Poetics of Encryption with Nadim Samman

Mikkel Rørbo, a producer of cultural detritus and interdisciplinary researcher on hyperstition, abductive inference, reality-production and desire. Mikkel joined us in Ljubljana just before the holidays to discuss the concepts and ideas from his text for Unreality Mode, a new double issue of Šum journal. The conversation is hosted by Maks Valenčič Find out more about Mikkel’s work:https://www.sum.si/journal-articles/operative-fictionhttps://www.instagram.com/nonstalgianonsensehttps://www.are.na/mikkel-rorbo/channelshttps://medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/en/project/sen-sc-ma-mikkel-rorbo/ŠUM x 2025⁠www.sum.si⁠

Brandon Rosenbluth speaks with Italian artist duo Invernomuto about networked creation, sound as a medium for tracing history, challenging the art institution with expanded formats, cybernetic animism and the emergence of Triton – a creature, a community, a multi-sensorial object and affect engine of new relations. Begin your exchange with Triton⁠ here.Triton is commissioned by Haus der Kunst München, curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer, and supported by the Italian Council (2024), promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, with the support of PAN and partners including the Singapore Art Museum, TheCube Project Space (Taipei), EPFL (Lausanne), MAO (Turin), Museion (Bolzano) and La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz).

Joel Anselm Dietz and Edwin Klint Bywater submitted a response article to Anna K. Winters’s “Hegelian e-girl manifesto” in ŠUM #22 Angel Mode. We invited them to Šum Pod to unpack their reply, clarify the core ideas behind the metaphysical Männerbund—literally “bonded men,” often interpreted as a “band of brothers”—and discuss what corrections or updates they propose to the project. We’ll also ask how the metaphysical Männerbund can provide both a means for survival (for projects like the Hegelian e-girl manifesto) and the foundational principles of a new order—philosophy as a lived and embodied social phenomenon. Check the link to access their response article: “Metaphysical Männerbund’s Hegelian E-girl Apocalypse Fallout Kit.”This episode is hosted by Maks Valenčič, sound logo is by Oliver Torr, and cover visual by Jaka Neon. This podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.Find us on www.sum.siŠum x 2025

Theo Triantafyllidis, the artist behind multiplayer video game Feral Metaverse joins us on the pod to discuss the ideas, mechanics and the experience of the game, how he translates it to exhibition settings and how combining physical and digital media can address questions of embodiment, identity and collaboration in hybrid realities. We talk also about his wider art practice in which he uses various technologies ranging from game engines, VR, to live action role-play in order to create immersive, interactive environments often shaped by absurd, yet also poetic situations. This episode is hosted by Tjaša Pogačar and Ondřej Trhoň, sound logo by Oliver Torr, cover visual by Jaka Neon. The episode features sounds and music from Feral Metaverse. More about Theo’s practice:https://slimetech.org/https://slimetech.org/works/feralmetaversePlay Feral Metaverse on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3447150/Feral_Metaverse/Mentioned:Mikhail Bakhtin's carnivalesqueCelia Pearce on migration between virtual worlds (e.g. “The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds”)Find us on www.sum.siThis podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.Šum x 2025

Curator and writer Nadim Samman talks about his research and curatorial approach, the notion of the Technocene, the esoteric imaginary surrounding contemporary tech, the book and exhibition Poetics of Encryption and, among other things, how their three chapters – Black Site, Black Box, and Black Hole – function as models for where we see ourselves in relation to technology’s encrypted core. This episode is hosted by Ondřej Trhoň, edited by Tjaša Pogačar, sound design by Oliver Torr, visual by Jaka Neon. The cover image is based on the work Panorama Cat by Eva & Franco Mattes.For more:http://nadimsamman.comhttps://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/poetics-of-encryption/https://www.hatjecantz.com/products/60035-nadim-samman?srsltid=AfmBOooVJbaIaqfzGE9J7qwQSZ5SOYhDGPLceYVaykyO_WEJik_HstTPhttps://tba21.org/rare_earth_enFind us on https://sum.siThis podcast is supported by the City of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. Šum x 2025

