C.U.K.T.

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  • Name
    • C.U.K.T. – Centralny Urząd Kultury Technicznej
  • Status
    • Meta-national artistic and political institution
  • Year of Establishment
    • 1995, Gdańsk
  • Founders:
    • Robert Mikołaj Jurkowski, Artur Kozdrowski, Jacek Niegoda, Adam Virus Popek, Rafał Grabowski, Piotr Wyrzykowski
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  • From the C.U.K.T. Manifesto (1995)

    • Elimination of info-apartheid

    • Transformation of culture into technical culture

    • Fight for machine rights and against technophobia

    • The machine as author

    • Designing information management systems

    • Establishing a new democratic order based on technology

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  • Methods of Operation

    • Techno-entertainment as systemic propaganda

    • Mass rave events as a political-aesthetic format

    • Educational activities and infiltration of public institutions

    • Own documents, seals, and systems of representation

    • Founding informal institutions (e.g. The Cyborg University)

    • Bio-stimulation of social consciousness

  • Key Events
    • 1994 – pre-C.U.K.T.: pioneering action by M.R. Jurkowski & P. Wyrzykowski, “120h Mega Techno Presence – Art is a Cultic Space or There Is No Art”, Galeria Chwilowa, Konin
      1995–2000 – series of techno-demonstrations and artistic interventions in public space
      2000 – Wiktoria Cukt’s presidential campaign and launch of the CES programme
      2024 – reactivation of the idea in the form of Wiktoria Cukt 2.0
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  • Exhibitions
    • Solo
      • 2000 – The Presidential Campaign of Wiktoria Cukt, Łaźnia, Gdańsk; Museum of Art, Łódź; Zachęta, Warsaw
    • Group
      • 2024 – Rave: Recharge, Southbank Centre, London
        2019 – 140 BPM, Tate Modern, London
        2000 – After the Wall, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
        1996 – Delikatessen Avantgarde, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
        1995 – Anti-election Techno-demonstration, Forts, Gdańsk/Kyiv
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  • Vision – Quotes from the Analysis by Łucja Iwanczewska
    (Source: Łucja Iwanczewska, (Techno)Transformation: A Story of a Field Experiment, Jagiellonian University)

    • “C.U.K.T. was a symposium of modernity and a laboratory – an experimental redefinition of existing cultural games and the design of new ones.”

    • “Techno was both tool and language – a form of generational expression, an organisational strategy, a funding method, and a political declaration.”

    • “The artists of C.U.K.T. attempted to establish the Cyborg University – a space for educating a new democratic, civic, and technologically aware society.”

    • “Technical culture is not just about creativity, but also about systems of information control. Its values include: objectivity, professionalism, standardisation, progress, and the economisation of human relations.”

    • “C.U.K.T.’s actions were an attempt to establish society through art, techno, information, and experiment.”

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  • System Declaration
    • C.U.K.T. does not create, C.U.K.T. makes aware.

 

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