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Co-published by the Link Art Center, Brescia, and Aksioma, Ljubljana, and edited by Bani Brusadin, Eva and Franco Mattes and Domenico Quaranta, The Black Chamber publication is now available in print on demand and free download. Not just an exhibition catalogue, this book includes original material, texts and documents kindly provided by the artists and their publishers, documentation of the live events and excerpts from the conference. More info here

Organized by Drugo more in Rijeka (HR), this year's edition of Mine, Yours, Ours festival deals with surveillance as one of the most important issues of contemporary era.  The programme includes The Black Chamber exhibition, lectures, presentations, a workshop, and a performance. More info here

The conference and group exhibition curated by Eva & Franco Mattes and Bani Brusadin about surveillance, paranoia, invisibility and the internet is now moving from Ljubljana to MMSU/Mali salon in Rijeka, Croatia. More info here

How did the internet go from the utopian free-for-all, open source heaven, libertarian last frontier to the current state of permanent surveillance, exhibitionism and paranoia? This duplicity is the underlying thread of The Black Chamber exhibition and conference. More info here

With a wallet of 100$ in Bitcoins per week, and the task to randomly buy whatever fits in its wallet and send it to the Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana, the Random Darknet Shopper goes for shopping through AlphaBay, an online marketplace accessible via Tor browser, listing about 96,132 products. More info here

The winning entry for the “In My Computer” Call for Proposals 2016, that invited artists, thinkers, and computer users to submit proposals for the ongoing book series “In My Computer”, published by Link Editions, is FDIC Insured, by Michael Mandiberg. The project will be produced by Link Art Center and AND in two steps: first as an online project, and later as a publication. More info here

A fair, series of performances and workshops dedicated to exploring how technologies create new forms of social dialogue. More info here

On February 5 2016  at 8 pm The Pirate Book will be presented in Berlin at the Cafe Stage of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin in the framework of transmediale 2016. On stage the co-editors Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska together with Christopher Kirkley, Alessandro Ludovico and Clément Renaud. More info here.

The AND Fair is back! Taking place in Rijeka, Croatia on 5 and 6 February 2016, the Fair acts as a catalyst for the new approaches in the use of technology for the purposes of art and inventiveness in the field of mechanics, electronics and programming, with the goal of exploring new and challenging conventional views of technology. More info here.  

Demonized, presented as criminals, jailed or often forced to seek for asylum in other countries, whistleblowers are part of the small yet powerful army of people - investigative journalists, activists, hackers, video makers, artists - who are fighting for social justice and civil liberty, and against the limitations of freedom coming from mass surveillance and censorship. More info here