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                                                    face="Arial"><b>Late
                                                      Night
                                                      Ausstellungsbesuch</b></font><br>
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                                                      face="Arial"><b> </b>Freitag
                                                      11. November 2022,
                                                      bis 21 Uhr<br>
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                                                      face="Arial">Sehr
                                                      geehrte Damen und
                                                      Herren!<br>
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                                                      Am Freitag, dem
                                                      11.11. gibt es
                                                      wieder die
                                                      Möglichkeit zum
                                                      Late Night
                                                      Austellungsbesuch
                                                      im esc medien
                                                      kunst labor.</font><font
                                                      face="Arial"> Wir
                                                      freuen uns, Sie
                                                      bis 21 Uhr durch
                                                      unsere Ausstellung
                                                      MEIN KOERPER :
                                                      MEINE MASCHINE zu
                                                      führen und den
                                                      Abend bei einem
                                                      Glas Wein
                                                      ausklingen zu
                                                      lassen. Außerdem
                                                      empfehlen wir den
                                                      Besuch der
                                                      Vernissage von
                                                      Deborah Sengl –
                                                      Stories in unserer
                                                      Nachbargallerie
                                                      ROOM OF FINE ARTS.
                                                      <br>
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                                                          </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
                                                      Wir freuen uns auf
                                                      Ihren Besuch!<br>
                                                      Reni Hofmüller und
                                                      Ilse Weber</font><font
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                                                          medien kunst
                                                          labor</a></span><br>
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                                                          Channel</a></span><br>
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                                                          Channel</a></span><br>
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href="https://www.instagram.com/esc_medien_kunst_labor/"
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                                                      <br>
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                                                      face="Arial">Erfahren
                                                      Sie mehr über die
                                                      Ausstellung: <i><a
href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/mein-koerper-meine-maschine"
                                                          moz-do-not-send="true">MEIN
                                                          KOERPER :
                                                          MEINE MASCHINE</a></i><br>
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                                                      <b>MEIN KOERPER :
                                                        MEINE MASCHINE</b><br>
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                                                      <font
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                                                        12pt" size="3">Wie
                                                        sehr ist mein
                                                        Körper noch mein
                                                        Körper, sofern
                                                        er es je war?</font><br>
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                                                      <font
                                                        style="font-size:
                                                        12pt" size="3">Der
                                                        menschliche
                                                        Körper dient als
                                                        Angriffsfläche
                                                        der Macht, um
                                                        einerseits auf
                                                        das Subjekt,
                                                        andererseits auf
                                                        die gesamte
                                                        Gesellschaft
                                                        zuzugreifen
                                                        (Michel
                                                        Foucault), es
                                                        sind es vor
                                                        allem die großen
                                                        Techkonzerne,
                                                        die ihre Macht
                                                        längst nicht
                                                        mehr nur in
                                                        ökonomischer
                                                        Hinsicht ausüben
                                                        und weiter
                                                        ausbauen.</font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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                                                      <font
                                                        style="font-size:
                                                        12pt" size="3">Diese
                                                        Entwicklung wird
                                                        aber auch von
                                                        uns selbst
                                                        befeuert. Nur
                                                        allzu gerne sind
                                                        wir zur
                                                        Selbstkontrolle
                                                        (Quantifing
                                                        Self) bereit,
                                                        trainieren,
                                                        reparieren,
                                                        rehabilitieren,
                                                        modellieren,
                                                        verschönern und
                                                        technisieren
                                                        unseren Körper.
                                                        Die
                                                        Selbstoptimierung
                                                        wird dabei
                                                        ständig von
                                                        verschiedensten
                                                        Programmen
                                                        erfasst und die
                                                        Daten den
                                                        entsprechenden
                                                        Industrien
                                                        freiwillig und
                                                        meist kritiklos
                                                        zur Verfügung
                                                        gestellt. Unter
                                                        deren Einfluss
                                                        steigt der
                                                        Druck,
eigenverantwortlich in unser <i>Körperkapital</i> zu investieren.</font><br>
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                                                      <font
                                                        style="font-size:
                                                        12pt" size="3">Die
                                                        Faszination, die
                                                        technische
                                                        Geräte und die
                                                        damit
                                                        verbundenen
                                                        Möglichkeiten
                                                        auf uns ausüben,
                                                        lässt uns
                                                        scheinbar
                                                        kritiklos
                                                        werden, sogar
                                                        den Human
                                                        Enhancement
                                                        Programmen
                                                        großer Konzerne
                                                        gegenüber. Nicht
                                                        nur zur Zeit des
                                                        Futurismus waren
                                                        die Modelle des
Maschinenmenschen noch mit Verheißungen und vermeintlich positiven
                                                        Erwartungen
                                                        verknüpft, auch
                                                        am Beginn des
                                                        Internets gab es
                                                        die Hoffnung,
                                                        biografische,
                                                        kulturelle,
                                                        sexuelle und
                                                        soziologische
                                                        Festschreibungen
                                                        zu überwinden.
