Dear List, Will say a proper hello later, but since Tatiana has sent this
around with perfect timing, her book and this Furtherfield review
<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/we-need-talk-about-networked-disruption-and-business-interview-tatiana-bazzichel>
& interview, are very relevant to this month's topic - I hope it can come
into the conversation at some point.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tatiana Bazzichelli <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> if you have friends in Slovenia and Croatia or you would like to pass by,
> here is an exciting programme for you!
>
> Best, Tatiana
>
>
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>
> Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and
> Business
>
> Group exhibition and side programme
> Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli
> Produced by Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana - in
> collaboration with several partners
> www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
>
> Exhibition @ Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia / March 11
> – April 3, 2015. Opening March 11, 8pm
> With: Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation Front, Burning Man
> Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša,
> Julian Oliver, Laura Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther Blissett,
> Mail Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club, Telekommunisten,
> Trevor Paglen.
>
> Seminar @ Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
> /March 11 – 12, 2015:
> http://www.aksioma.org/press/networked.disruption.zip
> With: Annie Machon (UK), Bani Brusadin (ES), Baruch Gottlieb (CA/DE),
> Dmytri Kleiner (CA/DE), Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Ida Hiršenfelder (SI),
> Janez Janša (SI), John Law (US), Loretta Borrelli (IT), Luther Blissett
> (IT), Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DE), Vittore Baroni (IT), Vuk Ćosić (SI).
>
> In the business world, disruption means to introduce into the market an
> innovation that the market does not expect. This innovation comes from
> within the market itself. Transferred into the field of art and
> activism, disruption means to generate practices and interventions that
> are unexpected, and play within the systems under scrutiny.
> Art, hacktivism and business are often intertwined, generating a
> feedback loop of revolutions and co-optations that is functional to the
> development of capitalism. Capitalism needs our revolutions because they
> generate new lifestyles, products and practices that create new markets
> and consumer desires. Similarly, systems of power need our resistance
> and opposition because they serve to increase security and forms of
> control. We need to find new strategies that go beyond the mere act of
> opposition and that are harder to appropriate.
>
> 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 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).
>
> The exhibition shows a diverse constellation of networking projects that
> aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of "networking": 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.
>
> In this exhibition we adopt the concept of disruption from business and
> we propose works that emerge from within political, economical,
> technological and art systems. They play with their power logic
> generating virality, anonymity, semantic confusion, multiple truths, and
> disruption. Diverse points of view are combined, among the groups and
> within the groups themselves. By keeping such connections open without
> reaching a curatorial synthesis, we invite visitors to create their own
> path in the line of disruption.
>
> 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.
>
> In the exhibition and seminar, we involve 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.
>
> Project's webpage:
> http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption
>
> Seminar full programme and participants:
> 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.
>
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>
> 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
>
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> http://networkingart.eu // http://disruptiv.biz
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