Infrastructure Complex: Altered Earth
18. 11. 2020 – 20. 12. 2020
The main curated program of this year’s IFCA expands certain segments of the thematic direction taken in the festival’s previous edition. It focuses on the feedback loop between contemporary technologies and ecologies, particularly on its infrastructural aspects. IFCA features projects and positions that deal with the infrastructural layer of the “technosphere”, those that have been developing the tools to navigate the new spatial conditions and temporalities that it causes, the projects that open the planetary perspective and reflect on the capabilities of digital technologies and their complicity with the processes of transforming the Earth and use fiction to speculate on potential infrastructural futures (and the futures of governance).
Related events
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15. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020
ŠUMxVIDEO
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15. 12. 2020 – 15. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / An interview with RadicalxChange founder Glen Weyl
Location: mfru.org/live
The interview with the political economist and social technologist Glen Weyl.
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16. 12. 2020 – 16. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / The Cost of Existence
Location: mfru.org/live
In her lecture The Cost of Existence Zoë Hitzig highlights the ever more important techno-political dimension of the political decisions taken nowadays.
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17. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Harnessing the Market
Location: mfru.org/live
In his lecture entitled Harnessing the Market Ash Milton highlights several things that – especially after COVID-19 and the fact that planning is back in fashion – have once again become a part of the common social imaginary.
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17. 12. 2020 – 17. 12. 2020 / 19:30
Live / Introduction to ŠUMxVIDEO
Location: mfru.org/live
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23. 11. 2020 – 23. 11. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Geography and Geographying. Notes on the Normative Disposition of Analytical Models
Location: mfru.org/live
Our planetary mechanism of sensing and data processing has become an indispensable part of understanding the environment. Architect and geographer George Papamattheakis lectures on the descriptive models used and generated by this mechanism and the normative dispositions that influence how we respond to the results of these analyzes.
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26. 11. 2020 – 26. 11. 2020 / 19:00
Live / becoming.eco(logical)
Location: mfru.org/live
Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič talk about topics and context of their project becoming.eco(logical) that traces the substance flow of one of the most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust – and in the universe – that is, carbon.
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30. 11. 2020 – 30. 11. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Planet, Zone, Grid: A contemporary view on infrastructures
Location: mfru.org/live
In four modular videos Lukáš Likavčan, Anežka Horová, František Fekete in Daniel Burda talk about the politics of infrastructures and the context and topics of their research art project Planet, Zone, Grid: A contemporary view on infrastructures.
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04. 12. 2020 – 04. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Black Market: 6gb ending
Location: mfru.org/live
Virtual fork of Andrej Škufca's project on technology as ecology and new infrastructural landscapes where human is no longer a central actor. Narrated by George Papamattheakis.
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07. 12. 2020 – 07. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Deep Flow
Location: mfru.org/live
Video presentation of the project by Tin Troha, a chimera of traditional architectural media: scale model, technical drawing, render graphic, all flowing together into a feverish, prophetic deep dream about a monstrous infrastructural hybrid in the now-abandoned zinc and lead mine under Predil on the Slovenian-Italian border.
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08. 12. 2020 – 08. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Temporal Secessionism – Timezone #1
Location: mfru.org/live
Nascent (Max Hampshire and Paul Seidler) present its Timezone #1, one of the three pieces of alternative infrastructure that make up Temporal Secessionism. Time is a socio-technological construct. How do different time systems reliant on metrics outside of the dominant one arise? The video includes also textual inserts by Amy Ireland.
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10. 12. 2020 – 10. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Nirgendheim
Location: mfru.org/live
Jelena Viskovic presents her project Nirgendheim and talks about how computational modelling and games/simulations fit into the idea of planetary computation and create new possibilities to navigate the space of algorithmic megastructures.
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20. 11. 2020 – 20. 11. 2020 / 21:00 – 23:00
Live / dj final form DJ set + Liara T'Soni VJ set
Location: mfru.org/live
dj final form and Liara T'Soni have prepared a DJ / VJ set, which juxtaposes a selection of several sound curiousities from internet music underground with an experimental collage of various online videos.
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14. 12. 2020 – 14. 12. 2020 / 19:00 – 19:00
Live / Trauma and Identity after Computing
Location: mfru.org/live
Václav Janoščík, an educator, theorist and curator and this year’s IFCA resident, presents his trauma-focused, pharmacological and pop-philosophical approach.
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09. 12. 2020 – 09. 12. 2020 / 19:00
Live / Examining the Transmogrifying Panopticon
Location: mfru.org/live
In their lecture, the Omsk Social Club collective explores how terraforming life becomes not only a task for survival, but also a task to create new positions of reality in our current world, to enable the manifestation of imaginative life, transformative social presence and alternative landscapes before others do it for us.
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12. 11. 2020 – 31. 12. 2020 / 00:00 – 23:30
Extractor
Location: mfru.org/live
Extractor is a dystopian board game designed by Simon Denny that maps the possible dynamic of global data companies or ‘platforms’ that fight for global domination. Three game sets are available at the IFCA and can be borrowed until the end of 2020.
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20. 12. 2020 – 20. 12. 2020 / 10:00 – 18:00
Geocinema: Making of Earths
Location: Museum of Modern Art
Making of Earths navigates the architectures of planetary cinema.
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19. 12. 2020 – 19. 12. 2020 / 10:00 – 18:00
White Mountain
Location: Museum of Modern Art
White Mountain is a 16mm docu-fiction film focusing on the Pionen data centre.