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                              face="Arial">Die Matrix ist die Welt, die
                              über deine Augen gestülpt wurde,<br>
                              damit du blind für die Wahrheit bist. <font
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                                <p><font face="Arial"> Sehr geehrte
                                    Damen und Herren!<br>
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                                    Wir laden Sie herzlich zur
                                    Vernissage unserer Ausstellung <b>Wüste
                                      der Wirklichkeiten</b> mit
                                    Univ-Prof. Dr. Sabine Flach und zur
                                    Eröffnung von <b><em>aktuelle kunst
                                        in graz</em></b> mit
                                    Landeshauptmann Mag. Christopher
                                    Drexler und Kulturstadtrat Dr.
                                    Günther Riegler ein. <br>
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                                <p><font face="Arial">Im Anschluss
                                    freuen wir uns auf ein Come-Together
                                    mit Music and Visuals and Drinks!</font></p>
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                              <font face="Arial"> Programm, Freitag, 12.
                                Mai im Palais Trauttmansdorff:<br>
                                18:00 Uhr – <em>aktuelle kunst in graz</em>,
                                Eröffnung mit LH Christopher Drexler,
                                KStr. Günther Riegler und der Leiterin
                                von <i>aktuelle kunst in graz</i> Tanja
                                Gassler<br>
                                18:30 Uhr – esc medien kunst labor, <i>Wüste
                                  der Wirklichkeiten</i>, Vernissage mit
                                der Leiterin des Instituts für
                                GegenwartsKunst Sabine Flach<br>
                                19:00 Uhr – Room of Fine Arts, <i>Magic
                                </i>Hubert Schmalix, Einführung von Dr.
                                Elisabeth Fiedler, Joanneum Graz</font></div>
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                                face="Arial">19:30 Uhr - Galerie Grill,
                                <i>the place of pleasure</i>, Eröffnung
                                mit Klaus Mosettig<br>
                                20:00 Uhr - Grazer Kunstverein, <i>sekretas</i>,
                                Führung mit Tom Engels, Künstlerischer
                                Leiter<br>
                                21:00 Uhr - Music and Visuals and Drinks
                                im Innenhof des Palais Trauttmansdorff<br>
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                                  21:00 - 22:00 Uhr DJ Adriana Celentana<br>
                                  22:00 - 23:00 Uhr DJ Ocho <br>
                                  23:00 - 24:00 Uhr DJ Adriana Celentana
                                  b2b DJ Ocho<br>
                                  24:00 Uhr DJ Nina Eba</font></p>
                              <p><font face="Arial"><b>Visuals</b><br>
                                  Nick Acorne<br>
                                  Valerio Zanini <br>
                                  ZhiZhi<br>
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                              <p><font face="Arial">Mit vielen Grüssen
                                  aus dem esc medien kunst labor<br>
                                  Reni Hofmüller und Ilse Weber</font></p>
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                                  size="2" face="Arial">Die Matrix ist
                                  die Welt, die über deine Augen
                                  gestülpt wurde,<br>
                                  damit du blind für die Wahrheit bist.
