Liebe arts and active organisms, We are finally getting around to sending out an XL Terrestrials newsletter. ( this will NOT be a frequent spam-tentacle invading yur in-boxes, but apologies if this txt is one more unrelated eyesore in these already over-cubicled days. Please drop us a line if you would like us to cease all communications, with the subject : Dearest org, Baszd Meg ! ) Onto the Transmigration News : First off, let me THANK ALL the InGENious social networkers, arts + activist species, and fellow autonomous Orgs that have assisted, hosted, and fed us ( spiritually, artisticly and gastronomicly ) on the path !

Nearly full circle, I’ve landed back in Berlin, where the compass magnet gravitates to somewhere far east of Rosa Luxembourg Platz ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg ) where freezones are never really captured, and the streets do not spell out revolutionary ghosts as failed bloody squares jammed into round history-winner holes, but living breathing shifting psycho-geography and bodies that dip and dive into sun or shadows drinking milch kaffees along the pock-marked streets that are like rivers on fire… war by day and love by night.

Letne Dielne ( summer open academy ) in Bratislava has 4 more days to go. Already some high-level uploads+downloads- practical and theoretical- have occurred since I arrived on Sunday. Pure Data (a popular open source software for sound and visual that is derived from Max, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max/MSP ) presentations reveal a bottomless barrel full of digital possibilities for the mathematically-engaged artist. 2 locals, Peter Gonda and Daniel Toth, have been guiding workshops for 4 consecutive days. And Peter showed me a beautiful pure data-designed network map, one of the most sophisticated i have yet seen with all kinds of statistical info and “net logic” as you mouse over the various nodes.

Just hyperspaced from one end to the other, in the galaxy spectrum of activism, from Ecotopia – the annual eco-active euro gathering- to 13m3.sk – a Bratislava media lab in autonomous e-summer academy mode. From the rural retreat of Zajezova , the homebase of eco-conscious workshops amidst a tiny network/collective of sustainable farmers in the hills of southern Slovakia to the buzzing tech-tronic geekdom built upon the post-modern ruins of a cluster of semi-empty buildings, just behind a mega-shopping complex on the outskirts of this capital cityscape.

the faux squat aesthetic, but nevertheless a few more happy heads to spin … and even a maria peszek fan from poland wanting to trade some (polish) music links, stay tune.

quik inserts from the drunken boat… sailing up river towards ecotopia2006.org today… into the mountains NETless for nearly a week… my addicted exo-neurals are already shaking with a mix of fear and elation…. escape? to what? what is outside the continuous nodule surf ? … that relentless crashing sound on the beach of inland synapses. How on earth will i monitor myself without the apparatae and inflamed e-appendices… my life reduced to a fleshy footnote amongst hay and chickens, barking dogs and peeeople.

everywhere u turn the buda-p skyline beholds a flowering poppy pod from a place in time that must have been the opiate treffpunkt ( meeting place ) at the turn of the century, turn of the fortune’s wheel, turn of the kaleidescopes, turn to the page… where earth meets a brewing mauve and shimmering orange dusk.

P.Wee: szia , greetz from the dense urban chaos of bpest A-Zee: still in bpest P.Wee: leave 2morrow for the ecoptopia2006 A-Zee: I thought for sure you’ve moved A-Zee: good A-Zee: finally some developments A-Zee: action P.Wee: ya got a little snagged , but a good snag, we got good anarcho-guides here showing us the blade-runner backdoors of the austro-hungarian relic-metropolis P.Wee: we had a pretty good show here…though a little too distracted n drunk crowd to fully absorb… P.Wee: and we are hanging with some

incredible tales in momiano/momjan, a tiny town in istria just near the border of slovenia. we teamed up with the liebidow crew, a pair of wicked performance tricksters with the touch of the clown sha-wo-man archetype. wild coincidences abound: they are also headed to budapest and they have a show that is in fact a kind of transmigration of cinema… it is living (media) theater that stirs up the consciousness with a big kitchen spoon, with all the potential to take giant chunks out of the empire trance and leave the bones of boredom and passivity far behind them.

OK, why not some pratical info ?? like Tour news: i still cant find apostrophes on a croatian keyboard, but with that being the worst of our problems i think we could say the jammer guardians are looking after us…and so many inspring people along the trail are making our journey an easy coast down a swift river. In fact, Possible Worlds connected us to an ingenious and synchronous festival just an hour north of where we are based, and the theme is BORDERS.