Posts Tagged: state machines

Citizen D podcast 042: James Bridle and the new dark age

By Inte Gloerich, April 2, 2019

By Državljan D. (Citizen D) We sat down with James Bridle who was visiting Ljubljana to give a talk at the Aksioma gallery to talk about the evergrowing problem of technodeterminism and the way future is being predicted by the machines. Listen to the podcast here. What’s the role of humanities in the information society, [...]

Extracting Computerized Desires – a Review of Clickmine

By Inte Gloerich, February 5, 2019

By: Tim Brouwer On the website clickmine.click visitors stumble upon a computer-generated grassland, which one can only interact with by clicking it. This browser-based game, developed by artist and software engineer Sarah Friend, is called Clickmine (2017) and invites players to engage with the realm of virtual currencies and experience mining them. Alongside her work [...]

Call for entries: Self as Actor – Colonising Identity (NeMe)

By Inte Gloerich, November 8, 2018

See original call here. Our State Machines partner NeMe is pleased to announce this open call for the selection of 10 applicants to be represented in the exhibition with one work each. Each of those selected will be paid a small fee. In addition, one applicant will be selected as the featured artist who will [...]

Crypto Design workshop @ Aksioma, Ljubljana

By Inte Gloerich, March 13, 2018

On March 6th and 7th, the Crypto Design project traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia. The INC organized a workshop for design students in collaboration with Aksioma, one of our partners in the State Machines project. Patricia de Vries, Anthony van der Meer, Tim Brouwer and Loes Bogers were at the University of Ljubljana Academy of Fine [...]

Exhbition: New Imaginaries for Crypto Design, at NeMe, Cyprus

By Inte Gloerich, February 28, 2018

On Saturday, 10 March 2018, at 7.00pm the Institute of Network Cultures and NeMe invite you to a talk by Patricia de Vries and the opening of the exhibition New Imaginaries for Crypto Design. Find out more here. Have you ever sent an email through webmail? Have you ever paid your share of a dinner [...]

Crypto Design at Aksioma in Ljubljana, Slovenia

By Inte Gloerich, February 20, 2018

Crypto Design Workshop and Lectures at Aksioma Curated by the Institute of Network Cultures (NL) More detailed information can be found at aksioma.org/cryptodesign 6-7 March 2018 ALUO – Department for Visual Communication Dolenjska 83, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Rooms 118 and 311 The aim of the Crypto Design Workshop is to “go diving” into the Deep [...]

Open Call for works

By Inte Gloerich, December 6, 2017

Open Call for works State Machines is a programme of activities devoted to the investigation of new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. Focussing on how such technologies impact identity and citizenship, digital labour and finance, the project joins five experienced partners – Aksioma (Slovenia), Drugo More (Croatia), Furtherfield [...]

State Machines: art, work and identity in an age of planetary-scale computation

By Inte Gloerich, August 22, 2017

The Institute of Network Cultures is part of State Machines, featuring projects on art, work, and identity in an age of planetary-scale computation. Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries, in which every personal expression [...]