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2019 / AqTushetii. Omalo, Georgia
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2017 / Or Editions . Zürich, Switzerland
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2015 / Gallery Nectar. Tbilisi, Georgia
|.....Gardabani ↯ |...Gufta |....Mukhebi |......Qasheri |...Ramnusia
|.2nd Tbilisi Triennial Promo ↯
360 Degrees of Proximities is technological/artistic/social embodiment of federation, as this is referred to the Fediverse: an ensemble of interconnected servers that are used for web publishing, such as social networking, microblogging, video publishing), which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other. Systerserver will facilitate setting up 2 Peertube instances, one at Ca la Dona [Barcelona] and one for Broken House [Berlin] and organize a week-long program together with these local communities in Berlin and Barcelona. The idea is for these peertube instances to be locally embedded and sustained, and federated with each other and beyond.
Week-long program entails performative event about peertube/federation as well as testing it out, videolab for the community members to experimentally video-document the processes, install party for setting up a peertube instance, local show channel for screening video works by local community members and curated online publishing for making videolab works public on the local peertube instance. In partnership with mur.at they will also be reviving their old server, jean [who lives at mur.at] and devising approaches to monitor internal traffic.
360 Degrees of Proximities received an Internationalization of the Design Sector grant from Stimuleringsfonds.
"In the year 2025, Rotterdam unveiled Project Eixogen, a city-wide network featuring an intricate web of interconnected smart lampposts that track and coordinate your every move. Years have passed and ever since, every action in the smart city unfolds according to a hidden script. Each individual autonomous movement is part of a deeply thought-out collective choreography. A unique citizen ID and individual token grant you access to various places and activities, be it main squares, public transport, or driving. As you explore the city, your actions are meticulously logged, offering you personal rewards in line with hyper-personalized objectives tailored to each user profile.
Even when the sky darkens, the city remains awake—its smart poles flickering like mechanical fireflies in the jungle of buildings. Any irregularity of the movement patterns is noted and directly addressed by the network's spotters. There is no way to escape; every route is planned, calculated, tracked and traced. You feel like an Amazon parcel. Yet, amidst this automated city, resistance thrives. A daring group calling themselves 'sleepwalkers' has formed, determined to fight for their freedom of movement and reclaim the city through vigilant urban wandering.
Modding the Mirror World opens up an alternate storyline beyond the walls of MaMA's Showroom, emerging from beneath the asphalt of Rotterdam. In this two-month urban role-playing game, you have the chance to join the sleepwalkers to envision and explore life in future cities, and collectively challenge the norms of technology-driven control. The game uses the city of Rotterdam as its playing field and can be navigated through the browser on eixo.codes."
Throughout Molding the Mirror World, there is a series of four events. For more information about 'Role-playing Game: Eixogen'
By Louisa Teichmann
With Amos Peled / Lawrence McGuire / Sophie Allerding / vo ezn / Werner van der Zwan
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this is a query into web server /> interface connect-motion that foregrounds the personal and undercurrent processes and prompts a dislocation of default web browsing modes -- shifting the web interface to live by `downstairs` protocols.
conditions for interpolation are set through splicing server `moods` < > server caretaker's vims < > web interface travelers' embededdness
< > what is going on `downstairs` -- server basement?
- when was the last time the server [xouna] had a nap?
- how hard does it have to work when you visit it and activate the database?
- how does it articulate troubling times -- errors?
< > this work came out of difficult time of a burnout
- what art >> when burnout?
< > you're welcomed to get situated .. for 5 minutes at a time and in a company
of one more visitor only
- why couldn't/didn't we say [ no ] to work even when we had reached our limits?
fun?
bills?
residence permit?
precarity?
[ ... ]
[f00f]_fail ''''''''''''''' server/person capacity-tension-error----sleep-reboot--chown
together with Anarchaserver and Systerserver and with the support of Kunstenpunt, we've expanded our insfrastructure with a Peertube instance [video streaming and archiving platform built entirely with free and open-source tools] and organized artistic residency for feminist and queer artists/activists.
today's technology focuses on surveillance, control and suppression. socially and technically challenged, we choose to manage servers ourselves. We discuss, configure and set up services: mailing list, calendar, social media, clouds, websites, streaming,... to communicate, publish, document, experiment, present. with free software. emancipated necessity!
