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Press Release</b></font></font></font><font face="Helvetica,
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<font color="#000000"><font size="3"><b>INTERNET
LANDSCAPES: SWEDEN<br>
Evan Roth</b></font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
size="3"><b>Online
Launch Wed 2 March 2016<br>
</b></font><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://n57.680235e11.668160.se/"><font
color="#1155cc"><font size="3"><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://n57.680235e11.668160.se/">http://n57.680235e11.668160.se/</a></b></font></font></a></u></span></font></font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>Internet
Landscapes</i> is a new series of web-based artworks by Evan
Roth
that allows audiences to experience the Internet’s physical,
digital and cultural landscape. Through a series of video
works that
bring together audio and video recordings charting the
artist's
obsession with and journey to find the physical Internet. </font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">As
part of the Masters & Servers open call programme he
evolves this
further with a new commission, <i>Internet Landscapes: Sweden</i>
based on the artist’s recent research and documentation of
Sweden’s
main Internet submarine fibre optic cable landing locations.
These
landing locations are transitional moments in which fibre
optic
cables join the undersea communication network, allowing
continents
to communicate digitally – send emails, skype, phone.</font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">In
early 2016 Roth embarked on a pilgrimage to a number of
landing
locations in Sweden between Kungsbacka, on the south eastern
coast,
and Väddö, just north of Stockholm, documenting the
surroundings
using infra-red video and binaural audio recordings. The use
of
infra-red is in part a reference to the architecture of the
Internet,
which uses infra-red laser light transmitted through fibre
optic
cables. While the audio monitors and records his heart rate,
surrounding environment and fm radio waves. The result is a
online
experience that brings together these recordings, to allow you
to
meditate on the landscape and the internet as the video <font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">file
transfers through the network from its’ host in Sweden to
your
screen. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">For
Roth, visiting the Internet physically is an attempt to repair
a
relationship that has changed dramatically as the Internet
becomes
more centralized, monetized and a mechanism for global
government
spying. Clearly seeing the infrastructure disappear
underground and
underwater also alludes to the slowly eroding optimistic and
egalitarian values many of us attributed to earlier
incarnations of
the internet. Through understanding and experiencing the
Internet’s
physicality, one comes to understand the network not as a
mythical
cloud, but as a human made and controlled system of wires and
computers.<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><br>
</font><b>The project will be
revealed online on Wednesday 2nd March 2016,</b> and for
those
wishing to delve deeper, clues are held in the url and source
code
signaling to the works origins and different readings.<br>
<br>
The
launch date coincides with the works premier as part of the <i>Black
Chamber</i> exhibition taking place at the Skuc Gallery,
Ljubljana
from March 10 – April 1, 2016. Curated by Eva and Franco
Mattes and
Bani Brusadin, featuring artists Jacob Appelbaum & Ai
Weiwei,
Zach Blas, James Bridle, Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion,
Simon
Denny, Jill Magid, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Metahaven, Laura
Poitras,
Evan Roth.</font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Evan
Roth, artist said<br>
<i>“</i><i><span style="background: #ffffff">For
me this project is as much a search for the Internet as it
is a
search for new ways of making art within a fundamentally
changed
network landscape.</span></i><i>”</i><br>
<br>
Ruth McCullough,
Senior Producer for Abandon Normal Devices said<br>
<i>“The Masters
and Servers partners are delighted to commission this new
artwork by
Evan Roth, it is the first in a significant new series by
the artist,
who makes visible the environment of the internet and its
misuses.”
</i></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">The
project is commissioned through a Masters & Servers open
call
programme which launched in summer 2015. <br>
Masters & Servers is a
joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Abandon Normal
Devices (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The
Influencers
(ES).</font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Production
coordination:
Marcela Okretič, Aksioma and Ruth McCullough, Abandon
Normal Devices<br>
</font></font><br>
Supported by: Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Municipality of Ljubljana</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><small><font color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><small>This
project has been funded with support from the European
Commission.
