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                                                          sich mit
                                                          prekären
                                                          Arbeitsverhältnissen
                                                          in der
                                                          globalisierten
                                                          Welt
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                                                          <i>United
                                                          Workers
                                                          International</i>
                                                          werden
                                                          Arbeitende*
                                                          aus ihrer
                                                          marginalisierten
                                                          Position
                                                          hervorgeholt,
                                                          indem diese
                                                          sichtbar und
                                                          deren Arbeit
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                                                          Susi
                                                          Rogenhofer
                                                          gestaltet </font><font
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                                                          mit </font></font><font
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                                                          face="Arial">Guillermo
                                                          Villegas
                                                          Alemán, </font>Juan
                                                          Pablo Trad
                                                          Hasbun, Manni
                                                          Montana einen
                                                          Abend mit
                                                          Artist Talk
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                                                          Uhr â€“ Artist
                                                          Talk<br>
                                                          21 Uhr â€“ <i>United
                                                          Workers
                                                          International</i>
                                                          live:<br>
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                                                          face="Arial">Juan
                                                          Pablo Trad
                                                          Hasbun (Bass),
                                                          Guillermo
                                                          Villegas
                                                          Alemán
                                                          (Schlagzeug),
                                                          Susi
                                                          Rogenhofer
                                                          (Electronics),
                                                          Manni Montana
                                                          (Electronics)</font></div>
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                                                          auf Ihren
                                                          Besuch!<br>
                                                          Reni Hofmüller
                                                          und Ilse Weber<br>
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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.
                                                          [Morpheus im
                                                          Film Matrix]</font><font
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                                                          Wüste der
                                                          Wirklichkeiten</b></font></font></div>
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                                                      <div
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                                                          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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                                                          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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                                                          face="Arial">Die
                                                          Dualität
                                                          Wirklichkeit/Fiktion
                                                          bzw.
                                                          Simulation hat
                                                          besonders vor
                                                          der
                                                          Jahrtausendwende
kulturtheoretische Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Wir nehmen sie wieder in den
                                                          Blick â€“ heute<br>
                                                          mit Fokus auf
                                                          die Realität
                                                          der vormals
                                                          oft nur
                                                          spekulativ,
                                                          theoretisch
                                                          und
                                                          extrapolierend,
                                                          vielfach als
                                                          Vorschein
                                                          angesprochenen
                                                          Verhältnisse
                                                          und Dinge â€“
                                                          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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                                                          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
                                                          â€“ quasi im
                                                          Gegenzug â€“
                                                          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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                                                          face="Arial">Mit
                                                          dem Programm <i>Wüste
                                                          der
                                                          Wirklichkeiten</i>
                                                          soll zum Blick
                                                          auf politische
                                                          wie technische
                                                          Formate der
                                                          â€žSimulation“
                                                          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
                                                          â€žMatrix“
                                                          geschuldet
                                                          ist.</font></div>
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                                                      <div
                                                        class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial">Die
                                                          Metaphorik der
                                                          Wüste erlaubt
                                                          gleichzeitig
                                                          auch die Frage
                                                          nach â€žWasser“
                                                          und
                                                          â€žMöglichkeiten
                                                          der
                                                          Bewässerung“.
