Tactics&Practice [podcast]

Aug 28 2024 20 ep. 51 mins 11

Tactics&Practice [podcast] artwork

Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana

Arts Society & Culture Technology

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The Future Behind Us | Ep. #10: What Are the Limits of Interspecies Communication? [w/ Maja Smrekar]

Aug 28 2024 32 mins

We have lived alongside dogs for thousands of years. How close have we grown to each other since we first domesticated them? In one of her performances, artist Maja Smrekar biologically manipulated her body so that she could use her own breast milk to feed an Icelandic Spitz puppy. Behind its spectacular and, for some, controversial guises, Smrekar’s exploration of transpecies mo

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #9: When an AI Governs Your City [w/ Pinar Yoldas]

Aug 28 2024 40 mins

Smart cities across the world are pioneering chatbots, autonomous vehicles and AI technologies to help streamline bureaucratic services, facilitate police recruitment, fill in potholes or locate resources at the library. Could algorithmic systems of control and governance be applied to all public services? [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #8: Taming AI, Playing AI [w/ Sanela Jahić]

Aug 28 2024 26 mins

Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Should artists feel threatened by AIs that compose music, make animation movies or write novels? Or is there something intrinsically uncomputable in the artistic mind? [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #7: Solidarity, Perils and Ethics on Darknet Markets [w/ !Mediengruppe Bitnik]

Aug 28 2024 32 mins

Darknet markets, identity shielding, bots and cryptocurrencies have revolutionised commerce and society, each in its own way. What happens when you bring all these disrupting ingredients together? [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #6: Chasing the Physicality of the Internet [w/ Evan Roth]

Aug 28 2024 39 mins

Internet has obliterated borders, distances and other hallmarks of geography, making us forget its material reality: its data centres, wires, routers, processors and a vast network of intercontinental cables. [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]

Aug 28 2024 35 mins

Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #4: Up-Close and Personal with Impersonal Power Structures [w/ Jill Magid]

Aug 28 2024 44 mins

What does it feel to infiltrate or work alongside structures of power that most of us find impersonal and intimidating? How do you capitalise on the systemic loopholes and quirks inherent to institutions of authority such as intelligence agencies, corporations, bureaucracies and law enforcement agencies? [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #3: How Much is Your Democracy Worth? [w/ UBERMORGEN]

Aug 28 2024 37 mins

In 2000, during the presidential race between George Bush and Al Gore, a group of “Maverick Austrian Business People” launched a platform that gave US voters the possibility to auction off their votes to bidders on the internet. Thirteen US states attempted to shut down the project [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #2: Decolonising Museum Collections [w/ Nora Al-Badri]

Aug 28 2024 30 mins

The discussion about the growing list of looted and illicitly acquired museum treasures is one that most Westerners would rather not think about. Unless a scandal, a protest, a movie or a contemporary artwork forces ex-colonising countries to confront the firm grip that their institutions [...]

The Future Behind Us | Ep. #1: PsyOps and Other Secret Military Programmes [w/Trevor Paglen]

Over the years, Trevor Paglen has documented operations, locations and activities that were meant to remain hidden from the public. He has tracked and photographed the world of secret satellites, flew in a helicopter over the NSA headquarters with the express purpose of taking aerial photographs of it and [...]