                                  [Morpheus im Film Matrix]</font><font
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                                      Wüste der Wirklichkeiten</b></font></font></div>
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                                  size="2" face="Arial">Mit Wüste der
                                  Wirklichkeiten überschreibt das esc
                                  medien kunst labor den Programmentwurf
                                  für 2023. Damit sollen die für
                                  dieses Jahr geplanten Präsentationen,
                                  Entwicklungen und
                                  Theorie-Veranstaltungen konturiert und
                                  kommuniziert werden.</font></div>
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                              <div class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                  size="2" face="Arial">Der Titel
                                  zitiert eine Szene im ersten, 1999
                                  erschienenen Teil der
                                  Matrix-Quadrologie der Wachowskis,
                                  worin zwei Realitäten konfrontiert
                                  werden. Die eine gleicht der, die das
                                  Publikum als die ihre erkennt, mit der
                                  es sich mehr oder weniger arrangiert
                                  hat; diese stellt der Film als ein
                                  allumfassendes Simulacrum, als die
                                  Matrix vor. Die andere Realität wird
                                  als die Wüste der Wirklichkeit
                                  apostrophiert, diese ist im
                                  Unterschied zur allgemeinen
                                  Erfahrungswirklichkeit eine
                                  apokalyptische Ruinenlandschaft. Dabei
                                  verweist die Szene zugleich auf die
                                  Simulation (durch den aus ihr heraus
                                  sich auftuenden Blick wird der
                                  Unterschied evident) und eine
                                  Realität, die beansprucht, wirklicher
                                  zu sein, indem sie erschüttert und
                                  durch die Vorstellung, diese Realität
                                  erleiden zu müssen.</font></div>
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                                  size="2" face="Arial">Die Dualität
                                  Wirklichkeit/Fiktion bzw. Simulation
                                  hat besonders vor der Jahrtausendwende
                                  kulturtheoretische Aufmerksamkeit
                                  erhalten. Wir nehmen sie wieder in den
                                  Blick – heute<br>
                                  mit Fokus auf die Realität der vormals
                                  oft nur spekulativ, theoretisch und
                                  extrapolierend, vielfach als Vorschein
                                  angesprochenen Verhältnisse und Dinge
                                  – etwa auf realisierte Systeme der
                                  Künstlichen Intelligenz und deren
                                  breite Anwendung sowie aktuelle
                                  gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen, die
                                  eine Wüstenbildung befeuern.</font></div>
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                              <div class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                  size="2" face="Arial">Digitale
                                  Infrastrukturen und vernetzte
                                  Technologien sind längst Alltag
                                  geworden, durchdringen nahezu
                                  sämtliche Lebensbereiche. Die Welt
                                  scheint berechenbar, unser Körper und
                                  unser Handeln codierbar. Bereitwillig
                                  werden Verantwortung und Kompetenzen
                                  Maschinen (ausgestattet mit
                                  selbstlernenden Programmen)
                                  überantwortet, deren Funktionsweisen
                                  – quasi im Gegenzug – sukzessive in
                                  unserem Körper und in unserem
                                  Bewusstsein ebenso wie in unseren
                                  sozialen Beziehungen wirksam werden.
                                  Eine neue Dimension dieser Prozesse
                                  wurde erreicht, als wir begonnen
                                  haben, Algorithmen ethisch-moralische
                                  Entscheidungen zuzubilligen.
                                  Bedrohliche Brisanz gewinnt diese
                                  Entwicklung vor allem angesichts
                                  autonomer Systeme (z.B. Drohnen), die
                                  über Freiheit und Repression und
                                  sogar über Leben und Tod entscheiden
                                  können.</font></div>
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                              <div class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                  size="2" face="Arial">Mit dem Programm
                                  <i>Wüste der Wirklichkeiten</i> soll
                                  zum Blick auf politische wie
                                  technische Formate der „Simulation“ im
                                  Licht der Gegenwart auch ein Blick auf
                                  eine Realität geworfen<br>
                                  werden, wie der Folgen des
                                  Klimawandels, der Zerstörung riesiger
                                  Landflächen bei der Gewinnung von
                                  Rohstoffen, der Verschmutzung der
                                  Meere und Seen, von Grundwasser<br>
                                  und Quellen. Ebenso wie in der
                                  Zerstörung der Natur hat das Ruinöse
                                  und Ruinierte seine Entsprechung in
                                  der Erosion sozialer und
                                  demokratiepolitischer
                                  Errungenschaften.<br>
                                  Aus dieser Perspektive stellt sich die
                                  Frage, ob ein Leben, wie es (in
                                  Europa) weitgehend als real erfahren
                                  und im Glauben an die Möglichkeiten
                                  der Partizipation,
                                  Entscheidungsfreiheit, soziale
                                  Sicherheit, eine halbwegs intakte
                                  Umwelt, gesunde Lebensmittel usw.
