Techne

Join us for the pre-opening tour with the Total Refusal collective as they guide us through Permanent Raging Presence – a thought-provoking exhibition exploring the intersections of work and leisure in video game NPCs. Dive into Hardly Working, an ethnographic video installation that dissects human labor under capitalism through the lens of digital workers. Plus,…

Guerrila mediatike pseudo-marksiste Total Refusal është një kolektiv artistësh, studiuesish dhe kineastësh që ripërdorin burimet e video-lojërave kryesore për të krijuar narrativa politike në formën e videove, ndërhyrjeve, performancave dhe ligjëratave. Temat e tyre bazohen në studimet kritike të lojërave dhe teorinë sociale, me synimin për të promovuar dhe popullarizuar një të majtë kundër-hegjemonike. Veprat…

03/04/2025 – 30/05/2025 Preopening and guided tour: 03/04/2025, 18:00hOpening: 03/04/2025, 19:00h Permanent Raging Presence negotiates the spheres of work and leisure on the examples of video game NPCs (non-player characters) – not as opposites, but as two sides of the same coin: Labor and the reproduction of labor force.Hardly Working is an ethnographic video installation…

Permanent Raging Presence by Total Refusal – a collaboration between Shtatëmbëdhjetë and Ars Electronica We are thrilled to inform you that for the third year in a row Shtatëmbëdhjetë is collaborating with Ars Electronica for the upcoming exhibition at Galeria 17, exploring the Techne theme. Ars Electronica have been analyzing and commenting on the Digital…

04.04.202418:00h Martina Menegon (she/her – Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator and educator living and working between Vienna and the cyberspace. In her artistic practice, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its hybrid corporeality. Using (and misusing) game engines, algorithms and the virtual, she…

The exhibition “you know me so well” by Martina Menegon opens on April 3rd at 7p.m. We are very happy to collaborate for the second year in the row with Ars Electronica and their amazing team, but this exhibition would not be possible without the help of our supporters. Thank you for your support Kryeqyteti…

Martina Menegon (she/her – Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator and educator living and working between Vienna and the cyberspace. In her artistic practice, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its hybrid corporeality. Using (and misusing) game engines, algorithms and the virtual, she experiments…

We are thrilled to inform you that for the second year in a row Shtatëmbëdhjetë is collaborating with Ars Electronica for the upcoming exhibition at Galeria 17, exploring the Techne theme. Ars Electronica have been analyzing and commenting on the Digital Revolution since 1979. Since 1996, they have been developing projects, strategies and competencies for…

Artist: Martina Menegon 03/04/2024 – 07/06/2024 Opening: 03/04/2024, 19:00h Intimate and complex assemblages of interactive, virtual and extended self-portraits inhabit the exhibition space, inviting the viewers to contemplate the fluidity of identity of our contemporary reality and challenging users to rethink our own existence and relationships with our virtual selves. Particularly, the care for our…

Living in the context of a digital and hyper-technological society we are witnessing fundamental changes in our relationship to the world – constantly expanding our interactions and thus generating a different perception of reality. At Galeria 17 S()fia Braga has invited us to participate at the exhibition Forehead Vulva Channeling Research, representing different perspectives on…

06/04/2023 The artist, S()fia Braga, is a transdisciplinary Italian artist who experiments with new technologies to create speculative fabulations that deal with topics such as transhumanism and non-human agency. Her identity is constantly changing and goes hand in hand with the narratives she creates. Over the last 3 years she has been an artist, a…

06/04/2023 How can we reimagine the future of technology from a human rights perspective? Within the workshop “Artificial Fabulations into the Future” we will envision speculative narratives by re-thinking human and non-human collaboration, exploring the potential of technology to generate new mythologies.We will briefly explore problematics related to today’s use of technology, with a focus…

S()fia Braga is a transdisciplinary Italian artist that lives and works between Vienna and Linz. She develops her artistic research at an overlap of Digital and Post-Digital practices, experimenting with new technolo-gies to conceive speculative fabulations that deal with topics such as Interveil-lance, transhumanism and non-human agency. S()fia’s identity constantly changes and goes hand in…

By S()fia Braga 04/04/2023 – 22/06/2023 The Forehead Vulva Channeling Research is a speculative transhumanist research which focuses on developing advanced studies on the human body’s potential to reach lifelong emotional well-being via a re-calibration of pleasure-centers by channeling hidden organs through the use of specialized technologies. The purpose of opening the Forehead Vulva is…

On the last Sunday of June, Shtatëmbëdhjetë organized a creative day for kids, parents and grandparents. A visit to Galeria 17 and the Babylonian Vision exhibition by artist Nora Al-Badri, which provided opportunities for your little ones to understand more about artifacts, art, technology, through the games we organized. Coloring, exhibition experience through VR glasses,…

Techne, is a series of exhibitions and contributions where artists, scientists and creators meet at the crossroads of technology and art. Techne seeks to align our artists and our community with a broader global discourse on technology and innovation in art and artistic creativity. Various contributors with artistic and scientific background will be invited to…

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary and as much post-colonial as post-digital. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and is now the director for AI+Art at the ETH…

Al-Badri expands on speculative archaeology and decolonial as well as machine learning based museum practices by generating technoheritage. A pre-trained neural network based on GAN technology (General Adversarial Networks) was trained with 10.000k images from 5 different museum collections with the largest collections of Mesopotamian, Neo-Sumerian and Assyrian artefacts. The images were in the majority…