(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it. Is it possible to create specific real-world outcomes by modifying our data streams? Can we intentionally produce data to interact with an algorithmic environment that is opaque, elusive and at the same time all-encompassing? In this book, the authors and artists explore the production of unreal data as acts of resistance and opposition, and as attempts to carve out small and often temporary spaces of agency and autonomy when faced with systems that seem to leave little room for imagination and choice. With texts by Régine Debatty, Xiaowei Wang, Günseli Yalçınkaya, Milia Xin Bi and Thomas Spies, artworks by Simon Weckert and Total Refusal, and a collaborative project by Selena Savić, Gordan Savičić and !Mediengruppe Bitnik.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik are contemporary artists working on, and with, the internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical spaces, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms.

Janez Fakin Janša is a conceptual artist and independent art producer. He is co-founder and artistic director of Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana.

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(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects Régine Debatty, Thomas Spies, Xiaowei Wang, Milia Xin Bi, Günseli Yalçınkaya

Editors: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Janez Fakin Janša Design: Federico Antonini, Simone Cavallin

Published by: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Represented by: Marcela Okretič

Ljubljana, October 2024 © Aksioma | All text and image rights reserved by their respective authors