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As Rights Go By. On the erosion and denial of rights

At freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL in Wien is present As Rights-Go By On the Erosion and Denial of Rights, an exhibition that explore the impact of globalization and mass surveillance on civil and human rights. The artists through video, installations and the new technologies analyze this contemporary scenario, that has changed our life.... READ MORE...

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#unit: Connecting Unicorns. World’s First Queer Tech Festival

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Here comes the second edition of the world’s ﬁrst queer tech festival and it is once again going to take place in Berlin at Postbahnhof Club. The #unit festival is one of the largest queer tech events in the world and it is a platform for queer and straight techies as well as people who love technology to connect.... READ MORE...

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How to design objects that don’t exist yet. Design, IoT and Bruce Sterling

Roberto Pizzato

I met Bruce Sterling after I sent him a private message via Twitter after I had known he was hitting The Netherlands for a keynote speech at Impakt Festival in Utrecht. He replied within a few hours. A couple of days later, I was on a train with a camera and a bottle of good Barolo (for him).... READ MORE...

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The Promise of Total Automation

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In this era where machines and the technological instruments are invading our life and human relationships. The artists involved in The Promise of Total Automation are trying to identify those elements of automation that stimulate the dreams and utopias, and so are be able to create a new imaginary in which the technology is not excluded.... READ MORE...

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Open Call: Paraflows.XI exhibition. Deadline 31/03

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What influence do migrant scenarios have on the construction of identities? What about pen names and fictional characters? paraflows .XI will be looking into the components of identity and trying to find variables to put these components together in different ways.... READ MORE...

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Social Media in Southeast Turkey

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This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life.... READ MORE...

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Hacking Habitat. Art of control

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Hacking Habitat. Art of control is an international exhibition on the cutting edge of art, technology and social change. 86 internationally acclaimed artists present new and existing work in the former prison at Utrecht Wolvenplein, Netherlands. It presents a highly topical and urgent theme: how we are controlled by high-tech systems and how to restore the relationship between humans and machines.... READ MORE...

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik. Random Darknet Shopper

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!Mediengruppe Bitnik live and work in Zurich/London. They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.... READ MORE...

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society

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This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder... READ MORE...

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Silicon Valley. I signori del silicio, Evgeny Morozov

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For several years, companies in Silicon Valley promise prosperity, equality and a new society in which everything will be shareable and accessible. Surpassing the old logic of the market. But is this really so?... READ MORE...

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Transmediale/conversationpiece 2016

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Following the program announcement from last month, we are pleased to announce further participants from the realms of art, culture, and media, who will gather for transmediale/conversationpiece, to take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt from 3-7 February 2016.... READ MORE...

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Agitprop! Politically Engaged Art

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The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Agitprop! explores the legacy and continued power of politically engaged art through more than 50 contemporary projects and artworks from five historical moments of political urgency.... READ MORE...

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Transmediale 2016 reboots itself as: Conversation Piece

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With the name Conversation Piece, Transmediale 2016 creates an intensive space of exchanges, murmurs, and transitions and aims to provide the conditions for a reflection on idealized aspects of contemporary life under digital capitalism.... READ MORE...

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Global Proxy: an interview with Nicolas Maigret

Martina Raponi

Nicolas Maigret practice revolves around the investigation of media, using its bugs and malfunctions as starting points for intervention. It is from these imperfections that Nicolas highlights the identities of the media he analyses and tamper with, bringing up evidences of their functioning.... READ MORE...

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Simon Denny: Products for Organising

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Simon Denny is an artist who works with sculptural installations that include print, graphics, moving images and texts. Products for Organising, is developed in response to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and will feature new installations that revolve around contemporary radical management practices and the historical hacker organisational forms that may have inspired them.... READ MORE...

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Spaces for independent art: hot topic in Cairo

Claudia Galal

The activists' network and the underground art scene in Egypt have been following in these years a path that remembers for many aspects the birth and the raise of the Reclaim The Streets movement in the England 90s (then in all Europe)... READ MORE...

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“Globale” exhibition at ZKM: global control and censorship

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This exhibition at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, is based on the collaboration with a network of scientists, journalists, activists, and artists. The exhibition’s aim is to expand public debate about the ever-present surveillance and censorship methods... READ MORE...

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Jacop Appelbaum. SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy

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With SAMIZDATA: Evidence of Conspiracy, NOME Gallery in Berlin presents Jacob Appelbaum’s first solo show in Germany, curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Having previously collaborated in art projects with Ai Weiwei, Trevor Paglen and Laura Poitras, Jacob Appelbaum now presents his own works as an artist.... READ MORE...

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