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.