                                                          Denn â€“ das
                                                          besagen
                                                          Erfahrung und
                                                          das Prinzip
                                                          Hoffnung â€“
                                                          Wüsten können
                                                          temporär und
                                                          punktuell
                                                          (wieder) zum
                                                          Blühen
                                                          gebracht
                                                          werden.</font><font
                                                          face="Arial"><b><br>
                                                          </b></font></div>
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                                                        class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><b><br>
                                                          </b></font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial">
                                                        </font>
                                                        <div
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                                                          face="Arial"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><u><b>Installationen:</b></u></span></font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial">
                                                          <br>
                                                          </font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><font
                                                          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>,
                                                          <i>Fashion
                                                          Tornado,</i> </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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                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font> <font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2" face="Arial"><span
                                                          style="letter-spacing:
                                                          -0.2pt"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><u><b>Termine:</b></u></span></span></font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><b><br>
                                                          </b><b><br>
                                                          Finissage<br>
                                                          </b>Freitag,
                                                          7.7.2023,
                                                          18:00 Uhr<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Ã–ffnungszeiten
                                                          16.5. â€“
                                                          7.7.2023<br>
                                                          Dienstag â€“
                                                          Freitag, 14:00
                                                          â€“ 19:00 Uhr <br>
                                                          und nach
                                                          Vereinbarung</font><font
                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font> <font
                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font> <font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2" face="Arial"><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">Ausgezeichnet
                                                          mit dem
                                                          Ã–sterreichischen
                                                          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>
                                                          <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">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>
                                                          <span
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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 |
                                                          <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/"
moz-do-not-send="true">esc.mur.at</a></span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          <span
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><span
                                                          style="font-style:
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style="font-weight: normal">______________________________________</span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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                                                        </div>
                                                        <div
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                                                          face="Arial"><b>As
                                                          Guest at esc
                                                          medien kunst
                                                          labor: <br>
                                                          </b></font></div>
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                                                          </b></font></div>
                                                        <font
                                                          face="Arial">We
                                                          cordially
                                                          invite you to
                                                          the project
                                                          United Workers
                                                          International,
                                                          which deals
                                                          with
                                                          precarious
                                                          working
                                                          conditions in
                                                          the globalized
                                                          world, on
                                                          Friday, June
                                                          16, starting
                                                          at 8 pm. In
                                                          United Workers
                                                          International,
                                                          working
                                                          people* are
                                                          brought out of
                                                          their
                                                          marginalized
                                                          position by
                                                          making them
                                                          visible and
                                                          their work
                                                          audible.<br>
                                                          Susi
                                                          Rogenhofer
                                                          together with
                                                          Guillermo
                                                          Villegas
                                                          Alemán, Juan
                                                          Pablo Trad
                                                          Hasbun, Manni
                                                          Montana will
                                                          organize an
                                                          evening with
                                                          artist talk
                                                          followed by a
                                                          live
                                                          performance of
                                                          United Workers
                                                          International.
                                                          <br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          20 pm - Artist
                                                          Talk<br>
                                                          9 pm - United
                                                          Workers
                                                          International
                                                          live:<br>
                                                          Juan Pablo
                                                          Trad Hasbun
                                                          (Bass),
                                                          Guillermo
                                                          Villegas
                                                          Alemán
                                                          (Drums), Susi
                                                          Rogenhofer
                                                          (Electronics),
                                                          Manni Montana
                                                          (Electronics)<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Artistic
                                                          Support:
                                                          Renate
                                                          Quehenberger</font></div>
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                                                          face="Arial">
                                                          We are looking
                                                          forward to
                                                          your visit!<br>
                                                          Reni Hofmüller
                                                          and Ilse Weber<br>
                                                          </font></div>
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                                                        </div>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-variant:
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style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US"><span
                                                          style="font-style:
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style="font-weight: normal">______________________________________</span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font></div>
                                                        <div
                                                          class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                                          face="Arial">About
                                                          the current
                                                          exhibition: <a
href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/w%C3%BCste-der-wirklichkeiten"
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                                                          of realities</a><br>
                                                          </font><font
                                                          face="Arial"><font
                                                          size="2"><br>
                                                          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>
                                                          </font></font></div>
                                                        <div
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                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font></div>
                                                        <div
                                                          class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font></div>
                                                        <div
                                                          class="moz-forward-container">
                                                          <div
                                                          class="moz-forward-container"><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><span
                                                          lang="en-US"><u><b>Installations:</b></u></span></font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><br>
                                                          </font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial">
                                                          <br>
                                                          </font><font
                                                          size="2"
                                                          face="Arial"><font
                                                          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>,
                                                          <i>Fashion
                                                          Tornado,</i> </font><font
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                                                          Von Wong
                                                          (CAN), <br>
                                                          </font><i>Where
                                                          the City Can’t
                                                          See</i>, </font><font
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                                                          Young (AUS)</font></div>
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                                                          face="Arial"><b><u>Dates:</u></b><br>
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                                                          Finissage<br>
                                                          Friday,
                                                          7.7.2023, 6:00
                                                          p.m.<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          Opening hours
                                                          12.5 -
                                                          7.7.2023<br>
                                                          Tuesday -
                                                          Friday, 14:00
                                                          - 19:00 h<br>
                                                          and by
                                                          appointment,
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                                                          lang="en-US"><span
style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: normal">Ausgezeichnet
                                                          mit dem
                                                          Ã–sterreichischen
                                                          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-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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                                                          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 |
                                                          <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/"
moz-do-not-send="true">esc.mur.at</a></span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
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        <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
esc medien kunst labor, esc.mur.at,<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:esc@mur.at" moz-do-not-send="true">esc@mur.at</a>, initiiert und ermoeglicht
kunstprojekte, sammelt, verarbeitet und veroeffentlicht kulturelle daten.
buergergasse 5, 8010 graz, telefon  0316 836 000 </pre>
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