The "Poetics of Encryption" group exhibition, inspired by Nadim Samman's recent book, invites visitors to delve into the implications of digital-age encryption. It examines themes of hiddenness and the covert operations of modern technologies as reflected in contemporary art. Discover a landscape populated by "black spots," "black boxes," and "black holes," prompting reflection on our relationship with opaque technological systems. This thought-provoking show features works by numerous engaging artists.
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This group exhibition, inspired by Nadim Samman's book 'Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene', explores the concept of 'encryption' and its implications in the digital age. It examines themes of hiddenness, black boxes, and black holes within modern technology and their reflection in contemporary art.
The group exhibition 'Poetics of Encryption' is based on Nadim Samman's recent book and investigates the core meaning of 'encryption,' which relates to a certain 'hiddenness.' It maps an imaginative landscape populated by 'black spots,' 'black boxes,' and 'black holes,' highlighting how modern technologies capture their users, operate covertly, and distort cultural space-time. The exhibition is structured into three parts, each offering an imaginative model of humanity's position within this world of digital mysteries and hidden mechanisms. The first part, 'Black Spot,' reflects states of being locked in, trapped, or buried in a technological grave. The 'Black Box' section explores how artists depict the inaccessibility of the inner workings of ubiquitous consumer and industrial products to our intellect. Finally, the 'Black Hole' part addresses how super-dense digital archives and computational processes blur the lines between inside and outside, before and after, and sense and nonsense. Through this latent space of exclusion, concealment, mystery, searching, and speculation about technological interiors, an emergent 'poetics of encryption' arises. The exhibition features works that engage with these themes, prompting reflection on our relationship with increasingly complex and opaque technological systems. The accompanying publication, 'Poetika kódování: Umění v technocénu,' by Nadim Samman, further elaborates on these concepts.
Admission to the exhibition is free.
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