The book HANDMADE NETWORKS by #SteffenKöhn and #NestorSiré is out!
Read on exploration of Cuba’s alternative digital #infrastructures, highlighting innovative #grassroots solutions to #internet scarcity and reimagining these networks as alternatives to the capitalist #digital infrastructures dominated by Big Tech.
aksioma.org/handmade-networks
HANDMADE NETWORKS presents a body of research-based artworks by #SteffenKöhn and #NestorSiré. Their collaborative projects explore how the Cuban people have compensated for their lack of #internet #connectivity by building massive #alternative #infrastructures, such as grassroots community computer networks or offline “sneakernets”. They document how Cubans defy material scarcity by recycling or appropriating obsolete technologies, creating digital exchange platforms on messenger applications, or engaging in play-to-earn blockchain games. By examining the resilient and resistive potentials of these vernacular infrastructures, Köhn and Siré’s work also reimagines such networks as viable alternatives to the capitalist, consumerist digital infrastructures controlled by an oligopoly of Big Tech companies that have homogenised the global internet.
With contribution by Cuba's best-known #cyberpunk writer #ErickJMota and by curator, educator and researcher #BaniBrusadin.
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PREORDER: aksioma.org/handmade-networks
A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale
To engage with the word #scale requires an act of imagining and bringing together a multitude of things. It requires thinking about automated images, hidden labour, logistics, surveillance systems, infrastructures and networks. It requires an in-depth consideration of how technical conditions of perception operate upon the very material fabric of the world, and how feelings, emotions and beliefs are deeply connected to and are at stake in the scalar reorganisation of the world.
The publication 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, published by Aksioma & transmediale is available for order at 👉 aksioma.org/scale-book
With contributions by #JussiParikka #LauraTripaldi #AnthonyDowney #ChrisLee #FRAUD #AudreySamson #FranciscoGallardo #RanjodhSinghDhaliwal and #AsiaBazdyrieva.
#aksioma #transmediale #book
Another great year is behind us! Thank you all for being part of Aksioma's story! 💛
[#49] In the essay 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, Slovenian media theorist and philosopher #MaksValenčič proposes to call on media theory for a more refined understanding of some branches of contemporary art, like object-oriented art. Media theory offers a more refined starting point, as it is concerned with the very way in which patterns are encoded. Here, art is modelled as a specific register or, more precisely, a mode of encoding that differs from alternative approaches, e.g. in science. In other words: while science encodes, art recodes, since it deals with all possible ways of encoding patterns, including those that do not strive for optimality or the possibility of optimisation. It softens patterns or encodes the same pattern in different ways, thereby establishing alternative functions (or models) for such approximation of input data. Artistic encoding is therefore by definition concerned with another, alternative world or mode of encoding, which is most clearly highlighted by contemporary world-building narratives and various theory-fiction attempts at understanding one’s own practice.
👀💛 Read at: aksioma.org/the-art-of-encoding
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition "STRATA 9.073 (kernel processing)" by #ŽivaBožičnikRebec, curated by #DomenOgrajenšek as part of the U30+ production programme.
🩶🍋🤩 New book by Aksioma X transmediale! Preorder it with a discount until 6 December: aksioma.org/scale-book
“There is no such thing as truly general purpose AI. We can see that there is this sort of operation of what the media scholar Alex Campolo and I call enchanted determinism. These systems are described as being magical, otherworldly and alien, producing a type of general intelligence that is separate from the humans that build the systems and the earth that’s used for the energy, minerals and water that drive them. Yet at the same time, the scene is deterministic. These systems can produce a type of prediction around how we should live, how the criminal justice system should work, how you should receive predictions for the ideal employee etc.”
#KateCrawford, the leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence in the fifth #tacticspractice #reprogramming episode 👉 Listen at aksioma.org/podcast/reprogramming
#aksioma #martapeirano #podcast #artificialintelligence #atlasofai KonS
New #PostScriptUM essay "Micro, Meso, Macro" by art historian #AsiaBazdyrieva talks about her experiencing two "realms", her native Ukraine invaded by Russia and peaceful Western countries.
Read for free: https://aksioma.org/micro-meso-macro
#aksioma #tacticspractice #scale #transmediale
Tactics&Practice [podcast]: (re)programming 👉8 Fridays 8 episodes 👉 The guest of the recent episode titled #Energy is #HollyJeanBuck! 👂 https://aksioma.org/podcast
#aksioma #tacticspractice #MartaPeirano KonS
New essay in our #PostScriptUM series! 💛 𝗡𝗲𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 by #AnthonyDowney.
📌 Read at: aksioma.org/neocolonial-visions-algorithmic-violence-and-unmanned-aerial-systems
#aksioma #tacticspractice #scale
Look inside the book 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗲, Aksioma's latest publication. 👀 More at aksioma.org/sl/under-the-calculative-gaze-book
#sanelajahic #aksioma KonS
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲! 👉 45th #PostScriptUM issue in which 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗮, writer and professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University, explores the 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲.
