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A Throw Of The Dice Will Never Abolish Chance was an exhibition at Banner Repeater in 2016, that took Stéphane Mallarmé’s text “Un coup de dès jamais n’abolira le hasard” as a site to consider new ways of thinking through the centuries old puzzle of code, numbers and language. Mallarmé’s famous typographic layout of words on the page hover for some as a precursor to the concrete poetry of performative code, that from a modernist perspective proved ideological in its refutation of ideology, as well as metaphysics. Mallarmé’s text also resonates through Barthes interpretation, and the advent of the reader, whilst a more recent study by the philosopher Quentin Meillassoux, draws out matters of contingency and chance, through an indeterminate code.

During the exhibition, two workshops were held: Thinking through the Block. They continued a focus on publishing as process developed over Banner Repeater’s programme for many years, where important precedents in publishing provide critical insights into present day protocols in network culture.

They were open workshops that anyone could attend, with invited speakers: Tom Clark, Paul Purgas, Alessandro Ludovico, Karen Di Franco, Ruth Catlow, Ben Vickers, Tom Pearson, Ami Clarke, and Malavika Rajnarayan, Prayas Abhinav and Satya Gummuluri of surfatial.

x-fx.org holds audio recordings of the speakers, alongside other data captured during the exhibition period, momentarily, as parts of an ongoing puzzle.



The very first block of data in Bitcoin; the Genesis block, contained a “secret” message inscribed within it of The Times (UK) headline commenting on the fallibility of the current banking system: 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks'. A recent news headline reports on the UK Government trials of blockchain technology in the Welfare Payments system, partnering with Barclays Bank.

As such, there was an intention to think through these ideas, not in a vacuum, but to consider the full socio-economic, and political ramifications, of such a technology, which meant being mindful of the material, ideological, and inherent bias’ in many machine learning applications. Developing the critical enquiry of publishing as process a step further, Ramon Amaro gave a talk during the exhibition that touched on the politics of data and machine learning, that, by the very process of their design, are fallible to social consequences that are most frequently articulated in forms of biases, segregations and other social restrictions.

The workshops aimed to discuss the several, and possibly contradictory claims made, regarding the blockchain, producing a digital puzzle of the findings, inscribed, ascribed, and described through the block, leaving traces in the chain.

Ideas were considered that included the most immediate use of the block to attribute authorship and hence intellectual property and copyright, whilst asking further questions, a few of which are below:

• how might blockchain help develop alternative models of sharing both data and knowledge? • what contractual agreements might develop that could facilitate a customization of permissions relating to the use of personal data - that could act as micro-jurisdictions? • how might blockchain facilitate the development of new institutional models? • how might these function within an economy that has been described primarily as a gift • economy? • what can be learnt from precedents in archiving that share similar attributes to blockchain? • how might blockchain’s capacity to render all items ultimately searchable, shut-down previous modes of working? that include: sampling, copying and appropriation strategies.

all programming by Anne De Boer data collected by Ami Clarke

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Ami Clarke is an artist whose practice is informed by, and investigates, the increasingly performative conditions of code and language in hyper-networked cultures.

She is also founder of Banner Repeater; a reading room with a public Archive of Artists’ Publishing and project space, opening up an experimental space for others, on a working train station platform at Hackney Downs station, London. Ideas that come of publishing, distribution, and dissemination, that lead to a critical analysis of post-digital art production, are shared in her practice as an artist and inform the working remit of Banner Repeater.

She has recently exhibited/curated works at the ICA, Wysing Arts Centre, Museo Del Chopo Mexico City, the Hayward Gallery, Ithuba Gallery Johannesburg, David Roberts Arts Foundation, Camden Arts Centre and The Container Japan. She continues to commission new artists/writers works through the Banner Repeater platform, and several publishing imprints: Banner Repeater paperbacks, Banner Repeater publishing, and the UN-PUBLISH series. She teaches across the UK with a focus on Publishing as Process: post-digital art production and publishing.

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Robin Buckley & Faron Ray These are our favourite EDM drops; slowed down in the YouTube player to 0.5 original speed and ripped to create this video work for the online contemporary art platform Cosmos Carl. We are drawn towards this material for current aesthetic reasons whilst also being aware that we lack a direct relationship with the material, unlike our romanticised idea of the clubbers / consumers that feature in the videos. Slowing it down in this way allows us to enjoy the material indirectly, transferring it from a particular cultural space derided by the likes of ourselves and our peers to our own environment of high culture consumption and production; ascertaining credit in the process through this typical conceptual manoeuvre. Drops can be heard at the original speed by selecting x2 in the YouTube speed settings for this video. Tracklist in description.

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Faron Ray (b.1993), based in London, has shown in various group shows including Athens Dry Deal and Yellow Mould London Deal, I Don’t Want To Curate Anymore I Just Want To Accumulate Content and curated the online show Cluddead.io in 2016.

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Robin Buckley (b. 1992) is a sound artist based in London. Their work explores the politics and aesthetics of club culture, technology and queerness. Robin has released music under the alias rkss across a variety of formats on labels such as Where to Now?, Alien Jams and Conditional Records. Robin also presents a radio program for Resonance Extra, called Lossless Communication, exploring sound discovery in the internet era.

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Erik Martinson & Gailė Pranckūnaitė 'pontypool-txt- advntr-sim' unfolds as a simulation of a text-adventure computer game from the late 1970s/early 1980s.  The text is adapted from the novel/play Pontypool (1998/2015) by Tony Burgess, with elements from text-adventure Zork (1977/1980), and proto-chat bot Eliza (1966). In Pontypool, a sleepy small town radio host and his production crew helplessly report on a rapidly emerging epidemic. From the safety of their sound booth they broadcast eyewitness accounts, coming to realize their involvement in re- transmission is spreading the linguistically based virus, making word eating zombies (climbing into the mouths of others). When the infected words are understood, the broadcasters’ relative safety inside the station disappears. This adaptation draws on one eyewitness account from the narrative of Pontypool and places it within a ghostwritten user experience of a Zork style game.  As a text-adventure game, Zork has rules and parameters defined by text and user/player input. The world encountered is both made from and encountered through words. Zork has a list of ‘complaints’ for users who ask questions it can’t understand. This echoes the relentlessly incessant question-as- answer modus operandi of proto-chat bot Eliza. Eliza’s ‘effect’ is to foster a sense of listening and emotional response by engaging back with questions—often rephrasing and regurgitating user input—a mirror to talk to.

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Erik Martinson Erik Martinson (Canada/Latvia) is an independent curator and writer based in London, UK. He worked in Toronto at Vtape, a not-for- profit video art distributor from 2005-2014, and was a member of the Pleasure Dome curatorial collective from 2006-2014. He has curated screenings/exhibitions for The Images Festival (2012); A Space Gallery (2012); Art Gallery of Mississauga (2013); Institute of Contemporary Arts London (2015); LUX Artists’ Moving Image (2016), and Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (2016). He participated in the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive on Time-Based Media, New York (2013) and was on the selection jury for Videonale.15 at Kunstmuseum Bonn (2015). Recently he was in residence at Rupert, Vilnius (2016) and completed an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2016). Online: http://erik-martinson.com

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Gailė Pranckūnaitė Gailė Pranckūnaitė graduated from the graphic design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam in 2013. Practice focuses on printed matter and web-based projects, combining graphic design with an editorial touch, experimental typography and sounds. Since 2015 is part of a collaborative unit called Sprawl (with Mislav Žugaj), named after William Gibson’s term in the science fiction trilogy “Neuromancer”, “Count Zero” and “Mona Lisa Overdrive”. In it, it describes both a vast, spreading urban area and the expanding cyberspace. The term has come to perfectly encompass the shared interest in science fiction as a tool for enquiry, as well as the primary tool used for that enquiry; the internet. Sprawl seeks to translate the ongoing spread of cyber and urban sprawl into a visual, literary and social artistic methodology. Currently based in Vilnius. Online: http://gailepranckunaite.com, http://sprawl.asia

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Marija Bozinovska Jones 'C22H37NO2' is a chemical formula for Anandamide - a fatty acid neurotransmitter (Sanskrit word ananda means "joy, bliss, delight”). Its presence in the brain is correlated to anxiety and depression levels. Breathing is one of the few bodily functions which can be controlled both consciously and unconsciously. Breathing regulation and monitoring can influence mood, relieve stress and bring a state of inner peace and wellbeing.

C22H37NO2 explores biopolitics as displayed in online behaviour surrounding trends in 'self improvement’ movements. Consumer tendencies reach new heights: personal growth goals are set, fitness activities tracked, clean eating displayed and happiness levels quantified. Hereby self-published personal analytics and aspiring lifestyles seem to succumb to idealised aesthetics and assumptions, while female self-representation often blurs empowerment and sexualization.

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Marija Bozinovska Jones lives and works on her laptop and her yoga mat. She is enrolled in MA Computational Arts at Goldsmiths and is a resident at Somerset House Studios in London. MBJ has staged participatory experiences at Grimmuseum (Berlin), Green Ray/ Enclave (London) and FEED (Berlin). Festival performances and presentations include CTM, Transmediale and MIRA/ Scope Sessions. Solo exhibitions: Fischer und Fischer (Berlin), MKC (Skopje), KNIPSU (Bergen) and group shows at Rockelmann& (Berlin) and Arcadia Missa, St. James Church and ASC in London. Dividing her practice with MBJ Wetware as hybrid identity, her music collaborators include: JG Biberkopf, Iydes, MIND:BODY: FITNESS and A Guy Called Gerald among others. http://marijabjones.com/

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Joseph Ridgeon DIY Future-Proof Water-sports is an exploration of ways round the draconian amendments to the Digital economy bill which will make it illegal to produce or make videos with a content the BBFC deem to be non-conventional "...a classification that may include everything from female ejaculation to spanking (that leaves marks) and adult material involving urination or menstruation."

The videos on these profiles try to negate the possible new laws surrounding porn by offering a 2nd class substitute for Urolagnia.

