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Through her artistic practice and works, Sanela Jahic will discuss her investigations of automation in the workplace and how this has affected the status of human labor. The relations between machines and humans will be contextualized by the historical beginnings of kinetic art that reflected the optimistic aspirations of the modern industrial society, with machine technology as its axial principle and the factory as its axial structure. The talk will further reflect on the current development and use of automated systems as modes of targeting that amplify existing structural inequalities while also expanding social automatism.  The lecture will take place on Friday, Sept. 30 at 12:30 p.m. on Zoom, details are below. 

About the artist:
SANELA JAHIC (1980, Kranj) graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana in 2008, and received her master’s degree in 2010 in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Jahic is an intermedia artist, who constructs visual and technologically supported kinetic objects and installations. In her latest production the artist places the research of complex relations between technology and the social, individuals and their identity directly into the context of the critique of capitalist relations of production. Her artistic practice often involves collaboration with specialists for mechanical engineering, automation, software and electronics. She lives and works in Škofja Loka, Slovenia.

http://sanelajahic.com/