GB"> hosted by </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Škuc
Gallery</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> in Ljubljana and the
</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> in Rijeka,</span><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="background: transparent"> is
centred on the concept of “Networked Disruption”, as an
opportunity to show new possible routes of social and
political action in the line of disruption. It focuses on
the mutual interferences between business and disruption,
by shedding light simultaneously on heterogeneous
practices of h</span></span><span lang="en-GB">ackers,
artists, networkers, whistleblowers, activists and
entrepreneurs who engage deeply with network activity. </span></font><font
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3"><span lang="en-GB">The increasing commercialisation
of sharing and networking contexts since the middle of
2000s is transforming the meaning of art and that of
business. What were once marginal practices of networking
in underground hacker and artistic contexts have in recent
years become a core business for many information
technology companies and social media enterprises. In
Bazzichelli’s analysis, art intertwines with disruption
beyond dialectical oppositions, leading to a discovery of
subliminal and distributed strategies, which emerge </span><span
lang="en-GB"><i>from within</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
the capitalistic systems, or act </span><span
lang="en-GB"><i>within it</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
In the exhibition and seminar, she involves actors who
directly engage with hacktivism, art, civil liberties and
social networking exposing contradictions of capitalistic
logics and power systems. Such interventions hijack the
logic of business itself, appropriating and détourning it
by operating disruption. The challenge is to collectively
rethink oppositional hacktivist and artistic strategies
within the framework of (social) networking, information
economy and increasingly invasive corporations and
government agencies.</span></font></font><font face="Times
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size="3"><span lang="en-GB">The exhibition</span><span
lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB">shows a
diverse constellation of networking projects that aims to
actualise – and to question – the notion of “networking”
itself: <b>Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation
Front, Burning Man Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez
Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Julian Oliver, Laura
Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther Blissett, Mail
Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club,
Telekommunisten, and Trevor Paglen</b>. </span></font></font><font
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size="3"><span lang="en-GB">The </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Networked
Disruption</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> exhibition is
based on Bazzichelli’s book </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Networked
Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism
and the Business of Social Networking</i></span><span
lang="en-GB"> (DARC Press, The Digital Aesthetics Research
Centre of Aarhus University, 2013). Bazzichelli’s
hypothesis is that mutual interferences between art,
hacktivism and the business of social networking have
changed the meaning and contexts of political and
technological criticism. Hackers and artists have been
active agents in business innovation, while at the same
time also undermining business. Artists and hackers use
disruptive techniques of networking within the framework
of social media, opening up a critical perspective towards
business to generate unpredictable feedback and unexpected
reactions; business enterprises apply disruption as a form
of innovation to create new markets and network values,
which are often just as unpredictable. Bazzichelli
proposes the concept of the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Art
of Disrupting Business</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> as
a form of artistic practice within the business field of
information technology. </span></font></font><font
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size="3"><span lang="en-GB">The artworks and collective
projects are conceptually and visually interlinked in the
exhibition spaces, which constitutes a network of
networks. By applying the strategy of “working from
within”, some sections of the show are conceptualised in
collaboration with people deeply involved in the networks
under scrutiny: Vittore Baroni (Mail Art), Florian Cramer
(Neoism), Gabriella Coleman (Anonymous), John Law (Suicide
Club and Cacophony Society), Andrea Natella (The Luther
Blissett Project) and members of the Anna Adamolo network.
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size="3">This choice reflects the perspective that a new
methodology of curating a research should open a
metaphorical (and physical) space to encourage and provoke
feedback loops among theory and practice, and among subjects
and objects of analysis. The result is a constellation of
networking practices, which aims to actualise – and to
question – the notion of “direct participation” itself.</font></font><font
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color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Seminar registration:
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size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Please send your full name
and e-mail address by March 10</span></span></font><font
color="#000000"><sup><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-weight: normal">th</span></span></sup></font><font
color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-weight: normal"> to: </span></span></font><font
color="#0000ff"><span lang="en-GB"><u><span
style="font-weight: normal"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:sonjagrdina@gmail.com">sonjagrdina@gmail.com</a></span></u></span></font></font><br>
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><b>Project's webpage:</b>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption">www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption</a><br>
</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><b>Seminar full programme
and participants</b><b>: </b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf">www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf</a><br>
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size="3"><span lang="nb-NO"><b>Tatiana Bazzichelli</b></span><span
lang="nb-NO"> is a curator and researcher, author of the
books Networked Disruption (2013), Networking (2008), and
co-editor of the book Disrupting Business (2013). She is
director of the Disruption Network Lab, an experimental
curatorial project on art, hacktivism, and disruption,
based in Berlin. She was programme curator at the
transmediale festival from 2011 to 2014, initiating the
year-round reSource transmedial culture project, and was a
Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital
Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.<br>
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size="3"><b>CREDITS</b></font></font><font face="Times New
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size="3">Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli</font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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size="3"><span style="background: transparent">Head of
production: Janez Janša</span></font></font><font
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Artistic directors: Janez Janša (Aksioma), Vladimir
Vidmar (Škuc Gallery) </font></font><font face="Times New
Roman"> <br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Producers: Marcela Okretič, Joško Pajer </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Executive producer: Sonja Grdina </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Assistant: Boris Beja </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Technicians: Atila Boštjančič, Valter Udovičić </font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Public relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt</font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3">Documentation: Miha Fras, Adriana Aleksić, Jernej
Čuček Gerbec</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><b>Production: </b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana; Drugo more, Rijeka, 2015</span></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
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size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><b>Coproduction:</b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI"> Abandon Normal Devices,</span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI"><b> </b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">Škuc Gallery, Kino Šiška</span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">,</span></font></font><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><b> </b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka</span></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><b>Partners: </b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">Moderna galerija Ljubljana, d-i-n-a / The
Influencers, Link Art Center </span></font></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> <br>
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</font> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><i>Networked Disruption</i></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI"> is realized in the framework of </span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI"><b>Masters & Servers</b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI">, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more
(HR), AND (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The
Influencers (ES). </span></font></font><font face="Times
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mastersandservers.org">www.mastersandservers.org</a><br>
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size="3"><span lang="sl-SI"><b>Supported by:</b></span></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span
lang="sl-SI"> the Creative Europe programme of the
European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano
di Cultura in Slovenia.</span></font></font><font
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman"><small><font
color="#000000">This project has been funded with support
from the European Commission. This communication reflects
the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be
held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.</font> </small><br>
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</font> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>Contact:</b> <a
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href="http://www.aksioma.org/contacts">www.aksioma.org/contacts</a></font><font
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