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SUMMARY:ArtLab Summer exhibition - Come Chat With Me
DTSTART:20170629T110000
DTEND:20170924T180000
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CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:!Mediengruppe Bitnik\nEPFL ArtLab dedicates its second tempora
 ry exhibition to the work of !Mediengruppe Bitnik\, whose acidic yet playf
 ul take on our digital everyday will occupy ArtLab’s central exhibition 
 space all summer long.\n\nBuilding on a project which the Zurich-via-Berli
 n duo Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo initially developed for Kunsthau
 s Langenthal\, Come Chat With Me follows up on exhibitions held at Centre 
 culturel suisse de Paris and swissnex San Francisco and is produced in coo
 peration with these two institutions.\n\nWhile the exhibition features no 
 direct input from EPFL laboratories\, it offers a potent artistic take on 
 topics that are at the core of contemporary science – society relationsh
 ips\, such as the ever- growing presence of automated process in our digit
 al environments\, human – bot relationships\, artificial intelligence\, 
 and the heated battles surrounding ownership and use of personal and insti
 tutional data.\n\nSeductive but diffusing a creeping air of unease\, Ashle
 y Madison: Angels at Work in Lausanne is at the core of the exhibition. Bu
 ilt around the renowned 2015 data leak of the Canadian dating website\, th
 e installation gives a physical presence to the chat bots that constitute 
 most of the female community of the website. It thereby probes our uneasy 
 emotional relationships in environments where human and machine interactio
 ns are increasingly difficult to tell apart.\n\nBuilding on that core piec
 e\, Come Chat With Me takes a retrospective look at the work of !Mediengru
 ppe Bitnik with works produced between 2012 and 2017\, effectively making 
 the exhibition the largest so far by the duo in French-speaking Switzerlan
 d.\n\nOPENING: THURSDAY JUNE 29 AT 6 P.M. (access is free and open to all)
LOCATION:Bâtiment ArtLab - pavillon Art/Science http://plan.epfl.ch/?room
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