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Such stuff as worlds are made on

Reflecting on human time-scales, alongside the deep time of the universe, this project explores possible inclusive futures via world-building and speculative art practices, while consciously avoiding the replication of colonial models. Ultimately, the project questions what kinds of new worlds can be created and what kind of rules these worlds will have to follow.
Informed by Donna Haraway’s Speculative Fabulations this exhibition looks towards cosmologies and ecosystems for inspirations, answers, and prophecies. Exploring practices that are speculative rather than empirically scientific, it reflects on the limits of human knowledge of our own planet, alongside humankind’s increasing desire to extend itself to neighbouring planets and planetary systems.In very recent years on the human time-scale, we have witnessed multiple moon landings, frequent image flow from Mars and the neo-colonial ambitions of a small number of billionaires. This project shifts the perspective towards non-privileged humans, nonhumans, biomes and Martian life forms in order to reflect on space colonisation and planetary time.Looking back through millennia, the project imagines the births and deaths of planets, the creation of the cosmos, the universe, and our home the earth. Looking forward, the project speculates on how other worlds are being explored or created, and questions if space really is humankind’s final frontier.New and existing works – and the interaction between them – seek a deeper understanding of the origins of humankind in cosmological, geological and evolutionary terms that can serve to develop long-term evolutionary perspectives. Is humankind struggling in its capacity to face up to the existential crises it is facing? What can we learn from other life forms that have lived through similar extinction-threatening events? And will future generations be born into?
The exhibition is curated by Antje Liemann, Margerita Pulè (Unfinished Art Space) and Letta Shtohryn (Whatdowedonow?)
Website design
: Letta Shtohryn
Technical support: Andrew Pace
Catalogue design: Christian Lorenz
Communications : Manuela Zammit
This project is supported by Arts Council Malta

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Remote Chaos Experience

Closer Encounters – Finale

ossia score

The Rise and Fall of “Social Bot” Research

Painting Tech Dystopia: How the West tells itself fairytales about Asia – and believes they are real

Van Gogh TV – Piazza virtuale Hallo hallo ist da jemand?

Union Busting What is it and why you should care

Day to Night Timelapse Photography: “The Holy Grail”

Reclaim Your Face

When Wikileaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed

What is Algorave?

How to add Critical Thinking to your Making

“Information. What are they looking at?” A documentary on privacy for the broad audience.

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: anatomy of a persecution

Stop general data retention in the EU – current plans for mass surveillance

Chinas Sozialkreditsystem: Das gefährlichste Bonitätssystem der Welt

Warum personalisierte Werbung verboten werden muss

Solving social networking through interconnectivity

Opening

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Non Guided Tour

Non Guided Tour

Imagine being dropped on a virtual map, at a random point exactly 100km from Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. You find yourself on a small dirt road with only minimal indicators of how to get back. The challenge is to navigate back to n.b.k. one click at a time.The piece is based on Tomas Schmit, Sanitas – 200 Theater Pieces from 1962:“A bus carries the audience 100 km away. There the audience is deposited.”Only, instead of being abandoned together with a bus full of fellow visitors, you are now abandoned in the comfort of your home on an online map. Walking is in street view with minimal markers and the challenge is to find your way back to Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in the center of Berlin.December 2021<3 !Mediengruppe BitnikCommissioned by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein for the retrospective of Tomas Schmit

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Raconteurs – Drawings by Seb Tanti Burlò

Raconteurs – Drawings by Seb Tanti Burlò

A series of thirty pen and ink caricatures of writers who influenced me by the age of thirty.“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”– James Baldwin.

