Tactics&Practice #16: Are you a software update? + Workshop at ALUO 1/3
06.02.2025
The 16th edition of Tactics&Practice, Aksioma’s discursive programme exploring contemporary investigative art, society and new technologies, will take place from February to June 2025, in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (UL ALUO).Are You a Software Update? interrogates how software systems govern interaction, perception, and decision-making. The programme considers the logics of participation embedded in platforms, applications, and networked environments, asking where the space for collective organisation and intervention still lies.
The properties of software—scalability, acceleration, and fragmentation—have transformed it into a power of unprecedented influence. After living through countless updates, we now inhabit a fully fascist operating system—a pervasive, enclosed infrastructure that redefines our everyday and blurs the line between agency and performance. As software-imposed terms and conditions shape our relations within this system, how might subterfuge, secrecy, and deceit become frameworks to move beyond resistance and build systems that foster solidarity, equity, and collective action?
With: Alex Quicho, Clea Bourne, Daphne Dragona, Donatella Della Ratta, Eva Papamargariti, Giulia Tinis, Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Lesia Kulchynska, msn gf, Nelly Yah Pinkrah, Noura Tafeche, Prince Lucija, Tommaso Campagna
Curated by: Nora O’ Murchú, Socrates Stamatatos, Janez Fakin Janša, Neja Berger
Free entry! Registration required: https://pretix.eu/aksioma/ayasu
25 February 2025
Katedrala / Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
Conference
15:00-21:00
Alex Quicho, Clea Bourne, Daphne Dragona, Donatella Della Ratta, Eva Papamargariti, Giulia Tinis, Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Lesia Kulchynska, msn gf, Nelly Yah Pinkrah, Noura Tafeche, Prince Lucija, Tommaso Campagna
Are You A Software Update?
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Kamera / Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
Exhibition opening
21:00-22:00
Eva Papamargariti
A Whisper, a Murmur, a Roar
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Pritličje, Ljubljana
After event
22:30-
msn gf & Prince Lucija
Live/DJ set
24 February–28 March 2025
Node #1
Aksioma | Project Space
Exhibition
24 February–28 March 2025
Opening: 24 February at 19:00
Noura Tafeche
Annihilation Core, Inherited Lore ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
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ALUO/Tobačna
Workshop
26 February 2025, 14:00-17:00
Noura Tafeche
The Internet Is a Horrible Place and I’m Here to Make It Worse: a Kawayoku Journey