                                                        Unterdessen
                                                        wissen wir, wie
                                                        sehr Normen,
                                                        Vorurteile,
                                                        Rassismen,
                                                        Sexismen et
                                                        cetera,
                                                        eingeschrieben
                                                        in Algorithmen,
                                                        ihren Einfluss
                                                        auf Körper
                                                        (besonders auf
                                                        den weiblichen)
                                                        ausüben.</font><br>
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                                                      <font
                                                        style="font-size:
                                                        12pt" size="3">I</font><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span lang="en-US">st es die Vision des
Google-Entwicklers Ray Kurzweil, der behauptet, dass die Menschheit mit
                                                          Hilfe von
                                                          Biotechnologie
                                                          und
                                                          künstlicher
                                                          Intelligenz
                                                          ihre
                                                          biologischen
                                                          Grenzen im
                                                          Jahr 2045
                                                          überwunden
                                                          haben wird
                                                          oder sind wir
                                                          (auch) schon
                                                          längst dabei
                                                          unsere
                                                          physische
                                                          Existenz
                                                          aufzugeben,
                                                          wie Paul
                                                          Virilio meint:
                                                          werden unsere
                                                          stillgelegten
                                                          Körper nur
                                                          mehr zu Hüllen
                                                          unseres
                                                          Selbst, das
                                                          Sein ein
                                                          ständiges
                                                          Online-Sein in
                                                          einem nie
                                                          endenden
                                                          Datenstrom?</span></font><br>
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                                                        lang="en-US"><u><b>Installationen:</b></u></span></font><font
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kisses from the
                                                          Future</i></span></span></font><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Ani Liu (USA)</span></span></font><br>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Distrust;
                                                          in purple</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Harriet Davey
                                                          (GBR) &
                                                          Imogen Davey
                                                          (GBR)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>The
                                                          Left Hand</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Nick Acorne
                                                          (UKR/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>dis</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">arming,
                                                          Emanuel Gollob
                                                          (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Data
                                                          Safe</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Ninja Guru
                                                          Studio (AUT)
                                                          & Holunder
                                                          Heiß (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>The
                                                          full color
                                                          make up
                                                          session</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Hui Ye
                                                          (CHN/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>End
                                                          of Life Care
                                                          Machine</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Dan Chen (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Network
                                                          of Self</i></span></span></font></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Lans King
                                                          (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><u><b>Termine:</b></u></span></span></font><font
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><b>Finissage</b><br>
                                                        Freitag,
                                                        18.11.2022,
                                                        19.00 Uhr<br>
                                                        The Garden for
                                                        4x musicians
                                                        with 4x eye
                                                        trackers<br>
                                                        <span
                                                          style="font-variant:
                                                          normal"><span
style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><span
                                                          style="font-style:
                                                          normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Konzert-Performance mit Nick Acorne
                                                          (UKR/AUT)</span></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                      face="Arial"><b>Öffnungszeiten:</b><br>
                                                    </font><font
                                                      style="font-size:
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                                                      face="Arial"><b><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span style="font-variant: normal"><span
style="font-variant: normal"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">steirischer
                                                          herbst</span></span></span></span></font></b><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><br>
                                                      </font> 27.9. –
                                                      16.10., Di – So
                                                      11.00 – 19.00 Uhr<br>
                                                      18.10. – 18.11.,
                                                      Di – Fr 14.00 –
                                                      19.00 Uhr<br>
                                                      und nach
                                                      Vereinbarung,
                                                      Eintritt frei</font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                      <font
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style="font-variant: normal"><font style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><span
style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><span
                                                          style="font-style:
                                                          normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Ausgezeichnet mit dem Österreichischen
                                                          Kunstpreis
                                                          2020 in der
                                                          Kategorie
Kulturinitiativen.<br>
                                                          Gefördert von:
                                                          Kulturamt der
                                                          Stadt Graz,
                                                          Kulturreferat
                                                          des Landes
                                                          Steiermark,
                                                          BMKÖS.</span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
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style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Mit dem
                                                          Besuch der
                                                          Veranstaltung
                                                          erklären Sie
                                                          sich mit der
                                                          Aufnahme und
                                                          Verwendung von
                                                          Foto- und
                                                          Videomaterial
                                                          einverstanden.</span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
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style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">esc medien
                                                          kunst labor |
                                                          Bürgergasse 5,
                                                          8010 Graz |
                                                          Telefon: +43
                                                          316 836 000 |
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                                                      Dear visitors!<br>
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                                                      face="Arial">On
                                                      Friday 11.11.
