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  1. exhibition opening: ganz nah

    bb15 – space for contemporary art, Wednesday, January 21 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

    ganz nah
    Lisa Großkopf / Sarah Rinderer 
     

    21.01.2026 – 06.02.2026
    Exhibition Opening: January 21st, 2026, 7pm
    Performance: » – . ! : (voices: Mzamo Nondlwana, Aaron Josi Sternbauer, Crystal Wall; accordion: Jakob Steinkellner), 7:30pm
    Opening hours: Wed – Fri, 3 – 6pm

    In her work, Lisa Großkopf takes aim at the striving for perfection. She highlights a troubling worldview: one that ascribes responsibility for life’s happiness primarily to the individual, while largely ignoring essential variables such as structural inequalities and social disadvantages. Großkopf confronts the neoliberal ideal—where health, beauty, and contentment are viewed as things to be maximized solely through diligence and discipline—with the reality of hyper-capitalist societies.

    At the intersection of literature and visual arts, Sarah Rinderer focuses on dealing with language itself, its pauses, gaps and in-between-spaces. By making seemingly silent punctuation marks audible together with voice performers or by sending a message into the past through semaphore gestures, she explores the conditions that make communication possible – across spatial and temporal distances, different sign systems, codes and beyond words.

    Lisa Großkopf (b. 1989, Vienna) studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the University of Arts Linz. Her extensive exhibition history includes presentations at Lentos, Belvedere 21, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and Kunsthaus Graz, as well as recent participation in the Ars Electronica Festival. Her work has taken her internationally to cities such as Budapest, Tehran, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Amsterdam, Kassel, and Jacksonville, and has included solo exhibitions in Prague, Ljubljana, and Chongqing.
    https://lisagrosskopf.net/

    Sarah Rinderer (b. 1994, Bregenz) studied Fine Arts/Experimental Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Arts Linz. She presents her concept-based works and texts in exhibitions, anthologies, and literary magazines, among others at Galerie 422 Gmunden, Bank Austria Kunstforum, the Mahler Forum for Music and Society in Klagenfurt and in flugschrift N°45 sektorenfeuer. Most recently, she received grants for studio residencies abroad, such as Barcelona, Athens, Reykjavík and Paris, as well as a start stipend for literature (BMWKMS, 2024).
    https://www.sarahrinderer.at/

    Opening hours
    21. January 2026 – 06. February 2026
    Wednesday – Friday, 3 – 6pm

    kulturkarte.servus.at/event/ex

  2. From #preserving #Africa's #cultural #heritage to the era of #Artificial #Intelligence
    In 2017, the special issue of the #British #magazine The #Economist #announced on the cover that the most valuable resource was now data. This echoed the phrase “data is the new oil”, formulated in 2006 by data scientist Clive Humby.

    In 2018 James Bridle clarified that data is not the new oil but the new nuclear energy in that it is unlimited and in its capacity to cause harm (1) .

    In fact, since the 1960s, the following terms have come and gone at a rapid pace: data base, datawarehouse, databank, datamining, datamart, data store, big data, data lake, dataset, all #Anglo-Saxon sounding terms with sometimes more or less successful attempts at translations into other languages.

    But since the dawn of time, data has been the basis of #communication and the transmission of #knowledge between #humans, which evolved in four stages, oral, written, printed and digital.

    Africa?

    The African enjoys less of the advantages of being connected to the rest of the world than he suffers the #disadvantages. On a #cultural level, today's young African is likely to know more about the #British #Empire than about the Empire of #Ghana. He is more likely to have heard of #Napoleon #Bonaparte than of #Sundiata #Keita, the founding king of the great empire of #Mali. He will certainly have heard of #Elon #Musk as the richest man on the planet, but not of Mansa Musa, king of Mali in 1312 and probably the richest man who ever lived. And if he heard of #Léopold #Cedar #Senghor or #Félix #Houphouët-Boigny it will surely be thanks to the #Western #Media Through their prism.

    French leaders.com.tn/article/35714-m

    English www-leaders-com-tn.translate.g

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe

  3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Remote Sensing - Understanding the Limits of a Powerful Technology
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    skywatch.com/advantages-and-di <-- shared technical article / opinion piece
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    Excellent points, which is why I shared - but one they kind of missed was misinterpretation... it is a natural system, so the algorithms and process to take EA data and interpret necessarily can never be 100% perfect, and nor should they be expected to be. Ground truthing and other checks & balances are a crucial part of any such interpretation.
    [This post is not considered an endorsement of this specific company]
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    #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #advantages #disadvantages #opinionpiece #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #alldataisspatial #effectiveness #blackbox #tool #appliedscience #interpretation #limitations #challenges #usefulness #value #roi

  4. The #player of the #future will have to be a #native #application. Now mainly because of #Apple and their #limitations. However, the new #bootloader version of the upcoming #RMusic app will already #handle #it. #HTTP #gateways for #IPFS unfortunately #amplify the #disadvantages of both #technologies. Nothing can be done about it.

    🖐️😶