<br>
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.</small></font></font></small><br>
</font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>For
press
enquiries please contact: </b><br>
Marcela Okretič, Aksioma</font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org"><font
color="#1155cc"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a></font></a></u></span></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>\\
Notes to Editors</b></font></font><br>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Masters
&
Servers<br>
</b>Masters & Servers is a 24-month project
investigating NETWORKED CULTURE IN THE POST-DIGITAL AGE, both
its
current effect on society and possibilities for the future, by
exploring these 3 strands:</font></font><br>
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<ul>
<li> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Imagination: Technologies
are shaping new forms of representation, storytelling and
social dialogue. How do we make sense of our connectedness,
both public and anonymous, individual and collective,
political and personal?</font></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Reproduction: New forms of
creation and distribution are shifting lines between amateur
and professional. How do they affect cultural
(re)production?</font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Action: Activist artists
and businesses are both creating viral and collaborative
distribution tools, resulting in the disruption of the known
and expected. What forms of engagement and adventure do they
reveal?</font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><br>
</font>
</li>
</ul>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Five
key organisations in the European contemporary and media arts
–<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://aksioma.org/">
</a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://aksioma.org/"><font
color="#1155cc">Aksioma</font></a></u></span></font>
(SI),<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.drugo-more.hr/wordpress/">
</a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.drugo-more.hr/wordpress/"><font
color="#1155cc">Drugo
more</font></a></u></span></font> (HR),<font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.linkartcenter.eu/">
</a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.linkartcenter.eu/"><font
color="#1155cc">Link
Art Center</font></a></u></span></font> (IT),<font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.andfestival.org.uk/">
</a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.andfestival.org.uk/"><font
color="#1155cc">Abandon
Normal Devices</font></a></u></span></font> (UK) and<font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://theinfluencers.org/en">
</a></u></span></font><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://theinfluencers.org/en"><font
color="#1155cc">d-i-n-a</font></a></u></span></font>
(ES) – have joined forces in an exploration of a multifaceted
scene
where media-savvy artists, hacktivists and creators traverse
the
frontiers of contemporary art, social intervention and amateur
invention. Together they have co-produced exhibitions and new
artworks, launch open calls and online platforms, and send
artists
and artworks on the road. Discourses arising as a result will
be
documented in publications and shared in seminars and public
events.
As a whole, the project aims to strengthen the partners’
operational know-how and engage new and existing audiences in
a
dynamic conversation that paves the way for unexpected
connections on
the entire spectrum of contemporary creativity.</font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.mastersandservers.org/"><font
color="#1155cc"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mastersandservers.org">www.mastersandservers.org</a></font></a></u></span></font>
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/mastersandservers"><font
color="#1155cc"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.facebook.com/mastersandservers">www.facebook.com/mastersandservers</a></font></a></u></span></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><br>
<b>Evan
Roth</b></font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Evan
Roth (b. 1978) is an American artist based in Paris whose
practice
visualizes and archives culture through unintended uses of
technologies. Creating prints, sculptures, videos and
websites, his
work explores the relationship between unintended uses and
empowerment and the effect that philosophies from hacker
communities
can have when applied to digital and non-digital systems. </font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">His
work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art,
New
York, and the Israel Museum. Recent exhibitions include the
2016
Biennale of Sydney; Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at
Whitechapel Gallery, London; and This Is for Everyone at the
Museum
of Modern Art, New York. Roth co-founded the arts
organizations
Graffiti Research Lab and the Free Art and Technology Lab and
in 2016
was a recipient of Creative Capital funding.</font></font><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><br>
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.evan-roth.com/work/"><font
color="#1155cc"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.evan-roth.com/work/">www.evan-roth.com/work/</a></font></a></u></span></font>
<font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><font
color="#1155cc"><a href="http://twitter.com/evanroth_">@EvanRoth</a><a
href="http://twitter.com/evanroth_">_</a></font></u></span></font><br>
</font></font><font color="#000000"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><br>
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<b>The
Black Chamber</b></font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">The
Black Chamber exhibition will take place at the Škuc Gallery,
Ljubljana from March 10 – April 1, 2016, then tour to the Mali
Salon/Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
from
April 7 – 30, 2016. The programme questions: How did the
internet
go from the utopian free-for-all, open source heaven,
libertarian
last frontier to the current state of permanent surveillance,
exhibitionism and paranoia? and developed through ongoing
research on
these subjects by internationally renown artist duo Eva &
Franco
Mattes and researcher-curator Bani Brusadin, and is a
selection of
some of the most significant works by a generation of artists
and
activists who devise both technological and social tactics to
peek
into contemporary phenomena of surveillance and paranoia,
including
the ambiguity of massive voyeurism and actual systems of
corporate or
state control over citizens. </font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/"><font
color="#1155cc"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/">http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/</a></font></a></u></span></font>
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