<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="en-SI">Dear profiles, avatars, and online flaneurs, Aksioma is summoning
you to:</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt" lang="en-SI">The Byzantine Generals Problem</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">4 July 2022–end of the internet</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">Curated by:</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> Domenico Quaranta</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">Featuring:</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> Anna Ridler, Ben Grosser,
Constant Dullaart, DIS, FaceOrFactory, Kyle McDonald, LaTurbo Avedon, Moxie
Marlinspike, Nascent, Rhea Myers, Sarah Friend, Sarah Meyohas, Simon Denny,
Guile Twardowski, Cosmographia, Sterling Crispin, The Miha Artnak</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">THE DOORS TO THE ONLINE GALLERY WILL OPEN ON</span><span lang="en-SI"> </span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="en-SI">Monday, 4 July 2022 at 1 PM CET*</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">at <a href="https://distant.gallery/the-byzantine-generals-problem" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://distant.gallery/the-byzantine-generals-problem</a></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">Bookmark the link or attend the FB event for reminder</span><span lang="EN-US">: <a href="https://fb.me/e/1Ccb1jokr" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://fb.me/e/1Ccb1jokr</a></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">While waiting for the opening, you are kindly invited to read the</span><span lang="en-SI"> </span><b><span lang="en-SI">CURATORIAL
ESSAY</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://aksioma.org/pdf/Domenico-Quaranta_The-Byzantine-Generals-Problem.pdf" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://aksioma.org/pdf/Domenico-Quaranta_The-Byzantine-Generals-Problem.pdf</a></span></p>
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experience, please join us via Chrome browser. Make sure you use headphones to
avoid the sound looping when multiple people are speaking.</span></font></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">An alternative to capitalism, or capitalism at its worst? An
emancipatory network economy where everyone has a stake, or a dystopian panopticon
where only the best man wins? An opportunity for democracy, or a
techno-libertarian wet dream? A new creative economy or a pyramid scheme? A
planet saver or a planet burner? Rarely has the debate around a technology been
so polarized as with blockchains, web3 and NFTs. We are facing a problem of
consensus, trapped within a Byzantine Generals Problem.</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">Some generals are besieging Byzantium. In order to avoid
catastrophic failure, they must agree on a concerted strategy, but some of them
are unreliable. Used to illustrate how consensus is reached within distributed
systems, this allegory can be applied to blockchains and to societies as well.
Yet, in a peer-to-peer debate with no central authority, consensus is hard to
reach for a reason; and the disagreeing general, the unreliable actor, may be
our best resource against the common sense of the crypto-yuppies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><i><span lang="en-SI">The Byzantine Generals Problem</span></i></b><span lang="en-SI"> is an
online exhibition focused on artworks which, while not avoiding to engage with
blockchains and crypto culture, do it in a critically constructive way:
questioning dominant narratives, raising problems, and sometimes proposing
alternative solutions.</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">Domenico Quaranta</span></b><span lang="en-SI"> is an art critic,
curator and educator interested in the ways art reflects the current technological
shift. His texts have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and
catalogues. He is the author, among other things, of <i>Beyond New Media Art</i>
(2013) and <i>Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs</i> (2022) and the
editor of several books, including <i>GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames</i>
(2006, with M. Bittanti). Since 2005 he has curated several exhibitions,
including Collect the <i>WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age</i>
(Brescia 2011; Basel and New York 2012); <i>Cyphoria</i> (Quadriennale 2016,
Rome) and <i>Hyperemployment</i> (MGLC, Ljubljana 2019–2020). He lectures in
Interactive Systems and is a co-founder of the Link Art Center (2011–2019)</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">Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana,
2022</span></p>
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distant.gallery</span></p>
<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"><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>