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