“Privacy advocates will find it difficult to convince the public that traditional definitions of privacy are of higher value than the freedom to leave your house. No one should want to abandon privacy as a value, of course, or even to downgrade its importance. But it’s entirely possible to develop a concept of privacy that […] Više
Annual student exchange facilitated by Nicole Hewitt and Ben Cain. During an exceptionally difficult period that included a pandemic and earthquakes, along with various other challenges, BA Art students from Zagreb Academy of Fine Art and LondonMet found ways to communicate, to share times, spaces, ideas… and to make work together over distance. Ordinarily -and […] Više
Final event of Open Studio: Vlad Brăteanu4.7.2020. 19h / 7ica artist statementFor this open studio, I am proposing several works // interventions // collaborations that centre around communication, interaction and urban acupuncture in public spaces. Scrutinising societal and geographical issues in neoliberalism, supermarkets as a place of exchange, consumption, labour and gathering, have been my […] Više
Through the glass ceiling, you can see the sky filled with clouds. Simultaneously, the ceiling is both an impassable barrier and a fragile, yet sturdy, protection from the elements. This ceiling is the metaphor for a woman which is, at first glance, in 21st-century society, completely free; however, her true freedom is unreachable due to […] Više
This research deals with the weird intersections of rare metals and all our lives in these entangled times of ubiquitous networked media. It concerns the hegemonic neocolonial relations of contemporary neoliberal globalization (that is, today’s corporate practices of so-called development and sustainability), through extraction of geological materials that are mined from the earth and re-worked into machines that define our technical media culture. Such sites where material turns gradually closer to media are scattered across the globe; however, I am researching only one such supply chain, and its real conditions; that of Tantalum. My focus is in Rwanda, as well as Macedonia, and the space in between. Više
Mjenjolici s Urana predlažu zajednički uron u znanstvenu fantastiku s fokusom na autore koji su već početkom prošlog stoljeća preispitivali kako odnose ljudskog i neljudskog tako i premisu da se bijeli heteroseksualni muškarac (a ne lezbijka iz Ekumena, pas mješanac ili običan kamen) sa svojim tehno-ekstenzijama nalazi u središtu svemira. Želja nam je kroz čitalačku grupu ne samo proširiti imaginarij ‘o budućnosti’ već dovesti u pitanje vrijednosti na kojima se isti temelji. Potičući dijalog u kojem su jedina pravila da je sve što pomislimo (ne)točno te da su svi sugovornici jednako (ne)stručni, Mjenjolici pozivaju da privremeno zamijenimo zaključke opažanjem. Više
