Black Box by Sara Bezovšek and Dorijan Šiško

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘃𝘀̌𝗲𝗸, 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗦̌𝗶𝘀̌𝗸𝗼
𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘅
EXHIBITION @ Aksioma Project Space
20 August–5 September 2025
aksioma.org/black-box

𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐵𝑜𝑥 is a manifestation of total algorithmically driven curation, encapsulated in the form of a video game. The intermedia installation codes between the physical and virtual realm, tasking players with exploring the inner workings of a deconstructed recommender system that forms, facilitates and amplifies online identities. In a political environment where the overton window is drastically shifting, the complex relations of different ideologies and identity positions can be difficult to fully grasp. The player will navigate this dense memetic landscape by feeding themselves to different filter bubbles and interacting with diverging pills, creating an aesthetic representation of their internet-mediated belief system.
– Lea Sande

𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆✳️🌀✴️⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘃𝘀̌𝗲𝗸 is a visual artist working in the fields of internet art, experimental film and graphic design. Her artistic practice is characterized by reappropriation of online and pop cultural materials. Using a dense visual language of references, she taps into the collective imaginarium and constructs engaging narratives that are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily.
✷ sarabezovsek.com

𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗦̌𝗶𝘀̌𝗸𝗼 is an intermedia artist and graphic designer whose practice spans the fields of video games, experimental interfaces, spatial installations, 3D graphics, and digital art. In his practice he explores speculative, post-digital, post-internet, experimental, and critical aspects of art and design. By creating virtual visual-theoretical worlds, his works explore themes such as fringe digital culture, parallel realities, the dark side of the internet, alternative futures of humanity, and post-truth.
✷ dorijansisko.com

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𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘃𝘀̌𝗲𝗸, 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗦̌𝗶𝘀̌𝗸𝗼
𝗖̌𝗿𝗻𝗮 𝘀̌𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗹𝗮
RAZSTAVA @ Aksioma Projektni prostor
20. avgust–5. september 2025
aksioma.org/sl/black-box

𝐶̌𝑟𝑛𝑎 𝑠̌𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑎 je manifestacija algoritmične kuracije totalnosti, utelešena v obliki video igre. Intermedijska instalacija kodira med fizičnim in virtualnim, igralkam pa podaja nalogo raziskovanja globljega delovanja dekonstruiranega priporočilnega sistema. V političnem okolju, kjer se overtonovo okno drastično spreminja, je pogosto težko zaobjeti kompleksne odnose med različnimi ideologijami in identitetnimi pozicijami. Igralka se tako prebija skozi gosto memetično pokrajino s tem, da se potopi v različne filtrirne mehurčke in izbira med raznolikimi pilli, s čimer ustvari reprezentacijo svojega spletno-mediiranega svetovnega nazora.
– Lea Sande

𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆✳️🌀✴️⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗼𝘃𝘀̌𝗲𝗸 je vizualna umetnica, ki deluje na področjih internetne umetnosti, eksperimentalnega filma in grafičnega oblikovanja. Za njeno umetniško prakso je značilna reapropriacija spletnega in popkulturnega gradiva. Z uporabo gostega vizualnega jezika referenc se dotika kolektivnega imaginarija ter gradi pripovedi, ki so hkrati kritika in praznovanje močno nasičenih spletnih medijskih pokrajin, skozi katere se vsakodnevno premikamo.
✷ sarabezovsek.com

𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗻 𝗦̌𝗶𝘀̌𝗸𝗼 je intermedijski umetnik in grafični oblikovalec, katerega praksa sega na področja video iger, eksperimentalnih vmesnikov, prostorskih postavitev, 3D grafike in digitalne umetnosti. V svojem delu raziskuje spekulativne, postdigitalne, postinternetne, eksperimentalne in kritične vidike umetnosti in oblikovanja. Z ustvarjanjem virtualnih vizualno-teoretičnih svetov njegova dela obravnavajo teme, kot so obrobna digitalna kultura, vzporedne resničnosti, temna plat interneta, alternativne prihodnosti človeštva in obdobje postresnice.
✷ dorijansisko.com

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Financial support: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.