Dejan Marković

Wood, plastic barrels, plastic pipes, dolls, light, sound, 2017
Dimensions variable

The exhibition is spatially structured around the scientific model of “a state of exception” as the simulation of a training centre for autonomous machines composed of wooden boards, plastic barrels, children’s dolls, bricks, handwritten signs and lighting objects. Didactic tools are geared here towards preparing the machines for the real world, before leaving the safe zones of laboratories, universities and ‘discrete’ surroundings of military industry.

Architecture design: Marco Wenegger

Dejan Marković’s exhibition State of Nature focuses on how nature is currently being constructed. It connects traditional museological surveys of nature with its recent technological hybridization, and brings into relation collections of natural history with newly emerging machinic agencies. Introducing the perspective of increasingly autonomous machines, the exhibition questions the political implications of these transformations. As we enter a deep state in which transactions, the prediction of human behaviour, political and climate change are ruled and analysed by the deep algorithms and neuronal networks of global corporations and secret services, artificial intelligence becomes the basis of most contemporary software and autonomous systems.