                                                      there is again the
                                                      possibility of a
                                                      late night
                                                      exhibition visit
                                                      at esc medien
                                                      kunst labor. We
                                                      are happy to guide
                                                      you through our
                                                      exhibition MEIN
                                                      KOERPER : MEINE
                                                      MASCHINE until 9
                                                      pm and let the
                                                      evening end with a
                                                      glass of wine. We
                                                      also recommend a
                                                      visit to the
                                                      vernissage of
                                                      Deborah Sengl -
                                                      Stories in our
                                                      neighboring
                                                      gallery ROOM OF
                                                      FINE ARTS.</font></div>
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                                                      We are looking
                                                      forward to your
                                                      visit!<br>
                                                      Reni Hofmüller and
                                                      Ilse Weber<br>
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href="https://esc.mur.at/" moz-do-not-send="true">esc medien kunst labor</a></span><br>
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                                                          Channel</a></span><br>
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                                                          Channel</a></span><br>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Discover
                                                          more about
                                                          this project:</span></span></span></span></font></span>
                                                        <a
                                                          href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/mein-koerper-meine-maschine"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
                                                          style="font-size:
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><i><span
                                                          style="font-weight:
                                                          normal">MEIN
                                                          KOERPER :
                                                          MEINE MASCHINE</span></i></span></span></font></span></a></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                       <br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent"><span
style="font-variant: normal"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-weight: normal">How much is my body still my body, if it
                                                          ever was?</span></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">The
                                                          human body
                                                          serves as a
                                                          contact
                                                          surface of
                                                          power to
                                                          access the
                                                          subject on the
                                                          one hand, and
                                                          society as a
                                                          whole on the
                                                          other, states
                                                          Michel
                                                          Foucault. He
                                                          describes the
                                                          reciprocal
                                                          relationship
                                                          between
                                                          usefulness and
                                                          compliance of
                                                          the body in a
                                                          politics of
                                                          constraints;
                                                          the human body
                                                          enters into a
                                                          machinery of
                                                          exploitation.
                                                          Today it is
                                                          mainly the
                                                          large
                                                          corporations
                                                          and internet
                                                          platforms that
                                                          have long
                                                          exercised and
                                                          further
                                                          extended their
                                                          power not just
                                                          in economic
                                                          terms.</span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">Only
                                                          too happy to
                                                          self-regulate,
                                                          we train,
                                                          repair,
                                                          rehabilitate,
                                                          model,
                                                          beautify and
                                                          mechanise our
                                                          bodies with
                                                          cosmetics,
                                                          fitness
                                                          programs,
                                                          supplements
                                                          and medicines,
                                                          surgical
                                                          procedures,
                                                          prostheses,
                                                          implants,
                                                          computer-brain
                                                          interfaces and
                                                          other
                                                          technical
                                                          enhancements.
                                                          The effort and
                                                          the results
                                                          are recorded
                                                          constantly by
                                                          a range of
                                                          programs and
                                                          applications,
                                                          and the data
                                                          put at the
                                                          disposal of
                                                          the
                                                          data-processing
                                                          industries
                                                          voluntarily
                                                          and usually
                                                          without
                                                          criticism.
