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Upsetting Settings presents graduation projects initiated by Alexander Roidl,
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Alice Strete, Angeliki Diakrousi, Joca van der Horst, Natasha Berting, and
Zalán Szakács. The concept of this exhibition arises from the idea of the
default setting, a situation in which a specific mode of interaction is
selected automatically, pre-configured to work out of the box without the need
to tinker with its underlying apparatus. Every system comes with default
settings predefined by its creators, and most of the time, these settings
remain unchanged by us, the users of such systems. These defaults do not
represent our needs but are possibly the materialisation of biases from the
system's makers, from corporate or political interests, from a society at
large. The projects engage with the concept of default modes and propose
interventions in their core structure/source/root so as to start thinking
collectively about better places from which to begin. You are invited to become
root users, active listeners, smart speakers, intentional eaters, counter
trolls, sensorial spectators!
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UPSETTERS
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Alexander Roidl
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Poetic Software challenges the default mode of software as a tool where
functionality and productivity are predominant through an intervention that
involves software as a non-functional, emotional, and cultural object of
artistic practice.
Alice Strete
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Is it time to eat, or is there no more time to eat? questions the default mode
of techno-solutionism through an intervention that subverts the culture of
reviews, peering through the lens of food to shed light onto an ideology built
on patterns of authoritativeness and bland lifestyle choices.
Angeliki Diakrousi
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Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things challenges the default mode of authoritative
voices, that establish exclusive speech platforms, through an intervention that
creates a safe space for excluded voices to be explored, in situated meetings
and on an online audio archive.
Joca van der Horst
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The Smart Speaker Theatre questions the default mode of smart speakers as
digital assistants, through an intervention that involves kidnapping a Google
Home and having it interrogated by a team of rogue speakers and by you, their
user.
Tash Berting
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Instant Warnet confronts the default mode of who is included and who is
excluded in contemporary social media spaces through an intervention that uses
play and performance to turn the tables on networks of harassment online.
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Zalán Szakács
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Eigengrau challenges the default mode of rituals in the club space through an
intervention that involves a collective experience while creating a
transcendental oneness for body and soul through help of light, sound, and
space.
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PROGRAMME
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12/07 FRIDAY: OPENING & PRESENTATIONS
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19:00 Welcome
19:15 Presentation by first years (15min)
19:30 2nd year student #1 (Joca) (10 mins, 5 min transition)
19:45 2nd year student #2 (Alex) (10 mins)
20:00 Break (45 mins)
20:45 2nd year student #3 (Natasha) (10 mins, 5 min transition)
21:00 2nd year student #4 (Alice) (10 mins, 5 min transition)
21:15 2nd year student #5 (Angeliki) (10 mins)
21:30 Break (40 mins)
22:10 Zalan performances presentation and performance as finale
22:40 Drinks with DJ Naam (Dennis de Bel): (Slash)
02:00 END
13/07 SATURDAY: WORKSHOPS & PERFORMANCES
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10:00 Open doors
11:00-12:00 MEAL REPLACEMENTS 101 Alice Strete
Location: UBIK
FREE screening/discussion, max 10 participants, no RSVP necessary
Is it time to eat, or is there no more time to eat is a desktop film inspired
by my research on meal replacements, the most prominent techno-solutionist
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creation in terms of food. In this short gathering, well be discussing the
main points raised in my video around these products alleged potential of
solving problems, as well as ponder upon their role within societies which
value the authoritative roles of tech innovators, and their potential to impact
the way humans live.
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12:00-13:00 INSTANT WARNET WORKSHOP Natasha Berting
Location: UBIK
FREE workshop, max 8 participants, no RSVP necessary
Instant Warnet is a live action, role-playing game which pokes and prods at
networks of harassment on social media. During this game session, players will
be invited to assume fictional identities on Instagram, and perform various
tactics to talk back to online toxicity. The aim of this collective performance
is to experiment with new responses to the many forms of trolling and overall
policing that minorities (especially women) so often have to deal with online.
13:00-14:00 AMPLIFY ANGRY VOICES Angeliki Diakrousi
Location: Slash Gallery and surrounding area
FREE workshop, max 10 participants, no RSVP necessary
This workshop will be about channeling our gendered angry voices in public
space. It will take the form of a short play, based on an initial discussion
about personal experiences from moments of unspoken angry thoughts. We will
capture them in sentences and use them as input for responses within an angry
dialogue. Our temporary act will be recorded and then played back, outside of
Slash gallery. This public moment will be a chance to listen and expose the
outcome of our collective process. The produced material will be included in an
online audio archive, with the potentiality of re-broadcast or use for future
workshops.
13:30-14:00 EIGENGRAU Zalan Szakacs
Location: UBIK
FREE performance, no RSVP necessary
The audiovisual experience features a custom-made LED circle, that in the
timespan of 12 minutes takes the audience through a non linear time of five
mental states: Deep State, Anticipation State, Weird state, Higher State and
Relaxation State. This narrative is made visible through the pre-programmed
motion of blue light gradients, referring to the colour of screen light.
Eigengrau frames the negative space, and therefore it generates an illusion of
non-material space. The installation offers a suspension from the isolation and
digital saturation of contemporary society.
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Upsetting settings results from a year of research done at the Experimental
Publishing (XPUB) master in Fine Art and Design program of the Piet Zwart
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Institute. XPUB is a two-year course that prepares students to critically
engage with societal issues and social practices within the fast changing field
of art, design and cultural production. More specifically, XPUB focuses on the
acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital
networks. XPUBs interests in publishing are therefore twofold: first,
publishing as the inquiry and participation into the technological frameworks,
political context and cultural processes through which things are made public;
and second, how these are, or can be, used to create publics.
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