“In the midst of all sorts of simulations, scale functions as an operational element that is central to creating its own conditions of coherence. Scale exists as fiducial markers in machine vision, augmented reality and different fields that need to map a multitude of scales into coherent knowledge. What is at the centre of struggles for power here are not only objects and subjects, but fiducial markers themselves. A lighter, an apple, a banana for scale. Science and technology studies would call this the struggle for standards. We have arrived at a situation where scale is not merely about representing reality – was it ever – but engineering it. In short, scales have been merged inside simulations, technical creations of realities, and they operate therein as they construct subject positions in the most material ways as they modulate perceptual directions, content and affect.”
👉 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗧: aksioma.org/there-is-plenty-of-room-in-the-simulation
Published in the framework of #tacticspractice #scale and #transmediale.
On the cover: "Decalibration Target: Start of Image Marker" by #RosaMenkman
#aksioma #aksiomalibrary #jussiparikka
New #PostScriptUM issue is out! ✨ In his essay, media theory and digital art researcher #MartinZeilinger explores what might become possible – for artists, activists or community organisers – when we reimagine blockchains not as property-oriented infrastructure, but as structures of belonging.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: aksioma.org/structures-of-belonging
And join us for the 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 on 𝟯 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘁 /𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗮 in Berlin! 😊👉 Structures of Belonging · Martin Zeilinger, Penny Rafferty, Felix Stalder · Aksioma at /rosa
Zentrum für Netzkunst Panke.gallery
You can now watch #BenGrosser's artist talk 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼: 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 online: https://youtu.be/M_vO9_7pxyI
His show 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 at Aksioma is up till 22 June.
aksioma.org/software.for.less
#tacticspractice #newextractivism
𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 came out the previous week!
In the book #DomenicoQuaranta’s exploration follows two main lines: it analyses the relationship between cryptocurrencies, blockchain and artistic practices, and it explores issues of authenticity and scarcity in contemporary art in general, and media art in particular.
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Order online at: aksioma.org/surfing.with.satoshi
Or get it at Aksioma gallery!
#surfingwithsatoshi #aksiomalibrary
[NEW ISSUE] 💥 In the latest #PostScriptUM, art historian and curator #ValentinaTanni discusses spontaneous new tactics of resistance to cheat the #GreatAlgorithm used by social networks. Some of these aim to reach more visibility, some aim to hide, some to invent a new language, some to exploit entropy. However weak and sparse, they represent a genuine and creative form of everyday survival.
Published on the occasion of #BenGrosser’s exhibition 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 which is featuring works that focus on less profit, less data and fewer users in contrast with growth-obsessed corporate culture of Silicon Valley.
📌 Available as a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗗𝗙 or print on demand in English and Slovenian
👉 READ HERE = aksioma.org/the-great-algorithm
#tacticspractice #newextractivism #aksiomalibrary
As part of the art-science research project #PostGrowth, initiated by the DISNOVATION.ORG – a working group aiming to question the dominant techno-positivist ideologies – #ClémenceSeurat, a curator and editor, investigating the fields of reflection and action related to political ecology, spoke with #DušanKažić, an anthropologist and researcher that envisions a break of the production paradigm based on economic knowledge, and imagines agriculture and, more broadly, a world without production and economy.
🌾 Read their conversation in the latest edition of #PostScriptUM. Published in Slovenian, English and French: aksioma.org/no-one-has-ever-produced-anything
#tacticspratice #newextractivism #disnovation #aksiomalibrary
#FelixStalder v novem #PostScriptUM eseju 𝐔𝐛𝐞𝐳̌𝐧𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐑𝐚𝐜̌𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐧𝐢𝐬̌𝐭𝐯𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐬̌𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐞, izšlem ob razstavi #NewExtractivism Vladana Jolerja, opisuje, kako veliko pospeševanje človeških dejavnosti, ki ga je spodbudilo računalništvo, zemeljski sistem premaknilo v antropocen. Da bi pomagali preprečiti globoko avtoritarne odgovore na bližajoči se podnebni zlom, pravi tekst, moramo razkriti kolonialistični značaj trenutnega sistema ekstraktivizma in njegove posledice. 📖
Preberi esej v angleščini ali sloveščini 👉 aksioma.org/sl/ubezna-hitrost.racunalnistvo-in-veliko-postesevanje
#tacticspractice #aksiomalibrary
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲?
These are the questions (𝗿𝗲)𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 programme sought to answer by focusing on solutions, finding tools, words and visions across disciplines, from energy and infrastructure to community building and AI. Last year, in the form of online discussions that journalist #MartaPeirano conducted with world thinkers, today as a reader that collects the transcripts of these interviews.
Read the thoughts by #MartaPeirano #KimStanleyRobinson #BenjaminBratton #HollyJeanBuck #AnabJain #KateCrawford #JoanaMoll #AstraTaylor #EyalWeizman, special guests and chat participants all in one place.
The publication will be available 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 on, but the 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 👉 aksioma.org/reprogramming.book
+ coming soon also to our outreach partners NERO Editions. 🙌
#tacticspractice #reprogramming #aksiomalibrary KonS Mladinski center Velenje