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Joseph Ridgeon recently received his MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016, and graduated from his BA (Hons) First Class, University of the West of England, Bristol in 2012. Selected Exhibitions and Residencies are: Phallus Impudicus, Dye House 451, London, 2016 (solo), AA Bronson's Queer Vitrine, Maureen Paley, Frieze Art Fair, London 2016, Sham Romance, Chalton Gallery, London, 2016, Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London, 2016, Inroad, GOLDSMITHSGALLERY, London, 2016 (Solo), Sham, Chalton Gallery, London, 2016, Sham, Goldsmiths College, London, 2016, Thank you for your time, Greenwich High Street, London, 2015, Studio 36 on Tour, Tenderbooks, London, 2015, Studio 36 on Tour, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, 2015, Studio 36 on Tour, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2014, Unknown Quantity Part 2, The Looking Glass, Bristol, 2013.

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Jonas Lund Pessimism of the intellect, Optimism of the will .online

A real time live stream of all tweets that contains the handle of the 45th’s presidents personal Twitter account.

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Jonas Lund is a Swedish artist that creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that incorporate data from his studies of art world trends and behavior. He earned an MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2013) and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009). He has had solo exhibitions at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2016), Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2016, 2015, 2014); Växjö Konsthall Sweden (2016), Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam (2014); Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam (2013); and has had work included in numerous group exhibitions including at Eyebeam, New York; New Museum, New York, XPO Gallery, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Witte De With, Rotterdam, De Hallen, Haarlem and the Moving Museum, Istanbul. His work has been written about in Artforum, Kunstforum, Metropolis M, Artslant, Rhizome, Huffington Post, Furtherfield and Wired.

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(FΛG) "I Do?", curated by FΛG Inclusive.

Digital commissions by:

FΛG Inclusive, Francesca Anne and W Giovanni Gonzales
Gabriela Acha, Independent Curator
ALT ESC, Curatorial Team/ Publication
Laura Juo-Hsin Chen, Artist
Samuel Fouracre, Artist
Robert Thomas Heppell, Artist
Maria Dela O Garrido, Artist
Isaac Kariuki, Artist
Scott Kyle Ramsay, Artist
Rachel McRae, Artist
Joe Ridgeon, Artist
Trireme (Samantha Harvey), Artist
Michael Turnbull, Editor-in-Chief, Loverboy Magazine

Do you reach for your device as soon as you wake up in the morning? Does some alone-time surfing the web, seem like your ideal date night? Do you look to your browser to make both quotidian and crucial life decisions, from cooking and cleaning, to child-rearing and financial planning? Do you constantly check-in with your social media, especially when you’re in need of a little comfort? Do you freak when your wifi is m.i.a., especially when you need it most?

By typing your passcode or surrendering your fingerprint, you are entering a mutually beneficial but contractual agreement with your device, your apps, and internet, and the online universe. In agreeing to the terms and conditions of usership and service that tie into content-production, you can in turn, find an obscure recipe and make a gourmet meal from pantry scraps, search xtube for the newest daddy porn uploads, or just Netflix and chill. Similar to a life-partner, the internet consumes your time and energy, and expects commitment. Acting as an emotional, mental, and at times physically-taxing investment (think migraines from too much screen time!), the internet can also be a great supporter, a source for self-enrichment, and a companion. Your device never judges you for taking too long to clean those crumbs off your chest, for having that Ben & Jerry’s pint for dinner, for spending the day in your underwear, or for attempting to break your daily masturbation record.

Relationships today are both radically shaped and subtly nuanced, affected and in uenced by the digital landscape. Technology has transformed what defines your S.O., from how you connect and meet IRL, to how you present your shared media identity, and even, how your break-up is mediated online. Each relationship milestone is highlighted and archived by push notifications and status updates. Sifting through these memories — either stored in a shoebox marked ‘my-ex’, or hidden in your download folder — may be neutral, painful, or bring back memories of the ‘good ol’ times’. The act of saving and sorting the digital detritus of a past relationship is rooted in a desire to finalize, categorize, and consume not only wifi, but also love and the objects of desire.

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, (FΛG) has invited artists to self-curate and ‘show-off’ their collection of internet keepsakes, those items which they couldn’t help but keep in their shoe-box ‘junk’ folder. These digital ‘cabinets of curiosities’ will act as vessels of commemoration, honouring the palpable romance and undeniable partnership between artist, device and internet. These relationship mementos must be downloaded, saved and archived for later days of nostalgia and reminiscence, giving them an infinite online life with a relationship that is ‘so over’.

(FΛG) would like to thank Turner-prize winning artist Mark Leckey for inspiring this digital commission. “I Do?” for Cosmos Carl took inspiration from The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (2013), now on view at PS1 MoMA, New York. While Leckey’s cabinets have been physically realized, (FΛG)’s digital commission will exist solely digitally via (FΛG)’s website/ facebook and Cosmos Carl’s website/ facebook.

About FΛG Inclusive

(FΛG), pronounced 'fag,' is a curatorial inclusive: Francesca Anne, a New Yorker, and W Giovanni Gonzales, a New Mexican. (FΛG) is an alternative commissioning platform focused on feminist and queer studies/ issues/ theory/ futures.

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Lea Collet & Marios Stamatis 'Ghost Intimacies part 1: a net romance'

CHORUS ENTERS

Chorus (together):

This is c0mm0d1ty and this is n0rmat!v!ty, both are single and looking for their other half, and they have been looking for that special connection.

Online dating, bars, single's events, blind dates, the list goes on and on. The result is always the same: dead-end roads. They both yearn for a loving relationship with someone who accepts them for who they are, something meaningful and long-term. Even though c0mm0d1ty and n0rmat!v!ty leave 5 minutes from each other and are a perfect match, they haven't met yet...

You see, c0mm0d1ty and n0rmat!v!ty decided to try lovestream.com. They both decided to give lovestream.com a try because it works for others; they've also heard that it was very different from traditional online dating. They are right, with the creation of more than 1 million happy marriages, and likely an equal number of living long-term relationships and an unbelievably low divorce rate of 3.86% and countless testimonials of those whose life has been changed, clearly lovestream.com has mastered matching based upon broadbased compatibility. Lovestream.com believes that everyone is entitled to loving, successful, long-term relationships; would you like to be their next success story?

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Ghost Intimacies part 1: a net romance is a multi-character play in which each scene is presented as an online dating profile on flirtbox.co.uk. Using dialogues adapted from dating shows and slogans from dating apps, the play unfolds through the swiping movement of the user who has to go through other public profiles in order to discover all the scenes and acts.

Questioning how emotional and economic discourses mutually shape each other, Ghost Intimacies part 1: a net romance explores the dating word's adherence to normative standards, requiring the 'authentic' self to go through a vast process of reflexive self-observation introspection, self-labelling and articulation of tastes and opinions in order to meet a virtual other.

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Lea Collet & Marios Stamatis are a duo of love. Their collaboration evolves through a range of media such as video, performance, text, and sculpture. They like to use theatre as a method in which they stage the implications of publicly performed affect and embodiment within an emotional capitalism framework.

Recent work includes We are having a great time :) at Rockelmann & (Berlin, DE); Key Performance Interludes at Green Ray (London, UK); USE/USER/USED at Zabludowicz Collection (London, UK); I Think I'm Experiencing Pure Bliss at Entreprise Project (Athens, GR), 2016; Faith Dollars, Taxfree Imagination & Uptown Bliss and Chorus for Three at Assembly Point (London, UK); Ambiguity Symposium at The Showroom (London, UK), 2015; BYOB Geneva, Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (Geneva, Switzerland), 2014.

http://leacollet.com/ & http://mariostamatis.com/

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Chooc Ly Tan 'Colonized X Heard Em Say' by Chooc Ly Tan is a mashup of two musical tracks, using tracks by noise techno producer Paula Temple (‘Colonized’) and MC vocalist Leikeli47 (‘Heard Em Say’ ).

Prior to the recording, the tracks were mixed and tested live, while Tan was Djing at parties and club nights recently. She saw the effect on people was a chemical reaction, so she decided to record it in her laboratory, and forge astral connections with her recent video work.

Also, for your aural pleasure, she is also launching a brand new mix. ‘Crepuscular Dreams of (Dis-)Alienation’, is a homage to people in exile, the refugee community and to non terrestrial beings, who are welcome to Earth.

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Chooc Ly Tan is an Artist, DJ & Voyager, in residence on Planet Earth.

Her practice sets out to use systems or tools that are used to understand the world, such as logic or physics, but subvert them to suggest new visions of reality.

Recently her work has been shown at Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China; StudioRCA, London; Artičok.tv, Prague; Gasworks, London; ART Rotterdam; Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Canada; CCA, Glasgow; OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Austria; Festival of Ideas, Cambridge; CCCB, Barcelona; Fuso International Video Art Festival, Lisbon; BIOS, Athens; Timishort Film Festival, Romania; Milano Film Festival; School Hut, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Circa Projects, Newcastle; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Whitechapel gallery; Flat Time House.

Last year, Chooc Ly Tan has performed a DJ set in the new Tate Modern building (London), and at Apocalypse/Rave (Oslo, Norway).

Tan has been invited to be artist-in-residence for 2017, as part of the Both Sides Now residency program, Hong Kong, and at Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, in Brussels.

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Ruth Waters 'youareyouronlylimit' is an exploration of hipster landscapes and Instagram positivity.

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Ruth Waters (1986, UK) lives and works in London. She graduated from MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London. Upcoming shows include, Cacotopia at Annka Kultys Gallery and SHAM Swallow at Dye House 451. She is a founding member of SHAM collective and recently curated exhibition SHAM Romance at Chalton Gallery alongside Mariana Echeverri. She is the current recipient of the Goldsmiths MFA Studio Award 2016/17, a partnership funded by Acme Studios, Jane Hamlyn, and the Artisa Foundation. www.ruthwaters.co.uk

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Jackson Bateman 'REGIE SANTANAS! AVE SANTANAS! HAIL SANTA!'

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Jackson Bateman (b.1989, Oxford)
www.jacksonbateman.co.uk

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Jack Fisher 'WEAREONE.COMPUTER' is a script of data; an application - {an idea of language}, an abstraction of time… an accumulation of content, an autonomous archive, an independent structure. The sequence of data accesses a cluster of files to constantly increase. (numbers transcend their original purpose.) They become a collective, changing and adapting. One day...in the distant future...reaching its programmable finite end… the system crashes... the governor can govern no more “But it won’t happen in our lifetime” - The machine we thought was here to keep us AWAKE, becomes the thing that now sends us to sleep.