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Debatable Land(s)

Debatable Land(s)

Debatable Land(s) is the latest chapter of the long-term, research-based art project Fleeting Territories, resulting from the project Mapping Malta I- II, which took place in 2018. In the connection of the two actually opposing terms “fleeting” and “territory”, the Fleeting Territories project series see spatial coordinates not simply as stable or fixed values, but rather as aiding in the identification and negotiation of [in]visible mechanisms, which in turn organise and shape cities, land[scapes], human and more-than-human interconnections. Rights, laws, politics, and economies, as well as emotions play a central role in the appropriation of territories.By forming temporary collectives and performative forums, Fleeting Territories ask questions such as which materialities and regimes of spatial concepts can be identified, and which artistic tools can be employed to measure and experience them.The project’s findings will be presented in Malta in October 2021.

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The GoldenNFT Project

The GoldenNFT

We are offering a collection of 5555 NFTs for individual sale. Among these works are the 16 originals that can be seen here on the site. The remaining 5539 works are collectibles that our script has made based on the originals. The sale of the individual works takes place covertly – anyone who buys an NFT does not know beforehand which one it is. Exactly 24 hours after the sale, you will find out which work you have bought. Then you can keep it or sell it on OpenSea. The price per NFT is 0.05 ETH (Ethereum).

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Alle NFTshavewesucceededinbuyingthegoldenvisayet.gifvon !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIKZum Salehavewesucceededinbuyingthegoldevisayet.gifby !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIKhavewesucceededinbuyingthegoldevisayet.gif is a HQ 4K Status GIF. The current status is No. The GIF will be exchanged to Yes in the smart contract as soon as the Golden Visa is secured.havewesucceededinbuyingthegoldevisayet.gif is part of a series of NFTs by artists to help secure Golden Visas for refugees via the European residency by investment schemeCredits:Photo from Refugee Camp in Lesbos by Milad E.Graphics support by Rahel Arnold, Zurich”NO!” font animation uses blotter.js library https://blotter.js.org/

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Gravity

Kane Cali, John Coplans, Jesse Darling, Simon Fujiwara, Eva Kotatkova, Adrian Paci, and Pierre PortelliCurated by Sara Dolfi Agostini

Gravity is a dual concept. In physics, it is a force of attraction, yet it is weak enough to not change the property of matter. It controls bodies in space, and binds them to the Earth, where it bestows them weight. Gravity is the condition we live in as human beings, regardless of our ethnicity, gender and cultural background; it also relates to our own bodies and the relationship with others. As such it is a common denominator, as physical as symbolic, sometimes both at the same time. In fact, without gravity, our bodies would be overpowered by other forces of nature, which would make drift inevitable and life as we know it impossible. In a way, gravity is both a form of physical resistance among peers and a frontier with alien energies and lives. Here, it is the point of departure for an exploration of the body and its meanings, in a society where striving towards the infinite possibilities of humankind leaves a profound gap with actual experience and the uncertain reaction to the many limits and setbacks we face. In this time of polarized disorder and public health emergency, where governments oscillate between dramatic containing measures and strategies designed to shore up capitalism, an exhibition titled Gravity is also a call to face the urgency of this momentum, condemn the hubris of anthropocentrism that brought us to this point, and peek behind the veil of false idols.

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#purplenoise

#purplenoise

#purplenoise is an interdisciplinary technofeminist research group that uses real-life events to explore social media as the arena for protest and large-scale political manipulation. The research methodolody includes intervention, infiltration, manipulation, technofeminist propaganda, poetry, fake news, love, and anger.

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Elektronika Session 1 – Evolution

Elektronika Session 1 – Evolution

Elektronika is a project which was launched last February, and aims to develop a historiography of electronic music in Malta. During this summer, Elektronika will enter into a new stage with a series of oral history sessions by which the development and evolution of the electronic music scene in Malta will be explored.The first of such sessions will be called: ‘Session 1: Evolution (focus on the DJ era)‘. Michael Bugeja who is this project’s research co-ordinator will be interviewing four of Malta’s pioneering dj’s in the electronic music scene: Coco, David Dee, Brian James and Owen Jay. The session will be followed by a 1 hour dj set from ‘Tres Moody’ which is a project consisting of David Dee, Brian James and Owen Jay.