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<font size="4"><i><b>The World Without Us:
Narratives on the age of non-human actors</b></i></font><br>
<i>Group exhibition</i><br>
<b>Curated by: Inke Arns (HMKV)</b><br>
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Vžigalica Gallery | Museum and Galleries of
Ljubljana</b><br>
Trg francoske revolucije, Ljubljana<br>
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<u>Opening:</u> Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 8 pm</span>
</div><div><span><u>Open through:</u> 27 August 2017<br>
<a href="http://aksioma.org/twwu/" target="_blank">aksioma.org/twwu</a><span style="font-weight:normal"><br>
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</span><u>Participating artists:</u>
Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, Timo
Arnall, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ignas
Krunglevicius, Mark Leckey, Nicolas Maigret &
Maria Roszkowska, Eva & Franco Mattes, Yuri
Pattison, Sascha Pohflepp, Suzanne Treister, Addie
Wagenknecht, Pinar Yoldas.</span></span></div><div>
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</div><div><i><b>From alien matter to The
World Without Us</b></i><br>
<i>Curator talk</i><br>
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<b>City Museum of Ljubljana</b><br>
Gosposka ulica 15, Ljubljana<br>
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</b>Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 7 pm</div><div>
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The exhibition asks what a world without us would be
like. But rather than conjuring up a postdisaster
scenario, it describes such a world as the result of
a gradual development whose origins can be traced
back to our day and age. Taking its cues from
science-fiction literature and the philosophical
school of Speculative Realism, the exhibition
largely relies on the principle of extrapolation. <br>
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The tools for the creation of a “world without us”
are at hand. The first driverless cars are driving
on our streets, news articles are compiled by
algorithms, and translations are done by machines.
Already in 2009 a third of all shares in the EU and
the US were traded by algorithms. We can only
speculate on the current proportion. <br>
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In a “world without us” humans will be replaced by
machines, artificial intelligences will be optimized
by other AIs and algorithms will be programmed by
other self-learning algorithms. In this way, a
radically different, post-anthropocentric world
could emerge in which non-human life forms could
eventually prove better able to adapt than man
himself. Benjamin Bratton said of such a world in
2014: “Worse than being seen as the enemy (by AI) is
not being seen at all.”<br>
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The increasing influence of non-human actors in our
everyday life has not only been explored by several
recent blockbusters, including Her (2013), and in TV
series such as Black Mirror (2011) and Real Humans
(2012), but also in contemporary (media) art.
Loosely inspired by Timothy Morton’s book Ecology
Without Nature, the artists in this exhibition
explore the possibility of an ecology after man – an
age of the post-Anthropocene, in which other “life”
forms, such as algorithms, artificial intelligence,
artificially created nanoparticles, genetically
modified micro-organisms and seemingly monstrous
plants, have taken control. This new era, which has
already begun, albeit imperceptibly, is the age of
non-human actors.<br>
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The World Without Us was originally produced and
presented by HMKV in Dortmund, Germany in 2016. For
the 2017 Ljubljana version a selection of the
Dortmund show was made and some works of the
exhibition alien matter (curated by Inke Arns for
the transmediale festival, HKW, 2017) were added to
The World Without Us. The exhibition will move to
Rijeka (Mali Salom / MMSU) at the end of the summer
as a part of the project State Machines - Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation.
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<div><strong>Side programme:</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong> Adam Harvey:
<em>Privacy Gift Shop</em><br></strong>
Solo exhibition<br>
<span class="gmail-body"> Aksioma Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana<br>
21 June – 21 July 2017<br>
<a href="http://aksioma.org/privacy.gift.shop/">http://aksioma.org/privacy.gift.shop/</a> </span></div><div><br></div><div> <strong>Maja Smrekar:</strong> <strong>
<em>Requiem for the Future</em></strong><br></div><div> Hybrid performance</div><div> <span class="gmail-body">Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Krekov trg 2, Ljubljana<br>
5, 7, 8 July 2017 at 9 pm</span></div><div><span class="gmail-body"> <u>Production:</u> <span class="gmail-body">Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Aksioma<span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-body"> <a href="http://aksioma.org/requiem/index.html">http://aksioma.org/requiem/index.html</a></span><span class="gmail-body"><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div><br>
<b>Produced by:</b> HMKV (Hartware
MedienKunstVerein),<a href="http://www.hmkv.de" target="_blank">
www.hmkv.de</a><br>
and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana,<a href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">
www.aksioma.org</a><br>
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Co-production:</b> Museum & Galleries of
Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka<br>
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Head of production: Janez Janša<br>
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Jani Pirnat<br>
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina<br>
Public relations: Alja Žorž, Janja Buzečan<br>
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<b>Media sponsor</b>: Radio Študent<br>
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The World Without Us in Ljubljana and Rijeka is
realised in the framework of the project <i><b><b><span style="font-weight:normal"><b>State</b></span></b> Machines<span style="font-weight:normal">, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), the Institute of </span></b></i><span><span><span>Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).<br>
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<b>Supported by</b>: the Creative Europe programme
of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of
the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana,
Kultura nova and the Department of Culture of City
of Rijeka.<br>
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<font size="1">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.<br>
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Contact:</b><br>
Marcela Okretič, 00386-(0)41 250830, <a href="mailto:marcela@aksioma.org">marcela@aksioma.org</a> </span></span></span></div><div><span>Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<br>
Komenskega 18, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>
<a href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a></span></div><div><span><br>
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