"Ever wake up feeling that you stepped out of bed with the wrong foot? We are here to celebrate
the oddities these days bring. When messing with the routine and conventions manifests into creativity.
“Wrong Side Out” surfs the strange soundwaves, challenging your perception, giving life to inanimate
objects and presenting them to you as a mozaique of well crafted madness.
Our program consists of
a deranged blend of experimental electronica, live performances and deviant music put together
to create a one day program to end your year in total confusion.
**Expo:**
- Werner van der Zwan [Sound Installation]
- Experimental Publishing PZI: Max Lehmann, Clara Noseda, Avital Barkai, Anna Sandri,
Mika Motskobili [Sound Installation]
- Federico Poni [Sound Installation]
- Jeroen Rijnart [Visuals]
**Workshop:**
Gijs Gieskes
**Sounds:**
Acidic Male [Live]
BABEurs/044 [Live]
Wrong Side Out is a collaboration between HCL residents Lousia Teichmann,
Ruta Genyte and Arjuna Vlasblom"
Txx.uo consolidates two contrasting radio
frequency implementation modes: RFID reader scans the cards/objects containing RFID
tags using radio waves and LCD screen displays a Q-code* [internationally established
three-letter abbreviation used in radio communication].
RFID technology is used for
object identification, authentication and security reasons, whereas Q-code is transmitted on
a specific radio frequency by a radio operator and can be intercepted by anyone, who is tuned
in to the same frequency.
This module converts the data received from a scanned
card into a sound and binary code. This Binary signal is then transfigured into LED blinking
and is also funneled to another module through an output channel. Top row of an LCD screen
displays a specific question from the list of a Q-code, depending on a knob position and when
receiving a signal from another module, a random Q-code answer is shown on the second row of the
screen. All other textual output can be sent to another module via Tx.
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"The international exhibition MagiC Carpets Landed is coming to Kaunas - European Capital of Culture 2022
from 5 November 2021 to 23 January 2022. This is the final event of the four-year project MagiC Carpets,
co-financed by Creative Europe, designed to boost visibility for emerging artists throughout Europe.
This journey around Europe, with its gaze set on the future, actively involved young audiences and
local communities in the fifteen partner countries.
The exhibition, presenting the results of the four-year “Creative Europe” platform “MagiC Carpets”,
is curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini, professor, art critic, curator and art director of Latitudo
Art Projects, based in Rome, Italy."
Liminal Protocols is a site-specific interactive sound
installation, which taps into the multi layered circumstances pertinent to the gradual demise of
Frauenanger Spielplatz. The park territory is rendered as a sensory area, where field recordings
of various other parks of Innsbruck are transported and the volume and complexity of the sound
layers increase incrementally as more people enter the park. The installation attempts to represent
possible alternative realities for the area through sound and collective effort via attendance.
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Curator: Laura Netz
"By way of a selection of hundreds of sound works, Audiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020
looks to cover an historical and cultural void in terms of the recognition, exhibition and analysis
of a key part of the recent changes that have taken place in the artistic conception of sound creation.
Conceived from a social perspective, and with the aim of revealing and providing context to reflect
upon and discuss the techno-cultural changes that have occurred since the 1980s, the exhibition will
present the work of a broad number of experimental sound artists, hailing from all over the world, the
majority unknown to the contemporary art spectator.
The show will revolve around seven sections, each one addressing different social, technological,
historical and cultural processes: genealogies, networks, mega accessibility, cyborgisation,
aesthetogenesis, recombination and rights. Although such processes have been generated collectively
and today are widespread, they have not been sufficiently identified, acknowledged or analysed
artistically.
Audiosphere thus seeks to constitute a non-conceptual, large-scale contemporary art exhibition with
no images or objects, underpinned solely by sound works and an exhibition design that facilitates
experiential, profound and prolonged listening."
Curator: Francisco López
Building of a refugee shelter in Wilten, Innsbruck in 2015 coincided with a dismantlement of the playground equipment at Frauenanger Spielplatz, located right next to it. For years, the neighborhood residents were left with a single bench in a park, which was also eventually removed in 2019. Innsbruck municipality justified this step by their new policy of designating various parks drug and alcohol free zones, due to increasing drug-related issues in the city.
