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<font face="Times New Roman">Aksioma </font><font face="Times New
Roman" size="3">– Institute for Contemporary Art,</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Ljubljana, kindly invites you to
the exhibition opening:</font>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><b>Maja Smrekar</b><i><b><br>
<big><small>History Of The Future</small><br>
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href="http://www.aksioma.org/history-of-the-future/index.html"><font
size="3">www.aksioma.org/history-of-the-future</font></a><br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Aksioma
</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
lang="en-GB"><b>| Project Space</b></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span
style="font-weight: normal"><br>
Komenskega 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>
10. - 25.1.2012<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-GB">Opening: Tuesday</span><span
lang="en-GB">, 10 January 2012, 7 pm</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000080"
face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><span style="background:
transparent">“</span></span></font></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent">History of the
Future” takes us on a temporal journey through the
cinematic archive of international science-fiction
production, organised as a multi-media presentation
of content-based clusters of representations of
possible realities of the future and the present,
which follow chronologically from 1895 until 2009,
and they appear on a time line in the future, which
ends in the year of 802,701. The interactive
infrastructure of the multi-media installation
offers the user a selection of contents, within
which the author presents the socio-political
contexts that shaped the </span></span></span></font></font></span></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent">zeitgeist</span></span></i></span></font></font></span></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent"> of each historical
period in which the selected films were made. The
presentation transpires in the form of a video
lecture and in the style of </span></span></span></font></font></span></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><i><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent">philoscifi</span></span></i></span></font></font></span></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent"> (= the philosophy
of science fiction). Through the topics of
sociological and media structure of popular culture,
the author in this project explores the anthropology
of fear as it relates to the changes in the
perception of nature, technology and, consequently,
social psychodynamics through the phenomenology of
the perception of time, which, in the January
instalment of the project, she will offer to the
viewer as a presentation of the juxtaposition of
linearity and laterality.</span></span></span></font></font></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Maja Smrekar</b></font><font
style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"> was
born 1978 in Slovenia, 2005 graduated at the Sculpture
Department of Fine Art Academy in Ljubljana, currently finishing
MA at the New Media Department. Her main interest is based at
the phenomenology of perception which she first started
researching through space phenomena by composing live video
among various collaborations in interactive sound/visual
projects with other artists. Her main artistic focus remains at
the intermedia art field. Among others, she has been
collaborating with Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana for the last
five years and with Aksioma Institute for the last two years.
Under their production she has executed projects within which
she was researching frequency phenomena through biofeedback and
thelematic presence in relations to body, privacy and
(inter)subjective perception of space. During the last two years
she has been developing projects within the field of bioart with
focus on living organisms. In 2010 she organised International
Festival HAIP10/New Nature which has been focussed to
interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration ethics between
scientists and artists. The festival took place at Multimedia
Centre Cyberpipe in Ljubljana where she has been active as an
artistic director for two years. Maja Smrekar currently lives
and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. </font><font color="#000080"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://majasmrekar.org/"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><span style="background: transparent">http://majasmrekar.org/</span></font></a></u></span></font><font
color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="background: transparent"> </span></span></span></font></font></span></font>
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</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Concept
and
realization: </b>Maja Smrekar</font><font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>CGP,
programming
and graphic design:</b> Luka Marčetič</font><font face="Times
New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Installation
design:
</b>Maja Smrekar and Andrej Strehovec</font><font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Photographer:
</b>Borut Peterlin</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Technical
planning:
</b>Andrej Strehovec</font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
</font><font style="font-size: 11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Technical
realization:
</b>RPS d.o.o.</font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:
11pt" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Thanks: </b>Louis
Barçon, Rok Čančer, Ida Hiršenfelder</font> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b><br>
Production: </b></font></font><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Aksioma
– Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2011</font></font></p>
<font color="#000080" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://www.aksioma.org/"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">www.aksioma.org</font></a></u></span></font><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Artistic
director:
Janez Janša</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><br>
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<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">Executive producer: Marcela Okretič</font></font><font
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11pt" size="2"><br>
Public relations: Mojca Zupanič</font></font><font
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Technical support: Valter Udovičić</font></font><font
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Assistant: Sonja Grdina</font></font><font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="LEFT"><font color="#000000"
face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i><b>Supported
by
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and
the Municipality</b></i></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><i><b> of Ljubljana.</b><br>
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.</i></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal" align="LEFT"
lang="sl-SI"> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><i>This event is organized in
the framework of <b>ARSCOPE</b> (Art-Science Co-OPeration
Environment) <br>
project co-financed by the <b>EU Culture programme </b>and
implemented in partnership of TAKOMAT (DE), CIANT (CZ) and
AKSIOMA (SI).</i></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><b>Contact:</b></font></font><font
color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
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Marcela Okretič, 041 250 830, </font></font><font
color="#000081" face="Times New Roman"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:aksioma4@siol.net">aksioma4@siol.net</a></font></font><font
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11pt" size="2"><b><br>
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana</b></font></font><font
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Neubergerjeva 25, 1000 Ljubljana</font></font><font
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.aksioma.org">www.aksioma.org</a></font></font><font
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