<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Dear friends,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">I'd like to announce the new book co-published by Aksioma & transmediale:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><b><font size="4">A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale</font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><font size="4"><a href="https://aksioma.org/scale-book" target="_blank">PREORDER</a></font></span><span lang="en-SI" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Preorders are open until 6 December 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">13€ preorder / 18€ regular price<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-----</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">The word <i>scale </i>is tricky. It invites many definitions, orientations
and connections to ourselves, our surroundings and our tools. However, to think
of scale as solely technical is reductive and omits the relations, feelings and
beliefs that come with such measurements and images. In this book, eight
authors come together to challenge our conventions and understanding of scale
as grounded in the human.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><b><i>A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale</i></b> is a joint
publication by <b>Aksioma</b> – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, and
<b>transmediale</b> in Berlin. The publication reflects back the shared theme of
<a href="https://2023.transmediale.de/en" target="_blank">transmediale’s 2023 festival edition a model, a map, a fiction</a> and of <a href="https://aksioma.org/scale/" target="_blank">Aksioma’s programme Tactics&Practice #14: Scale</a> and came together from a common
desire to think collectively about how measurements and maps create both
politics and feelings in the world. It is an investigation undertaken in collaboration
with the authors that opens up our understanding of the word scale. The book
explores how scale reconfigures relations, politics, and affects, through the
writing of <b>Asia Bazdyrieva</b>, <b>Anthony Downey</b>, <b>Chris Lee</b> in conversation with
<b>FRAUD</b> (<b>Audrey Samson</b> and <b>Francisco Gallardo</b>), <b>Jussi Parikka</b>, <b>Laura Tripaldi</b> and
<b>Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">The authors expand our understanding of scale to the
more-than-human, trace its movements and frictions through histories, and
question the way scale generates political power. Demonstrating how we can
think with scale, they introduce us to scalar thinking, its urgency in our
socio-technical present and its potential for making new maps, new
representations and new kinds of measurements.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><a href="https://aksioma.org/pdf/Scale-book-preview.pdf" target="_blank">BOOK PREVIEW</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Colophon</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><i>A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><i><br></i></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Contributors: Asia Bazdyrieva, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Anthony
Downey, FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), Chris Lee, Jussi Parikka,
Laura Tripaldi</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Editors: Nóra Ó Murchú, Janez Fakin Janša</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Editorial assistants: Anna-Lena Panter, Rok Kranjc</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Copyediting: Miha Šuštar, Pip Hare</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Design and layout: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Print: Collegium Graphicum</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">No. of copies: 1000 <br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Promotion and distribution: Sonja Grdina</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">All texts originally published online as part of the transmediale
journal were edited by Elise Misao Hunchuck. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">All texts originally published in
the Aksioma’s essay series PostScriptUM were edited by Janez Fakin Janša.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Published by: <a href="https://aksioma.org/" target="_blank">Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Represented by: Marcela Okretič</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">and</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><a href="https://transmediale.de/en" target="_blank">transmediale e.V</a>., Berlin</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Represented by: Filippo Gianetta</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and
the Municipality of Ljubljana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI">Ljubljana, November 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-SI"><br></span></p></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Marcela Okretič</div><div>Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</div><div><a href="http://www.aksioma.org" target="_blank">www.aksioma.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>