<nettime> Tactics&Practice #7: CRITICAL ENGINEERING, Ljubljana, 26-27 Ma

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, is glad to announce:

Tactics&Practice #7

CRITICAL ENGINEERING

Radical Tools for Interventions in Infrastructure

https://aksioma.org/critical.engineering/index.html

TALKS | WORKSHOP | EXHIBITION

Ljubljana, 26–27 March 2019

THE TALKS:

Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

17:00 Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev: Dark Internet Topologies

17:45 Gordan Savičić & Bengt Sjölén: Electromagnetic Situationism

18:30 Joana Moll: An Autopsy of Data Business

19:15 Sarah Grant: Radical Networks

Free admission. Please fill in the registration form by 24 March 2019.

THE WORKSHOP:

Kino Šiška, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

9:00–18:00 Sarah Grant & Joana Moll: Surveillance Override

The workshop is free of charge. Limited to 12 participants. Follow this link to apply.

THE EXHIBITION:

Aksioma | Project Space, Komenskega 18, Ljubljana

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

19:00 Critical Engineering – opening (open through 26 April 2019)

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In 2011, a group of artists and engineers published the “Critical Engineering Manifesto”, since translated into 18 languages. Around the manifesto, originally written by Julian Oliver, Gordan Savičić and Danja Vasiliev, gathered a larger group – the Critical Engineering Working Group – now including also Sarah Grant, Bengt Sjölén and Joana Moll.

In true avant-garde fashion, the “Manifesto” launches by describing Engineering as “the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think”, thus, it is the work of the Critical Engineer “to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence”. Further, a Critical Engineer “recognises that each work of engineering engineers its user”, considering “any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat”. And so the manifesto unfolds.

Nearly ten years later, the relevance of the “Critical Engineering Manifesto” has only become more evident, as an ever-growing public becomes aware of the techno-political implications of using – and depending upon – integrated systems and complex, networked technologies. Today, one can find its 11 points listed on the walls of hacklabs, museums, engineering and media-art academies, and in a great many texts, the world over.

The Tactics&Practice event entitled Critical Engineering comprises an exhibition, a seminar and a workshop, underlining the artistic, theoretical and educational work done by the Critical Engineering Working Group along the last decade. The seminar will host all the members of the group – all of them recognised artists with long individual artistic careers – using their statements and their projects as case studies to analyse the transformative potential of Critical Engineering in the context of a tactical and technical arts practice.

Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2019

Coproduction: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana and Drugo more, Rijeka

Supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.

Tactics&Practice #7 is realised in the framework of State Machines, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY).

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.

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Aksioma | Project Space

Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

tel.: + 386 – (0)590 54360

gsm: + 386 – (0)41 – 250830

e-mail: marcela@aksioma.org