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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to announce:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Proper and Improper Names<br>Identity in the Information Society</span></i></b><b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br><br></span></i></b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>CONFERENCE<br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Curated by: </span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Marco Deseriis<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kino Šiška<br></span></b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>17 </span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>–</span></b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'> 18 October 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://aksioma.org/im-propernames/"><span lang=SL>aksioma.org/im-propernames</span></a></span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>What aesthetic and political strategies may counter the quest for collecting data and measuring and predicting human behaviour, characteristic of informational capitalism? This conference addresses this question by bringing together theorists, artists, writers, and performers who have forged concepts, aesthetic codes, and authoring strategies that tend to escape measurement and attribution. Continuing Aksioma’s long-running investigation into the problems of identity and authorship in the age of networks, <i>Proper and Improper Names </i>explores modes of intervention that cannot be reduced to individual or collective identities. Rather, in shuttling between the I and the We, as well as the multiple dimensions of the self, these experiments exceed state and market attempts at measuring and producing the subject as a stable political, biological, and epistemological unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The five guests of the conference are <b>Marco Deseriis</b> (IT), whose book <i>Improper Names: Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous</i> provides the conceptual framework for the event; <b>Gerald Raunig</b> (AT), a philosopher who has recently published <i>Dividuum</i>, a book exploring the genealogy of the term “dividual,” i.e. that which is divisible and combinable according to the principle of similarity; <b>Kristin Sue Lucas</b> (USA), a performance artist who has managed to “refresh” her birth name through a legal procedure in court; <b>Natalie Bookchin</b> (USA), a media artist whose work explores collective identity as performed on social network sites through video installations and online works of art; and the collective <b>Wu Ming</b> (IT), who have created a layered body of literary works, critical texts, screenplays and maps, collaborating under a pseudonymous identity. The first day will end with a screening of <i>I-Be Area</i> (2007), an experimental film by U.S. artist <b>Ryan Trecartin</b>, in which characters and voices are different manifestations of the same person, showing the fragmentation of identity in the digital age. Finally, the conference will come to a close with the opening of </span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'>Janez Janša®</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'>,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> the anthological exhibition by Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša at MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, curated by Domenico Quaranta. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>PROGRAMME<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>TUE 17 October 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>17:00–17:45</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Marco Deseriis: <i>Improper Names, Con-Dividual Subjectivities<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>17:45–18:10</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Kristin Sue Lucas: <i>Refresh</i>, performance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:10–18:30</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:30–19:15</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Gerald Raunig: <i>Every Beginning Is Dividual<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>19:15–20:00</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Marco Deseriis & Gerald Raunig in conversation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>20:30</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Ryan Trecartin: <i>I-Be Area</i> (2007), movie screening<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>WED 18 October 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>17:00</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>–</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:00 </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wu Ming: <i>Collaborative Authorship and Condividuality in the Wu Ming Foundation<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:00</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>–</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:15</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>18:15</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'>–</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>19:15 </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Natalie Bookchin: <i>Prospective Collectives: Animating the Shared Self<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>20:00 </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Janez Janša®,<b> </b>e</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>xhibition opening at <b>MSUM </b>(Maistrova 3, Ljubljana). Curated by Domenico Quaranta.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Production</span></b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2017 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>Co-production</span></b><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt'>:<a name="__DdeLink__2305_547811429"> CUK Kino Šiška</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Artistic Director: Janez Janša <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Producer: Marcela Okretič <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Executive Producer: Sonja Grdina <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SL'>Public Relations: Alja Žorž <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>The conference is realised in the framework of <b><i><a href="http://www.statemachines.eu/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>State Machines</span></a></i></b>, a joint project <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%'><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'>by </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'><a href="http://aksioma.org/">Aksioma</a> (SI), </span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://drugo-more.hr/en/"><span lang=EN-GB>Drugo more</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'> (HR), </span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/"><span lang=EN-GB>Furtherfield</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'> (UK), </span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="file:///C:/02_Aksioma/01_projects_production_phase%20(8)/INT-MEDN_04_Adam%20Harvey/promo/the%20Institute%20of%20Network%20Cultures"><span lang=EN-GB>the Institute of Network Cultures</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'> (NL) and </span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.neme.org/"><span lang=EN-GB>NeMe</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'> (CY).</span><span lang=SL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>Supported by:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'> the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, <span style='color:black'>the </span>Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia<span style='color:black'>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>the</span><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt'> Municipality of Ljubljana<span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'> and </span></span></span><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#262626'>Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=IT style='color:#262626'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333;background:white'>This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. 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