About the exhibition
(Bosanski ispod)
The All-Aligned is a digital art project by Uroš Krčadinac. An open source AI system for automated flag design, it visualises the fractal-like fragmentary nature of our digital condition and raises questions about the society where identity creation is mediated by Big Tech.
The software was written in Python (back-end) and JavaScript (front-end). The heart of the software consists of digital systems of statistical distributions for mapping semantics to graphics. Ideas and concepts (pirate, Balkan, libertarian, ecological, dark, etc.) are being mapped onto graphic elements (colors, layouts, symbols, new shapes, etc.).
As an endless ideological machine, the All-Aligned asks three questions:
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How do flags work, and how do they fragment us politically?
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How do AI algorithms work, and how do they fragment us economically?
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How does classic binary logic work, and how does it fragment us existentially?
The algorithm adapts to the individual identity consumer: for one, it will generate a maritime-Balkan-libertarian identity; for another, Slovenian-clerical-vegan; for a third anti-vaxxer-anarcho-Orthodox; for a fourth punk-Vojvodina-Inselian, for a fifth European-new-age-Sumatraist. Identities multiply fractally, ad infinitum, to infinity. Symbol populations multiply like Internet memes or Darwin's finches.
Algorithms are all-aligned, and identities multiply fractally. The flag doubles, once again and again, like a mathematical fractal. Is that the world we live in? Ideology with a joystick. Fractal brands. Fractal profiles. Fractal nations. Fractal individuals.
Katherine Hales asked herself: Are we becoming the codes we type into computers? Boris Buden said: Identity is a bone to gnaw on before they strip you to the bare skin. The poet Rumi sang: No flag. Only love. Only the sail and the wind. But no flag. And Zen poets would add: That which is fluttering, is it a flag or the wind? None: your mind is fluttering.
How do our minds flutter?
Crew
Along with Uroš Krčadinec, Maida Gruden, coordinator of the residency, curator, and editor of the DKSG art program; Andrija Stojanović, producer and project coordinator; Ana Pinter, director and choreographer; Lav Mrenović, curator, and Jelena Pejović, graphic designer, worked on this project — technical and programming support: Miloš Rančić, Jacques Laroche and Antonije Petrović.
The project was started at the international art residency They: live - student lives revealed through context-based artistic practices. The residency was supported by Creative Europe in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia. Later development of the project was supported by Drugo more from Rijeka and Kontejner from Zagreb. The project has so far been exhibited in the DKSG Gallery in Belgrade, the Filodrammatica Gallery in Rijeka, the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery in Zagreb, and the Montenegrin Art Gallery "Miodrag Dado Đurić" in Cetinje, as part of the XI Fluid design forum.
Biography
Uroš Krčadinac (1984) is a digital artist, doctor of computer science, author, and educator. His transdisciplinary practice includes programming, writing, animation, and cartography.
He published his research papers in the best IEEE journals and exhibited his artworks at numerous exhibitions, festivals, and conferences in the country and abroad. As an educator and public lecturer, he designed and held over 100 public lectures, forums and workshops. He had five solo exhibitions. He received his doctorate in computer science at the University of Belgrade.
He currently works as an associate professor of digital art and computing at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade. He also works as a research associate at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, as a visiting teacher at the Department of New Media at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and as a traveling educator in various formal and informal contexts.
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(Bosanski)
Svesvrstani su digitalno-umjetnički projekat Uroša Krčadinca. Kao AI sistem otvorenog koda za automatizovan dizajn zastava, Svesvrstani vizuelizuju fraktalnu i fragmentarnu prirodu naših digitalnih života i postavljaju pitanja o društvu čije identitete usmjeravaju algoritmi.
Softverski sistem je napisan u Pythonu (back-end) i JavaScriptu (front-end). Srce programa čine sistemi statističkih distribucija za mapiranje semantike na grafiku. Ideje i pojmovi (piratsko, balkansko, libertarijansko, ekološko, inselsko, mračno, ljubavno, itd) mapiraju se na grafičke elemente (boje, layoute, simbole, nove oblike, itd).
