The 15th edition of Tactics&Practice explores how the ambiguous quality of data can be used as a tool to influence real world outcomes. How can the act of purposely creating data provide agency within data-driven systems? Is it possible to manipulate data to create specific real-world outcomes?
With: Alexandre Puttick, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder, Gloria Gammer, Gordan Savičić, Marta Peirano, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Neja Berger, Sebastian Schmieg, Selena Savić, Simon Weckert, Total Refusal, Valentina Tanni
The edition will spread out through events from February until June, starting at Kino Šiška in Ljubljana with a kickoff conference:
CONFERENCE PART #1 @ Katedrala
16:30–18:00
- Intro to Unreal Data by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (talk)
- Unreal Is the New Real by Felix Stalder (talk)
- Data Cyborgs: A Partially Algorithmically Generated Embodied Conversation Between Three Different Logics by Cornelia Sollfrank and Alexandre Puttick (lecture performance)
CONFERENCE PART #2 @ Katedrala
18:30–20:00
- Gaslighting AI by Marta Peirano (keynote)
- No Travel Agency by Simon Weckert, Gloria Gammer (interactive performance)
EXHIBITION OPENING @ Kamera
20:00–21:00
- Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert
LIVE GAME SHOW @ Komuna
21:00–22:30
- Prompt Battle by Sebastian Schmieg
DJ DVMIR live set @ Lower foyer
22:30–24:00
Free entry! Registration required:
https://pretix.eu/aksioma/unrealdata
Full programme:
https://www.aksioma.org/unrealdata/
(Un)real Data – Real Effects is a programme by !Mediengruppe Bitnik that is based on their research project Latent Spaces – Performing Ambiguous Data at the Zürich University of the Arts and curated in cooperation with Aksioma. The conference is developed in collaboration with Felix Stalder and with the generous curatorial advice of the Latent Spaces research group.
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Produced and organised by: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
For the series: Tactics&Practice
In partnership with: Kino Šiška Center for Urban Culture, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana
Supported by: the Municipality of Ljubljana, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Swiss National Science Foundation and Zürich University of the Arts