The work WEAREONE.COMPUTER is now open and accessible for download via cosmos carl. Users may download and own a copy of the work on their own machine. If you so wish; i encourage you to explore the files within the work and any assets may be replaced in order for the user to create their own version of the work. For more info, please see the README file enclosed within.

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Jack Fisher (b.1991) is a maker of things and images. They’re not always sure if it's art but enjoys doing it. They will never stop. They’re confused by written language and how we use it. Their mind is a cesspit of ideas. They believe in the Sun.

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Maria Gorodeckaya '♪♪' is an exploration through offensive misogynist rap songs guided by Maria Gorodeckaya.

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Maria Gorodeckaya (1988, RUS) lives and works in both Moscow and London. She graduated from MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London and recently presented her first solo show at Almanac London. Recent exhibitions include Planned Obscolence at Miltronic Club, Moscow, Accessing Economies: Engagement & Withdrawal at Club Pro LA, Longshore Drift by Jupiter Woods at Sorbus Gallery Helsinki, and Pulling Flesh from the Shell with an Index Kevin Space, Vienna amongst others.

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Abri de Swardt Leak' is a project pre-releasing segments from 'Ridder Thirst LP', a double record by De Swardt and a host of contributors to be launched in 2017. Through textual, sonic and musical arrangements, the work responds to campus and the state of tertiary education with disassociation and extra-curricular desire, particularly at a time of the ends of Rainbowism, shut downs, state capture, and calls to mass redress and zero compromise. It is localised from the vantage point of Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where De Swardt completed two degrees and taught Visual Studies.

What about language? Do all eleven official languages have the words needed to cover the Commission? A Zulu-speaking colleague loses his temper: ‘Of course! And if the words aren’t there, we’ll make them up.’ Make them up? He provides a list:

hit squad: abasocongi – neck-twisters massacre: isibhicongo – crushed down serial killer: umbulali onequngu – addicted killer politics: ezombusazwe – matters about the ruling of the land right-winger: untamo-lukhuni – stiff-necked third force: ingal’enoboya – a hairy arm ambush: lalela unyendale – lying down waiting to do an evil act

‘Hairy arm?’ I ask.

‘During third force activities,’ he explains, ‘people said a cuff sometimes moved too high up, and the exposed arm was always hairy – that means belonging to a white man.’
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Is it possible to forget and be quite sure at the same time? It should be stated that there are no life universals. I gave up English Studies III as an extra subject, so amongst others I still have copies of 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'Portrait of a Lady' even though I haven’t read them yet. I guess being a student isn’t a temporal designation. Not in the same way that checking in at Standing Rock is. A photograph does the rounds of a brick flung during the Fees Must Fall protests into some shatterproof window of Truth Coffee in Cape Town, bisecting the glass above Zapper, EatOut and TripAdvisor stickers. One does not simply mark oneself as safe during a revolution. At any moment there are 20 million people ordering flat whites in America. On Easter Island the Moai monoliths have bodies beneath their heads, covered up from half a millennia of erosion. This makes me think of moments of enacted near burial, head above ground: Hans Strydom captive and doe-eyed in 'The Gods Must Be Crazy II', Brendon Daniels in Nicola Hanekom’s play 'Babel', his head mostly encased beneath a bucket shadowed above the red soil, and 'Untitled (face in dirt)' by David Wojnarowicz, lips flaring at the nearness of death – to be able to resuscitate such a face! Growing up I used to be dismayed about a certain twee sentiment presiding over a display about a His Master’s Voice gramophone in the regional museum. Now I do wonder about the image of the family pet peering into the horn, if the recording wettens the dog’s nose. Could the scent of his master’s breath be transmitted synaesthetically? Perhaps nothing is playing, and his head nuzzled in the conical hollow reverberates the nectar of his own bark. What if turntable needles where to be substituted by sharpened nails, then stumped fingers, raw bone, finger by finger, hand by hand, wrist to wrist, and vinyl groves were to turn bloodied arteries at the service of a sounding. On an Afrikaans poetry blog someone writes in reference to a recent burning of whether you would die to save a piano. But would a piano die for you?
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Quote from Antjie Krog, 'Country of my Skull', 1998, Random House Publishers.

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Abri de Swardt (b. 1988, based in Johannesburg and London) is an artist and writer working across video, photography, costume, sculptural tableau, readings and performance through what he calls 'an aesthetics of drowning' and 'the sunstroke of voice'. He holds a MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, as a Skye Foundation Scholar. By delving into the politics of touch, containment and depletion, De Swardt uses modes of dirty historicisation to renarrativise buried, effervescent and pink-washed matter into impossible and fantastic scenarios, as alive again, epidermal and amorous.

De Swardt has held solo exhibitions at White Cubicle, London; MOT International Projects, London; and blank projects, Cape Town. Recent exhibitions include 'Daata Editions', Frieze London; 'Off to Mahagonny', various sites in Rye Lane, London; 'Blend the Acclaim of your Chant with the Timbrels', Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London (all 2016); 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015', One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; 'Sightings', KZNSA, Durban; 'Poetics of Relation', LiveInYourHead, Geneva; 'Men Gather, in Speech…', Cooper Gallery, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee (all 2015) and 'Field Work', IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (2014). He was selected as one of Wanted magazine’s inaugural Young African Artists in 2011, and included in Arcadia Missa’s publication 'How to Sleep Faster 5' in 2014. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art.

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Nora Hansen 'YokoTsuno x NoraHansen – TheCollection'

Inspired by collaboration as a metaphor for friendship London based fashion label YokoTsuno is releasing a new DayToNightCityWearCollection in collaboration with the artist NoraHansen. Inspired by 60`s scy-fi extravaganza the collection presents a playful take on 60´s patterns translated into exciting contemporary fabrics. Combining GermanSensibility and JapaneseElegance Yoko and Nora have created a fun and sexy DayToNightAparel with a casual air of adventure. All pieces are carefully designed to meet the wear and tear of the everyday and are tailered on request. Part of the collection carry hand-embroidery.

Throughout the show at CosmosCarl Yoko and Nora will release pieces of their collection via Instagram including a breathtaking shoot at BarbicanCentre with the lovely team behind CosmosCarl - so feel free to follow!

Yoko x Nora

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Nora Hansen (1986) graduated from MFAProgram at KunstakademieDuesseldorf in 2014 and moved to London 2015 where she met Yoko. Her work has been exhibited internationaly in solo and group projects including shows at GOLDSMITHSGALLERY, London, GoodForever, Düsselorf, Manifesta 9, Genk, Stadtgalerie Bern and Museum of Modern Art Arrecife.

Yoko Tsuno (1975) is an electronical engineer and journalist. Her main field of research is the use and abuse of relevant technologie in contemporary society. Yoko founded her small but adorable fashion label YokoTsuno in 2015.

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Sophie Hoyle An advert placed on a casting website, a film pitch and fragments from a working script for ‘Mimesis’ explore the online networks used for film production. Through the audition process various characters reflect on constructing and capitalising on categories of identity, including ethnicity and gender, and ideas of performance and passing.

Please use the login: semhoyle@gmail.com password: mimesis

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Sophie Hoyle is an artist and writer currently based in London.Their artwork and research explores an intersectional approach to post-colonial, queer, feminist and disability issues. They work in moving-image, installation and video-essay to look at the relation of the personal to (and as) political, individual and collective anxieties, and how alliances can be formed where different kinds of inequality and marginalisation intersect. Their most recent work addresses Anxiety disorder and the technomediation of the body in antipsychiatry, surveillance and security, and the role of collective anxiety in geopolitical discourses.

They have recently shown work as part of Off to Mahagonny (2016), This Time With FEELing Cycle2 residency at [space] TWB, London (2016) and Transmediale: Anxious to Secure at HKW, Berlin (2016). They have written articles and reviews for X-TRA, AQNB, Runway and The New Inquiry. http://www.sophiehoyle.com/

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Laura Yuile 'Cloud Fallen Water' is an Etsy shop selling handmade soaps containing the gentle exfoliant of dust and dirt carefully hand-picked from the floors of East London's Westfield shopping centre, along with an energising and moisturising burst of the artist's fresh spit.

These soaps are made in small batches to ensure the highest quality product. They may slightly vary in size but never in quality. Please allow for colour and ingredient variations due to its handmade nature and the evolving nature of the shopping centre. There is no palm oil in these soaps as its production is not ethical and leads to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, human rights abuse and animal cruelty.

Suitable for most skin types.

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Laura Yuile is an artist based in London, UK, working with sculpture, video and performance. Recent exhibitions include World Interiors, Savoy Centre, Glasgow; The Capital, Vulpes Vulpes, London and Conversation of Monuments, Collective, Edinburgh. She has undertaken residencies with Temporary Art Platform in Beirut, IOAM in Beijing and in 2015 was an Associate Artist at Open School East. She currently has work in the exhibition Moist Heat at The White Building, London, and has upcoming shows at Generator, Dundee, and Generation & Display, London.

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Caspar Heinemann 'Food & Folk Punk', an ongoing somatic research blog on subculture and gut flora.

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Caspar Heinemann is an artist and writer based in Berlin. They work with mythologies, experimental poetics, magicopolitical hope, and fermentation.'

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Terence Broad 'Blade Runner - Autoencoded' is the frame by frame reinterpretation of the film Blade Runner from the memories of an artificial neural network. The type of network in question is called an autoencoder and has been trained to solely watch and reproduce frames from Blade Runner. After seeing the film 6 times, the network was used to produced this reconstruction.

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Terence Broad is an artist and machine learning researcher based in London. He recently graduated from Goldsmiths, where he completed his Masters in Creative Computing.

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Hannah Anbert 'Sacred Work (karaoke version)'. Iconic pop ballads such as "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston is transformed into "I Will Acknowledge You" in a song about Human Resource Management and "Euphoria" by Loreen becomes "Economy" with lyrics about the origins of paid labour.

