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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! + + + ▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌ + ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ + + UPSETTERS + + ▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌ + ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ + + + +Alexander Roidl +--------------- + +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 +------------ + +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 +------------------ + +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 +------------------ + +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 +------------ + +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. + + +Zalán Szakács +------------- + +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. + + + ▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌ + ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ + + PROGRAMME + + ▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌▗█▙▄▌ + ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ ▝ ▝▀ + + + +12/07 FRIDAY: OPENING & PRESENTATIONS +------------------------------------- + +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 +---------------------------------------- + +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 +creation in terms of food. In this short gathering, we’ll 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. + + +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. 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