[spectre] Benjamin Grosser - Systems Under Liberty - Talk on December 12

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Benjamin Grosser - Systems Under Liberty - Talk on December 12




				
				

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Systems Under Liberty


Galerie Charlot presents first solo show of artist Benjamin Grosser, curated by Valentina Peri.

On this occasion, the gallery has organized a talk with the artist on December 10, from 6:30 pm on.

Benjamin Grosser will talk about his interactive works, machines, and systems that explore the cultural, social and political implications of software. In particular - given the contemporary moment in France post November 13 - he will focus on the role of surveillance in his work.
How does computational surveillance change what we write and say both inside and outside the network? What we can learn about machines and humans from the ways that surveillance machines watch us? And finally, what does it mean to be a citizen in a software society ?
His talk will address these questions and more.

The exhibition runs until December 12.

The exhibition is co-produced by Arte Laguna Prize, Venice

See you soon !


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 SYSTEMS UNDER LIBERTY


The exhibition «Systems Under Liberty» introduces new works relating to current debates about France’s new surveillance laws. In July 2015, a controversial Intelligence act has been voted despite recent revelations about the NSA spying on senior French officials. The «black boxes» that are being installed on the servers of French ISP will allow «software bots» to monitor the Internet traffic of any users who happen to be qualified as «potentially dangerous subjects».

How is software shaping our culture, and vice versa? What does it mean to be citizens of a software society? Benjamin Grosser’s work addresses such issues as Surveillance, «Man-Machine» and «Machine-Machine» interactions, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data.
The artist approaches his subject matter through the lens of an artistic practice of «culture jamming », or cultural sabotage. Benjamin Grosser sets out to hijack software platforms that have become part and parcel of our everyday life through a tactic of «poaching» (M. de Certeau, The practice of Everyday Life).

By imagining unintended applications and designing new extensions for Facebook, Gmail, Artificial Intelligence Systems, IP Localisators etc., the artist subverts the mechanics of IT services that are in the same time surveillance systems and data collectors. His ironic approach elicits an effect of detachment, which alerts users to some of their automatisms and to their place in the dominant cultural order.

In so doing, Grosser lays the groundwork for an anti-discipline that enables us to assert ourselves as active historical subjects from within the current regime of technological power.
A healthy antidote to passive victimhood and an instrument of peaceful resistance, his « digital disobedience » points towards chances of escape.


Valentina Peri, from the exhibition catalogue


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 Benjamin Grosser creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that explore the cultural, social, and political implications of software.

His works have been exhibited at Eyebeam in New York, The White Building in London, the Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, the Digital Arts Festival in Athens, FILE in São Paulo, the Telecom Italia Future Center in Venice, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
His recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, an international award recognizing works investigating art and artificial life, a Net Art Grant and Commission from Rhizome, and the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from the Stuttgarter Filmwinter.

Grosser is an Assistant Professor of New Media in the School of Art + Design and a Faculty Affiliate in Critical Technology Studies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 
 
 
 
 






			 

			 
 


			 Valentina PeriGalerie Charlot47 rue Charlot75003 Paris +33 1 42 76 02 67 valentina at galeriecharlot.comwww.galeriecharlot.com

 		 	   		  
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