** Enquiries and workshop registration: kylie@castgallery.org

VENUES
CAST Gallery - 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart
Dechaineux Lecture Theatre, Tasmanian School of Art, Hunter Street
Constance ARI - 100 Goulburn Street, Hobart

KEY DATES
3 DAY RITUAL: WORKSHOPS, TALKS AND PERFORMANCES: 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2013
OPENING EVENT: Friday 31 MAY from 6pm
NOTORIOUS R&D EVENT: 23 JUNE 2013 From 3pm
This event is presented in association with MONA as part of DARK MOFO 2013
EXHIBITION: 31 MAY – 30 JUNE 2013 - During gallery hours

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ONLINE
tacticalmagick.net
castgallery.org
chat: irc.indymedia.org #etc
twitter tag: #misshack
mail list: genderchangers.org/mailman/listinfo/mdhhh

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***SCHEDULE***

FRIDAY 31 MAY 2013

1000- 1200 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 1.0 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) | Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Learn how to manipulate computer networks and how they manipulate us. No prior knowledge of networking required. No fear 1337 hackahz will be catered 4. **
Registrations essential: kylie@castgallery.org

1230 – 1330 | Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Art | Dechaineux Lecture Theatre
Florian Cramer (GER/NL)
Art Forum
Media experimentation in contemporary art has shifted. This talk will sketch why the post-digital and neo-analog are more than retro trends.

1400 – 1630 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 1.1 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) | Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Routing, core protocols, network analysis, network packet capture and dissection. **

1800 | Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits (NAF:TMFC)_* OPENING * | CAST
Presentations, public conversations, performances and carnivalesque

Magick Vs Magic in Digital Culture | Keynote Florian Cramer (RU/GER) | CAST
What is the occult underground in computing and how does it relate to contemporary art and design? Followed by a short Q&A

Loader (Porcelain) | Constant Dullaart (NL) | CAST
Performance. A tribute to all the uploaders… \o\ \o/ /o/

Don’t Be Evil | Matthew Fuller (UK) | CAST | Website
Stratagems of Contemporary Media Power (Remote) presentation with live visuals by Miss Despoinas.

Benchmarking the Deranged | Rosa Menkman (NL) | CAST
Performance lecture: ‘Instead of choosing "best practices" as a point of reference, what happens when we chose an unreasonable benchmark?’

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SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2013

1100 - 1300 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 2.0 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) and Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Participants learn to read network
topologies as political control structures, seeing how corporations and governments shape and control the way we use computer networks. **

1400 – 1700 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 2.1 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) and Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Continued. **

1830 | Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drum | Josephine Bosma (NL) | CAST | Website
The contemporary art world’s refusal to look beyond the screen of the computer is part of a history of obscured alliances between human and machine. (remote)

1900 | Topos and Techne: Re-Embodying Technology | Keynote Prof. Jeff Malpas (AUS) | CAST
Presentation. Technology isn’t new. It has been around for as long as there has been language.

19:30 – 20:30 | Tactical M[ez_tr]agic: Hostage_Stage + [st]Ream_Spam | Mez Breeze (AUS) | CAST | IRC | Mailinglist
Performance. [DE]SCRIPT: #Prepare [or: “Previously, on Mezangelle…]# (remote).

2000 | Seeking extra-sentience in social media spaces: the beginning is infinitely near Asher Wolf (AUS)| CAST
Presentation. When we spend most of our lives online, connected to others -who are "we"? How do mass online swarms begin and dissipate?

2100
BlackMagick/WhiteMagick | Anne Goldenberg (CAN/FRA) + Karine Rathle (CAN/UK) | CAST
Performance. Power relationships and dependency toward our technological tools.

2130 | Improvisation| Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) and Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL) | CAST
Performance Disko
Chill out session

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SUNDAY 2 JUNE 2013

1100- 1300 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 3.0 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) and Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Learn to study power structures by tracing the flow of packets as they pass over land and sea. Macro-economic and geostrategic speculations will be made. **

1400 – 1600 | NET_WORKSHOP Part 3.1 | CAST
Julian Oliver (NZ/GER) and Danja Vasiliev (RU/GER/NL)
Participants will be provided with a LiveUSB operating system complete with tools familiar to both the hacker and network engineer alike. **

1600 – 1730 | Radiophony: Haunted Air | Julia Drouhin (FRA/AUS) | CAST
Sound performance. 18 artists from France, UK, Brazil, Argentina and Australia. Chill OUT session.

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WED 5 JUNE - FRI 7 JUNE

1400 – 1600 | Attent!on Som(t)a(c)tic – Anne Goldenberg (FRA/CAN) + Karine Rathle (CAN/UK) | Constance ARI
Experiential Somatic Dance Workshops.
Enquiries/registration:
anne goldenberg.anne@gmail.com

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SUNDAY 9 JUNE | TACTICAL MAGICK CRITICAL RESPONSE (CLOSED SESSION) @ CAST
1300 - 1600

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SUNDAY 16 JUNE | TACTICAL MAGICK CRITICAL RESPONSE (CLOSED SESSION) @ CAST
1300 - 1600

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SUNDAY 23 JUNE

1500 – Late | Notorious R&D | CAST
Rahni Allan, Emma Bugg, Selena de Carvalho, Jason James, Astrid Joyce, Idiot Lust, Dylan Sheridan, Nick Smithies (TAS)

Responses to the NAF:TMFC hothouse ritual. Live coding, tele-robotics, net-art, installation, performance… Releases early, often and with home-made dream machine whirs, encoded charms & fem-botics. This is notorious R&D. 

BlackMagick|WhiteMagick | Anne Goldenberg (FRA/CAN) + Karine Rathle (CAN/UK) | CAST
Performance. Power relationships toward our technological tools.

Tactical M[ez_tr]agic: Hostage_Stage + [st]Ream_Spam_ featuring Mez  | Mez Breeze AUS | CAST | IRC | Mailinglist
Performance (remote). [DE]SCRIPT: #Prepare [or: “Previously, on Mezangelle…]#

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SUN 30 JUNE
LAST DAY OF EXHIBITION
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