Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is proud to invite you to the event:
The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors
Group exhibition
Curated by: Inke Arns (HMKV)Vžigalica Gallery | Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Trg francoske revolucije, LjubljanaOpening: Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 8 pm
Open through: 27 August 2017
aksioma.org/twwuParticipating artists: Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, Timo Arnall, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ignas Krunglevicius, Mark Leckey, Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska, Eva & Franco Mattes, Yuri Pattison, Sascha Pohflepp, Suzanne Treister, Addie Wagenknecht, Pinar Yoldas.
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From alien matter to The World Without Us
Curator talkCity Museum of Ljubljana
Gosposka ulica 15, LjubljanaTuesday, 27 June 2017 at 7 pm
The exhibition asks what a world without us would be like. But rather than conjuring up a postdisaster scenario, it describes such a world as the result of a gradual development whose origins can be traced back to our day and age. Taking its cues from science-fiction literature and the philosophical school of Speculative Realism, the exhibition largely relies on the principle of extrapolation.
The tools for the creation of a “world without us” are at hand. The first driverless cars are driving on our streets, news articles are compiled by algorithms, and translations are done by machines. Already in 2009 a third of all shares in the EU and the US were traded by algorithms. We can only speculate on the current proportion.
In a “world without us” humans will be replaced by machines, artificial intelligences will be optimized by other AIs and algorithms will be programmed by other self-learning algorithms. In this way, a radically different, post-anthropocentric world could emerge in which non-human life forms could eventually prove better able to adapt than man himself. Benjamin Bratton said of such a world in 2014: “Worse than being seen as the enemy (by AI) is not being seen at all.”
The increasing influence of non-human actors in our everyday life has not only been explored by several recent blockbusters, including Her (2013), and in TV series such as Black Mirror (2011) and Real Humans (2012), but also in contemporary (media) art. Loosely inspired by Timothy Morton’s book Ecology Without Nature, the artists in this exhibition explore the possibility of an ecology after man – an age of the post-Anthropocene, in which other “life” forms, such as algorithms, artificial intelligence, artificially created nanoparticles, genetically modified micro-organisms and seemingly monstrous plants, have taken control. This new era, which has already begun, albeit imperceptibly, is the age of non-human actors.
The World Without Us was originally produced and presented by HMKV in Dortmund, Germany in 2016. For the 2017 Ljubljana version a selection of the Dortmund show was made and some works of the exhibition alien matter (curated by Inke Arns for the transmediale festival, HKW, 2017) were added to The World Without Us. The exhibition will move to Rijeka (Mali Salom / MMSU) at the end of the summer as a part of the project State Machines - Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation.
Side programme:
Adam Harvey: Privacy Gift Shop
Solo exhibition
Aksioma Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
21 June – 21 July 2017
http://aksioma.org/privacy.gift.shop/Maja Smrekar: Requiem for the Future
Hybrid performance
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Krekov trg 2, Ljubljana
5, 7, 8 July 2017 at 9 pm
Production: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Aksioma
http://aksioma.org/requiem/index.html—
Produced by: HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), www.hmkv.de
and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, www.aksioma.orgCo-production: Museum & Galleries of Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka
Head of production: Janez Janša
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Jani Pirnat
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina
Public relations: Alja Žorž, Janja BuzečanMedia sponsor: Radio Študent
The World Without Us in Ljubljana and Rijeka is realised in the framework of the project State Machines, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), the Institute of Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).
Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana, Kultura nova and the Department of Culture of City of Rijeka.
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:
Marcela Okretič, 00386-(0)41 250830, [email protected]
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Komenskega 18, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.aksioma.org______________________________________________
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The World Without Us: Narratives on the age of non-human actors
Group exhibition
Curated by: Inke Arns (HMKV)Vžigalica Gallery | Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Trg francoske revolucije, LjubljanaOpening: Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 8 pm
Open through: 27 August 2017
aksioma.org/twwuParticipating artists: Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, Timo Arnall, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ignas Krunglevicius, Mark Leckey, Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska, Eva & Franco Mattes, Yuri Pattison, Sascha Pohflepp, Suzanne Treister, Addie Wagenknecht, Pinar Yoldas.
—
From alien matter to The World Without Us
Curator talkCity Museum of Ljubljana
Gosposka ulica 15, LjubljanaTuesday, 27 June 2017 at 7 pm
The exhibition asks what a world without us would be like. But rather than conjuring up a postdisaster scenario, it describes such a world as the result of a gradual development whose origins can be traced back to our day and age. Taking its cues from science-fiction literature and the philosophical school of Speculative Realism, the exhibition largely relies on the principle of extrapolation.
The tools for the creation of a “world without us” are at hand. The first driverless cars are driving on our streets, news articles are compiled by algorithms, and translations are done by machines. Already in 2009 a third of all shares in the EU and the US were traded by algorithms. We can only speculate on the current proportion.
In a “world without us” humans will be replaced by machines, artificial intelligences will be optimized by other AIs and algorithms will be programmed by other self-learning algorithms. In this way, a radically different, post-anthropocentric world could emerge in which non-human life forms could eventually prove better able to adapt than man himself. Benjamin Bratton said of such a world in 2014: “Worse than being seen as the enemy (by AI) is not being seen at all.”
The increasing influence of non-human actors in our everyday life has not only been explored by several recent blockbusters, including Her (2013), and in TV series such as Black Mirror (2011) and Real Humans (2012), but also in contemporary (media) art. Loosely inspired by Timothy Morton’s book Ecology Without Nature, the artists in this exhibition explore the possibility of an ecology after man – an age of the post-Anthropocene, in which other “life” forms, such as algorithms, artificial intelligence, artificially created nanoparticles, genetically modified micro-organisms and seemingly monstrous plants, have taken control. This new era, which has already begun, albeit imperceptibly, is the age of non-human actors.
The World Without Us was originally produced and presented by HMKV in Dortmund, Germany in 2016. For the 2017 Ljubljana version a selection of the Dortmund show was made and some works of the exhibition alien matter (curated by Inke Arns for the transmediale festival, HKW, 2017) were added to The World Without Us. The exhibition will move to Rijeka (Mali Salom / MMSU) at the end of the summer as a part of the project State Machines - Art, Work, and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale Computation.
Side programme:
Adam Harvey: Privacy Gift Shop
Solo exhibition
Aksioma Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana
21 June – 21 July 2017
http://aksioma.org/privacy.gift.shop/Maja Smrekar: Requiem for the Future
Hybrid performance
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, Krekov trg 2, Ljubljana
5, 7, 8 July 2017 at 9 pm
Production: Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Aksioma
http://aksioma.org/requiem/index.html—
Produced by: HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), www.hmkv.de
and Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, www.aksioma.orgCo-production: Museum & Galleries of Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka
Head of production: Janez Janša
Producers: Marcela Okretič, Jani Pirnat
Executive producer: Sonja Grdina
Public relations: Alja Žorž, Janja BuzečanMedia sponsor: Radio Študent
The World Without Us in Ljubljana and Rijeka is realised in the framework of the project State Machines, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), the Institute of Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).
Supported by: the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana, Kultura nova and the Department of Culture of City of Rijeka.
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:
Marcela Okretič, 00386-(0)41 250830, [email protected]
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Komenskega 18, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.aksioma.org______________________________________________
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