README 2019

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+Upsetting Settings presents graduation projects initiated by Alexander Roidl,
+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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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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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+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)
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+20:00 Break (45 mins)
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+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)
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+21:30 Break (40 mins)
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+22:10 Zalan performances presentation and performance as finale
+22:40 Drinks with DJ Naam (Dennis de Bel): (Slash)
+02:00 END
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+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
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+‘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.
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+12:00-13:00 INSTANT WARNET WORKSHOP – Natasha Berting
+Location: UBIK
+FREE workshop, max 8 participants, no RSVP necessary
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+‘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.
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+13:00-14:00 AMPLIFY ANGRY VOICES – Angeliki Diakrousi
+Location: Slash Gallery and surrounding area
+FREE workshop, max 10 participants, no RSVP necessary
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+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.
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+13:30-14:00 EIGENGRAU – Zalan Szakacs
+Location: UBIK
+FREE performance, no RSVP necessary
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+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
+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.
+XPUB’s 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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  <div class='col1'><img src='img/xpub_logo_2019.png' class='logo'/><p class='gradShow'>UPSETTING SETTINGS</p><p>July 2019</p></div>
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+   <p><a href="README.2019">README</a></p>
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  <p><!--a href='test.pdf' target="_blank" class='ext'>publication.pdf</a--></p>
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