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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 7d

🤔 How can we replace online ads with human-curated artistic interventions?

Install the 𝗞𝘂𝘀𝘁𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗿 add-on and all ads on any website you visit will be replaced by 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗰𝗸? 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲, the new work by 𝗟𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗴 curated by 𝗛𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴-𝗬𝘂𝗻 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗴!

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 10d

The 4th episode of tactics&practice #AYASU? [podcast] is out!

🎧🚶https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4

What if real #change begins not with rupture, but with the quiet force of #collective habits and subtle shifts?

w/ Carolyn Pedwell and Neja Berger

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 20d

Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with @tega.bsky.social at @pioneerwork.bsky.social. It's up until Dec 13th.

The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a stylized earth in the background and in the foreground a scale with sugar being poured on one side of the scale and a measuring tape on the other side.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a tree in the background and in the foreground a scale with an ipad on one side of the scale and a miniature globe on the other side.

A gallery shot featuring two fences draped with fabric.

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 21d

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲?
The 3rd episode of tactics&practice [podcast] new season is out!

🎧🚶https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep3

What if #seduction—not dissection—could fracture #algorithmic control?

w/ Shaka McGlotten and Neja Berger

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 29d

✮ NEW RELEASE ✮
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹'𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹
🎧 aksioma.org/ayasu-ep2

In the second episode of the new season of 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀&𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 [𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁], Neja Berger talks with theorist and artist 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼 about her concept of “the Girl” as a technology of subjectivity...

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Sep 2

New podcast season!
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲?
aksioma.org/podcast/are-...

With 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀&𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲#𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗦𝗨? we explored how software systems influence human actions, participation and behaviour. Now Neja Berger delves deeper into the topic with this series of conversations...
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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Aug 19

First opening after Aksioma's summer break: 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁 𝟳 𝗣𝗠🤩 Join us!
The intermedia installation #BlackBox by #sarabezovsek & #dorijansisko, in the form of a video game, invites players to navigate a deconstructed recommender system and aesthetic online ecosystem.

🎮 aksioma.org/black-box

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Aug 13

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠? by #MaksValenčič fuses philosophy & calculus to explore shifting identity and unstructured ways of seeing the world.

Read full essay here 👉 www.pixxelpoint.org/2024/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/aksioma_PXXP_Valencic_What-Are-Intensities_ENG.pdf

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Jul 1

Here's the 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐃𝐅 of The Special Laboratory of Total Refusal bit.ly/4evJT8m + the 𝐘𝐓 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 of all our 2025 talks bit.ly/4lrpAeg
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To support us, consider making a donation 💖 aksioma.org/donate or peep into our brand new online bookshop and see if there's something for you 😊 aksioma.org/bookshop

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Jun 25

𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙 dives into the algorithmic chaos of the Girl Online — part bimbo, part glitch, all resistance. From #GirlDinner to moodboards, #SophiePublig & #CharlotteReuß explore identity, tech & femme aesthetics under platform capitalism 💖

💻✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCMOR2qeU4&t=2s

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Jun 24

#LeaSande wrote an engaging report for INC on the #AYASU? conference, while cleverly embedding all the videos of lectures and performances, creating a wonderful wrap-up of this season of #tactics&practice16 🙏

✦✦✦ Read here! ✦✦✦
networkcultures.org/blog/2025/06...

Working on updates. Don’t turn the text off. This will take a while | Tactics&Practice #16 Conference Report

On 25 February, Kino Šiška in Ljubljana hosted the opening conference of tactics&practice, Aksioma's annual transdisciplinary programme dedicated to contemporary investigative art, society and n

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Jun 11

Algorithmic infrastructures filter, shape, and foreclose what can be known, and thus how we organize, relate, and resist.
In 𝑂𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠, #NellyYPinkrah explores language as technology: not a tool of extraction, but a force for relation and world-making.

👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ERf...

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Jun 5

#DaphneDragona explores why tech can't fix the planet—and how art, care, and low-tech approaches offer alternative paths toward ecological healing...

Watch full lecture 𝑈𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡 from #AYASU conference here!
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZcmrsFC9E&t=3s

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · May 29

In this performance-lecture 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼 and 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲 reveal how subliminals, viral aesthetics, and covert messaging can rewire identity and allegiance, urging us to rethink where battles for agency and attention unfold...

👀 youtu.be/JbYRwMYs0Eo

#AYASU

Noura Tafeche, Alex Quicho: She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal

YouTube video by Aksioma

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · May 20

@alanbutler.info's 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 on the theoretical perspectives informing his creative process, and on how a series of works emerged around the physical performativity of digital objects 👉 youtu.be/udQsWCbL2ZA

Alan Butler: Material Outcomes in the Digital Subject

YouTube video by Aksioma

youtu.be

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Apr 28

Working on our new PostScriptUM#53 release, 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 by 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 😉

Pre-orders (with a little discount 👀) are open until 8 May!
꩜ aksioma.org/internets-da...

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Apr 21

In her live-streamed lecture in #THEVOID, #IvaRamusCvetkovic explores the automated AI weapons being used in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, focusing the main legal and practical challenges surrounding the devastating and lethal use of these emerging technologies...

👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUG...

Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Apr 17

Powerful video essay by 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮, live-streamed by #THEVOID, examines how generative AI creates speculative visuals that challenge history and facts, focusing on their role in the ongoing war on Palestine...

Full video is on YT! 🍉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn8E...

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Apr 7

Video essay 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑎𝑟 by #LesiaKulchynska, live-streamed inside the pop-up hybrid studio 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗 is now out on our YT channel! ❇️

In her lecture she explores the unsettling intersection of war and advertising.

👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zACd...

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Mar 13

If you speak a bit of Slovenian, I strongly recommend reading 𝗠𝗼𝗷𝗰𝗮 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗷's interview with 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗼 in Sobotna priloga, the Saturday supplement of the national newspaper Delo☺️
www.delo.si/.../druzabna....
Otherwise you'll have to wait for the release of the episode of the new podcast series ✦

www.delo.si

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Mar 4

If you are a fan of what @aksiomaorg.bsky.social does and you'd like to support us a bit, consider pre-ordering this t-shirt😱

aksioma.org/are-you-a-so...

The proceeds will be reinvested to make other relevant contents to be shared with our community ☺️

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Feb 22

𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀&𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲#𝟭𝟲: 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲? it's finally starting :))
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Admission to the opening conference is free, but registration is required.
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aksioma.org/ayasu
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The third part of the conference (19:30-21:00) will be broadcast via live streaming thanks to THE VOID / INC

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Feb 14

Finally 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲 in Ljubljana!

With an 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 at Aksioma (24.2. opening)
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A 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 (with Alex Quicho) at Kino Šiška (25.2.)
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And a 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 at ALUO (26.2.)
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More info: aksioma.org/ayasu
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Warm up bonus: aksioma.org/pdf/aksioma_...

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📸 Luca Girardini

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