Liminal Protocols is a site-specific interactive sound installation, which taps into the multi layered circumstances pertinent to the gradual demise of Frauenanger Spielplatz. The park territory is rendered as a sensory area, where field recordings of various other parks of Innsbruck are transported and the volume and complexity of the sound layers increase incrementally as more people enter the park. The installation attempts to represent possible alternative realities for the area through sound and collective effort via attendance.
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Liminal Protocols was commissioned by Openspace.innsbruck for Creative Europe Platform “Magic Carpets”
using funds provided by the E.U.
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technical collaoration: ludwig technique
[Magic Carpets residency // Apr 29 - Jun 12]
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[...] "This event is a response to the wider issue of representation; imbalances exist in genres such as experimental electronic music, and often female artists are overlooked, and many forgotten historically. Given the strong team of female staff and students in Music at DkIT and seeing the importance of exposing students to female composers and sound artists, an international open call for works was published online on January 25, 2019, with the only criteria being that the submissions '...celebrate womanhood'. As word spread of Mixtape #IWD, it became apparent we would have to revise our plans and extend it to a two-day event. The call closed on 22 February and resulted in an overwhelming amount of submissions from people of all genders, from all over the world, having reached 46 countries across every continent." [...]
Dr Hilary Mullaney
"Artist residency is a raising praxis all over the world that sets the mode of experiencing different contexts and exchanges. The process of the working in residency fundamentally concerns with the issues of transit, reflection and transformation. Based on the works by the artists and curators being involved in the residency exchange between BINZ39 and CCA-Tbilisi and couple of the other contributors, the exhibition idea explores those transitory and transformative practices. The show discusses the topic of the relocation in contexts of the residencies as the process of self-reflection. The title of the exhibition refers to one of the Georgian novel from the 20th century Georgian literature - A Man was Going Down to The Road by Otar Tchiladze. The text relates with the first arrival of the Greeks and the story of Medea together with very complex and universal issues of the human existence. By making this reference residencies are emphasized as one's own introspective journey in a poetic or allegoric manner, a journey that reflects itself through diverse manifestations."
Giorgi Spanderashvili
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Der georgische Kurort Tskaltubo galt bis zum Ende der Sowjetunion als das Baden-Baden des Kaukasus. Danach kamen statt Touristen Flüchtlinge des abchasischen Bürgerkriegs. Eine Führung über die Baustelle des seit kurzem privatisierten Sanatoriums Schachtjor erzählt von den Welten, die sich in diesem Gebäude abbilden. Die Schauspielerin Eva Löbau und der Videokünstler Philipp Haupt betraten das leere Sanatorium 2014 zum ersten Mal. Sie stießen in der riesenhaften Rauminszenierung der Stalinzeit sowohl auf Spuren der Vergangenheit als auch auf Entwürfe einer öglichen, nach Westen orientierten Zukunft. Ein mit Bild- und Geräuschkompositionen durchsetzter Redefluss ässt im Verlauf der Performance das riesige Sanatoriumsgebäude mit seiner stalinistischen Architektur, der Weitläufigkeit seiner Gänge und Flure und einer Vielzahl an Geschichten lebendig werden und hinterfragt dabei auch das Selbstverständnis und die Ziele der beiden Performer aus dem Westen. In zahlreichen Gesprächen mit ehemaligen Gästen, Bewohnern, Ärzten und Angestellten begegneten Eva Löbau und Philipp Haupt Widersprüchen und Missverständnissen und auch der anziehenden Energie eines aufstrebenden Landes. Im Deutsch-Georgischen Jahr 2017 folgen sie nun einigen der in Schachtjor ausgelegten Fährten in die Weltgeschichte. Ihre westlich geprägte Perspektive wird dabei ergänzt durch den Blick der Georgierinnen Khatia Jischkariani und Mika Motskobili.
With & for Eva Löbau, Philipp Haupt, Khatia Jishkariani, Mika Motskobili, Johanna Seitz, Eike Böttcher, Judith Huber, Markus Grob, Lotte Sawatzki, Yvonne König, Martina Neu, Annett Hardegen
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"In year 3016, humans have been able to minimize the impact of their visual appearance, replacing it with ideas.
