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Tactics&Practice [podcast]
by Tactics&Practice [podcast]
Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana
Episodes
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S6 [Becoming Image] E3: Ready Player None [w/Milia Xin Bi]
What does it mean to imagine alternatives to prescripted narratives when AI has already prescribed the rules of the world? How to navigate prescriptive AI systems to prototype other worlds, other rules, and other ways of playing within algorithmic constraint? In this episode, curator and writer...
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S6 [Becoming Image] E2: Brainrot as Theory [w/Dian Joy]
What does thinking or imaging look like when it’s optimised for scroll, repetition, and affect? When thinking itself becomes “scrollified” how do repetition, optimisation, and affect rewire imagination, compress attention, and turn imaging itself into something endlessly refreshed, looped, and...
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S6 [Becoming Image] E1: Who’s Still Here? [w/dmstfctn]
Who are we when our identities are shaped through interfaces, datasets, and platforms? And what does it mean to see, to be seen, or to become visible when every act of seeing is mediated by software? dmstfctn (Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith) join the podcast to discuss their decade-long...
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S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E5: Silence in the Dark Forest [w/Bogna Konior]
What if the universe is silent not because it’s empty, but because intelligence knows when to hide? Writer and theorist Bogna Konior traces a forgotten genealogy linking early internet pioneers, ufology, and AI research to argue that the web functions as a site of first contact with inhuman...
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S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell]
In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major ruptures, what power might lie in the minor key? Professor and author Carolyn Pedwell weaves...
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S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E3: Hexing the Algorithm [w/Shaka McGlotten]
What if seduction—not dissection—could fracture algorithmic control? Artist, researcher and author Shaka McGlotten guides us through witchy warfare against quantification, deploying computational hexes, opacity, fugitivity and improvisational sabotage. Having given up on dialectics and…
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S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E2: The Girl’s Inhuman Arsenal [w/Alex Quicho]
Forget Boy-Philosophy: here, we know that surfaces are sites of power and lambs are fluent in the noise of the world. But where is the difference between poetry and theory? In this episode, theorist and artist Alex Quicho dissects her concept of the Girl – a tripartite technology of subjectivity...
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S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E1: Memes as Sympoietic Agents [w/Sophie Publig]
Is there a way to define memes without implicitly memifying everything? We move through the definitional morass of memetics and meme studies towards researcher Sophie Publig’s critical posthumanist account of memes as sympoietic agents. From in-group jokes and troll hoaxes on early image-boards…
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E10: What Are the Limits of Interspecies Communication? [w/ Maja Smrekar]
We have lived alongside dogs for thousands of years. How close have we grown to each other since we first domesticated them? In one of her performances, artist Maja Smrekar biologically manipulated her body so that she could use her own breast milk to feed an Icelandic Spitz puppy. Behind its...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E9: When an AI Governs Your City [w/ Pinar Yoldas]
Smart cities across the world are pioneering chatbots, autonomous vehicles and AI technologies to help streamline bureaucratic services, facilitate police recruitment, fill in potholes or locate resources at the library. Could algorithmic systems of control and governance be applied to all public...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E8: Taming AI, Playing AI [w/ Sanela Jahić]
Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Should artists feel threatened by AIs that compose music, make animation movies or write novels? Or is there something intrinsically uncomputable in the...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E7: Solidarity, Perils and Ethics on Darknet Markets [w/ !Mediengruppe Bitnik]
Darknet markets, identity shielding, bots and cryptocurrencies have revolutionised commerce and society, each in its own way. What happens when you bring all these disrupting ingredients together? Doma Smoljo and Carmen Weisskopf from !Mediengruppe Bitnik created a piece of software that randomly...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E6: Chasing the Physicality of the Internet [w/ Evan Roth]
Internet has obliterated borders, distances and other hallmarks of geography, making us forget its material reality: its data centres, wires, routers, processors and a vast network of intercontinental cables. Artist Evan Roth has travelled the globe to make infrared videos of coastal landscapes...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]
Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? Can you use games to make players reflect on ethics, politics and the...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E4: Up-Close and Personal with Impersonal Power Structures [w/ Jill Magid]
What does it feel to infiltrate or work alongside structures of power that most of us find impersonal and intimidating? How do you capitalise on the systemic loopholes and quirks inherent to institutions of authority such as intelligence agencies, corporations, bureaucracies and law enforcement...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E3: How Much is Your Democracy Worth? [w/ UBERMORGEN]
In 2000, during the presidential race between George Bush and Al Gore, a group of “Maverick Austrian Business People” launched a platform that gave US voters the possibility to auction off their votes to bidders on the internet. Thirteen US states attempted to shut down the project with temporary...
