[spectre] Networked Disruption by Tatiana Bazzichelli in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Marcela Okretič marcela at aksioma.org
Tue Feb 17 13:44:56 CET 2015


Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, in collaboration
with several partners, is proud to announce:

/*Networked Disruption*/
/*Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and Business*/
/Group exhibition and side programme /
Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli

www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
<http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption>


*Exhibition @ **Škuc Gallery*, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia / March
11 – April 3, 2015

*Seminar @ **Kino Šiška*, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
/March 11 – 12, 2015
_<http://www.aksioma.org/press/networked.disruption.zip>_

/*Networked Disruption*/**is an exhibition and a series of events
produced by *Aksioma *and***Drugo more *in collaboration with several
partners and curated by *Tatiana Bazzichelli*. The exhibition,hosted by
*Škuc Gallery*in Ljubljana and the *Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art*in Rijeka,is centred on the concept of “Networked Disruption”, as an
opportunity to show new possible routes of social and political action
in the line of disruption. It focuses on the mutual interferences
between business and disruption, by shedding light simultaneously on
heterogeneous practices of hackers, artists, networkers, whistleblowers,
activists and entrepreneurs who engage deeply with network activity.

The increasing commercialisation of sharing and networking contexts
since the middle of 2000s is transforming the meaning of art and that of
business. What were once marginal practices of networking in underground
hacker and artistic contexts have in recent years become a core business
for many information technology companies and social media enterprises.
In Bazzichelli’s analysis, art intertwines with disruption beyond
dialectical oppositions, leading to a discovery of subliminal and
distributed strategies, which emerge /from within/the capitalistic
systems, or act /within it/. In the exhibition and seminar, she involves
actors who directly engage with hacktivism, art, civil liberties and
social networking exposing contradictions of capitalistic logics and
power systems. Such interventions hijack the logic of business itself,
appropriating and détourning it by operating disruption. The challenge
is to collectively rethink oppositional hacktivist and artistic
strategies within the framework of (social) networking, information
economy and increasingly invasive corporations and government agencies.

The exhibition**shows a diverse constellation of networking projects
that aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of “networking”
itself: *Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation Front, Burning
Man Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez
Janša, Julian Oliver, Laura Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther
Blissett, Mail Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club,
Telekommunisten, and Trevor Paglen*.

The /Networked Disruption/exhibition is based on Bazzichelli’s book
/Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the
Business of Social Networking/(DARC Press, The Digital Aesthetics
Research Centre of Aarhus University, 2013). Bazzichelli’s hypothesis is
that mutual interferences between art, hacktivism and the business of
social networking have changed the meaning and contexts of political and
technological criticism. Hackers and artists have been active agents in
business innovation, while at the same time also undermining business.
Artists and hackers use disruptive techniques of networking within the
framework of social media, opening up a critical perspective towards
business to generate unpredictable feedback and unexpected reactions;
business enterprises apply disruption as a form of innovation to create
new markets and network values, which are often just as unpredictable.
Bazzichelli proposes the concept of the /Art of Disrupting Business/as a
form of artistic practice within the business field of information
technology.

The artworks and collective projects are conceptually and visually
interlinked in the exhibition spaces, which constitutes a network of
networks. By applying the strategy of “working from within”, some
sections of the show are conceptualised in collaboration with people
deeply involved in the networks under scrutiny: Vittore Baroni (Mail
Art), Florian Cramer (Neoism), Gabriella Coleman (Anonymous), John Law
(Suicide Club and Cacophony Society), Andrea Natella (The Luther
Blissett Project) and members of the Anna Adamolo network.

This choice reflects the perspective that a new methodology of curating
a research should open a metaphorical (and physical) space to encourage
and provoke feedback loops among theory and practice, and among subjects
and objects of analysis. The result is a constellation of networking
practices, which aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of
“direct participation” itself.


*Seminar registration: *Please send your full name and e-mail address by
March 10^th to: _sonjagrdina at gmail.com_

*Project's webpage:* www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
<http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption>
*Seminar full programme and participants**:
*www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf
<http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf>


*Tatiana Bazzichelli*is a curator and researcher, author of the books
Networked Disruption (2013), Networking (2008), and co-editor of the
book Disrupting Business (2013). She is director of the Disruption
Network Lab, an experimental curatorial project on art, hacktivism, and
disruption, based in Berlin. She was programme curator at the
transmediale festival from 2011 to 2014, initiating the year-round
reSource transmedial culture project, and was a Post-Doctoral researcher
at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.



*CREDITS*

Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Head of production: Janez Janša

Artistic directors: Janez Janša (Aksioma), Vladimir Vidmar (Škuc Gallery)
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Joško Pajer
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina
Assistant: Boris Beja
Technicians: Atila Boštjančič, Valter Udovičić
Public relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt
Documentation: Miha Fras, Adriana Aleksić, Jernej Čuček Gerbec


*Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Drugo
more, Rijeka, 2015
*Coproduction:*Abandon Normal Devices,**Škuc Gallery, Kino
Šiška,**Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
*Partners: *Moderna galerija Ljubljana, d-i-n-a / The Influencers, Link
Art Center

/Networked Disruption/is realized in the framework of *Masters &
Servers*, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK),
Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).
www.mastersandservers.org <http://www.mastersandservers.org>

*Supported by:*the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of
Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.

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.

*Contact:* www.aksioma.org/contacts <http://www.aksioma.org/contacts>

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