Kao beskonačna ideološka mašina, Svesvrstani postavljaju tri pitanja:
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Kako zastave rade i kako nas politički fragmentišu?
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Kako AI algoritmi rade i kako nas ekonomski fragmentišu?
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Kako klasična binarna logika radi i kako nas egzistencijalno fragmentiše?
Algoritam se prilagođava pojedinačnom identitetskom potrošaču: za jednog će generisati pomorsko-balkansko-libertarijanski identitet, za drugog slovensko-klerikalno-veganski, za trećeg antivaksersko-anarhopravoslavni, za četvrtog pank-vojvođansko-inselski, za petog evropsko-njuejdž-sumatraistički. Identiteti se umnožavaju fraktalno, ad infinitum, do u beskraj. Populacije simbola razmnožavaju se poput internet mema ili Darvinovih zeba.
Algoritmi su svesvrstani, a identiteti se umnožavaju fraktalno. Zastava se udvaja, još jednom, pa još jednom, kao matematički fraktal. Da li je to svijet u kojem živimo? Ideologija sa džojstikom. Fraktalni brendovi. Fraktalni profili. Fraktalne nacije. Fraktalni pojedinci.
Ketrin Hejls se zapitala: Postajemo li kodovi koje ukucavamo u računare? Boris Buden je rekao: Identitet je kost za glodanje koji vam uvale prije nego vas oderu do gole kože. Pjesnik Rumi je pjevao: Nikakav barjak. Jedino ljubav. Jedino jarbol za barjak, i vjetar. Ali nikakav barjak. A zen pjesnici bi dodali: To što se vijori, da li je to zastava ili vjetar? Nijedno: vijori se tvoj um.
Kako se vijore naši umovi?
Ekipa
Uz Uroša Krčadinca, na ovom projektu radili su Maida Gruden, koordinatorka rezidencije, kustoskinja i urednica likovnog programa DKSG, Andrija Stojanović, producent i koordinator projekta, Ana Pinter, rediteljka i koreografkinja, Lav Mrenović, kustos, kao i Jelena Pejović, grafička dizajnerka. Tehnička i programerska podrška: Miloš Rančić, Jacques Laroche i Antonije Petrović.
Projekat je započet na međunarodnoj umjetničkoj rezidenciji They: Live – student lives revealed through context-based art practices. Rezidenciju je podržala Kreativna Evropa u saradnji sa Ministarstvom kulture i informisanja Republike Srbije. Kasniji razvoj projekta podržali su Drugo more iz Rijeke i Kontejner iz Zagreba. Projekat je dosad izlagan u Galeriji DKSG u Beogradu, Galeriji Filodrammatica u Rijeci, Galeriji Miroslav Kraljević u Zagrebu, te Crnogorskoj galeriji umjetnosti “Miodrag Dado Đurić” na Cetinju, u okviru XI Fluid dizajn foruma.
Biografija
Uroš Krčadinac (1984) je digitalni umjetnik, doktor informatike, autor i edukator. Njegova transdisciplinarna praksa obuhvata programiranje, pisanje, animaciju i kartografiju.
Istraživačke radove objavio je u najboljim IEEE časopisima, dok je umjetničke radove izlagao na brojnim izložbama, festivalima i konferencijama u zemlji i inostranstvu. Kao edukator i javni predavač, osmislio je i održao preko 100 javnih predavanja, tribina i radionica. Imao je 5 samostalnih izložbi. Doktorirao je informatiku na Univerzitetu u Beogradu.
Trenutno radi kao vanredni profesor digitalne umjetnosti i računarstva na Fakultetu za medije i komunikacije u Beogradu. Takođe radi kao istraživač-saradnik Laboratorije za primenjenu vještačku inteligenciju Fakulteta organizacionih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu, kao gostujući nastavnik na Odseku za nove likovne medije Akademije umetnosti u Novom Sadu i kao putujući edukator u raznim formalnim i neformalnim kontekstima.