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E2: Decolonising Museum Collections [w/ Nora Al-Badri]
The discussion about the growing list of looted and illicitly acquired museum treasures is one that most Westerners would rather not think about. Unless a scandal, a protest, a movie or a contemporary artwork forces ex-colonising countries to confront the firm grip that their institutions…
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S4 [The Future Behind Us] E1: PsyOps and Other Secret Military Programmes [w/Trevor Paglen]
Over the years, Trevor Paglen has documented operations, locations and activities that were meant to remain hidden from the public. He has tracked and photographed the world of secret satellites, flew in a helicopter over the NSA headquarters with the express purpose of taking aerial photographs…
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S3 [(un)real data] E5: The Liminal Vibes Beyond Digital Conformity [w/ Valentina Tanni]
Internet aesthetics like vaporwave, the Backrooms and weirdcore seem to offer glimpses of alternate realities beyond the threshold of the real. From Freud’s “uncanny” to hauntology’s spectral futures, these are aesthetics that revel in the strange, the eerie and the infinitely ambiguous – a…
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S3 [(un)real data] E4: How Mind-Flattening Algorithmic Tweaks Ruined Posting [w/ Günseli Yalcinkaya]
If we paraphrase McLuhan, today’s medium is the algorithm: how is this universal mediator shaping us as content creators and consumers? How does it feel to be online amid different polarising forces, when consensus reality has completely broken down? Günseli Yalcinkaya, writer and researcher...
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S3 [(un)real data] E3: Unmasking AI’s Pixel Puppetry [w/ Eryk Salvaggio]
What exactly is in the images generated by AI? Is it possible to decode training datasets and detect biases that fusion models, such as Dall-E or Midjourney, reproduce? Eryk Salvaggio, researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence…
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S3 [(un)real data] E2: Could We Stop Reproducing a Deepfake Past? [w/ Wendy Chun]
Predictive models based on big data are founded on the idea that knowing the past enables us to predict the future, but what kind of future are we constructing when the models are based on a deepfake version of the past? Correlation has overtaken causation, while homophily shadows differences...
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S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]
The rise of computation in the 1950s shifted society to one constructed purely in commercial terms, where selling and buying have become the main social relation and every possible human form of contact is reimagined as a service or a product. What does this imply for the self? When individuals…
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S2 [(re)programming] E8: Accountability [w/ Eyal Weizman]
How to Tell Eyal Weizman is a Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures. He founded Forensic Architecture, where he helped develop a methodology – counter forensics – for analysing cases of human rights violations around the world to provide new evidence against official narratives in…
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S2 [(re)programming] E7: Community [w/ Astra Taylor]
Talk to Your Neighbour Astra Taylor is an international filmmaker, writer and political organiser. She was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, and has been one of its best narrators and critics. Since then, in a series of legendary attempts to improve protest movements, she has…
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S2 [(re)programming] E6: The Cloud [w/ Joana Moll]
Everything is Not Connected Joana Moll is a Barcelona/Berlin-based artist and researcher. Her work moves towards a crossover between art and investigative journalism with the aim to make public the hidden costs of techno-capitalism. Back in 2013, her research began with an epiphany: services like...
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S2 [(re)programming] E5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford]
Better Machines for Better Humans Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence. Her book ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is the culmination of a five-year-long research into materiality of AI. Far from...
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S2 [(re)programming] E4: Interdependence [w/ Anab Jain]
Posthuman Politics Future is not only about data and trends, it is about imagination. The work of designer and filmmaker Anab Jain transports people into the future. The evolving installation Mitigation of Shock by her studio Superflux envisions a random apartment in the London of 2050 or in a...
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S2 [(re)programming] E3: Energy [w/ Holly Jean Buck]
Can We Repair the Climate? Holly Jean Buck works at the interface of environmental sociology, international development, and science and technology studies. In her book After Geoengineering, she takes a deep dive into the envisioning, development and deployment of tactics and schemes for...
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S2 [(re)programming] E2: Infrastructure [w/ Benjamin Bratton]
An Alternative Earth Benjamin Bratton is an American Philosopher of Technology, known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, AI, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms “planetary scale computation”. In the conversation with Marta Peirano, he...
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S2 [(re)programming] E1: Trigger [w/ Kim Stanley Robinson]
What Does it Take to Change the Future? Kim Stanley Robinson stands as one of today’s most beloved science fiction writers and is a prominent exponent of climate fiction. In his novel The Ministry for the Future (2020), he envisions a scenario where India is struck by a devastating heatwave,...
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S1 [Scale] E5: Reality as a Scalar Effect [w/ Jussi Parikka]
To complexify the notion of scale and to expand it, both historically and beyond human perception, allows us to think about scale within different academic, design and artistic vocabularies. Writer and professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, as well as visiting professor...
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S1 [Scale] E4: Neocolonial Extraction and Surveillance [w/ Anthony Downey]
The concept of scale is related to mapping, which is intrinsically related to colonisation and neocolonial military practices. Anthony Downey, Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University), draws a historical line from the development of cartographic...
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S1 [Scale] E3: Russian Neocolonialism as Demonic Possession [w/ Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich]
Infrastructures of abnormous scale are the materialisation of neocolonialism. Megabridges, power plants, military bases are means of dispossession, invasion, extraction perpetrated by bigger countries upon smaller sovereign states. Media artists and interdisciplinary researchers Anna Engelhardt…
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S1 [Scale] E2: Alternative Networks in Cuba [w/ Steffen Köhn & Nestor Siré]
Alternative community-based data distribution networks on the local scale have emerged in Cuba as a consequence of the economic sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades. German anthropologist Steffen Köhn and Cuban media artist Nestor Siré shed light on the unique materiality and...
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S1 [Scale] E1: Matter as a Subject [w/ Laura Tripaldi]
On the nanoscale, materials can appear as vibrant, lively subjects that can even have political implications. Laura Tripaldi, author of Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials (Urbanomic, 2022), is an expert on nanotechnology who worked in industrial research before shifting her...
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