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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Aksioma
–
Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, <br>
in partnership with
the <i>reSource for transmedial culture</i> (transmediale
festival
for art and digital culture berlin)</font><font face="Times New
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">presents</font><font
face="Times New Roman">
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><span
style="background: transparent">Telekommunisten
</span></b></i></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 13pt"
size="3"><i><b><span style="background: transparent">Miscommunication
Technologies
- R15N</span></b></i></font>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span style="background:
transparent">www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
style="background: transparent"><font color="#141414"><span
lang="en-US"><b>Aksioma
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color="#141414"><span lang="en-US"><b>
Project Space</b></span></font></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#141414"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Komenskega
18, Ljubljana, Slovenia</font></font><font face="Times New
Roman">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">19
March – 6 April 2012</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Artist's
presentation
and exhibition opening: Monday, 19 March 2012 at 7 p.m.<br>
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11pt" size="2"><font color="#f50000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="background: transparent"><font color="#000000">Press
kit:</font> </span></span></span></font><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip"><font
color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
lang="en-GB">www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip</span></span></font></a></font>
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<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
lang="en-GB"><i>The most significant challenge the open
web will need to overcome <br>
is not technical, it is political.</i></span></span><span
style="text-decoration: none"><span lang="en-GB"> —
Telekommunisten</span></span></font> </font><br>
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color="#f50000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
lang="en-GB"></span></span></font></b></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b><span
style="background: transparent">Telekommunisten
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</font><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 13pt"
size="3"><i><b><span style="background: transparent">Miscommunication
Technologies
- R15N</span></b></i></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><i>Miscommunication
Technologies</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"> is an
ongoing project of the Telekommunisten Network that employs satire
and emphasizes simplicity and human interactions over
technological
sophistication, creating platforms that don't work as expected or
work in unexpected ways.
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">They
uncover the social relations embedded in network topologies and
communications platforms and it comprises works such as the </font><font
face="Times New Roman"><i><b>R15N
</b></i></font><font face="Times New Roman">project, </font><font
face="Times New Roman"><i><b>deadSwap</b></i></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
offline file sharing system, and </font><font face="Times New
Roman"><i><b>Thimbl,
</b></i></font><font face="Times New Roman">a distributed
social network based on the finger protocol from the 1970s. They
operate as a form of performative, interactive, social-economic
fiction that presents an experimental technology, engaging its
users
and confronting them with the social relations embedded in
communication platforms.
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<font face="Times New Roman">For
the </font><font face="Times New Roman"><i><b>R15N</b></i></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
project Telekommunisten Network adopts a retro aesthetics in order
to
bring through a story about the prevalence of digital divide in
most
local environments, and call into question the newness or hype
surrounding contemporary communication platforms. They attempt to
fill in the gap between the connected and the disconnected by
employing an old technology like telephones. </font><font
face="Times New Roman"><i>R15N</i></font><font face="Times New
Roman">
is an experimental phone service which counters the pervasive
social
networks. </font><font face="Times New Roman"><i>R15N</i></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
implements a variation on the random phone call broadcast model to
enable a community to share information. The system works by
arbitrarily determining who in the community will be responsible
for
passing on a message, setting up an ad-hoc telephone tree that
allows
the community to distribute messages.
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<font face="Times New Roman">For
more information and registration details see: <a
href="http://r15n.net/">http://r15n.net</a>
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<font face="Times New Roman">The
exhibition is organised as part of the framework of the reSource
for
transmedial culture, the ongoing local and translocal networking
platform of transmediale festival berlin, in the context of which
the
project R15N was initially launched.
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">At
the exhibition opening Dmytri Kleiner will present the </font><font
face="Times New Roman"><i>Telekomunisten
Manifesto</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"> section P2P
Communism vs Client-Server Capitalism.
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">The
presentation is introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli, curator of the
reSource for transmedial culture.
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>Telekommunisten</b></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
is a Berlin-based collective whose work investigates the political
economy of communications technology. Core themes include the
incompatibility of capitalism with free networks and free culture,
and the increasing centralisation and enclosure that results, as
well
as the potential for distributed producers employing a collective
stock of productive assets to provide an alternative economic
basis
for a free society.
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>Dmytri
Kleiner</b></font><font face="Times New Roman"> is a software
developer working on practical and symbolic artistic projects
investigating the political economy of the Internet. He develops
miscommunication technologies that uncover the social relations
embedded in communication platforms. He is a co-founder and an
active
member of the Telekommunisten Network, and the author of the
Telekommunist Manifesto published by the Institute of Network
Cultures. </font><font face="Times New Roman"><b>At
transmediale.11 he was nominated for the Open Web Award with </b></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Thimbl</b></i></font><font
face="Times New Roman"><b>.</b>
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<font face="Times New Roman">The
</font><font face="Times New Roman"><b>reSource for
transmedial culture</b></font><font face="Times New Roman"> is
an initiative of transmediale in partnership with CTM/DISK,
Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien and the Post-Media Lab of the Leuphana
University
Lüneburg. The reSource is active in the city of Berlin throughout
the year as a context of networking and projects dissemination
with
decisive touchdowns at each festival. The objective of the
reSource
is to act as a link between the cultural production of art
festivals
and collaborative networks in the field of art and technology,
hacktivism and politics.
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<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-style: normal"><b>Tatiana
Bazzichelli</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">
is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the
field of
hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the
transmediale festival
team in Berlin, where she develops the reSource for
transmedial
culture. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media
Studies from
Aarhus University (DK), conducting research on disruptive
art
practices in the business of social media</span></span></span><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal">.</span></i></span></font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Production:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New
Roman" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012</span></font><font
face="Times New Roman">
<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">www.aksioma.org</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Artistic
Director: Janez Janša</span></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Executive
Producer: Marcela Okretič</span></font><font face="Times New
Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Assistant
Production:
Sonja Grdina</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Public
Relations: Mojca Zupanič</span></font><font face="Times New
Roman">
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2">Technical
Supervisor:
Valter Udovičić</font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span
style="background: transparent"><b>Exhibition
design:</b> Jonas Frankki</span></font><font face="Times New
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><i><b>The
programme
of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of
Ljubljana.</b></i></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll
0% 0% transparent;">Sponsor:
Datacenter d.o.o.</span></i></font></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll
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color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Contact:</b></span></font></font>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"></span></font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">Marcela
Okretič, +386 41 250 830, </span></font></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">aksioma4@siol.net</span></font></a></u></span></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>Aksioma
| Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></span></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Neubergerjeva
25,
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia</font></font>
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color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><span lang="en-GB">www.aksioma.org</span></a></u></span></font></font></font><br>
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