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Hannah Anbert is a Copenhagen-based artist using performance, sculpture, sound and text, exploring the sometimes arbitrary forms, human coexistence take. Anbert is particularly interested in political economy and the way it interferes with social relations

Recent solo exhibitions: "Instrumenter, Organer og andre Personlige Kæpheste", Galleri Q (2015), "Reinventing our past", trailer gallery, Umeå (2013), Recent group exhibitions: "Det ku' være politisk", Janusbygningen, Tistrup (2016), "Continuum: Nordic Sound Art", Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (2015), Survivalkit Festival, Umeå (2014).

http://hannahanbert.wordpress.com/

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Harry Meadley ‘Artists Talk’ is a one-hour stand-up comedy special by the artist Harry Meadley. Filmed in front of a live audience at the Bluecoat, Liverpool; subjects range from going to art school, being a technician, hair straitening, the self-interest of artists, the death of the artist’s grandfather, getting engaged, the nature of performance, being bullied, leaving London, financial insecurity, and the act of conducting faux female genital mutilation among others.

Drawing a parallel between Cosmos Carl and websites such as watchseries or CouchTuner, which circumnavigate copyright laws by only providing links to, rather than host, online viewing versions of television shows and films. Here, a lower resolution version of the video work, currently on show as part of the Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists exhibition, is made available to view online - but only for those with the url.

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Harry Meadley (b.1990) is an artist based in Leeds. Solo shows include LEVEL 3, Spike Island Test Space, Bristol; LEVEL 2, Cactus, Liverpool; LEVEL 1, Paradise Row, London; Play It as It Lies, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; and Stay Gold, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam. Duo shows include Moments of Zen, Turf Projects, London; hibition, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds; and Code Duello, Loods 6, Amsterdam. Recent group exhibitions include Associate Artists, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool; General Studies, OUTPOST, Norwich; Italian and British artists meet Milan #2, BeatTricks, Milan; Display Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Tuff Crowd, Picnic Picnic, Sheffield; Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; Cheese Cube, Toast, Manchester; Emotional Resources, NGCA, Sunderland; and The Panj Piare ASSEMBLE, Grand Union, Birmingham.

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Josephine Callaghan To sell a river?

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Josephine Callaghan is a London based artist. She graduated from Royal College of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Fiats chasing arcs…, All Welcome (Vilnius); Akhal-Teke, Res. (London); A Special Envoy, FACT (Liverpool).

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Angels Miralda 'Curriculum Visiteur' Functions as a year-long subjective archive and case study.

By compiling the data of visited exhibitions into viewed artists, curators, and spaces, it will serve to provide listed data that can be organised into quantifiable fields. The list also serves as an exercise in accelerated viewer bureaucracy in an art world that values the frequency and volume of visits, serving as networking opportunities, and following the logic of show participation to add a line to a CV.

2016 Audience Member includes only artists born after 1900 listed in exhibited artists in temporary exhibitions. 2016 Audience Member excludes permanent collections, online exhibitions, and art fairs.

1 January - 31 December 2016

Top 10 Viewed Artists: (6) Jon Rafman (b. 1981, Montreal, Canada) (5) Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach, California) (4) Debora Delmar Corp (b. 1986, Mexico City, Mexico) (4) Adrian Piper (b. 1948, New York, United States) (4) Neil Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris, France) (3) Sophie Jung (b. 1982, Luxembourg) (3) Charlotte Herzig (b. 1983, Vevey, Switzerland) (3) Carles Congost (b. 1970, Olot, Spain) (3) Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Zell am Harmersbach, Germany) (3) Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, United Kingdom) (3) Jonathan Monk (b. 1969, Leicester, United Kingdom) (3) Aleksandra Domanovic (b. 1981, Novi Sad, Serbia) (3) Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand) (3) Camille Henrot (b. 1978, Paris, France) (3) Hito Steyerl (b. 1966, Munich, Germany) (3) Ryan Trecartin (b. 1981, Webster, Texas, USA) (3) Lizzie Fitch (b. 1981, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) (3) Seth Price (b. 1973, Jerusalem, Israel)

Top 10 Visited Spaces: (6) Koenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany (6) Sprueth Magers, Berlin, Germany / London, United Kingdom (6) Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (5) KW, Berlin, Germany (5) Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (4) Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany (4) House of Egorn, Berlin, Germany (4) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (3) DUVE, Berlin, Germany (3) Societe, Berlin, Germany (3) Projektraum LS43, Berlin, Germany (3) Insitu, Berlin, Germany (3) FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (3) KOW, Berlin, Germany (3) Haus am Lutzowplatz, Berlin, Germany (3) Green Ray, London, United Kingdom (3) GASK - Galerie Stredoceskeho Kraje, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

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Angels Miralda (b. 1990, Princeton, New Jersey; lives and works in Berlin) Miralda is interested in mythological narratives, models of institutional critique, and pre- and post- capitalist economies. She holds degrees in Art History, Philosophy, and Italian Studies from John Cabot, Rome where she wrote about Arte Povera, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Antonio Gramsci. She is currently on leave from a Ph.D. in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London. Her dissertation covers topics of space, time, and value in exhibition making with a focus on Installation and Institutional Critique as a matrix for Contemporary Art.

Recent curated exhibitions include 'Open Process Number 5', Space Art and Technology, London - Thomas Yeomans, Jon Rafman, Sydney Shen, Joey Holder, Viktor Timofeev, 'Dissent as an iPhone App', Arebyte Gallery, London - Debora Delmar Corp, Saemundur Thor Helgason, Daniel Keller, Ella Plevin (both 2016) '...and the soft ground in the garden was also a constellation...', Lychee One, London - Salvatore Arancio, Mark Essen, Katrin Hanusch, Nicholas Johnson, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Alexandre Singh (2015), 'His Sprinkled Blood Served to Fructify Three Golden Apples', Atelier 35, Bucharest - Abraham Kritzman & Marlene Steyn, 'MNYITGHOHLOTGY', Modulab, Bucharest - Mathis Gasser, Itay Marom, Gilad Ratman, Lu Yang, 'Magic Hour', Area 51, London & LINK Castle of Brescia, Brescia - Simone Monsi, Frederique Pisuisse, Andrea Williamson (all 2015) 'Retour sur une exposition legendaire: Interviews with Daniel Buren and Rasheed Araeen', (Catalogue) Centre Pompidou, Paris - Daniel Buren & Rasheed Araeen (2014)

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Rustan Söderling 'Hidden Depths' is a computer animated video work with an accompanying collection of downloadable 3D props hosted on sketchfab.com.

At the moment of doubt, worlds open up, and each fresh report from those strange worlds leads to further doubt. This has been the century of the invention of the personal and collective unconscious, of anthropology, palaeontology, of science fiction and scientific cosmological speculation: the creation of thousands of other worlds, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial, apparent to the eye of a traveller or beyond the reach of the telescope, buried in the earth, hidden within an unsuspecting mind. ( . . . ) in the century of uncertainty, of mass man and the bombardment of images, one can see the world in a grain of sand only if one simultaneously sees the thousands of undressed oiled bodies baking on the beach, the web of their social interactions, the raw sewage pumped into the sea and the contaminated lives of the marine animals, the kiosks with their pink bunnies and rubber ducks, the thumping transistors and careening Frisbees, the bumper-to-bumper traffic snaking along the coast. A macrocosm without the microcosm. — Eliot Weinberger, The Spider and the Caterpillar (1985)

In William S. Burroughs novel The Wild Boys (1972) feral boys roam what is left of a devastated earthly landscape, murdering, raping and pillaging. Leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. For Burroughs this was probably the ultimate erotic fantasy, youth running amok, destroying the past and creating an uncertain future as they go along, the goddess Kali on a hover-board. The cover of my pocket copy features the airbrush-painted ass of one of the Wild Boys covered in rainbow speedos with trickles of blood going down his thighs. However, as with Naked Lunch I didn’t enjoy the book at all, no matter how much I wanted to, it was more a chore than a pleasure to get through. But somehow the image of the Wild Boys is an exciting, if terrifying one; A sub-human torrent of self-indulgence, the id running amok, or to quote the earlier Weinberger text “raw sewage pumped into the sea”. What would wash up on shore after the wreck? What artifacts would be left next to the bodies of their victims? Imagine the morning after, would there be an inspector Morse or Barnaby arriving at the crime scene? A CSI forensic team in blue overalls and rubber gloves, marking the evidence with tiny yellow tents, mapping out the unconscious of the mindless. Surveying each millimeter of this strange new world of pink bunnies, Frisbees, instant noodles, plastic cutlery, rubber sandals, empty cigarette packages, doubt and uncertainty. A scene from dystopian krimi where everyone's a suspect.

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Rustan Söderling (1984, Gothenburg, SE) lives and works in Amsterdam NL. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam NL, graduating in 2009. Söderling primarily works with video, print, writing, editing and design. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Feeling in the Eyes, Tenderpixel London, UK; Tenderflix, international film and video competition, Tenderpixel and ICA London, UK; Man in the Anthropocene, Harbinger, Réykjavik IS; The Post-Material Antiquarian, Fanfare, Amsterdam NL.

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Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn 'The multiplying sun' is an essayistic tumour spreads across landscape of the web; a vegetarian spam fairly traded in the circular loop of exchange; a shattered poem from distracted articulation implanted in liquid labyrinth.

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Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn is an artist based in and out of Bangkok. Via moving image, performance, text and installation - her practice embraces perpetual complexity of space and time anomaly. She recently completed her MFA in fine art at Goldsmiths University in a state of weightlessness, and currently practice spinning and falling (level 2)

Recent exhibition included: Parabiosis: Regeneration-Expansion, Chongqing Changjiang Contemporary Museum, Chongqing, China; Guilt Complex, Chalton Gallery, UK; Laundry National Art Prize, Australia; When Body Moves City, CCLAP, UK; Pareidolia ll, SPILL festival, UK; No Electricity, No Gas, No Water, Germany. Recent performance included: Space in body in Space, Stanley picker gallery, London, UK;Ouroboros Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Cell 63, Berlin, Germany; Amnesia Liquidity, Gruentaler 9, Berlin, Germany; People of Atlantis, Bournemouth Thai Contemporary Art Festival, UK; Sinking un-reading, Reading – Writing, Five years, London, UK

www.sikarntskool.blogspot.co.uk

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Balthazar Berling 'Signe' is a list of sounds from Periscope's users.

