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Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to
announce:<br>
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<b>The Black Chamber</b>* <br>
<b>surveillance, paranoia, invisibility & the internet</b><br>
Group exhibition and conference<br>
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Curated by: Eva & Franco Mattes, Bani Brusadin<br>
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<a href="aksioma.org/black.chamber">aksioma.org/black.chamber</a><br>
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Conference: Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana / March
9 – 10, 2016<br>
Exhibition: Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana / March 10 – April
1, 2016<br>
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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?<br>
This duplicity is the underlying thread that links the artists,
activists, and researchers who will participate in The Black
Chamber, an exhibition, a symposium, and an urban intervention
curated by The Influencers (Spain), produced by Aksioma in
partnership with Drugo More (Croatia) and hosted, respectively, by
Galerija Škuc and Kino Šiška in Ljubljana.<br>
Developed through ongoing research on these subjects by
internationally renown artist duo Eva & Franco Mattes and
researcher and curator Bani Brusadin, The Black Chamber aims at
discussing the delicate and often awkward role of art and
imagination in the age of mass surveillance, stressing the multiple
connections between post-studio art and independent research,
grassroots reverse engineering, and new forms of political activism
in the age of networks.<br>
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<b>* For centuries, nations around the world have operated Black
Chambers, secret rooms where they tried to decode the messages
being sent by their rivals: these were the precursors of the
modern Intelligence Agencies. This project is an attempt to peek
into the Black Chamber...</b><br>
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The Black Chamber has been developed in the framework of the
European project Masters & Servers / <a
href="http://mastersandservers.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mastersandservers.org">http://mastersandservers.org</a></a>.<br>
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<b>The Black Chamber Conference</b><br>
March 9 – 10, 2016 / Kino Šiška, Ljubljana<br>
With the participation of Marko Peljhan, Simona Levi, Evan Roth,
Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, and Zach Blas.<br>
See the program <a
href="http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/pdf/black-chamber_seminar_eng.pdf">here</a>.<br>
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<b>The Black Chamber Exhibition</b><br>
March 10 – April 1, 2016 / Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana<br>
Exhibition opening: Thursday, March 10 2016 at 9 pm<br>
Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12 pm – 8 pm<br>
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Featured artists: Jacob Appelbaum & Ai Weiwei, Zach Blas, James
Bridle, Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Simon Denny, Jill Magid,
!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Metahaven, Laura Poitras, Evan Roth.<br>
More: <a href="http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/">http://aksioma.org/black.chamber/</a><br>
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<b>Production: </b>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana; Drugo more, Rijeka, 2016<br>
<b>Coproduction:</b> d-i-n-a/The Influencers, Škuc Gallery, Kino
Šiška<br>
<b>Partner: </b>Link Art Center<br>
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The Black Chamber is realized in the framework of <b>Masters &
Servers</b>, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND
(UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).<br>
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Supported by: 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.<br>
<small><br>
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.</small><br>
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<b>Contact:</b><br>
Marcela Okretič / <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a><br>
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<br>
Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>
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