                                                          Under their
                                                          influence, the
                                                          pressure to
                                                          invest in our
                                                          “body capital”
                                                          in a
                                                          self-responsible
                                                          way increases,
                                                          while
                                                          non-compliance
                                                          meets with
                                                          sanctions.</span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">It
                                                          is not just in
                                                          the age of
                                                          Futurism that
                                                          models of the
                                                          machine man
                                                          were still
                                                          linked with
                                                          promises and
                                                          positive
                                                          expectations,
                                                          but also at
                                                          the advent of
                                                          the internet
                                                          with its
                                                          associated
                                                          possibilities
                                                          of a virtual
                                                          body, a
                                                          virtual life,
                                                          e.g. in the
                                                          form of an
                                                          avatar in
                                                          Second Life.
                                                          There was hope
                                                          that
                                                          biographical,
                                                          cultural,
                                                          sexual and
                                                          sociological
                                                          fixations
                                                          would be
                                                          overcome. We
                                                          now know the
                                                          extent to
                                                          which norms,
                                                          prejudices,
                                                          racisms,
                                                          sexisms, etc.
                                                          anchored in
                                                          algorithms
                                                          exert their
                                                          influence on
                                                          the body
                                                          (especially
                                                          the female
                                                          body), whether
                                                          in staging on
                                                          social media
                                                          platforms or
                                                          on the virtual
                                                          body on the
                                                          internet.</span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="background: transparent">Is
                                                          it the
                                                          euphoric
                                                          vision of
                                                          Google program
                                                          developer Ray
                                                          Kurzweil, who
                                                          claims that
                                                          with the help
                                                          of
                                                          biotechnology
                                                          and artificial
                                                          intelligence,
                                                          humankind will
                                                          have overcome
                                                          its biological
                                                          limits, i.e.
                                                          the decline
                                                          and death of
                                                          the body, by
                                                          2045 – or are
                                                          we already in
                                                          the process of
                                                          giving up our
                                                          physical
                                                          existence, in
                                                          the sense of
                                                          Paul Virilio,
                                                          meaning that
                                                          our disused
                                                          bodies are
                                                          merely shells
                                                          of our self,
                                                          digital
                                                          interfaces,
                                                          being as a
                                                          constant
                                                          online
                                                          existence in a
                                                          never-ending
                                                          data stream?</span></font></font><font
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                                                      <span lang="en-US"><u><b>Installatio</b></u></span><span
                                                        lang="en-US"><u><b>ns:</b></u></span><br>
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                                                      <font
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kisses from the
                                                          Future</i></span></span></font><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Ani Liu (USA)</span></span></font><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Distrust;
                                                          in purple</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Harriet Davey
                                                          (GBR) &
                                                          Imogen Davey
                                                          (GBR)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>The
                                                          Left Hand</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Nick Acorne
                                                          (UKR/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>dis</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">arming,
                                                          Emanuel Gollob
                                                          (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Data
                                                          Safe</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Ninja Guru
                                                          Studio (AUT)
                                                          & Holunder
                                                          Heiß (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>The
                                                          full color
                                                          make up
                                                          session</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Hui Ye
                                                          (CHN/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>End
                                                          of Life Care
                                                          Machine</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Dan Chen (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><i>Network
                                                          of Self</i></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US">,
                                                          Lans King
                                                          (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                    </font> <font
                                                      face="Arial"><br>
                                                      <font
                                                        style="font-size:
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><u><b>Dates:</b></u></span></span></font><br>
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                                                      <font
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">18.11.2022, 7 pm</font></font><font
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">The Garden for 4x musicians with 4x eye
                                                        trackers</font></font><font
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Concert-performance with Nick Acorne
                                                        (UKR/AUT)</font></font><font
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style="font-variant: normal"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><b>Opening hours</b></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
                                                      face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><br>
                                                        8.10. – 18.11.,
                                                        Di – Fr 2 pm – 7
                                                        pm</font><br>
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                                                      style="font-size:
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                                                      face="Arial">and
                                                      by appointment,
                                                      free entry</font><font
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span style="font-variant: normal"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Supported
                                                          by: Kulturamt
                                                          der Stadt
                                                          Graz,
                                                          Kulturreferat
                                                          des Landes
                                                          Steiermark,
                                                          BMKÖS.</span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
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                                                          attending the
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                                                          recording and
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                                                          and video
                                                          material.<br>
                                                          esc medien
                                                          kunst labor |
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                                                          8010 Graz |
                                                          Telefon: +43
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