Posts By: Klara Debeljak

Our Terms, Our Conditions – Report of the 2023 IMPAKT Festival

By Klara Debeljak, November 20, 2023

During IMPAKT festival 2023 lawyer Jan Fermon and artist Jonas Staal presented their collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. The lawsuit aims to force legal recognition of Facebook as a public domain, owned and controlled by its users. During their panel talk they were asked the following question; »Do your Facebook posts providing updates on the [...]

Bending the Maze: On the Architectures of Digital Enclosures

By Klara Debeljak, November 6, 2023

A famous inscription above the temple of Apollo in Delphi reads: “Know thyself, you, that walks down this hallway.”  It implies responsibility and the weight of agency. And that’s the thing: I always felt responsible for my actions, opinions and tastes. It is what I was always taught, probably because it encouraged a more ethical [...]

Timetable for Hybrid Publication Event: Screentime Airtime Facetime, November 10, 2023

By Klara Debeljak, October 9, 2023

Going Hybrid!, the research project dedicated to investigating the medium of publishing in its hybrid forms by subverting notions of what a publication is, concludes its two year cycle by launching a final event; a live-publication, a transcript, a book, a conversation, on the 10th of November, between 13h-17h. We welcome you to join the [...]

Ljubljana: Unfolding the Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly

By Klara Debeljak, October 2, 2023

From the 21st to the 25th of August 2023, Projekt Atol hosted the Omsk Social Club and a program of workshops and lectures for the 18 participants who came together in Ljubljana to Live Action Role-Play, aiming to build and inhabit an alternative world in the context of a changing planetary ecology. Welcome to ARIA, [...]

Notes on Eyes and Access: A Transmediale Panel on Sight

By Klara Debeljak, April 23, 2023

Attending conferences such as the 2023 Transmediale A Model A Map A Fiction in Berlin is a type of privilege. In our oversaturated world, it is a privilege to be exposed to people who do the data-sifting for you and collectively fill out and reveal this endless web of connections. By this I mean the [...]

Klara Debeljak: Online Intimacy-The Digital Designed Self

By Klara Debeljak, January 11, 2023

This is it now, this is what life is all about now, looking at screens, I’ve just accepted it, my friend Jordi told me, while we each look at our monitors, comparing our screen time. He unabashedly told me his phone screen time is 4 hours a day, which is a lot, I think, but [...]

Unveiled, a Mask Theory in Covid Times

By Klara Debeljak, July 13, 2021

During the first lockdown in March 2020, my whole family freaked out. We thought it was the end of the world. My brother traveled home to Europe from California where he was studying and for the first days, he wore a mask that I had never seen before. It was shaped like a bird’s beak, [...]

YOU SAY I DO NOT EXIST: Theory of the Chrono-Ghettos

By Klara Debeljak, March 20, 2021

You are unable to comprehend me rationally, because you harbor deep emotions about me without even being aware of them. You are always a little afraid I will take things from you, and you believe I am the source of your suffering. You think above all that I expose your impermanence, which is the quintessential [...]