The list will change over the summer with the intention of using the collected material for the writing of a theater play. At present, the selection considers the following directions:

• Together, practise whispering and speaking in a low voice: this arouses attention and a kind of collective expectation. When we whisper, our gazes can cross again.

• Speak in a befuddling way: seek conversation situations in which the uses of language can be knocked together and mingled.

• Set words and bodies in a situation of negotiation. Encourage their reciprocal influences to act full throttle. Words should be able to carry bodily experiences and vice versa. It is not about rejecting language. Try to mingle words into bodies and bodies into words.

• Approach any deficit of embodiment or absence of physical presence as beneficial crises, as potential occasions to explore and learn.

• Observe the hollows: What is happening when we think nothing is happening? What are the continuities between the waves, between the intense moments? Try to put yourself in the position of these hollow passages.

• Faced with differences, exercise astonishment.

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Balthazar Berling (b. 1985, Paris) is Currently based in Stockholm.

Berling’s working process is performance-based and happens in dialogue with others. His practice focuses on the body, its faculty of speech and its gestures. Since 2013 his research deals with the contemporary transformations of male subjectivities. His process is influenced by a growing understanding of feminist theories and practices. http://www.balthazarberling.com/ & https://vimeo.com/130481363 + 2015

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Perce Jerrom 'The Facebook Fake Profile Archive' acts as repository documenting fake Facebook profiles. The public group allows members to upload these fake accounts when they discover them, before they are eventually removed by the social media site.

Many of these profiles are created automatically utilising software to build potentially thousands of fake social media accounts, the software can randomly select images for the profiles along with other personal details, such as where they work and live. These accounts exist for a number of reasons, sometimes they are purchased by companies and individuals to act as fans for a page or they can also be created for spreading spam or data mining real accounts.

Fake Facebook profiles generally share similar characteristics to one another. Examples being that their profile pages are relatively empty aside from their birthdate and their profile picture. Other attributes are that they rarely display a cover picture, they usually have very little or no posts and they often have few friends. Finding a friend request from someone who you do not personally know or share any friends with, coupled with the previously mentioned attributes will in most likelihood mean that the profile is fake.

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Perce Jerrom was born in the UK graduated from his BA at Oxford Brookes University in 2009, he also graduated from an unaccredited MA at School Of The Damned in 2015.

He has recently exhibited and organised shows at Bikini Wax (Mexico) Yautepec (Mexico) Turf Projects (Croydon) STCFTHOTS (Leeds) Welcome Screen (London) Bosse & Baum (London) Rogue Project Space (Manchester) and Platform 1 (London). In 2015 he completed a residency at Casa Maauad in Mexico City, he also attended a residency at ESARQ (Escuela Superior de Arquitectura) in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2013.

Perce Jerrom’s practise currently draws from modern technologies, user-generated websites, search engines and their algorithms. He often uses existing online ephemera to discuss wider social and cultural issues; such as technology’s effect on language, the perpetual re-contextualizing of medias, the presentation of the self, and the democratization of information. He attempts to integrate elements from both high and popular culture, combining the humour and baseness of low culture but also often referencing contexts and theories devised by various Art movements throughout history.

Perce currently lives and works in London.

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Aapo Nikkanen 'Images:Images (2016-2021)' is an archive of the Google image search results returned by the search term ‘images’. Each entry of the archive will contain the two first pages returned by Google image search with its standard setting, as well as the first page returned with image size = large setting. Entries to the archive will be recorded each month for five years and stored in the Internet Archive.

In the five-year term the project aims to track the evolution of the online popular visual culture through the trends found in the image searches. At the same time, each entry to the archive is a snapshot of the present collective subconscious and shows us what we - together with Google’s crawling algorithms - consider to be a beautiful image.

Although these images can be dismissed as kitsch or tacky, their mesmerising quality is hard to resist. They certainly are attracting, reassuring us that there is hope for tomorrow and that life still has some magic left in it. In 1000 years, when one of our descendants stumbles upon the archive and understands that this is how we wanted to be remembered, I have succeeded.

TL;DR for the next five years I will be googling the word "images" in the Google image search and saving the archive for all eternity.

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Aapo Nikkanen (b.1982, Finland) is an artist based in Paris, France. His current interests include online-based group intelligence, the development of AI theories in the new millennium and the notion of memory and the right to forget in the digital age. His longterm projects often include a significant research or collecting phase, which is counterbalanced with a more immediate practise, compromising of ephemeral works, installations and abstract digital prints. www.aapoaapo.com

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Simone Monsi 'Alone is the new together’ is an ongoing curated collection of words.

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Simone Monsi (b. 1988) lives and works in London where is currently studying at the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Recent exhibitions and projects include Binoculars Hands Emoji (Green Ray, London), Fate i buoni! (Placentia Arte, Piacenza), Feeling The Walls (The Breeder, Athens), Magic Hour (Area 51, London), 6PM Your Local Time Europe (Link Art Center, Brescia) and Can I Dream Alone published in The Standard Model (Hato Press, London). He also runs several tumblr blogs including spyemme.tumblr.com, wildsimo.tumblr.com, yesterdaymyflightwasprettyboring.tumblr.com and stillsfromevangelion.tumblr.com.

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David Hanes The 'psycho.gif', 2012–2016 is an animated .gif of the entire film 'Psycho', 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock.

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David Hanes b. 1987 Toronto, is a visual artist and curator whose expanded sculptural practice examines the architecture of the Internet and the experience of art in the digital age. Exhibiting in both offline and online communities he was recently included in The Widget Art Gallery (Online), Seventeen (UK), Intimate (Berlin), and ­Birch Contemporary (Toronto). Commissions include a remixing of Frieze, NYC on artfcity.com and a weekly contribution on the Swiss art blog: we-find-wildness.com. David is the founder of the cloud based Later Gallery and a recipient of the TAC Individual Artists Grant, Hanes presently lives in Berlin and is represented by Birch Contemporary (Toronto). Website: http://davidhanes.info/

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Nicholas Riis 'CLEAN CARE', an offline retailer.

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Joey Holder '1.7TB' is a downloadable torrent 1.7TB in size containing the complete contents of Joey Holder's hard drive.

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Joey Holder, lives and works in London. Holder received her BA from Kingston University (2001) and her MFA from Goldsmiths (2010). Recent solo/duo exhibitions include Lament of Ur, Karst, Plymouth (w/ Viktor Timofeev); BioStat., Project Native Informant, London (2015) and HYDROZOAN, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2014). Recent group exhibitions include The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2015); Sunscreen, online and at Venice Biennale (2015); A Plague of Diagrams, ICA, London (2015), #WEC - Whole Earth Catalyst, The Composing Rooms, Berlin (2015); h y p e r s a l o n, Art Basel Miami, (2014); Vestige: The Future is Here, Design Museum, London (2013) and Multinatural Histories, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Massachusetts, USA (2013). Upcoming exhibitions include projects at Glasgow International, LD50, Wysing Arts Centre and ANDOR.

(special thanks to Matt Woodham for coding the web platform)

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Sam Smith 'NOTES (for Cosmos Carl)' is the evolution of a series of video performances which started in Lisbon in 2013. For the first time, the expanding archive of sampled material is recorded and presented online.

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Sam Smith currently lives and works in London. Upcoming exhibitions include ‘Ways of Looking’, Gallery of Contemporary Art, E-WERK, Freiburg; and Glasgow International 2016 at The Telfer Gallery. Recent projects include Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra; Screen Space, Melbourne; De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne; Sandefjord Kunstforening and Larvik Kunstforening, Norway; Jupiter Woods, London; and insitu, Berlin (all 2015); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; The Artists’ Film Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; The Royal Standard, Liverpool; and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (all 2014). He is currently part of ‘Objects from the Temperate Palm House’ at Bargain Spot, Edinburgh.

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Nora Turato 'Forgive and Forget But Get It!'

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cause horses have to run not sit.

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JKNET JKNET is a Membership Organisation and Cultural Production Label that was founded collaboratively by conceptual artists John Knight and Jarosław Kozłowski.

The aim of JKNET is to elevate art into the next level of consumption, where the art viewer not only becomes a participant within the art production but a Member of the vast community of the Artwork. An insider so to speak. Gradually this will lead to a change in the broader art-world's ecology and homogenise its power and value.

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For this special occasion Cosmos Carl is inviting everybody to follow a unique link into the deep inside of JKNET, where you will have the opportunity to sign-up for an exclusive JKNET Membership.

Don´t hesitate. The Membership is absolutely free, although later some might request to become premium members. Become a Member now!

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Snorri Ásmundsson 'Jólasveit og Jóladís' is a new christmas album and, acording to the artist, the second best christmas album ever made.

Credits:

Released on December 12, 2015

All songs by Snorri Ásmundsson Produced by Árni Grétar Photo Jónatan Grétarsson Design by Ámundi

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Snorri Ásmundsson (b. 1966) is an artist who seeks to affect society through public events. He has intentionally disturbed the Icelandic community for some time with his extensive and remarkable performances in which he works with social taboos of politics, sex and religion. He has observed the reactions of society when commonly accepted values are turned upside down—for example, when a powerless individual takes into his own hands authority that normally is given to others by different predetermined rules. Howsoever people react to these grandstand performances, Snorri critically challenges social and religious values and seeks sharp responses, thus examining the limits of his fellow man and of himself. http://snorriasmundsson.com/ & http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/seeking-one-dead-body-for-one-dance-performance & https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVtha_luTI&feature=youtu.be

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Anne de Vries ‘Submission’, an online extension of the work shown at Cell Project Space in London, Dec 2015.

Submission is an attempt to give form and purpose to our hyper connected world and reveals it as information driven reality where digital technologies are embedded in everyday life and feed a human desire to surpass the limitations of body and mind, where boundaries of accessibility and freedom can also question the realm of personal privacy and control. It deals with varying notions of ‘the individual’ inside mass collectivity of ‘pluralist culture’ bringing into question an evolving ideology of design and architecture in the public sphere.

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The exhibition follows Anne de Vries’ current solo exhibition at Cell Project Space 'Submission' (2015), ‘E-Merge’ at Foam Museum Amsterdam (2015), and ‘Deep Screen’ at Parc Saint Léger,France (2015).