In 3016, humans have been able to sync their looks with their perception of the new world they live in.
In 3016, the world is calm and with a minimal focus on looks, grappling with filling shapes with meanings.
The future human is aware of the legacy left by the civilizations before it, only holding on to what's
truly valuable, rejecting the ambiguous primal notions.
Humans of 3016 - the new wave warriors - take
care of the environment. Preservation of equality and peace is their main challenge.
Women of 3016 have retained the main trait that once defined their gender, however, they use their
caring nature as a weapon in protecting the environment - a basic requirement for a highly developed world."
Artists: Qeu Mefarishvili & Salome Dumbadze
Curator: Nina Pataridze
Video: Nika Tabukashvili
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Vicinity Point is a sonic equivalent of heavily pixelated/blurred images of familiar places in
Dnipro [Original field recordings for the locations are available here: rb.gy/4zfqaf];
it serves as a metaphor for distorted perception of the external stimuli or to what extent
it would be possible to retrieve relevant pattern when given the partial/manipulated information.
The installation is also a physical manifestation of received information being dependent on where we
stand in relation to the source.
'One of the subtler tasks of perception can be investigated
experimentally by asking how much information is required for recognition and what information is
the most important'- Leon D. Harmon
Obfuscated algorithmic machine of Facebook eliminates information
from the users' infosphere it deems irrelevant based on data users stream into the black-box, diverting
attention exclusively towards subjects guaranteeing to keep them entangled in the platform as long as possible,
hence constantly reaffirming their worldviews.
Recurring ideological agendas render them more accessible
to humans in process of retrieving applicable concepts from memory for interpreting or forming judgments
about encountered piece of information. Besides, on the battlefield of attention economy and infoxication
it takes even more effort to funnel one's cognitive resources into rigorously researching issues pouring
on news feeds.
'Just as the consumer economy was boundless in its power to commodify, so the attention
economy is boundless in its power to render reality standing reserve for the project of identity
construction/performance. The two processes, of course, are not unrelated. In the attention economy,
strategic silence is power. But, because of the above, it is also a deeply demanding practice of self-denial.
Virtue is self-forgetting. The structures of social media make it impossible to forget yourself.'- Michael Sacasas
Civic Media Lab [Artist residency: May 25 - June 12]
Civic Media Lab is supported by the Federal Foreign Office, and cooperatively organized by Kultura Medialna Dnipro & DS-X.org | depart.
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1st Tbilisi Triennial, Offside Effect
Re-Animation Art Festival
"re-animation" is the first festival of contemporary art to take place in Rustavi. Its concept is
mainly based a research concerning the alternative spaces of the city. For 2 days, the issue
of transformation, symbolized by the abandoned trolleybus parking lot and its reassessment,
found its manifestation in paintings, photographs, audiovisual installations, performances,
projections and electronic music.
Organizers:
- - Galaqtion Eristavi
- - Aleksi Soselia
- - Tamar Muskhelishvili
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- - Aleksi Soselia
- - Tata Muskhelishvili
- - Anna Beridze
- - Sandro Sulaberidze
- - Giorgi Nemsitsveridze
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Txx.uo consolidates two contrasting radio frequency implementation modes:
RFID reader scans the cards/objects containing RFID tags using radio waves and LCD screen
displays a Q-code* [internationally established three-letter abbreviation used in radio communication].
*A particular Q-code denotes a question when it is followed by a question mark and references an answer [statement] when it's not:
QRT? : Shall I cease or suspend operation?
QRT : I am suspending operation.
The RFID technology is used for object identification, authentication and security reasons,
whereas Q-code is transmitted on a specific radio frequency by a radio operator and can be
intercepted by anyone, who is tuned in to the same frequency.
This module converts the data received from a scanned card into a sound• and binary
code••. This Binary signal is then transfigured into LED•••
blinking and is also funneled to another module through an output•• channel.
Top row of an LCD screen displays a specific question from the list of a Q-code, depending on a knob
position and when receiving•••• a signal from another module,
a random Q-code answer is shown on the second row of the screen. All other textual output can be sent
to another module via Tx•••••.
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