DATAS residency | Workshop: Infocry with fantastic little splash

𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰𝚂 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚢 | 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙: 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑

Join us for a workshop with our current artists-in-residence, the fantastic little splash collective!

🗓️ 29 October 2025, 18:00–19:30
📍osmo/za, 8th floor, Slovenska 54, 1000 Ljubljana

The session will combine OSINT investigation methods, threat intelligence, journalism, and artistic research to identify how Russia’s emotional influence tactics are used in campaigns in Ukraine, the EU, and particularly in Slovenia.

In the first part of the workshop, the artist will present several cases from Ukraine and the EU in order to highlight tactics used by inauthentic actors, as well as methods to uncover them. In the second practical part, the participants will explore how similar tactics are employed in Slovenia. Together, we’ll try to identify and map key narratives and areas vulnerable to influence, and examine the specific local tone of voice used by these actors.

The goal of the workshop is to document situated knowledge, which can help participants recognise how certain feelings might be targeted or amplified within influence campaigns.

You do not need any prior knowledge or skills to attend the workshop. The number of participants is limited, so please apply at [email protected]. The workshop will be held in English. Participation in the workshop is free.
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fantastic little splash is a collective comprised of journalist/artist Lera Malchenko and artist/director Oleksandr Hants. They combine art practice and media studies to research collective imagination and emotions appropriation in technosocial systems. Established in 2016 in Ukraine, their projects have been exhibited at events including transmediale, post.MoMA, Plokta TV, Ars Electronica, Liste Art Fair Basel, Construction festival VI x CYNETART, KISFF, and Docudays, among others. They were participants of the transmediale x Pro Helvetia Residency 2022, and the Cité internationale des arts residency 2023.

🌐 The residency is a part of the DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign, an international art and research programme that brings together artists, theorists, and technologists to explore how digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithmic governance impact personal and political sovereignty.

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𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰𝚂 𝚛𝚎𝚣𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚊 | 𝙳𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚟𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊: 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚢 𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑

Vabljeni, da se nam pridružite na delavnici z našima rezidenčnima umetnikoma fantastic little splash!

🗓️ 29. oktober 2025, 18.00–19.30
📍osmo/za, 8. nadstropje, Slovenska 54, 1000 Ljubljana

Na delavnici bomo s pomočjo metod preiskovanja OSINT, mehanizmov obveščanja o grožnjah, novinarske metodologije in umetniškega raziskovanja analizirali ruske taktike čustvenega vplivanja, ki se uporabljajo v kampanjah v Ukrajini, EU in zlasti v Sloveniji.

V prvem delu delavnice bosta umetnika predstavila primere iz Ukrajine in EU ter izpostavila različne taktike neavtentičnih akterjev ter metode za njihovo odkrivanje. V drugem, praktičnem delu bodo udeleženci in udeleženke raziskali, kako se podobne taktike uporabljajo v Sloveniji. Skupaj bomo poskušali identificirati in mapirati ključne narative in področja, na katera je mogoče vplivati ter opredeliti specifičen lokalni ton glasov, ki jih uporabljajo ti akterji.

Cilj delavnice je dokumentirati situacijsko znanje, ki lahko udeležencem in udeleženkam pomaga pri prepoznavanju, na kakšen način se določen čustva targetira in potencira v okviru kampanj javnega vplivanja.

Za udeležbo na delavnici ne potrebujete predhodnega znanja ali veščin. Število udeležencev je omejeno, zato se prijavite na naslovu [email protected]. Udeležba na delavnici je brezplačna in bo potekala v angleškem jeziku.
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fantastic little splash je kolektiv, ki ga sestavljata novinarka in umetnica Lera Malchenko ter umetnik in režiser Oleksandr Hants. Kolektiv je bil ustanovljen leta 2016 v Ukrajini, njune projekte pa so razstavljali na dogodkih, kot so transmediale, post.MoMA, Plokta TV, Ars Electronica, Liste Art Fair Basel, Construction festival VI x CYNETART, KISFF in Docudays. Bila sta udeleženca rezidenčnega programa transmediale x Pro Helvetia 2022 in Cité internationale des arts 2023.

🌐 Rezidenca je del mednarodnega umetniškega in raziskovalnega programa DATAS: Podatki in suveren, ki združuje umetnike, teoretike in tehnologe, z namenom, da bi raziskali, kako digitalne infrastrukture, umetna inteligenca in algoritemsko upravljanje vplivajo na osebno in politično suverenost.

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Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework. / Projekt sofinancira Evropska unija v okviru programa Ustvarjalna Evropa.