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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=Body><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dear Spectres,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I kindly invite you to follow the MemesteticA programme, which is running until 2 July 2021 in Ljubljana and online:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Body><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Tactics & Practice #11</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>MEMESTETICA</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>19 MAY<span style='background:white'>–2 JUL 2021<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=Body><span class=Hyperlink1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/memestetica"><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>https://aksioma.org/memestetica</span></span></a></span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span class=None><i><o:p> </o:p></i></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>A month-long conference on the relationship between visual art and memes </span></i></span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>– </span></i></span><span class=None><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>the hot core of the fresh aesthetics of the online ecosystem and the mother tongue of internet subcultures. </span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Curated by <b>Valentina Tanni</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=Body style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Publications</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Body><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Valentina Tanni: <span class=None><i>MemesteticA</i> (<a href="https://aksioma.org/memestetica-book">more</a>)</span><br></span><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Clusterduck: </span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>The Detective Wall Guide</span></i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> (<a href="https://aksioma.org/the-detective-wall-guide">more</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Primož Krašovec: <i>Smetnjak vs. Ljubljana</i> (Coming soon)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Exhibitions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Body><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Clusterduck: <i>Meme Manifesto</i></span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>, </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>19 MAY—4 JUN 2021 (<a href="https://aksioma.org/meme.manifesto">more</a>,</span><span class=Hyperlink4><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aksioma-org/albums/72157719324943250"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0433FF'>opening</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0433FF'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoCaption><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Smetnjak: <i>Everything Must Go, </i>9 JUN—2 JUL 2021 (<span class=Hyperlink3><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/everything-must-go"><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>more)</span></span></a></span></span></span><u><span style='color:#0433FF'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=Body><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Series of talks </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>(<a href="https://aksioma.org/memestetica.talks">more</a>)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoCaption><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Valentina Tanni / <span class=None>Book presentation (</span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/memestetica-talk"><span lang=IT style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>video</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><span class=None><i><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class=MsoCaption><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Marc Tuters (</span><span class=Hyperlink3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/memestetica-tuters"><span lang=IT style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>video</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><u><span lang=IT style='color:#0433FF'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoCaption><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Joshua Citarella (</span><span class=Hyperlink3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkl-gJFGB-w"><span lang=IT style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>video</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><u><span lang=IT style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0433FF'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoCaption><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Smetnjak / 9 JUN 2021 (</span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/streaming"><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>streaming</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoCaption><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Clusterduck / 16 JUN 2021 (</span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/streaming"><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>streaming</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoCaption><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Eva & Franco Mattes / 23 JUN 2021 (</span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://aksioma.org/streaming"><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>streaming</span></span></a></span></span><span class=Hyperlink3><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>)</span></span></span><span class=None><span style='background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>In 1995, less than one percent of the world's population had access to the Internet. Today, that number exceeds 60 percent, representing a staggering 4.5 billion people. It is a phenomenon that has brought all the levers of culture management into crisis and, in most cases, caused the collapse of the economic models associated with it. The field of visual arts also had radical consequences: the century-old crisis of the fundamental values of the art system, ie. uniqueness and originality, has just reached its peak, and the rise of the World Wide Web has brought a new destabilizing factor - the untamed emergence of amateur creativity. Internet memes, in all their various forms and remixes, have become the core of this new online ecosystem, and their impact has quickly transcended the boundaries of the web.</span><span style='background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Through</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> the </span></span><span class=None><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Tactics&Practice </span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>program, Aksioma has been mirroring and researching current social debates for more than a decade. The </span></span><span class=None><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>MemesteticA</span></i></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> conference represents the eleventh edition, focusing on memes, online subcultures and a new conception of art in the age of the Internet. Its starting point is the book of the same name by the Italian art historian </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Valentina Tanni</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, which was also translated to Slovenian as part of the program.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Body><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>MemesteticA</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> explores memes in relation to visual art in a month-long program and in a variety of formats. In an attempt to map the spontaneous and untamed nature of Internet images of </span></span><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span><span class=None><span lang=AR-SA dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span>“</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>wild conceptualism</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>”</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, it studies the</span></span><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span><span class=None><span lang=AR-SA dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span>“</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>memesthetics</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>” of digital culture </span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>through a combination of activities of an aesthetic and discursive and individual and participatory nature.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-style-textoutline-type:none;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth:0pt;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap:flat;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join:bevel;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit:0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash:solid;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align:center;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound:simple;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>The program extends of two solo exhibitions of two art collectives that have been delving into memes and communication potential of meme symbology for years. The interdisciplinary collective </span></span><span class=None><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Clusterduck</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, whose exhibition kicked off the conference in May, explores the processes and actors behind the creation of Internet-based content. As part of </span></span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Memestetica</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, the collective presented the evolving transmedia project </span></span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Meme Manifesto</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, which includes a solo exhibition and two interactive workshops, as well as the book novelty <i>The Detective Wall Guide</i>. The Slovenian anonymous collective </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Smetnjak</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> has been combining memes with theory and art for more than a decade, and within </span></span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Memestetica</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> it delves into the (non) political nature of memes in the exhibition <i>Everything Must Go</i> and in a new essay by </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Primož Kraš</span></b></span><span class=None><b><span lang=ES-TRAD style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>ovec</span></b></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>,<b> </b><i>Smetnjak vs. Ljubljana: The Singularity of Humour and Politics Beyond Elections</i>.</span><span style='background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>The discursive part of the program takes the form of short discussions with the curator Valentina Tanni and well-known artists and theorists who research meme aesthetics and digital culture. Tanni opened the series of talks with the presentation of the book </span></span><span class=None><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>MemesteticA</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, and the following weekly streams host names such as the aforementioned Clusterduck and Smetnjak, professor of Media studies </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Marc Tuters</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, who discusses the connection between </span></span><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span><span class=None><span lang=AR-SA dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span>“</span></span><span class=None><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>deep vernacular web</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>” </span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>and far-right political groups, artist </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Joshua Citarella</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> who dissects the aesthetics of Generation Z memes, and the artistic duo </span></span><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Eva & Franco Mattes</span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, pioneers of the net.art movement, who study the ethical and political issues arising from the beginning of the internet.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Body><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>As an "Easter egg", </span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>hidden</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> in the conference program</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> is</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> the Internet black market </span></span><span class=Hyperlink2><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aksioma-org/albums/72157719277773826"><span lang=DE style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Internet Yami-Ichi</span></span></a></span></b></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>, where at the end of May several local and international creators sold their Internet-related products in an attempt to recall the internet as a space of </span></span><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span><span class=None><span lang=AR-SA dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span>‘</span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>freedom</span></span><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span><span class=None><span lang=AR-SA dir=RTL style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=RTL></span><span dir=RTL></span>’ </span></span><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><span dir=LTR></span><span dir=LTR></span>- and further blur borders between </span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>the </span></span><span class=None><i><span lang=PT style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>online</span></i></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'> and <i>offline</i></span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>.</span><span style='background:white'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Body><span class=None><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=Body><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Production : </span></b><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Coproduction: </span></b><span class=None><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Kino </span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Partners: </span></b><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht; </span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>konS </span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>– </span></span><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Platform for Contemporary Investigative Arts</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Supported by </span></b><span class=None><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Italian Cultural Institute, Ljubljana</span></span><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=Body><span class=None><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marcela Okretič<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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