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is rated and evaluated according to personal taste? And where do we go from
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In the <b>second node</b> of <b><i>Tactics&Practice #15: <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=b842e6de0f&e=226cfbeb10" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal">(un)real data ☁</span><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal"> - (🧱</span><span style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal">)real effects</span></a></i></b>, dedicated to the politics of rating systems and grappling
with the ability of ratings to cause effects in the physical world, we focus on
the artistic duo <b>!Mediengruppe
Bitnik</b>, researcher and architect <b>Selena Savić</b>, and artist and critical engineer <b>Gordan Savičić</b>.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span lang="en-SI" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span lang="en-SI" style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">---</span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>2 April 2024 15:00-18:00</b> / ALUO, Tobačna 5, Ljubljana<br></span></font>
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</b>!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić: ⭐<i><b>1 Star Workshop</b></i></span></font></p>
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The artists scraped thousands of one-star reviews of public sites in Ljubljana.
Taking the scraped data as a starting point, the workshop will look at the
materiality of this data, its specific textures and aesthetics. What types of
views of the city can we generate from the data? How can we approach the data
in interesting ways? Can we use the scraped data as a form of critique and
artistic research? <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=d5c1b1a441&e=226cfbeb10" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">[MORE]</a><span lang="en-SI"></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">---</span></font></p>
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić: <b><i>One Star Review
Tour</i></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal">
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What are the consequences when we scrutinise and publicly evaluate the places
we love? With the exhibition <i>One Star Review Tour</i>, the artists
examine the prevalence of the five-star rating system in contemporary
data-driven environments. They explore how these systems, including credit
scores, social influence rankings and product/service reviews, influence
decisions in various aspects of daily life. The impact of ratings, influencing
our decisions on everything from restaurants and doctors to the products we buy
and the places we visit, will also be the subject of the accompanying
presentation by the authors. <a href="https://aksioma.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ae755fe8a8dbe61fc37d4622&id=46be8e27d2&e=226cfbeb10" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">[MORE]</a><span lang="en-SI"></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">----</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b><i>Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real Data – Real
Effects</i></b><br>
<b>February–June 2024</b><br></span></font>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Participants:</b> Alexandre Puttick, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder,
Gloria Gammer, Gordan Savičić, Marta Peirano, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Neja
Berger, Sebastian Schmieg, Selena Savić, Simon Weckert, Total Refusal,
Valentina Tanni<br></span></font>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Curators: </b>!Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj
Smoljo)<br></span></font>
<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Artistic director:</b> Janez Fakin Janša<br></span></font>
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The programme is based on !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s research project <i>Latent
Spaces: Performing Ambiguous Data</i> at the Zürich University of the
Arts. The conference is developed in collaboration with Felix Stalder and with
the curatorial advice of the Latent Spaces research group.<br></span></font>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Production:</b> Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana,
2024<br></span></font>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>In collaboration with:</b> Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and ALUO
– The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana<br></span></font>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Supported by: </b>The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
and the Municipality of Ljubljana<br></span></font>
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