[aha] Telekommunisten at Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana,
in partnership with the /reSource for transmedial culture/ (transmediale 
festival for art and digital culture berlin)
presents

/*Telekommunisten */
/*Miscommunication Technologies - R15N*/
_www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten <http://www.aksioma.org/telekommunisten>_

*Aksioma **|**Project Space*
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia
19 March -- 6 April 2012

*Artist's presentation and exhibition opening: Monday, 19 March 2012 at 
7 p.m.
*Press kit: www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip 
<http://www.aksioma.org/press/telekommunisten.zip>

    /The most significant challenge the open web will need to overcome
    is not technical, it is political./--- Telekommunisten

**

/*Telekommunisten */
/*Miscommunication Technologies - R15N*/

/Miscommunication Technologies/is an ongoing project of the 
Telekommunisten Network that employs satire and emphasizes simplicity 
and human interactions over technological sophistication, creating 
platforms that don't work as expected or work in unexpected ways.
They uncover the social relations embedded in network topologies and 
communications platforms and it comprises works such as the /*R15N 
*/project, /*deadSwap*/offline file sharing system, and /*Thimbl, */a 
distributed social network based on the finger protocol from the 1970s. 
They operate as a form of performative, interactive, social-economic 
fiction that presents an experimental technology, engaging its users and 
confronting them with the social relations embedded in communication 
platforms.

For the /*R15N*/project Telekommunisten Network adopts a retro 
aesthetics in order to bring through a story about the prevalence of 
digital divide in most local environments, and call into question the 
newness or hype surrounding contemporary communication platforms. They 
attempt to fill in the gap between the connected and the disconnected by 
employing an old technology like telephones. /R15N/is an experimental 
phone service which counters the pervasive social networks. 
/R15N/implements a variation on the random phone call broadcast model to 
enable a community to share information. The system works by arbitrarily 
determining who in the community will be responsible for passing on a 
message, setting up an ad-hoc telephone tree that allows the community 
to distribute messages.

For more information and registration details see: http://r15n.net 
<http://r15n.net/>

The exhibition is organised as part of the framework of the reSource for 
transmedial culture, the ongoing local and translocal networking 
platform of transmediale festival berlin, in the context of which the 
project R15N was initially launched.
At the exhibition opening Dmytri Kleiner will present the 
/Telekomunisten Manifesto/section P2P Communism vs Client-Server Capitalism.
The presentation is introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli, curator of the 
reSource for transmedial culture.


*Telekommunisten*is a Berlin-based collective whose work investigates 
the political economy of communications technology. Core themes include 
the incompatibility of capitalism with free networks and free culture, 
and the increasing centralisation and enclosure that results, as well as 
the potential for distributed producers employing a collective stock of 
productive assets to provide an alternative economic basis for a free 
society.

*Dmytri Kleiner*is a software developer working on practical and 
symbolic artistic projects investigating the political economy of the 
Internet. He develops miscommunication technologies that uncover the 
social relations embedded in communication platforms. He is a co-founder 
and an active member of the Telekommunisten Network, and the author of 
the Telekommunist Manifesto published by the Institute of Network 
Cultures. *At transmediale.11 he was nominated for the Open Web Award 
with */*Thimbl*/*.*

The *reSource for transmedial culture*is an initiative of transmediale 
in partnership with CTM/DISK, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and the 
Post-Media Lab of the Leuphana University Lüneburg. The reSource is 
active in the city of Berlin throughout the year as a context of 
networking and projects dissemination with decisive touchdowns at each 
festival. The objective of the reSource is to act as a link between the 
cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks in the 
field of art and technology, hacktivism and politics.

*Tatiana Bazzichelli*is a researcher, networker and curator, working in 
the field of hacktivism and net culture. She is part of the transmediale 
festival team in Berlin, where she develops the reSource for transmedial 
culture. She received a Ph.D. in Information and Media Studies from 
Aarhus University (DK), conducting research on disruptive art practices 
in the business of social media/./

*Production: *Aksioma -- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_

Artistic Director: Janez Jans(a
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretic(
Assistant Production: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanic(
Technical Supervisor: Valter Udovic(ic'

*Exhibition design:* Jonas Frankki

/*The programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by the Ministry of 
Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.*/
/Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o./

//*Contact:*
Marcela Okretic(, +386 41 250 830, _aksioma4 a siol.net 
<mailto:aksioma4 a siol.net>_
*Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana*
Neubergerjeva 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
_www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org/>_

-- 
Tatiana Bazzichelli // reSource curator and programme developer
in/compatible // transmediale 2012, 31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012 // 
http://www.transmediale.de

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