Pistori
Palace, Bratislava
November 2020
Production: Robota - Center for Advanced Studies
La
Condition Humain is an international exhibition, conference and workshop that deals with ongoing automatisation and changing
of what it means today to be a human. Technological vulnerabilities now became evident, especially after Snowden’s reveal
of NSA far reaching eye, China’s rapid development in surveillance technologies or Russian bot brigades. Technological cold
war is not happening solely in the physical realm but it is waging in the human minds as well.
In
the sphere of everyday life our dependence on technological infrastructure is approaching the point of no return. We are becoming
literally sucked in. The battle for our tastes, our Weltanschaung, our political affiliations are being fought at an everyday
pace. While the dominance of Big 5 (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook) is still present, the battle for more accelerated
technological development with AI, machine learning and blockchain is happening right now, with a special position of China,
and it’s growth.
In all that race for global technological supremacy together with recent socio-political
theories of post-anthropocene and accelerationism, the question is where is the human individual, together with his/her societal
structures? Is human becoming obsolete? Or as some would say, a virus on earth? Does this latent anti-humanism create a rise
in anti democratic and totalitarian notions that we are witnessing in recent years?
La Condition
Humaine will present the works of international artists who are dealing with the art, society and technology. The project
will also gather thinkers who critically reflect current human condition in the age of technological supremacy.
We
invite artists, designers, practitioners, thinkers to send works to be included in the exhibition.
Art works should
tackle the exhibition theme and the medium is of free choice.
accelerationism / anti-anti-anti-leviatan//
critical AI / regrowth / technological humanisation
Deadline for sending applications: July 7th
2020.
Application should include:
- Artist statement and description of the work / each 300 words max
-
Technical details (medium, technology, operation…) / 200 words max
- Visual material (pictures, photos, sketches...)
-
CV of max 2 pgs, link to website if applicable
Submission - text and pictures in one PDF up to
2 MB via e-mail
opencall@robotacenter.org with subject: La Condition Humaine
Open Call 2020.
Videos and larger files as links to youtube/vimeo/wetransfer or similar.
Selected artists
will receive 200 euro artist fee.
