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Sašo Sedlaček
Infocalypse Now!
Instalation, demonstration, discussion
Wednesday, October 22, 8 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
After his successful appearances at Ars Electronica, 6th Taipei Biennial and Ö-U Immobilien in Secession in Vienna, Sašo Sedlaček is back to his Infocalypse project.
This time, as a guest of SCCA-Ljubljana and its program No Nails, No Pedestals.
Infocalypse Now! (production Aksioma, Ljubljana) has already been presented in Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, and has travelled around multimedia centres throughout Slovenia.
On October 22 at 8 pm, The Project Room SCCA will become a temporary scene for the Infocalypse Now! with Sašo Sedlaček demonstrating its efficiency. In a subsequent discussion, he will tackle the potential of the arts for efficient contemporary activism and for systemic changes in media on the national level.
Kindly welcome!
Infocalypse Now! is an initiative for the creation of an autonomous media zone in the 700 MHz spectrum, within which analogue television stations broadcast at present. With the introduction of the digital signal by 2012, the majority of the spectrum, just like the present-day analogue technology, will become a junkyard, which will be appropriated by the capital.
Since the majority of the frequency space will become unutilised and since analogue technology necessary for transmission and reception is extremely accessible and cheap, it is downright appropriate that a part of the frequencies is occupied by the civil sphere, to which the public goods, such as water, health services, frequency spectrum etc., are intended after all.
A greater accessibility of the 700 MHz spectrum - a very useful low-frequency band - would, besides offering non-commercial television contents and independent production, stimulate the development of innovations in the field of wireless Internet, improve the local communication network, contribute to the development of small enterprise and, last but not least, prevent households, individuals and groups with low incomes from lagging behind development while technology advances.
 
 
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Author and realization: Sašo Sedlaček
Concept: Sašo Sedlaček and Janez Janša
Adviser: Sandra Bašič Hrvatin
Production: Aksioma - Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana
Projekt was supported by Ministry of Culture of RS and Municipality of Ljubljana.
 Sašo Sedlaček (1974, Ljubljana) finished the Secondary School for Photography and Design in Ljubljana (1993) and studied and graduated in Sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana (196-2000), where he is currently concluding postgraduate studies of Scultpure an New Media.
No Nails, No Pedestals is presenting authors, working in the field of contemporary artistic practices (installations, performances, video, interdisciplinary & web projects). The artists can present their works by using different media and program tools for presentation on computer screens, television sets and wall projections. The audience is encouraged to reflect the works and intervene in the discussion and thus add to the interpretational level of artistic practices with their feedback.
SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.
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