DATAS: Test Run
fantastic little splash, Tamara Kametani
05/02 — 27/02/2026
DATAS: Test Run presents new works by artists Tamara Kametani and fantastic little splash, developed during their artist residencies in Ljubljana.
The exhibition is part of DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign, an international art and research programme exploring how digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithmic governance impact personal and political sovereignty. In an age where big data corporations and algorithmic systems increasingly shape global political and social dynamics, DATAS uses the lens of art to challenge the normalisation of surveillance, data extraction, and digital control. Bringing together artists, theorists, and technologists from across Europe, DATAS investigates the erosion of sovereignty in the age of surveillance capitalism and technofeudalism.
In her work Greetings from Null Island Tamara Kametani focuses on the phenomenon of Null Island, a point in the Atlantic Ocean at coordinates 0°, 0°, where the prime meridian meets the equator. Despite having no physical landmass, Null Island has become a repository for misdirected geolocation data, errors, and digital glitches. During the residency in Ljubljana the artist explored this phenomenon as a potential site for data obfuscation and reclaiming digital agency by developing an application that allows users to digitally relocate their GPS coordinates to Null Island. By intentionally spoofing location data to this already saturated digital non-place, users contribute to a collective data camouflage, rendering their information indistinguishable and useless for commercial or surveillance-based exploitation. The work questions our growing dependence on digital services, the inevitability of data collection, and the possibilities for preserving privacy and civil liberties within increasingly monitored environments.
The collective fantastic little splash presents Infocry, a chorus machine for inauthentic actors' voices. The installation enables visitors to observe coordinated disinformation narratives gathered from various countries, including Slovenia. Using AI-powered text analysis software (Osavul), the group identifies patterns in seemingly independent social media comments, revealing orchestrated campaigns often driven by paid actors rather than automated bots.
Inspired by the Greek chorus, a foundational element of ancient drama and democratic expression, the work examines how synthetic and manipulated voices shape public emotion and political discourse today. During their residency, fantastic little splash collaborated with the local community to analyze the specific tones, tactics, and emotional architectures of inauthentic actors operating in Slovenia. The resulting work questions who speaks for "the people" in digital space, and how affective manipulation is weaponized to polarize societies and radicalize political processes.
The exhibition offers a first look at projects that will later be featured in the major international group exhibition DATAS: The Data and the Sovereign at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague in June 2026, curated by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás.
fantastic little splash is a collective comprised of journalist/artist Lera Malchenko and artist/director Oleksandr Hants. fantastic little splash combines art practice and media studies to research collective imagination and emotions appropriation in technosocial systems. Group works with videos, texts and interactive game-based tools. Established in 2016 in Ukraine, their projects have been exhibited at events including transmediale, post.MoMA, Plokta TV, Ars Electronica, Liste Art Fair Basel, Construction festival VI x CYNETART, KISFF, and Docudays, among others. fantastic little splash – participants of the transmediale x Pro Helvetia Residency 2022, and the Cité internationale des arts residency 2023.
Tamara Kametani is an Athens based, Slovak visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, installation, sculpture, as well as web-based works. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere, from the Royal College of Art and has been awarded placements on residency programs ISCP in New York, Off Site Project Google Maps Artist Residency, AGORAMA residency at Raven Row, and Florence Trust Artist in Residence, amongst others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Furtherfield, London, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and Triennale of Photography, Hamburg, amongst others.
Curator: Lara Mejač
Production: Projekt Atol Institute in collaboration with RAVNIKAR
Coordination: Lara Mejač, Uroš Veber, Rea Vogrinčič
Logistics and technical setup: Valter Udovičić
Expert collaborators: Jakob Grčman, Oskar Kandare, Edina Muftić, Maj Vogrinčič
Advisors: Kim Albrecht, Victoria Ivanova
Supported by: Goethe-Institut Ljubljana, City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture (Slovenia) and Ministry of Public Administration (Slovenia). Co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework.
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