With the participation of Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Simona Levi (ES), Evan Roth (US/FR), Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion (FR) and Zach Blas (US). Curated by Bani Brusadin (IT/ES), Eva & Franco Mattes (IT/US) How did the internet go from the utopian free-for-all, open source heaven, libertarian last frontier to the current state of permanent surveillance,
With the participation of Marko Peljhan (SI/US), Simona Levi (ES), Evan Roth (US/FR), Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion (FR) and Zach Blas (US).
Curated by Bani Brusadin (IT/ES), Eva & Franco Mattes (IT/US)
How did the internet go from the utopian free-for-all, open source heaven, libertarian last frontier to the current state of permanent surveillance, exhibitionism and paranoia? This duplicity is the underlying thread that links the speakers of The Black Chamber Conference, a two-day event produced by Aksioma in partnership with Drugo More (Croatia) and The Influencers (Spain) and hosted by Kino Siska.
Developed through ongoing research on these subjects by researcher Bani Brusadin and internationally acclaimed artists Eva & Franco Mattes, The Black Chamber Conference aims at discussing the delicate and often awkward role of art and imagination in the age of mass surveillance, stressing the multiple connections with independent research, grassroots activism and new forms of political action.
How do politically-aware artists and media-savvy activists manage to scavenge for unaccounted details? What techno-social machines are they inventing to do so? What new alliances are they building between distant disciplinary fields? How do they turn their adventurous tactics to expose secrets – no matter if they are truly concealed or hidden in society’s full sight – into a larger quest for freedom? The Black Chamber guests Peljhan, Levi, Roth, Brout & Marion and Blas will share their own first-hand experiences and thoughts as tentative ways to answer these questions.
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Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana in coproduction
The Black Chamber is realized in the framework of Masters & Servers, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES).
Conference was supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana and the Italian Cultural Institute in Slovenia.