                                  gelebt wird, nicht schon längst einer
                                  Art „Matrix“ geschuldet ist.</font></div>
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                                  size="2" face="Arial">Die Metaphorik
                                  der Wüste erlaubt gleichzeitig auch
                                  die Frage nach „Wasser“ und
                                  „Möglichkeiten der Bewässerung“. Denn
                                  – das besagen Erfahrung und das
                                  Prinzip Hoffnung – Wüsten können
                                  temporär und punktuell (wieder) zum
                                  Blühen gebracht werden.</font><font
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                                      lang="en-US"><u><b>Installationen:</b></u></span></font><font
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                                      size="2"><i>Watson’s Ghost</i>, </font>Heather
                                    Dewey-Hagborg (USA)<br>
                                  </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><i><font
                                        size="2">The AI Prostheses</font></i>,
                                    Marco Donnarumma (ITA) & Ana
                                    Rajcevic (DEU/ENG)<br>
                                    <i>Duality</i>, </font><font
                                    size="2" face="Arial"><font size="2">Roland
                                      Jankowski (AUT), </font><br>
                                    <i>Amazonian Flesh</i>, </font><font
                                    size="2" face="Arial"><font size="2">knowbotiq
                                      (CHE)</font><br>
                                    <i>Deep Reckonings</i>, </font><font
                                    size="2" face="Arial"><font size="2">Stephanie
                                      Lepp (USA)</font><br>
                                    <i>The Drone Aviary</i>, </font><font
                                    size="2" face="Arial"><font size="2">Superflux
                                      (ENG)</font> <br>
                                    <i>Plastic Landfill</i>, Fashion
                                    Tornado, </font><font size="2"
                                    face="Arial"><font size="2">Benjamin
                                      Von Wong (CAN), <br>
                                    </font><i>Where the City Can’t See</i>,
                                  </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Liam
                                    Young (AUS)</font></div>
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                                        lang="en-US"><u><b>Termine:</b></u></span></span></font><font
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                                      <br>
                                    </b><b>Schutzengel</b><br>
                                    Drohnenperformance mit Roland
                                    Jankowski<br>
                                    Samstag, 13.5.2023, 11:00 Uhr –
                                    17:00 Uhr <br>
                                    Beginn jeweils zur vollen Stunde, <br>
                                    Dauer ca. 5 Minuten  <b><br>
                                       <br>
                                      Führung und Gespräch<br>
                                    </b>mit Reni Hofmüller und Ilse
                                    Weber<br>
                                    Samstag, 13.5.2023, 13:05 Uhr<br>
                                    <b><br>
                                      Finissage<br>
                                    </b>Freitag, 7.7.2023, 18:00 Uhr<b><br>
                                    </b><br>
                                    Öffnungszeiten –
                                    Eröffnungswochenende <br>
                                    aktuelle kunst in graz<br>
                                    Freitag, 12.5.2023, ab 18:00 Uhr<br>
                                    Samstag, 13.5.2023, 11:00 – 19:00
                                    Uhr <br>
                                    Sonntag, 14.5.2023, 11:00 – 17:00
                                    Uhr<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Öffnungszeiten 16.5. – 7.7.2023<br>
                                    Dienstag – Freitag, 14:00 – 19:00
                                    Uhr <br>
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                                                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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                                                erklären Sie sich mit
                                                der Aufnahme und
                                                Verwendung von Foto- und
                                                Videomaterial
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                                                style="font-weight:
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                                                labor | Bürgergasse 5,
                                                8010 Graz | Telefon: +43
                                                316 836 000 | <a
                                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:esc@mur.at" moz-do-not-send="true">esc@mur.at</a> | <a
                                                  href="http://esc.mur.at/"
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                                    size="4" face="Arial"><b>Desert of
                                      Realities</b></font></div>
                                <br>
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                                    face="Arial">Dear Ladies and
                                    Gentlemen!<br>
                                    <br>
                                    We cordially invite you to the
                                    vernissage of our exhibition <b>Desert
                                      of Realities</b> with Univ-Prof.
                                    Dr. Sabine Flach and to the opening
                                    of <i><b>aktuelle kunst in graz</b></i>
                                    with Landeshauptmann Mag.