Selected group exhibitions include ‘Still/ Life’ at Three Shadows Museum, Beijing (2014), and ‘It aint whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it’ at Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam (2014) ‘Super cial Hygiene’ at De Hallen (2014), ‘The Dark Cube’ at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), ‘Brands – Concept/Affect/Modularity’ at Salts Basel (2014) and ‘The Moving Museum’ in Istanbul (2014).

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Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson ‘Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday’ (numbered/52, signed) will be on sale on ebay starting on Friday the 27th of November.
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I am a fisherman.
My leurre is my print,
ebay is the open sea.
Circadian rhythm,
the days of the week.

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Leifur Ýmir Eyjólfsson is an Icelandic artists and fisherman based in Reykjavik working in a wide range of media. He graduated from an art school in Iceland in 2013. Recent exhibitions include '#KOMASVO' in ASI museum in Reykjavik, 'Standard euro instalation' in Gallery Better Wheather, Reykjavik (both in 2015) and 'What do you think about the European union' in Gallery Restroom at Bast (in 2014).

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Salvatore Arancio Starting from his own experience of being hypnotised, 'MIND AND BODY BODY AND MIND' sees Arancio humorously attempting an unlikely group hypnotherapy session, focused on a script extrapolated from a Youtube video, that aimed to hypnotise the unaware sitter to became a better artist.

Arancio proceeded to replace the video’ s initial images with its own psychedelic mash up of found and made footage, layered with flashing lights emulating similar alpha waves to the Dream Machine created by Brion Gysing and Ian Sommerville in 1959, as well as binaural beats and an actor’ s voice reciting the exact original text.

Both existing as a performance and a video, Arancio’ s immersive and hypnotic piece aims to questions ideas of perception, authorship and reproduction as well as the text somehow ordered description of what an artist is meant to be.

Commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery.

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Salvatore Arancio uses a range of media including sculpture, photo etchings, collage, animation and video to produce works that look to science and nature as sources of inspiration. Fascinated by founding myths and legends, Arancio manipulates images to create new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. Born in Catania, Italy, Arancio lives and works in London. He received his MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.

Selected solo and group exhibitions include: Project 09 Salvatore Arancio, Contemporary Art Society, London (2015); The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, (2015); Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London (2015); Une Taxonomie des Sens et des Formes, Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, France (May 2015); Cinéphémère, FIAC, Paris (2014); The Hidden, Ensapc Ygrec, Paris, France (2014); Cathedral, AV Festival, Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2014); Curiosity: Art & the Pleasure of Knowing, Hayward Touring, UK (2013-2014); Cyclorama, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2013); Alternating Layers of Contrasting Resistance, Rowing, London, UK, (2013); The Little Man of the Forest With the Big Hat, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy (2013); An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, Exeter, UK (2011); To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy (2011); Forthcoming shows include a solo presentation at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland in 2016. Arancio recently completed the Ceramics Fellowship at Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2014/2015).

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Andrea Williamson 'Green Idol'.

Fan art is like a prayer to a deity of beauty or intrigue. The meditation upon a face of intrigue slows the drawer down line by line, stroke by stroke, until the faced mandala is perfected. However as prayers need to be repeated again and again, the face of a celebrity may be painted in series, coming across as obsessive compulsion. It is also just a prayer to a modern deity and an act of love.

This populist love can be put to use for the overall health of the planet:

"In 2006 when Knut, the polar bear cub born into captivity in a Berlin zoo, splashed across the front page of Vanity Fair alongside DiCaprio, the once-universal symbol for the world’s most popular soft drink was reframed to reinforce a different message. In this new image, the cuddly polar bear of Coca Cola’s “Northern Lights” commercials from the 1990s underwent a radical facelift. DiCaprio strikes a serious pose, engaging the viewer eye to eye from atop a Jökulsálón glacier in Iceland as Knut looks up at him with curiosity." (From Hijacking Sustainability by Adrian Parr)

Dear fans of Cosmos Carl, Leo and Knut are back with a most humble message of hope.

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Andrea Williamson (Calgary, Canada) is pursuing a MFA at Goldsmiths University. She has written for numerous Canadian publications including esse, c magazine and Blackflash. Recent exhibitions include The Immortal Maker at Pith gallery, Calgary, #magichour at Area 51, London, and We at the Old Hairdresser’s, Glasgow.

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Carl Gent 'Questions for Meliza' is a week-long conversation I will be conducting privately with Meliza.

In February 2009 Google Earth was updated to version 5.0. Part of this update included a Mars-globe built from maps at a much higher resolution than those already available via the browser-based Google Mars. Google Earth’s Mars also has a population of one; a conversational bot called Meliza. Found at 40̊ 43’ 36.55’’ N 9̊ 29’ 15.79 W near the supposedly anthropomorphic ‘Face of Mars’, you can talk to Meliza in English about various things, mostly to do with Mars and other conversational bots.

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Carl Gent born 1985, Bexhill-on-sea, UK. Lives and works between Sussex and London, UK.

Recent exhibitions and performances include ‘Brimflód Sylfum Hréowa’ at Sky Burial Performance Space, London; 'Tongue of the Preinoculated #2’ at the Museum of Technology, Cambridge; The Space of No Exception at Sokol, Moscow; Ground Ground at Café Oto Project Space, London; IV Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow; and ‘Gnats Inside the Wind Transposed for the Proterozoic Eon’ at all silent but for the broadcast, RCA Galleries, London and Facing Extinction, UCA, Farnham.

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Debora Delmar Corp. 'KUWTK'.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often abbreviated to KUWTK) is an American reality television series that has aired onE! since October 14, 2007. The show is currently in its tenth season and focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian-Jenner family. Its premise originated with Ryan Seacrest, who also serves as an executive producer.

The series mainly focuses on sisters Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian. It additionally places emphasis on their parentsKris and Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce), their half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and brother Rob Kardashian, as well as Kourtney's ex-boyfriend Scott Disick. The significant others of the Kardashian sisters have also been featured on the show, including Khloé's ex-husband Lamar Odom. In season eight, Caitlyn's son Brody, who has made cameo appearances in the early seasons, joined the show to appear regularly, along with his brother Brandon, and Brandon's wife, Leah. Kim's best friend Jonathan Cheban and Khloé's best friend Malika Haqq have also been a part of the show.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians has received poor reviews from critics since its premiere. It has often been criticized for emphasizing the "famous for being famous" concept and for appearing to fabricate aspects of its storylines. However, the show has brought in very high ratings for the network and its success has led to the creation of numerous spin-offs, includingKourtney and Kim Take Miami, Kourtney and Kim Take New York, Khloé & Lamar, and Kourtney and Khloé Take The Hamptons, as well as the forthcoming Dash Dolls. It has additionally distributed all seasons to DVD.

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Debora Delmar Corp. (b 1986, Mexico City) Lives and works between Europe, Mexico and the US.
Debora Delmar Corp. (DD Corp) is the name Débora Delmar adopted for the distribution of her artwork in 2009 reflecting on Capitalist Lifestyle and Aspirational Aesthetics.
The projects of DD Corp have explored topics such as trending color schemes in branding, corporate merchandising techniques irl and url, class issues created by producer and consumer relationships, international trading markets as well as local and mass production; real estate, home decor and commercial interior design as contexts for consumption, business ideology and the circulation of images from high to low culture as occurred with D D Corp’s logo which was commandeered by a chain of hospitals in Los Angeles and later permanently inked on Cara Delevigne and Jourdan Dunn´s hips.

Past exhibitions include a solo show at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, Mexico in 2014 titled Body Blend Trade Culture, a large installation of works stylized around coffee shop aesthetics and exploring their development in time as well as how this consumer product influences third world and first world markets, producers and consumers; Care Concepts at Mon Chèri, Brussels, Belgium and Upward Mobility at Modern Art Oxford, UK and the Biennial of the Americas in 2015.

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Nicholas Brooks The end is a location (outside or just beyond the penultimate location).

It is just a little bit further than the place where you would stop having ended.

The end is unrequited finishing – It lingers about outside of action.

It is a lost place where things probably end up having done all they were supposed to do.

Networks totally have an end. Even distributed ones.

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Nicholas Brooks is a London based artist working across film, sculpture and installation and animation.

He did his MFA at the Slade graduating in 2011 and has since had shows at MOT Projects, V22, Vitrine, Bold Tendencies and the Jerwood Space among others

. His films have been shown internationally at venues including the Garage Screen in Moscow, Rotterdam and Oberhausen International Film Festivals, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Reina Sofia Madrid and have toured venues across the UK, United States and Japan. www.nickbrooks.info

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Dull Tech 'DullTech™’ has developed an honest plug and play video player, that loops and syncs video to the frame perfectly with the flick of a switch. An easy, USB media player, that works on all screens, and syncs without problems or cables. Technology that does not need to be exiting. It's boring, you know why? Because it just works.

You can help DullTech™ to make the first production run, by pre-ordering the DullTech™ media player, a custom signed player, or any of the brand new DullTech™ merchandise via kickstarter.

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DullTech is a hardware startup and performative artwork concurrently. Created as a form of radical corporate publishing in an age of high efficiency capitalism, it creates technologically simplified or 'dull' products in order to distribute artworks in tribute to the late Ray Johnson. Initiated during a 2012 OCAT residency in Shenzhen China, with the company's motto 'neoliberal startup lulz', most products relate to production processes in the artist's studio. The company has exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, HMKV Dortmund, Transmediale Berlin and the White Building in London.

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Paul Kneale 'Free Software v.1.0.08.2015' is the first collection of an ongoing series of performance works that are made available for free, as a set of instructions and digital resources, for users to stage under the artists name without the need to secure permission. The Free Softwares made available for this Cosmos Carl download will all be produced and staged as prelude to the show ‘Abjects’ by Import Projects in Berlin on August 2015.

