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<font
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laden herzlich
zur Eröffnung
unserer
Veranstaltungsreihe
<i>Desert of
Realities</i>
am Freitag den
29.9.2023 ab
18:00 Uhr ein:</font></font></div>
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<div
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Uhr Begrüßung</font>
<font
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face="Arial">Reni
Hofmüller und</font>
Ilse Weber</font></font></div>
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face="Arial">19:00
Uhr
Musikperformance
<i>Sound of
the Deserts</i>
von Antonia
Manhartsberger</font></font></div>
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Uhr
Get-together
mit DJ Mama
Feelgood und
DJ Auto</font></font></div>
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<div
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unsere
"Nachbarn"
Grazer
Kunstverein,
Room of Fine
Arts und
Galerie GRILL
freuen sich
auf Ihren
Besuch!</font><br>
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vielen Grüssen
aus dem esc
medien kunst
labor<br>
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color="#000000"><span
lang="en-US">Zur
Ausstellung: <a
href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/desert-realities"><i>Dese</i><i>rt
of Realities</i></a></span></font></font></div>
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<div
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face="Arial"><b>Desert
of Realities</b></font></font></div>
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<div
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face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><i>Welcome
to the desert
of the real.</i></font></font></div>
<div
class="moz-forward-container"><font
face="Arial"><font
size="6"
face="Arial"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%" lang="DE-AT">[Morpheus zu Neo
im Film
Matrix]</span></font></font></div>
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<font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
lang="DE-AT">Mit
diesem
Versatzstück
des
Medienphilosophen
Jean
Baudrillard
leitet
Morpheus die
Vorbereitung
Neos auf seine
Aufgabe ein,
wenn er Neo
aufzeigt, in
einer
Traumwelt zu
leben, die nur
als Teil einer
neuro-interaktiven Simulation</span> <span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial"
lang="DE-AT">–</span>
<span
lang="DE-AT">einer
Matrix</span>
<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial"
lang="DE-AT">–</span>
<span
lang="DE-AT">existiert,
während er
sich in einer
zerstörten,
sonnenverfinsterten,
von Maschinen
regierten Welt
befindet:
"Willkommen in
der Wüste der
Wirklichkeit".</span><br>
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<span
lang="DE-AT">Im
Film wird der
Beginn der
Matrix mit der
Erschaffung
der Systeme
der KI
definiert.
Tatsächlich
durchdringen
Anwendungen
der KI längst
all unsere
Lebensbereiche
und haben
sowohl
Auswirkungen
auf unsere
Entscheidungen
und sozialen
Beziehungen
als auch
Einfluss auf
Wirtschaft,
Politik und
Gesellschaft.</span><br>
<br>
<span
lang="DE-AT">Die
Simulation
löst die
Differenz
zwischen
Realem und
Imaginärem auf
und verwandelt
sie in eine
Indifferenz,
eine "hybride
Wirklichkeit".
Innerhalb des
Hyperrealen
sind Reales
und Imaginäres
nicht mehr
auseinanderzuhalten;
Physisches und
Digitales
verschmelzen,
werden
"phygital".</span><br>
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<span
lang="DE-AT">Ebenso
verändert sich
das Verhältnis
von Mensch,
Natur und
Technik hin zu
einer neuen
Konfiguration,
einem neuen
Beziehungsgeflecht.
Schon Donna
Harraway
verwies auf
die
transformativen
Potenziale in
dichten
Beziehungsgefügen.