                                    Christopher Drexler and
                                    Kulturstadtrat Dr. Günther Riegler.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Afterwards we are looking forward to
                                    a come-together with music and
                                    visuals and drinks!</font></div>
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                                <div class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                    face="Arial">Program, Friday, May 12
                                    at Palais Trauttmansdorff:<br>
                                    6:00 p.m. - <i>aktuelle kunst in
                                      graz,</i> opening with LH
                                    Christopher Drexler, KStr. Günther
                                    Riegler and the director of <i>aktuelle
                                      kunst in graz</i> Tanja Gassler<br>
                                    18:30 - esc medien kunst labor,
                                    Desert of Realities, Vernissage with
                                    the director of the Institute for
                                    Contemporary Art Sabine Flach<br>
                                    19:00 - Room of Fine Arts, Magic
                                    Hubert Schmalix, introduction by Dr.
                                    Elisabeth Fiedler, Joanneum Graz<br>
                                    19:30 - Gallery Grill, the place of
                                    pleasure, opening with Klaus
                                    Mosettig<br>
                                    20:00 - Grazer Kunstverein,
                                    sekretas, guided tour with Tom
                                    Engels, Artistic Director<br>
                                    21:00 - Music and Visuals and Drinks
                                    in the courtyard of Palais
                                    Trauttmansdorff<br>
                                    <br>
                                    <b>Music</b><br>
                                    21:00 - 22:00 h DJ Adriana Celentana<br>
                                    22:00 - 23:00 h DJ Ocho<br>
                                    23:00 - 24:00 h DJ Adriana Celentana
                                    b2b DJ Ocho<br>
                                    24:00 h DJ Nina Eba<br>
                                    <b><br>
                                    </b><b>Visuals</b><br>
                                    Nick Acorne<br>
                                    Valerio Zanini<br>
                                    ZhiZhi<br>
                                    <br>
                                    With many greetings from esc medien
                                    kunst labor<br>
                                    Reni Hofmüller and Ilse Weber</font></div>
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                                    face="Arial">About the exhibition: <a
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                                      of realities</a><br>
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                                      The matrix is the world that has
                                      been put over your eyes,<br>
                                      so that you are blind to the
                                      truth. <font size="1">[Morpheus
                                        in the movie Matrix]</font><br>
                                      <b><br>
                                      </b><b>Desert of realities</b><br>
                                      <br>
                                      Desert of Realities is the title
                                      of esc medien kunst labor's draft
                                      program for 2023, intended to
                                      contour and communicate the
                                      presentations, developments, and
                                      theoretical events planned for
                                      this year.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      The title quotes a scene in the
                                      first part of the Wachowskis'
                                      Matrix Quadrology, published in
                                      1999, in which two realities are
                                      confronted. One resembles the one
                                      the audience recognizes as theirs,
                                      with which they have more or less
                                      come to terms; this the film
                                      presents as an all-encompassing
                                      simulacrum, the Matrix. The other
                                      reality is apostrophized as the
                                      desert of reality; in contrast to
                                      the general reality of experience,
                                      this is an apocalyptic landscape
                                      of ruins. Thereby the scene refers
                                      at the same time to the simulation
                                      (by the view opening out of it the
                                      difference becomes evident) and a
                                      reality which claims to be more
                                      real by shaking and by the idea of
                                      having to suffer this reality.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      The duality reality/fiction or
                                      simulation has received cultural
                                      theoretical attention especially
                                      before the turn of the millennium.