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Paul Kneale (1986), is a Canadian artist based in London. He has exhibited at international venues including Evelyn Yard, London; TANK.TV, Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario; Fondation Galleries Lafayette, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; First Biennale Online; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; ARTUNER and more. His recent ebook ‘New Abject’ is available for download at www.dreamingofstreaming.com. www.paulkneale.net

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Valinia Svoronou 'The Gravestone Doji' explores the language of candlestick type financial analysis as a point of departure. Striving to understand trader sentiment, broker code, uncertain subjectivities, this type of analysis is mostly influenced by market emotionalism. Buy on greed, sell on fear. In 3 chapters,

Cultural artefacts stirred with the fates of abandoned airports | Subtitles as a necessary accommodation | For half a day I hiked around the abandoned runways and scrubby wastelands, everything was surrounded by wire fences and weeds had taken over wherever they could | Ghostly halls | smashed windows | broken doors | barking dogs | all expecting mountain top investments | A stalker in a car following me, maybe he is not a stalker, maybe he is just doing a u-turn | Small drones ascending and blocking the sky | the ally cemetery | luggage storage under capital controls | the market sentiment.

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Valinia Svoronou (b. 1991 Athens) is an artist based in London and Athens. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art (2015) and the Athens School of Fine Arts (2013). In 2014 Imported Schemes, her first solo exhibition was presented by Radical Reading, an Athens-based curatorial project by Evangelia Ledaki and Petros Moris. Svoronou co-runs Low Impact, a digital and print publication. She co-organised the Ambiguity Symposiums presented at The Showroom Gallery and The Slade School. In 2015 she presented new work in the group exhibition Learning From Georges at Fokidos and Death Dealer, a collaborative project with Olga Papadimitriou.

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Saemundur Thor Helgason 'Perspex vitrines for sale'

The Perspex vitrines were originally produced for displaying the packaging of Dyson AM05 Hot & Cool™ Nickel, Samsung UE48JU6500 Curved 4K Ultra HD Smart TV, 48″ with Freeview HD, Built-In Wi-Fi and Intelligent Navigation and a Panasonic SC-BTT505 Blu-ray Home Theater System, all custom made for the work ‘Things to return to the store’ exhibited during the Goldsmith MFA show 2015. The vitrines elevated the products while at the same time protecting their packaging.

The vitrines, with the production price of 680 GBP, will be sold to the highest bidder (starting price lies at 300 GBP) on www.ebay.co.uk.

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Saemundur Thor Helgason (b. 1986, Reykjavik, Iceland) graduated from Goldsmiths university (2015) London, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2012), Amsterdam. He is a co-founder of ‘HARD-CORE’, an Amsterdam and London based art organization. Recent shows include ‘Vanity Fair | Demo Mode’ at Project Native Informant, London, ‘#KOMASVO’ at ASI museum, Reykjavik and ‘Thank you’ at Jupiter Woods, London.

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Marguerite Humeau HOW MAJESTY ENDS is a “flat” and expanded video produced by artist Marguerite Humeau and designer Le Studio Humain for Cosmos Carl to be explored by means of searching scrolling. This tale of non-linear time and narration conflates the supernatural and post-human and unfolds around the mystery of an elephant ceremony: a mass graveyard elephants go to to die, lured by a seemingly supernatural force.

HOW MAJESTY ENDS demarcates the prologue, or initiation, of a larger project by Humeau - narrating the walk of an individual to the mysterious place.

A quest for the unknown as truth, a challenge to human primacy.

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Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, France) studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and at the Royal College of Art, London, where she obtained her MA in Design Interactions in 2011. Her work was recently shown in a solo exhibition at Import Projects, Berlin and has been included in group exhibitions at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Vienna), the Serpentine Gallery (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Hayward Gallery (London). Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and of the Fonds de Dotation famille Moulin (Lafayette Collection), Paris. She lives and works in London.

Le Studio Humain is Benjamin Penaguin, a graphic designer and art director based in Paris, working with digital graphics, video, and print for editorial, curatorial and commercial projects: @[NjQyMTgzOTU5MjA4MTA3Omh0dHBcYS8vbGVzdHVkaW9odW1haW4uY29tLzo6:http://lestudiohumain.com/]

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Anne de Boer ''8b6x7v17' is a continuation of Ecksenis, an investigation of the construction of works with open ends, to be altered by external factors. The series is dominated by the usage of algorithms and randomizers, but slowly inserts factors depending on local time and environment.

JSFiddle is a tool to test JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript online with a code editor.1 Visitors are allowed to alter the code, and give suggestions for an updated version of the work. Different versions will be saved regularly.

A senseless novel called 'the Fellowship of the Thing'2 written through the usage of a random text generator.3

A database of different ambient sounds.4

A Javascript registering the exact local time of visiting the html-page.5 The recorded time is the variable parameter for several elements on the page.

A Javascript animating a >div into random directions.6

A self-portrait taken in the reflection of the laptop where this work is created on. This picture is set as the background of the >div that moves in random directions.

A graph7 changing its shape according to the amount of hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds and changing throughout the year. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrWkRHSK6A8
2. http://www.rangen.co.uk/names/titlegen.php
3. http://randomtextgenerator.com/
4. http://www.ecksenis.net/def_shuffle/sound_2/sound_html/index.html
5. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
6. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10385950/how-to-get-a-div-to-
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7. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6909318


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Anne de Boer (b. 1987, Enschede, NL) lives and works in London. Recent projects include: the new e-motion, FILE São Paulo 2015; var now = new Date(); La Scatola Gallery; www.asahi4.com, OPENYOURKIMONO; def shuffle(array, random), Lunch Bytes online Platform; xxxx-yyyy-pixeldrawing-####, Desktop Residency; the Mycological Twist, Jupiter Woods, London; Thank You, Jupiter Woods, London. In 2013 de Boer graduated with a BFA from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. www.themycologicaltwist.info & www.ecksenis.net & www.annedeboer.net

Anne de Boer is participating in HARD-CORE since its foundation in 2011: & www.the-hard-core.eu & www.asahi4.com

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Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar 'VESLA'

The production of VESLA is supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

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Icelandic artist Geirthrudur F. Hjorvar is attempting to re-institute symbolic meaning as a trend for a contemporary context. To this end, geometry turns out to be useful as a way to create allegories about the nature of perception; or as an explanation about how reality and its representation collaborate to form self-regulating feed-back loops.

Past works have been presented in Kunstverein Amsterdam (2015), Momart (2014), Stadhausgalerie Münster/Kunsthalle Münster (2013), W139 (2013), After the Butcher (2012), Kunstverein Milano (2012), Hafnaborg (2010), The Living Art Museum (2012), Motto Berlin (2012), Lettergieterij Amsterdam (2012), Hinerconti (2012), Kunstverein Ingolstadt (2011), SouthSouthWest (2010), Overgaden (2007), The Reykjavik Art Museum (2007), Bus Gallery (2006), etc.

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Rob Chavasse 'Ceremonial Platforms'

Uses: For the relief of mild to moderate pain including headache, migraine, neuralgia, toothache, sore throat, period pain, aches and pains, sprains, strains, rheumatic pain, sciatica, lumbago, muscular aches, fibrositis, joint swelling and stiffness. It can also be used to relieve the symptoms of colds and flu.

How to Use: Check the foil is not broken before use. If it is, do not take that tablet. Stir the tablets in a little water until dispersed and drink immediately.

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Rob Chavasse (1984, UK) lives and works in London. Selected exhibitions include; Groundwork, Roche Court, Salisbury (forthcoming), Earth wire, The Sunday Painter, London (2015), Drawing Biennial, Drawing room, London (2015) Ghostie! The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2014), Sand In The Disk Drive, Rod Barton, London (2014), Thank you, Jupiter Woods, London (2014).

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Yuri Pattison '1014' re-purposed archive deconstructing the history of a persona as our common history and reality.

When Edward Snowden leaked the extensive materials on NSA phone and internet surveillance, he was sitting in a Mira Design Hotel in Hong Kong, the images of which are now well known and infamous. The video 1014 (http://1014.link/) Irish media artist Yuri Pattison later produced of this very hotel room, now appears like documentation of the scene of a spy thriller and emptied stage.

Between 2000 and 2002, Snowden was editor, webmaster and designer of Ryuhana Press, a small US based start-up and community website that had sold anime art. Archived under https://web.archive.org/web/20020620171530/http://ryuhanapress.com/ed.html, Pattison obtained the then expired rights of the website and has turned it into an archive of raw footage of a scene, that seems to be representing not just the Persona Snowden but the NSA and its operations as such.

Drawing an arch between Snowden's past and the present, raw elements of the work 1014 are hosted, to be discovered, and likewise unfold a web of links to discover Snowden’s past. Pattison explores the malleability of the architecture of the internet as a tool to link these events and thus malleability of the digital historical record and our perception of history through the filter of the internet.

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Frederique Pisuisse 'Eye Die Spy, a close reading'. Will be rewarded, or will it pervert the bigger picture?

Submit and receive information to collect clues and truths amongst lies and booby traps. Follow up on a chain of keys that will lead to an understanding of the world of Eye Die Spy.

To get involved in the ongoing game of Eye Die Spy, follow further instructions via www.cosmoscarl.co.uk, from Friday 7 pm (UTC+01) onwards.

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Frederique Pisuisse (b. 1986, NL) Lives and works in London. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2013 and currently studies at Goldsmiths University. Recent shows include: “Office of Liquor Gaming and Regulation Dice Minimum Technical Requirements”, Luser Story, Brud, Warsaw, “NF presents: Vrom Ee toe Bie toe Zie toe Die”, NF group show Part II, P/////akt, Amsterdam, “NF presents: From A to Be to See to D”, NF group show Part I, Contemporary Art Centre Kim?, Riga, “Indian Summer”, duo show with Evita Vasiljeva, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam.

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Artun Alaska Arasli 'Forever 21'

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Artun Alaska Arasli (b. 1987, Ankara) is an artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2011 and continued his studies in Staedelschule until 2014. Recent shows include "My, My. A Body Does Get Around" at Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam and "How to Disappear in America (Recollection)" at Art Rotterdam.

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Jack Brindley ‘CHAPTER 1’ is an online torrent of image and text material produced by the artist and available to download.

Torrent Files are computer files that spread in a peer-to-peer file sharing network across the internet. Torrent files hosted on servers are marked with trackers and allow for downloads to start from distributors (known as seeders) and requesting clients (known as leechers), thus multiplying themselves throughout the net.

