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Tilen Žbona Matrix – The Alienated Thought
University of Primorska, Slovenia
tzbona@yahoo.com At a time when the specificity of media messages, carriers, and content genera-
tors intertwines with the thoughts of both narrower and broader groups of users,
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readers, and mediators, individual thought is increasingly exposed to algorith-
mic platforms of artificial intelligence – and thus to distorted truths. As a coun-
terpoint to this generated reality and unreality, the exhibition titled Matrix – The
Alienated Thought responds as a genuine and tangible experience of ideas and
reflections by the artists Andrej Savski, Zora Stančič, Črtomir Frelih, and Mojca
Smerdu. The presented works are undoubtedly a transfer of the invisible into the
visible realm – ideas embodied in matter, reaching deeply and concretely into
the real experience of perceiving the given contents, concepts, contexts, and the
artworks themselves. The emergence of digitalization in connection with analog
artistic artifacts of visual and performing arts deepens the transmitted messages,
contents and new genesis of reality (Manovich, 2002; Weibel, 2011; Hanhardt et
al., 1982).

Hanhardt, J. G., Ronte, D., Nyman, M., & Ross, D. A. (1982). Nam June Paik. Whitney
Museum of American Art.
Manovich, L. (2002). The language of new media. MIT Press.
Weibel, P. (2011). Synthetic times. https://www.bodysonics.co.uk/wp-content
/uploads/2011/01/Weibel-synthetic-times.pdf

Meaning-Making, Multiliteracies
and Multimodality
Abstracts of the International
Symposium
Koper, 19–20 March 2026

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