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 2024, Mar 28
 - 2024, Apr 17
DIGITAL OXYMORON
GALLERY MKC / YOUTH CENTRE
EXHIBITION
Exhibition opening
Thursday, 28.O3. at 7 PM

Photographies: artwork of Igor Štromajer
Photos taken by: Gregor Salobir
Participants: Format C (Dina and Vedran Gligo), Hrvoje Hiršl, Petra Mrša, Toni Soprano Meneglejte, Andrej Škufca, Igor Štromajer, Ivana Tkalčić

Curator: Irena Borić
Production: Foundation Sonda
Support: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Split
Organization: MKC Split
The exhibition Digital Oxymoron reflects the material side of digital technologies through artistic practices. Although the virtual seems immaterial, the space beyond the other side of our keyboard is based on physical conditions and has concrete (often negative) consequences for the environment and society. At the same time, it is a space of exchange and the circulation of capital which influences the narrative about the immateriality of the digital. Precisely because of this apparent dematerialization in relation to other technologies and industries, the trace of digital technologies is even more ‘insidious’. It is difficult to make end users aware that digital waste is not only hardware and computer monitors, but also has environmental, social, political and economic consequences. Precisely because the scope of the material and ecological consequences of digital technologies is not easily comprehensible, the exhibition explores the different poetics and politics of digital technologies from this side of the screen.