Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

The project Masters & Servers investigated the relationships between digital culture, networked social and political organisation and new business models through a series of artisticand discursive activities. The project involved five European partner organisations in thedelivery of festivals, exhibitions, commissions of new artworks as well as lectures, debates,workshops, conferences and the production of collateral assets including books, digitalpublications, videos, a website and social media platforms. Through the project, we shed lighton the very nature of new media, on its “environmental” aspect. Computers, databases,networks and other digital technologies are foundational to contemporary notions of everythingfrom identity and business to surveillance and war.

In three co-produced exhibitions we firstshowed how technology was conceived and used as liberating tool for the rise of Internetamateur culture (Eternal September); then we exposed the tension between art, socialnetworking, political activism and business logic which are using the same tools and protocolsto achieve different outcomes (Networked Disruption); finally, we dealt with novel forms ofcontrol operating at anonymous and non-human levels (The Black Chamber). In the project weused the same tools as the ones we were examining. The produced artistic works weredeveloped by converting technology into an artistic medium that reveals the hidden aspects ofour environment (surveillance cameras and software, digital networks surrounding us in aninvisible spectrum, a physical infrastructure that is spread throughout our landscape, etc.).

Wedeveloped a broad European network of collaborators who were participating in thedevelopment of our main theme. That network was very useful in the implementation ofactivities, e.g., in the distribution of the public call to which 79 artistic proposals were submitted,the 6PM Your Local Time platform gathered more than 100 European institutions, museum andgalleries into a unique event. We used digital tools, e.g., Vimeo, YouTube, streaming services,etc. for the presentation, discussion and distribution of the main topics and project results. Thisapproach has resulted not only in widely shared knowledge about the intersections of thephysical and digital worlds, arts, activism, business and politics but also in shared lessonsabout control and liberation, about ongoing struggles that exist in “neutral” technology. (Source: EC)

Aksioma Institute

(Leader)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Foreign producers in the supported project

Drugo More Udruge (partner)

Croatia (EU)
Abandon Normal Devices (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)
Link Centre for the Arts of the Information Age (partner)

Italy (EU)
d-i-n-a (partner)

Spain (EU)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age