TALK by 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐢 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐧
𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐅𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝
“🌐 20 May, 6.30 PM 🫧˚˖𓍢ִִ໋ ALUO, Tobačna 5 ˚ʚ 🐠
𝄞⨾💿✮ link in bio
Perhaps you have heard of #frutigeraero, the aesthetic floating around on TikTok and in people's retro-tech filled bedrooms, which @valentinatanni calls the successor to '#Vaporwave'. But how does one even 'discover' an aesthetic?
In a talk for Aksioma, 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐢 𝐗𝐢𝐚𝐧, a co-founder of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, charts her meandering journey through eclectic and unpredictable sources including open-source software theming, hipster semiotics, Wes Anderson parodies, Japanese and Korean music of the 90s and 00s, and the Weird Facebook subculture to explain how she came to describe this 'lost future'. The talk traces how these seemingly disconnected observations, spanning over a decade, gradually coalesce into a methodology for identifying and naming '#consumeraesthetics'—and what that methodology reveals about the way our collective experience is shaped by disposable and ambient expressions.
🦋🍃 ₊˚ Talk is a pre-event to the release of th 3rd issue of #multithread
:·🛜🐬 Q&A moderated by 𝐄𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐳𝐧𝐢𝐤 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜́ and 𝐋𝐞𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞
.ೃ࿔* Free entrance
🩵⊹₊⋆ With @filozofskafakultetaul@ff.sociologija & @academy_aluo
𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑂𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑚 by 𝗦𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗴 and 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗲𝗹 𝗥ø𝗿𝗯𝗼 develops the argument that the production of reality in technoculture is inseparable from forms of thought historically associated with the #esoteric, the #magical, and the occult. In this sense, #occultism is a constitutive dimension of how digital systems operate.
Tracing developments from early internet cultures to contemporary platforms, the book examines how fictions generate material effects, how politics unfolds as a form of psychological warfare, and how these esoteric infrastructures participate in shaping desire, #belief, and collective imaginaries.
— Afterword by 𝗭𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝘀
— 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Ema Maznik Antić, Lea Sande, Marko Bauer, Janez F. Janša
🔮 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 #multithread2: 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎:
5 May 2026—6 PM—Cukrarna, Ljubljana
🗝️ Preview & pre-order in link in bio
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Also available on @metalabel__ 😊
⚘ NEW RELEASE ⚘
𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 #1 | 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗗𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗺 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲
— Link in bio
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒 is a discussion on palatability, power and computation encoded in a single rushed train _[of thought] // [commute]_ to an interview on a Dutch iris farm. Blending autofiction, media theory and myth, it traces the entanglements between public-facing interfaces, machinic mathematics and the data that fuels them. The work reveals how life as a product of purely probabilistic and statistical decisions expresses and roots itself through both our daily essentials, such as clothes and food, as well as historical practices and technologies that shaped them.
In the afterword, 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻 expands on the text by outlining influence design – a project in which computation operates as an ideological carrier – placing 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒 within a contemporary media landscape read through a historical-materialist lens.
— 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀
Ema Maznik Antić, Lea Sande, Primož Krašovec, Janez F. Janša
— 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻
Federico Antonini
❋ 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 ❋
21 January—19h—Aksioma | Project Space
*𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐤𝐥𝐮𝐳𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝟐𝐛𝟐𝐛𝟐𝐛*
Danes ob 22.00 🕙
Ekskluzivni dj set tokrat v sedeče atmosferski maniri, iz internetnih globin odkopavata vse od ambientale do reggaetona.
Thanks to all the gamers who joined us at the opening of #BlackBox last Wednesday! ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ
✴️ Exhibition is still available to speedrun in #Aksioma until 𝟱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿.
𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄/ @panke.gallery
𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 @zupanov
✷ aksioma.org/black-box ✷
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