Wenn wir aus
dem Simulacrum
der Matrix
erwachen
können, können
wir die Wüste
der
Wirklichkeiten
mit bestimmten
Werkzeugen
verändern?</span><br>
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<span
lang="DE-AT">Die
Nutzung von
Technologie
erscheint in
der
Ausstellung <i>Desert
of Realities</i>
nicht mehr nur
als
dystopisches
Modell einer
düsteren
Vision der
Zukunft oder
als
Darstellung
des
Ist-Zustandes,
sondern auch
als Teil der
Lösung, den
wir uns zu
eigen machen
sollten: <i>Es
macht einen
Unterschied ob
man einen Weg
nur kennt,
oder ob man
diesen Weg
auch geht.</i>
[Morpheus]</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
lang="DE-AT">In
<i>Desert of
Realities</i>
werden mittels
Multi-Media-Installationen einerseits Aspekte der Simulation offengelegt
und
andererseits
Gegenentwürfe
entwickelt:
die
Möglichkeit
einer
digitalen
Berührung bei
physischer
Trennung (<i>Beyond
My Skin</i>,
Flavia
Mazzanti); wie
Nahrungsmittel
wie Fisch
aufgrund der
sich
verändernden
Umweltbedingungen
nur mehr für
reiche
Menschen
zugänglich
sind, während
sich der Rest
mit aus dem
Labor
gezüchteten
Lebensmitteln
begnügen muss
(<i>Future
Sushi</i>,
Etsuko
Ichihara);
Entwicklungen
im Kontext der
Konvergenz
digitaler und
biologischer
Körperlichkeit
anhand der
Annäherung von
Kleidung
(Mode) an das
zugrundeliegende / darunterliegende / bloßliegende Nerven“kostüm“ (<i>Internal
Collection</i>,
Amy Karle);
Netzwerkdynamiken,
wie die
Interaktion
von Natur mit
Technik und
deren
Beobachtung
sie in Gang
setzt (<i>Hyle</i>,
Theresa
Schubert);
alternative
Materialien
zur
Herstellung
von Mode (<i>Materia
Bruta,</i>
Surzhana
Radnaeva);
oder sogar als
Kommunikation
zwischen
Mensch und
Bakterium (<i>The
Haori Biofilm,</i>
Vivien
Roussel); und
Strom als
ästhetischer
Motor eines
modularen
Hörstücks das
eine
multiperspektivische
Erzählung
geleitet über
Kupferdrähte
entwickelt (<i>Circuit</i>,
Christine
Schörkhuber)
und Konzepte
von
Überwachung
und
Privatsphäre
im Zeitalter
von Big Data
und die
gegensätzlichen
Gefühle von
Unbehagen und
Sicherheit aus
verschiedenen
Perspektiven (<i>Watch
Me</i> - Zhe
Wang).</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><b>Künstler:innen:</b></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Etsuko Ichihara (JPN)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Amy Karle (USA)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti (ITA/BRA/AUT)</span></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#00000A;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Surzhana</span>
<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"><span
style="color:#00000A">Ra</span>dnaeva (RUS/FRA)</span></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Vivien
Roussel (FRA)</span></font><br>
<font
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Christine Schörkhuber (AUT)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Theresa
Schubert (DEU)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Winnie
Soon (HKG)
& Lee
Tzu-Tung (TWN)</span></font><br>
<font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Zhé
Wang (CHN/DEU)</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><b>Alle
Programmpunkte
im Überblick:</b></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">29.9.,
19:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Sound
of the Deserts</span></i></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Antonia
Manhartsberger</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Musikperformance</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">ab
20:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Get-together
mit DJ Mama
Feelgood und
DJ Auto</span></font></font><br>
<br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">30.9.,
12:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Artist
Talk, Führung</span></font></font><br>
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">14:00
– 18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Forkonomy()</span></i><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">, Workshop</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">5.10.,
18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Beyond My Skin</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Flavia Mazzanti, mit
Manuel Bonell,
Brootworth,</span>
<span
lang="EN-US">Olivia
Hild, Imani
Rameses</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span></font></font><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">7.10., 18:00 Uhr – 1:00
Uhr früh</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">ORF Lange Nacht der
Museen</span></font></font><br>
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style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">8.10.,16:30 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">disposable instruments –
reuse</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">noid, Anthea Caddy,
Elisabeth
Flunger</span></font></font><br>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Performance </span></font></font><font
face="Arial"><font
face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">im Rahmen von ORF
musikprotokoll</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">10.10., 14:00 – 22:00
Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Ada Lovelace Day</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Workshop und
Performance</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">23.10. – 28.10.2023</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">10:00 – 18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Techno-Disobedience</span></i></font></font><br>
<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">Workshop</span></font></font><br>
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<font
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial" lang="EN-US">17.11., ab 18:00 Uhr</span></font></font><br>
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Constant VZW
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2020 in der
Kategorie
Kulturinitiativen.<br>
Gefördert von:
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Stadt Graz,
Kulturreferat
des Landes
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of the real.</font></b></i></font><br>
<font face="Arial">[Morpheus to Neo in the
movie Matrix]</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">We cordially invite you
to the opening of our event series <i>Desert
of Realities</i> on Friday the 29.9.2023
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
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face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Reni
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<font face="Arial">19:00 Music performance
Sound of the Deserts by Antonia
Manhartsberger</font><br>
<font face="Arial">20:00 Get-together with
DJ Mama Feelgood and DJ Auto</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Also our "neighbors"
Grazer Kunstverein, Room of Fine Arts and
Galerie GRILL are looking forward to your
