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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Aksioma</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tactics&Practice</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> #7</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><B><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></I></B></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><A HREF="https://aksioma.org/critical.engineering/index.html"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">https://aksioma.org/critical.engineering/index.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">TALKS | WORKSHOP | EXHIBITION</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="sl"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Ljubljana, 26–27 March 2019</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">THE TALKS:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Kino Šiška</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tuesday, 26 March 2019</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">17:00 Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dark Internet Topologies</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">17:45 Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Electromagnetic Situationism</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">18:30 Joana Moll:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">An Autopsy of Data Business</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">19:15 Sarah Grant:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Radical Networks</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Free admission. Please fill in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="https://goo.gl/forms/40WPby7FQFnsBWnJ3"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">registration form</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> by 24 March 2019.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">THE WORKSHOP:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Kino Šiška</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Wednesday, 27 March 2019</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">9:00–18:00 Sarah Grant & Joana Moll:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Surveillance Override</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The workshop is free of charge. Limited to 12 participants.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Follow</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="https://goo.gl/forms/3YeBjVVC0RZDP8jD3"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">this link</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">to apply</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">THE EXHIBITION:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Aksioma | Project Space</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Wednesday, 27 March 2019 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">19:00</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Critical Engineering</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> – opening (open through 26 April 2019)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">In 2011, a group of artists and engineers published the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="https://criticalengineering.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">“Critical Engineering Manifesto”</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, since translated into 18 languages. Around the manifesto, originally written by Julian Oliver, Gordan Savičić and Danja Vasiliev, gathered a larger group – the Critical Engineering Working Group – now including also Sarah Grant, Bengt Sjölén and Joana Moll.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">In true avant-garde fashion, the “Manifesto” launches by describing Engineering as “the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think”, thus, it is the work of the Critical Engineer “to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence”. Further, a Critical Engineer “recognises that each work of engineering engineers its user”, considering “any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat”. And so the manifesto unfolds.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Nearly ten years later, the relevance of the “Critical Engineering Manifesto” has only become more evident, as an ever-growing public becomes aware of the techno-political implications of using – and depending upon – integrated systems and complex, networked technologies. Today, one can find its 11 points listed on the walls of hacklabs, museums, engineering and media-art academies, and in a great many texts, the world over.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">Tactics&Practice</FONT></U></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> event entitled</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Critical Engineering</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> comprises an exhibition, a seminar and a workshop, underlining the artistic, theoretical and educational work done by the Critical Engineering Working Group along the last decade. The seminar will host all the members of the group – all of them recognised artists with long individual artistic careers – using their statements and their projects as case studies to analyse the transformative potential of Critical Engineering in the context of a tactical and technical arts practice.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Coproduction</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Supported by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> the Municipality of Ljubljana.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Tactics&Practice</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">#7</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">is realised in the framework of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.statemachines.eu/"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><I><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Times New Roman">State Machines</FONT></U></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">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></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Marcela Okretič</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">e-mail: marcela@aksioma.org</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">www.aksioma.org</FONT></SPAN></P>
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