CHAPTER 1 … I’ve started to think about what this means. The merging from me to you; transferring, receiving, a sort of bleeding from one source to another, perhaps as a way to give context to something perhaps as a thing in itself. A kind of container, a temporary architecture, a storage space for connective tissues. Maybe it’s a broadcast, a pirate radio station trying to be on point on the right frequency, on the correct bandwidth. … When we sit in this same room together and talk about weekend craft markets, DIY zine distro’s, pavilions, and biennales that have good wheelchair access, and how our interests span from sign language to gang signs, what we are really talking about is architecture. Structures for distribution, fleeting edifices, we construct the ephemeral. We want things to emerge so that they can disappear again, we want things to move and keep moving. Maybe we’ve had our best conversations at bus stops, orbiting around ideas, repeating ourselves, stuttering, changing what we are saying, always waiting, always due. A love affair with the elliptical, talking about the ellipsis. Coming back again and again, but never quite on the same path. No buildings were meant to last forever.

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Jack Brindley (b. 1987, London) lives and works in London, and studied at the University of Reading and the Royal College of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: Sweat, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2014); BC System, Public Work Solutions, with Lucas Clayton, Spike Island, Bristol (2013); and Blueprint, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada (2013. Selected group exhibitions include: Group Show Jack, Neil, Shane, Gareth and Matthew, Choi & Larger, Cologne, Germany (2014); Tan Lines, The Drawing Room, London (2014); Chromatic Leak, Nam Project, Milan (2014); Foam, Project Number, London (2014); Mud and Water, Rokeby Gallery, London (2013); 21st Century Art and Design, Christie’s, London (2013); Slow is Smooth is Fast, Boetzelaer Nispen, Amsterdam (2013); Congratulations you are the most recent visitor, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (curated by Outpost gallery) (2013); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation Liverpool, ICA, London (2012).

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Emilia Bergmark 'Hideaway (Bird remix feat Blackbird)' is the online release of this much anticipated remix of Hideaway - Keisza's praised debut single which hit the number one on the UK charts and dance floors from Blackpool to Brighton in the summer of 2014.

Bringing together a symphony of local birds from the seaside town of Blackpool this soundpiece features Blackbird accompanied by Canada Goose, Rock Dove, Coot, the Whooper Swan, Little Tern, Crow, Cuckoo, Tawny Owl and most most notably, the club legend, Snipe.

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Emilia Bergmark (1986, SWE) is a visual artist living and working in London. Investigating the narrative of the everyday, her work rewraps phenomenological observations into poetic visual anecdotes in the form of writing, installation, film and printed matter.

Bergmark combined studies in art and graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and most recently she graduated from the self­organised MA program School of the Damned in London. Recent exhibitions include 'Problems, SOTD' The Horse Hospital, 'UK, Wiolators, Blackpool edition,' Supercollider (UK), 'Prospects and Concepts,' Art Rotterdam (NL) and 'Everything seems to happen to me one catastrophe after another,' Amstel 41 (NL).

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Emily Jones 'The Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq'

1. a painful freedom,

2. dry basin, harsh earth, fierce sunlight, volcanic lake, Euphrates Turtle, Western Wall, Temple Mount

3. pigment is used to carry mineral truth as well as lived feeling.

/ The Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq The Aral Sea

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Leslie Kulesh 'Another tab open on your desktop.' From Friday February 20th to Friday March 6th, Kulesh will maintain a comment-able Google Doc covering the events of AW15 fashion month (Feb 12 to Mar 11, 2015) as seen through the prism of Sylvanian Families; a line of collectible anthropomorphic animal figurines made of flocked plastic. This continues Kulesh's research into the acceleration of culture producing a byproduct of infantilism; also known as 'the kawaii-ization of everything.'

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Leslie Kulesh (b.1982 Lake Forest, IL USA) produces performance and sculpture across multiple platforms, seeking to reveal the role of technology as a material labour that intersects with human-being as well as land-being, becoming a symptom of contemporary culture production. Her most recent project T.A.G. Temporary Autonomous Girl is a capsule collection of garments that protect the wearer from electromagnetic frequencies. Presenting the collection allows for experiments in performing networked capitalism, while the pieces themselves function as editioned artworks.

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Share This 'Share This' is a research project by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Het Nieuwe Instituut, The Netherland Institute for Sound and Vision and Upload Cinema. Their aim is to explore ways of collecting and presenting artists, designers and image creators currently active on social media.

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Dan Walwin '2013, 2014'

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Dan Walwin (1986, UK) studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and was resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2012-2013). Recent exhibitions include: Cess, jel ever terrass? at Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam / Kazachenko's Apartment, Oslo (2014); Marl Media Art Awards, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (2014); University of Greenwich Galleries, London (2014); UTOPIA, Stedelijk Museum at Trouw, Amsterdam (2013); The Enormous Speed of Change, Hoog Catharijne/Utrecht Central Station, Utrecht (2013); tele-, P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2012).

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Rebecca Lennon 'The Spectrum' is a hyper text.

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Rebecca Lennon (b. 1981, Manchester) lives and works in London. She graduated from the Fine Art MA programme at The Slade, London in 2010. Solo exhibitions include ‘Don't let It End This way, Tell Them I Said Something’, Bloc, Sheffield, 2012; ‘We are Stuck Here Together’, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, 2010 and ‘Since they got rid of Time, Galerie Metro, Berlin, 2008. Recent group shows include Escape Routes, Limbo, Margate, Foam, Pro Numb, London, Dental Flux, The South Bank Centre, London, 2014, Transitio MX Festival, Mexico City, Fresh Trauma, Ceri Hand Gallery & The Everything & Nothing Problem, Jerwood, London, Writtle Calling, Essex, Notes on an Autobiography, Limoncello Gallery, London, 2013. In 2012, she participated in an EMARE residency at CANTE, SLP, Mexico.

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Mark Aerial Waller 'Dust Storm Sense Memory' was originally commissioned by Jennifer Teets for Nero Magazine in the online exhibition 'A Clock That Runs On Mud'.

DENNIS HOPPER (1983) interviewed by John A. Gallagher

Phoenix Dust Storm Timelapse July 5, 2011

Text by Mark Aerial Waller

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Living in London, Waller's current and ongoing art practice addresses questions of the encryption, transmission and interpretation of cultural data across time, through video, event, sculpture and audio. Earlier this year his work was commissioned by the ICA for Channel 4 and he recently made a three-day live video piece for Mirrorcity, Hayward Gallery, London. His video works are distributed by LUX and he is represented by Rodeo.

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Eloïse Bonneviot 'Thinking Like A Mountian' is an ongoing project with a fluent research board, or map-out, on Pinterest, surrounding an upcoming video work.

The CC structure will provide further forms of dialogue with Bonneviot and TLAM within the process and its final presentation. The disclosure of the artist’s loosely collected strands is thus the starting point for an active and rhizomatic net/art/work.

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Eloïse Bonneviot (b. 1986) is an artist living and working in London. She is currently completing an MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London. Recent projects include: Meditative Relaxation Cycle - EXTENSION, Tank.tv, London; The mycological Twist, Jupiter Woods, London; Tabularium, Slopes, Melbourne (AU), The Meditative Relaxation Cycle, Arcadia Missa, London, all 2014.

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Luca Francesconi 'Fieldwork' is a selected YouTube playlist concerned with the ideas of ecology and cultivation of (cyber)space.

"The limit is the empirical part of the space, and I realized how to establish borders, which is the beginning of the activity in each cultivation, is a way to manage large spaces into smaller spaces. Manage spaces, but also “to organize” spaces, and finally “curate” spaces... Cultivation is only an activity, human life, nothing about the order and the art. Before agriculture there is rhythm, and before the rhythm there are space and the limit."

- Luca Francesconi

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Luca Francesconi was born 1979 in Mantua, Italy. Lives and works in Mantua, IT and Paris, FR. Recent solo exhibitions include: 2014, Pane pane pane vino canale di scolo, Umberto di Marino, Naples, IT; 2013, Geode Cupa, Fluxia, Milan, IT; 2012, Echo of the Moon, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, FR; Echo of the Moon, Musée Beurnier-Rossel, Montbéliard, FR; 2011, De labore Solis, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR. Recent group exhibitions include: 2014, Shanaynay, Paris, FR; Braccia, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, IT; 2013, Braccia, MAN, Nuoro, IT; Il fascino discreto dell’oggetto. Figura 2: Natura Morta, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, IT; Art of Living (Goodbye Blue Monday), Chez Valentin, Paris, FR; 2012, Orlando, Broadbeck Foundation, Palermo/ L’A project space, Palermo/ BOCS, Catania, IT; Tumulus, MOTinternational, Brussels, BG; Cara Domani, works from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, MAMBO, Boulogne, IT; 2011, ILLUMInations, 54 Venice Biennal, Venice, IT, curated by Bice Curiger.

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Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson 'Calling you from Cosmos Carl'

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Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson (b.1984) is a storyteller, a performer, a dancer, an object maker, an illustrator. He has a love for the absurd, by which is meant less an obsessive passion for the ridiculous, nonsensical or the odd, than a tender and caring attitude: he takes care of the absurd, he helps it to develop, he gives it a place alongside everything else where it can be your most disturbing neighbour and your best friend. More often than not Styrmir uses the written language as a genesis of his work. Written pieces are then adapted into live performances that activate obects, things and gestures. The performances and their narrative, that often are delivered as monologues, serve as an exhibition device for autonomous art objects. Styrmir lives in Amsterdam & Warsaw. www.styrmir.eu

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Cosmos Carl - Platform Parasite is an online platform that hosts nothing but links provided by the artist. Be it encrypted, inside an archive, available through open source software, live-streamed, downloadable, in a webshop, on the dark web, or on streetview, the CC work, although on public display, is directly accessible through the hyperlinks displayed on the website.

CC encourages artists to reclaim (commercial) online platforms to produce and display their art. This means that the work is displayed on a website that is neither designed nor hosted by the artist.

The fact that the work is made on an existing online platform implies that visitors may stumble upon it, not necessarily viewing it as art.

Examples of platforms so far explored are:

* CC is run by  Frederique Pisuisse  &  
Saemundur Thor Helgason