Lucia Pietroiusti and Lukáš Likavčan discussing rituals of mourning, secular mysticism, relationship between technology and sacred tendencies, role of spirituality in contemporary art, and attuning cultural institutions to the rituals for post-Anthropocene in order to facilitate a shift from 'global' art world to a 'planetary' one.  The discussion followed Lucia's and Lukaš's keynotes at ARIA World's End Symposium in Ljubljana. Hosted by Tjaša Pogačar. ** ARIA – Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly is a summer school that hybridizes art, education, and theory through immersive (role)play. Each edition features two residencies, a public  symposium and related events, closed-door workshops and also a real-game play created by OMSK Social Club. _______ Watch the lectures here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPCh7GAiUYLu-IhQ4oxWNX890RxqrxkHl⁠ Learn more about  ARIA: ⁠https://www.sum.si/projects/aria-algo-rhythmic-ideation-assembly⁠ Lucia Pietroiusti: https://luciapietroiusti.earth Lukáš Likavčan: https://www.likavcan.com _______  ARIA was developed and curated by Tjaša Pogačar and Brandon Rosenbluth. Produced by ⁠Projekt Atol Institute⁠ in collaboration with Šum journal (Društvo Galerija Boks). Co-Production: Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (MGLC) ARIA is part of ⁠More-than-Planet project⁠, co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework and supported by the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana.

This episode brings a discussion with Alice Bucknell, Tom K Kemp and Klara Kofen following their lectures at ARIA's Worlds’ End Symposium. We talked about the potential of games as simulations to generate novel scenarios and outcomes, ways of avoiding habituated behaviours, the mechanics of non-human gameplay, about mysticism, opera, and language as worldbuilding technology... Hosted by Tjaša Pogačar and Brandon Rosenbluth. ** ARIA – Algo-Rhythmic Ideation Assembly is a summer school that hybridizes art, education, and theory through immersive (role)play.  Each edition features two residencies, a public  symposium and related events, closed-door workshops and also a real-game play created by Omsk Social Club. _______ Watch the lectures here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPCh7GAiUYLu-IhQ4oxWNX890RxqrxkHl Learn more about ARIA: https://www.sum.si/projects/aria-algo-rhythmic-ideation-assembly Alice Bucknell: https://alicebucknell.com Klara Kofen: https://klarakofen.cargo.site Tom K Kemp: https://tomkkemp.com _______ ARIA was developed and curated by Tjaša Pogačar and Brandon Rosenbluth. Produced by Projekt Atol Institute in collaboration with: Šum journal (Društvo Galerija Boks) Co-Production: Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (MGLC) ARIA is part of More-than-Planet project, co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework and supported by the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana.

In this episode we reconnect with the world of ARIA in anticipation of its upcoming edition and sit down with Omsk Social Club, a sprawling artistic collective operating from between two lived worlds, one of life as we know it and the other of role play as a medium, to talk about their artistic practice, engagement with roleplay and personal take on the methodology as well as the inspirations that went into developing the Worlds’ End Hackathon, a Real Game Play they designed and will facilitate for ARIA this summer. Episode is hosted by Tjaša Pogačar and Brandon Rosenbluth.  ARIA - Algorithmic Ideation Assembly, is a week-long summer school that unfolds through a fiction-theory narrative to explore new possibilities for our world in a time of a changing planetary ecology. The second edition of ARIA taking place from 17 - 23 August is dedicated to spectrality and the ends of worlds, exploring rituals for mourning and ways of interfacing with the specters of the (deep) past and future haunting our ecologically fragile planet. Find more information about the mentors, speakers and the structure of the programme on the link below.  The call for participants is open until 26th of May! https://projekt-atol.si/en/workshop/aria-open-call/ _ Learn more about Omsk Social Club: https://omsksocial.club/ https://www.instagram.com/omsk_social_club/ Follow Šum: https://www.sum.si/ https://www.instagram.com/sumjournal/ _ ARIA is produced by Projekt Atol Institute in collaboration with Šum journal in the framework of the More-than-Planet project.  ŠUM x 2024 Cover design: Dorijan Šiško; Jingle: Tisa Troha

Brandon Rosenbluth talks with artist Áron Birtalan about the politics and potentials of roleplay, mystical theology’s embrace of unknowing, attuning to the relational, and a radical submission to the more-than-human. Learn more: https://aronbirtalan.net/ https://www.instagram.com/gleemaiden/ Check out also the text Áron contributed for the 21st issue of ŠUM journal: https://www.sum.si/issues/aria-algo-rhythmic-ideation-assembly

In this episode, Jaša Bužinel sat down with Serbian musician Vladimir Lenhart aka Lenhart Tapes whose music has become known as 'ethno noise', or as he puts it – a musical Frankenstein made of different musical traditions, from world and ethno music to industrial and noise. Vladimir recently released the album DENS on the Ljubljana-based label Glitterbeat Records to great international acclaim. Since his early days, he has been a fan of the cassette format and tape manipulation, which represents the basis of his unique musical practice. We discussed his early days, his love for cassettes, contemporary cassette culture, the inception of the Lenhart Tapes project, his latest album Dens and much more. Find out more: https://www.lenhartapes.com/ https://lenhartapes.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lenhartapes/ ... www.sum.si