visit!</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">With many greetings from
esc medien kunst labor<br>
Reni Hofmüller and Ilse Weber</font></font></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><b>Desert of Realities</b></font></font></font></div>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">Welcome to the desert of the
real.<br>
[Morpheus to Neo in the film Matrix].<br>
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With this phrase by the media philosopher
Jean Baudrillard, Morpheus introduces
Neo's preparation for his task when he
shows Neo living in a dream world that
exists only as part of a neuro-interactive
simulation - a matrix - while he is in a
destroyed, sun-darkened world ruled by
machines: "Welcome to the desert of
reality".<br>
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In the film, the beginning of the Matrix
is defined by the creation of the systems
of AI. In fact, applications of AI have
long permeated all areas of our lives,
impacting our decisions and social
relationships as well as influencing the
economy, politics, and society.</font></font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"><font
face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">Simulation dissolves the
difference between the real and the
imaginary and transforms it into
indifference, a "hybrid reality". Within
the hyperreal, the real and the imaginary
can no longer be distinguished; the
physical and the digital merge, becoming
"phygital".<br>
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Likewise, the relationship between humans,
nature and technology is changing towards
a new configuration, a new network of
relationships. Donna Harraway already
referred to the transformative potentials
in dense webs of relationships. If we can
awaken from the simulacrum of the matrix,
can we change the desert of realities with
certain tools?<br>
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In the <i>Desert of Realities</i>
exhibition, the use of technology no
longer appears only as a dystopian model
of a bleak vision of the future or as a
representation of the current state, but
also as part of the solution that we
should embrace: It makes a difference
whether you only know a path, or whether
you walk that path. [Morpheus]</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
face="Arial">In <i>D</i><i>esert of
Realities</i>, multi-media installations
reveal aspects of simulation on the one
hand and develop counter-designs on the
other: The possibility of digital touch in
physical separation (Beyond My Skin,
Flavia Mazzanti); how food such as fish is
now only accessible to rich people due to
changing environmental conditions, while
the rest have to make do with lab-grown
food (Future Sushi, Etsuko Ichihara);
developments in the context of the
convergence of digital and biological
corporeality through the approximation of
clothing (fashion) to the
underlying/underlying/exposed nerve
"costume" (Internal Collection, Amy
Karle); Network dynamics, as the
interaction of nature with technology and
its observation sets it in motion (Hyle,
Theresa Schubert); alternative materials
for the production of fashion (Materia
Bruta, Surzhana Radnaeva); or even as
communication between humans and bacteria
(The Haori Biofilm, Vivien Roussel); and
electricity as the aesthetic engine of a
modular audio piece that develops a
multi-perspective narrative guided by
copper wires (Circuit, Christine
Schörkhuber) and concepts of surveillance
and privacy in the age of Big Data and the
conflicting feelings of unease and
security from different perspectives
(Watch Me - Zhe Wang).</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><b>Artists:</b></font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
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mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Etsuko
Ichihara (JPN)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
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New
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mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Amy
Karle (USA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Flavia
Mazzanti (ITA/BRA/AUT)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#00000A;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Surzhana</span> <span
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Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US"><span
style="color:#00000A">Ra</span>dnaeva
(RUS/FRA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Vivien Roussel (FRA)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US">Christine
Schörkhuber (AUT)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Theresa Schubert (DEU)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Winnie Soon (HKG) &
Lee Tzu-Tung (TWN)</span></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Zhé Wang (CHN/DEU)</span></font><br>
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<font face="Arial"><b>All program points
at a glance:</b><br>
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9/29, 7 p.m.<br>
<i>Sound of the Deserts</i><br>
Antonia Manhartsberger<br>
Music performance<br>
from 8 p.m.<br>
Gettogether with DJ Mama Feelgood and DJ
Auto<br>
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9/30, 12 p.m.<br>
Artist Talk, guided tour<br>
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6pm<br>
<i>Forkonomy()</i>, Workshop<br>
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10/5, 6pm <br>
<i>Beyond My Skin</i><br>
Flavia Mazzanti, with Manuel Bonell,
Brootworth, Olivia Hild, Imani Rameses
Performance in the context of ORF
musikprotokoll<br>
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10/8, 6pm </font></font></font><font
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1am<br>
ORF Long Night of Museums<br>
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10/8, 4:30pm<br>
<i>disposable instruments </i></font></font></font><font
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face="Arial"><i><font face="Arial"><font
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face="Arial"><span
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reuse</i><br>
noid, Anthea Caddy, Elisabeth Flunger<br>
Performance<br>
in the context of ORF musikprotokoll<br>
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10/10, 2 - 10pm<br>
Ada Lovelace Day<br>
Workshop and Performance<br>
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10/23 - 10/28/2023</font></font></font></div>
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face="Arial">10am - 6pm<br>
<i>Techno-Disobedience</i><br>
Workshop<br>
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11/17, starting at 6pm<br>
Finissage<br>
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In co-production with Constant VZW
Brussels, Immerea, kunst@werk, Mori Art
Museum Tokyo; a cooperation in the
framework of steirischer herbst '23.</font></font></font></div>
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