[aha] Fwd: Exhibition, UFS (User Friendly Society), September 23 - October 30 2011

[Guido Segni]

" UFS (User Friendly Society) "

Paolo Cirio, Sally Grizzell Larson, Kristijan Kožul, Société Réaliste

Septemeber 23 - October 30, 2011 in Galženica Gallery (Velika Gorica/Zagreb)
at 8 p.m.


It doesn't take a scientist to notice the powerful effect of modern
technology on our daily lives. Whether Google has a degrading or enriching
effect on us, cataloguing us into some kind of Borgesian library that
comprises the total of human knowledge, is no longer a question reserved
only for media theorists. Neither is the question of whether technology
liberates us, strengthening our cognition abilities or, on the contrary,
limiting us by allowing easier control over individual and social life,
bound to a particular discipline (philosophy, medicine, sociology, etc.),
but is questioned on a daily basis. Since technology is not God-given, the
questions we pose must relate to the causes and conditions of technological
inventions, rather than to their consequences alone.

Therefore, it seems interesting that the traditional field of applied arts
(design) - mostly due to the proliferation of new technologies – is
increasingly focusing on shaping social practices, rather than on designing
usable items. As our power and control over nature increase, as it becomes
somehow more condensed/concentrated, being literally shaped through
different protocols, so does the importance of those who govern these
processes. It seems as if the traditional task of design is changing:
instead of beautifying and improving everyday life, it appears that design
is more and more involved in defining it.

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Paolo Cirio (1979)has worked as media artist in various fields: net-art,
street-art, video-art,public-art, marketing-art, software-art and
experimental storytelling. He investigates into perception and creation of
cultural, political and economic realities manipulated by new modes of
control over information's power.
http://www.paolocirio.net/

Sally Grizzell Larson is an American independent visual artist working
mainly in the field of video art and photography. Screenings of her video
works include 11° FILE(Electronic Language International Festival), São
Paulo; Berlin International Directors Lounge; Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid; Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade; Big Screen
Project, New York; Image Forum Festival of Experimental Film and Video,
Tokyo; NewFilmmakers NY, Anthology Film Archives; and the National Museum of
Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film and Media Arts.
http://rhizome.org/profiles/**sallygrizzelllarson/<http://rhizome.org/profiles/sallygrizzelllarson/>

Kristijan Kožul (1975) studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb,
Croatia, and continued his studies at the Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf,
Germany, graduating in 2002. His art was shown at the Museum of Contemporary
Art Zagreb, Croatia; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel;
and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA. He had solo shows at TZR
Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany; Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland; and Goff
and Rosenthal, New York, USA, among others.
http://kristiankozul.com/home.**html <http://kristiankozul.com/home.html>

Société Réaliste is a Parisian cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and
Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004. It works with political design,
experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering
consulting. Polytechnic, it develops its production schemes through
exhibitions, publications and conferences.
http://www.societerealiste.**net/ <http://www.societerealiste.net/>


Curators: Klaudio Štefančić, Sanja Horvatinčić and Nina Pisk



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