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                                        Wirklichkeiten</b></font></div>
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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 size="2">[Morpheus im
                                      Film Matrix]</font><br>
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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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                                      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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                                    <p><font face="Arial"><b>Music</b><br>
                                        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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                                            Ausstellung: <a
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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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                                        </b><b> </b><font size="2"><b><br>
                                            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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                                    <div class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                        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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                                          face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>Watson’s
                                              Ghost</i>, </font>Heather
                                          Dewey-Hagborg (USA)<br>
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                                          face="Arial"><i><font size="2">The
                                              AI Prostheses</font></i>,
                                          Marco Donnarumma (ITA) &
                                          Ana Rajcevic (DEU/ENG)<br>
                                          <i>Duality</i>, </font><font
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                                            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>, <i>Fashion
                                            Tornado</i>, </font><font
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                                            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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                                            <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>
                                          und nach Vereinbarung</font><font
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                                            of Realities</b></font></div>
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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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                                          face="Arial">Program, Friday,
                                          May 12 at Palais
                                          Trauttmansdorff:<br>
                                          6:00  - <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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                                          exhibition: <a
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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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                                            face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>Watson’s
                                                Ghost</i>, </font>Heather
                                            Dewey-Hagborg (USA)<br>
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                                            face="Arial"><i><font
                                                size="2">The AI
                                                Prostheses</font></i>,
                                            Marco Donnarumma (ITA) &
                                            Ana Rajcevic (DEU/ENG)<br>
                                            <i>Duality</i>, </font><font
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                                              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
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                                              size="2">Superflux (ENG)</font>
                                            <br>
                                            <i>Plastic Landfill</i>, <i>Fashion
                                              Tornado</i>, </font><font
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                                              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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                                                      mit dem
                                                      Österreichischen
                                                      Kunstpreis 2020 in
                                                      der Kategorie
                                                      Kulturinitiativen.<br>
                                                      Gefördert von:
                                                      Kulturamt der
                                                      Stadt Graz,
                                                      Kulturreferat des
                                                      Landes Steiermark,
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                                                      erklären Sie sich
                                                      mit der Aufnahme
                                                      und Verwendung von
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                                                      kunst labor |
                                                      Bürgergasse 5,
                                                      8010 Graz |
                                                      Telefon: +43 316
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