The Other Wave

Drawing on Paul Klee’s iconic 1920 painting Angelus Novus and Walter Benjamin’s philosophical interpretation of the work as the “Angel of History,” Rosa Menkman’s exhibition Image Remains explores what happens to images in today’s digital environment as they are continuously copied, processed, fragmented, and circulated across platforms and algorithms... ROSA MENKMAN (1983) is a Dutch artist, curator, and internationally renowned theorist specializing in glitch art and the art and theory of resolution. As a pioneer of glitch art and one of the movement’s most influential theorists, in her book Network Notebook #04: The Glitch Moment(um) (2011) she proposed an understanding of glitch art as a particular genre of contemporary art. She has exhibited widely internationally, and her works are held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Art Institute of Chicago.The exhibition is on view at Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka from 15 January to 5 February, 2026.MORE: https://drugo-more.hr/en/rosa-menkman/

Majd Nasrallah is a cultural practitioner, community organizer, researcher, and curator from Qalansuwa, the Triangle area in Palestine. He focuses on popular education, grassroots political formation, and critical knowledge production. Currently, he’s in residency at MSU Zagreb. He announced the conversation with the following words: «As the brutal and unabashed genocide unfolds on screens all over the globe, challenging the very fabric of our human values, the critical responsibility and role of cultural institutions,  spaces of art and imagination, and grassroots collectives become undeniably central. This significance is augmented in light of the strategically designed campaign of distorting reality through systemic censorship, and a dehumanization strategy spearheaded by international actors, ranging from governments to news agencies. It is in this context that cultural practitioners, artists, and activists recognize the imperative to not only participate in but to brave the discourse on resistance. Cultural organizations in Palestine today exist within a precarious paradigm. On the one hand, compromised by donor policies and, on the other, their freedom of expression violated by the security establishment. It is at this historic moment that we are also offered the opportunity for a critical reevaluation of knowledge and cultural production methods. This also necessitates that we begin to address the difficult questions like what does opening spaces for the radical imagination of a different future that emboldens the discourse of resistance truly entail? How can we bravely explore new political and social values and propose creative forms of community organizing that actively work toward realizing them? Given the immediate danger and threat to cultural organizations, what does global solidarity truly mean in practice? More importantly, how can our work transcend merely highlighting the violation of human values to actively positioning these values at the heart of our collective struggle for dignity, liberation, and freedom?» Organized by: Drugo more Supported by:Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Administrative department of education and schooling, culture, sports and youth  Drugo more is a beneficiary of the financial support of the Kultura nova Foundation  Drugo more is a beneficiary of the institutional support of the National Foundation for Civil Society Development for the stabilization and/or development of the association  The event is realized in the framework of Refleks program Association of organisations Molekula manages Filodrammatica

Institutions that provide care, from health to social, are faced with a lack of funds and people, neglected infrastructure, exclusion of a large number of citizens who need care, and increasingly complex procedures to realize the right to care. At the same time, large parts of these sectors are privatized and care is left to market. In such conditions, a number of officials and those directly providing care are fighting against such tendencies, consciously bending, circumventing and breaking regulations in order to be able to provide care. With the intention of creating a theoretical framework for understanding the described practices, we held a workshop Understanding Acts of Institutional Tinkering as Forms of Care, the results of which were the subject of this public talk. Moderated by Valeria Graziano, Davor Mišković and Tomislav Medak, the talk took place at Filodrammatica (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka), on Thursday, April 27. Find out more at http://drugo-more.hr/en/institutional-tinkering-care/ Organized by:Drugo more Supported by:Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Rijeka – Department for culture Drugo more is a beneficiary of the financial support of the Kultura nova Foundation The talk is realised in the framework of Refleks program. 'Understanding Acts of Institutional Tinkering as Forms of Care' workshop is realised in the framework of COST – European Cooperation in Science & Technology program, funded by the European Union. Graphic design: Oleg Šuran

The theme of the 18th edition of the Mine, Yours, Ours interdisciplinary festival is Unreal Data, explored through a group exhibition under the curatorial baton of !Mediengruppe Bitnik (from March 30 to April 28, 2023), and a public talk, held on Friday, March 31 2023 at Filodrammatica, Rijeka. The public talk about unreal data was conceived as an extension of the group exhibition and a space for the exchange of opinions about the way in which our societies are transformed under the influence of automated data collection and processing, and how we as individuals adapt to this situation. The talk was moderated by Davor Mišković, and its participants were members of artist collectives !Mediengruppe Bitnik and RYBN, researcher Felix Stalder, philospoher Srećko Horvat, artist Gordan Savičić, and programmer Marcell Mars. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: The exhibition Unreal Data focuses on how the shift to a data-driven society has necessitated that all the technologies we use essentially become part of the networked surveillance infrastructure. Automated data collection has become an intrinsic component of most technologies. Within this new and still emerging setting, we look at Unreal Data as a means to strategically intervene into data-driven systems. Unreal Data uses the ambiguous quality of data as an opportunity not to describe the world but to strategically producing data to provoke a specific outcome. Thus, Unreal Data is data that has been deliberately created or modified not to conform to the world, but to transform it – the lack of representational quality is not a bug, but a feature. We believe it is exactly this feature which opens spaces for action in a data-driven society where opting out is no longer an option. In a post-surveillance world where tracking is ubiquitous and opting out is no longer an option, unreal-ing data is a way to playfully interact with algorithmic regimes and to regain some agency and control. The works in the exhibition find ways of doing this. WORKS PRESENTED BY: Lauren Lee McCarthy, Jeremy Bailey, Adam Harvey, Tega Brain & Surya Mattu, Simon Weckert, Iodine Dynamics, Mario Santamaría, Telecommuters Working Group CURATORS: !Mediengruppe Bitnik Find out more at http://drugo-more.hr/en/mine-yours-ours-2023/