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KIBLA Press Release

1. End of KIBLIX 2011 -  SHARE IS IN THE AIR

2. First announcement of KIBLIX 2012 - extended festival version with
several major events will be held from September to December 2012 - core
event: SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious

1. End of KIBLIX 2011 -  SHARE IS IN THE AIR

We said goodbye to the 10th KIBLIX entitled SHARE IS IN THE AIR,
international festival that occupied different locations in
Maribor, Slovenia for nearly three weeks.

Share is in the air was the topic of KIBLIX Festival 2011 that more than
40 international and regional artists, thinkers, hackers, scientists,
philosophers, educators, social science engineers and writers
participated, more than 15 different events represented the format of
festival as lab and the festival as cultural performance. More than 1500
visitors from eight countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Canada, Switzerland,
Germany, Austria, Bosna and Hercegovina, Taiwan) were attracted and
participated in festival events. Festival as a lab focused on education,
hands-on creation, collaboration and sharing of knowledge.

For more impressions you are welcome to check our photo albums:

Photo material:
http://www.kiblix.org/kiblix11/?en/pictures.html

Kiblixology process on wiki:
http://wiki.sgmk-ssam.ch/index.php/KIBLIX_2011

More about KIBLIX 2011
www.kiblix.org

More about KIBLIX & MFRU festival platform:
http://www.mfru-kiblix.org/

2. First announcement of KIBLIX in a frame of the European Capital of
Culture Maribor 2012, Slovenia - SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the
Technological Unconscious

Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Maribor and Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti
(KGLU), Slovenj Gradec announce the international contemporary art project
– entitled “SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious”

Dates: November 14 – December 20, 2012
Venues for the project: KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor, the Koroška
galerija likovnih umetnosti in Slovenj Gradec (KGLU), Slovenia

The international contemporary art exhibition SOFT CONTROL is being held
as part of the Maribor – European Capital of Culture 2012 programme. The
project will be presented at two sites: at the KIBLA Multimedia Centre
(Maribor) and the Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti (Slovenj Gradec).
SOFT CONTROL will be curated by DMITRY BULATOV, artist, new media
theoretician and curator of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts
(Kaliningrad branch, Russia). The exhibition will feature the work of
thirty artists from eleven different countries.

Commenting on the project's format, Bulatov emphasises: “The foundation of
our exhibition lies in works of art that were created using the latest
21st-century technologies: robotics, information technologies, biomedicine
and nanotechnology. Artworks like these are the ideal way to convey a
sense of time, which combines signs of life (like a living organism) with
those of a technically reproduced artefact. This is of utmost importance
when we are dealing with the approach of a new post-biological age – a
stage of our human existence when the technological constituent of one or
another organism will not only become inseparable from the biological, but
in the long run will even overtake it”.

Technological art today is a site for the testing of various artistic
innovations. However, it is clear that this research into the New should
not be seen merely as narrowly-specialised technical or aesthetic
experiments, but first and foremost as cultural utterance and cultural
activity. Only then can the results of the artists’ investigations have a
significant influence on thought and social life. This is the sort of goal
set by the “SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious”
project – it aims to provide visitors with an opportunity to learn to
relate to technology not as our slave or as a simple extension of
ourselves, but as a mysterious construct with which we enter into creative
unions and conclude cautious agreements.

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