Vít Šisler , a PhD candidate of the Institute of Information studies at the Charles University, who writes articles for Umelec arts magazine, such as this unusual and challenging piece on the Digital Intifada and Afkar Media will be one the speakers for an arts and politics seminar in Prague on Nov.29th , just one part of the exhibition called Czechpoint, at the NOD/Roxy in Prague, combining lectures, performances, graphic arts and screenings… including our own TOC 2.1 mass psychomedia analysis and presentation wednesday night.

The XL Terrestrials presented Transmigration Of Cinema at the Nepokoreni Grad 2006 festival, which means “Unconquered Town”, a weeklong series of events hosted by the Domachi cultural organiization in Karlovac, an unusual town just an hour southeast of Zagreb, originally built as a star-shaped fortress. There’s a number of empty buildings in the town due in part to work-migration to the capital Zagreb, and a number of them are former military spaces. The festival addresses the themes of reclaiming space for cultural productivity and education, and the Domachi crew is at the heart of this movement.

Perhaps an impossible act to follow, but nevertheless an uncanny preface to our XLTs TOC 2.1 presentation on Friday (see previous post below re: tour). “The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema” , a 3-part document series premiered on More4 (tv) in the UK in August, and opened at the London ICA later in October. And it played here in Zagreb at Mama ( an invaluable public space media lab with an extraordinary grasp on the new media landscape, but more on that later ) on Nov.

XL Terrestrials may be detourning the theater near YOU, check below for upcoming dates. With all sorts of added new clips, the XLTs leave for Zagreb this weekend for a short Balkan visitation, and then work our way up to the Czechpoint arts+politics festival/exhibition in Prague, meet up with half of the extraordinary Liebidow.de media spinsters in Stuttgart, and then try to squeeze in some Berlin dates before we head for the Lost Leftcoast. What’s NEW: Thanks to a plethora of active media organisms in the Berlinopolis, we’ve got profound new materials to recombinate, to re-awaken your social + political higher consciousness and will to ACT.

The new hit “Rumy plays Babylon” was the timely sequel to “Beyond the Valley of the Republicrats”. And there was a line all the way around the block of humanitarian rights organizations who are more than ready to tell the courts all the nauseating details of the atrocities in this made-for-tv war against civilized society in general, arabs and muslims in particular. Oh so strange that no one wants to distribute this blockbuster thriller. Have you read any reviews about it in Your spineless and negligent corporate media outlets?

A couple weeks ago the Babylon Mitte Kino was host to Matthew Barney. Today it’s some major human rights NGOs which include RAV.de, Internationale Liga fuer Menschenrechte (FIDH) , and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to discuss war crimes proceedings against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others. Should be some astounding moments in the history of law and the future of civilization. Reports coming soon. Program in german below. Michael Ratner (CCR) and the ex-general and commander of the military police in Iraq, Janis Karpinski attending.

The XL Terrestrials project heads to Croatia in 2 weeks, and one of the stops will be MAMA in Zagreb. Happened to catch a great linked essay on their site that Zizek presented at Columbia in 2003, called Too Much Democracy? Well not one of his best actually, but there are some ingenious lines that are highly appropriate to (S)election day in the US. “ “Democracy” means that, whatever electoral manipulation took place, every political agent will unconditionally respect the results.