                                      We take a look at it again - today
                                      with a focus on the reality of
                                      what were formerly often only
                                      speculative, theoretical and
                                      extrapolative, often addressed as
                                      appearances - for example, on
                                      realized systems of artificial
                                      intelligence and their broad
                                      application, as well as current
                                      social developments that are
                                      fueling a desertification.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      Digital infrastructures and
                                      networked technologies have long
                                      since become part of everyday
                                      life, permeating almost all areas
                                      of life. The world seems
                                      predictable, our bodies and
                                      actions codable. Responsibility
                                      and competencies are willingly
                                      handed over to machines (equipped
                                      with self-learning programs),
                                      whose modes of operation - quasi
                                      in return - successively take
                                      effect in our bodies and in our
                                      consciousness as well as in our
                                      social relationships. A new
                                      dimension of these processes was
                                      reached when we began to grant
                                      algorithms ethical-moral
                                      decisions. This development gains
                                      threatening explosiveness
                                      especially in view of autonomous
                                      systems (e.g. drones) that can
                                      decide about freedom and
                                      repression and even about life and
                                      death.<br>
                                      <br>
                                      With the program Desert of
                                      Realities, a look at political as
                                      well as technical formats of
                                      "simulation" in the light of the
                                      present will also be taken at a
                                      reality the consequences of
                                      climate change, the destruction of
                                      vast areas of land for the
                                      extraction of raw materials, the
                                      pollution of seas and lakes,
                                      groundwater and springs.Just as in
                                      the destruction of nature, the
                                      ruinous and ruined has its
                                      counterpart in the erosion of
                                      social and democratic
                                      achievements. From this
                                      perspective, the question arises
                                      whether a life as it is largely
                                      experienced (in Europe) as real
                                      and lived in the belief in the
                                      possibilities of participation,
                                      freedom of decision, social
                                      security, a halfway intact
                                      environment, healthy food, etc.,
                                      has not long been indebted to a
                                      kind of "matrix".<br>
                                      <br>
                                      The metaphor of the desert allows
                                      at the same time the question of
                                      "water" and "possibilities of
                                      irrigation". Because - this is
                                      what experience and the principle
                                      of hope say - deserts can be
                                      temporarily and selectively
                                      (re)brought to bloom.<br>
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                                        lang="en-US"><u><b>Installations:</b></u></span></font><font
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                                      <br>
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                                        size="2"><i>Watson’s Ghost</i>,
                                      </font>Heather Dewey-Hagborg (USA)<br>
                                    </font><font size="2" face="Arial"><i><font
                                          size="2">The AI Prostheses</font></i>,
                                      Marco Donnarumma (ITA) & Ana
                                      Rajcevic (DEU/ENG)<br>
                                      <i>Duality</i>, </font><font
                                      size="2" face="Arial"><font
                                        size="2">Roland Jankowski (AUT),
                                      </font><br>
                                      <i>Amazonian Flesh</i>, </font><font
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                                        size="2">knowbotiq (CHE)</font><br>
                                      <i>Deep Reckonings</i>, </font><font
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                                        size="2">Stephanie Lepp (USA)</font><br>
                                      <i>The Drone Aviary</i>, </font><font
                                      size="2" face="Arial"><font
                                        size="2">Superflux (ENG)</font>
                                      <br>
                                      <i>Plastic Landfill</i>, Fashion
                                      Tornado, </font><font size="2"
                                      face="Arial"><font size="2">Benjamin
                                        Von Wong (CAN), <br>
                                      </font><i>Where the City Can’t See</i>,
                                    </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Liam
                                      Young (AUS)</font></div>
                                  <b><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
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                                    size="2" face="Arial"><b><u>Dates:</u></b><br>
                                    <br>
                                    Schutzengel<br>
                                    Drone performance with Roland
                                    Jankowski<br>
                                    Saturday, 5/13/2023, 11:00 a.m. -
                                    5:00 p.m.<br>
                                    Beginning every hour on the hour,<br>
                                    Duration approx. 5 minutes  <br>
                                     <br>
                                    Guided tour and talk<br>
                                    with Reni Hofmüller and Ilse Weber<br>
                                    Saturday, 5/13/2023, 1:05 p.m.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Finissage<br>
                                    Friday, 7.7.2023, 6:00 p.m.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Opening hours - Opening weekend<br>
                                    aktuelle kunst in graz<br>
                                    Friday, 12.5.2023, from 18:00 hrs<br>
                                    Saturday, 13.5.2023, 11:00 a.m. -
                                    7:00 p.m.<br>
                                    Sunday, 14.5.2023, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00
                                    p.m.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Opening hours 12.5 - 7.7.2023<br>
                                    Tuesday - Friday, 14:00 - 19:00 h<br>
                                    and by appointment, free entry</font></div>
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                                                style="font-weight:
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                                                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-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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                                                labor | Bürgergasse 5,
                                                8010 Graz | Telefon: +43
                                                316 836 000 | <a
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                                                  href="http://esc.mur.at/"
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