Full Steam Ahead at the BCC launch pad. 24c3 Oilble Schauble Boible Doible, civil society crasher Dangerous Hacker at work ! Hacking ideologies …podopolog reports coming sooooooon. p.s. Well probably not until 2008, and not until after Day 4 of Mikro.fm’s Radiowoche2008, which begins on 01.01.08. Day 4 will focus on North American free radio projects like Freakradio Santa Cruz, Pirate […]

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress is coming once again to the heart of Mitte at the Berliner Congress Center (BCC), under the shadow and blinking red-eyed phallus, the Fernsehenturm ( tv tower), and surrounded by the holidazed zombie shoppers of Alexanderplatz. But alas the hacker orphans, in replenished droves, come from the 4 corners tunnelling […]

more info + links in the plog below…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ where law, technology and culture are de-scripted in a landscape that might conjure multiple and interconnected Harry Tuttle characters, not in Gilliam’s Brazil, but drifting back along the Berlin canals at dusk toward the infinitely unfinished Medien Spree… Not untangling plumbing behind walls, but transparently reconfiguring the concepts of ownerShip into flying carpets and rapid-eye […]

TONIGHT + THURSDAY ( 17.12 + 20.12) XL Terrestrials present: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : […]

Oil21 and Pirate Cinema Berlin present freitag, 14 dezember: lecture and discussion, 19 uhr suzhou he (suzhou river) by ye lou (china, 2000), 21 uhr And at 7pm, Lawrence Liang, a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, whose key areas of interest, in recent years, have been the various conflicts that arise at the intersections of law, technology and […]

Call 4 Participation ( English and German below… if you are able to translate to other languages please contact us): BERLIN 01.-09.01.2008 Call for Participation Berlin Radio activists will host “Liberation Radio Week“ transmissions Jan 1-9,2008 LIVE and ON AIR from Berlin. Berlin Free Radio (BFR) will be listenable via multiple micro-fm transmitters and an internet stream, […]

:: 11/12:: Tonight LOST FILM FESTIVAL at Subversiv ab 21h ____________________ :: This week Creative Commons will celebrate its 5 year anniversary at many locations around the world…i.e. at C-Base in Berlin. But perhaps higher up in the deconstruction of the food chain, the Berlin finale of The Oil of the 21st Century ( there will be […]

Last night we received a precious tip that a special screening of Yüksel Yavuz’s new film Close Up Kurdistan was playing at the Hackescher Hofe Kino, with the whole crew in attendance. An intense, powerful, and intricately woven documentary which connects Yuksel’s own personal story of immigration (to Germany) and the current situation of the […]

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A few dates to sharpie into your calendar : ) :: 29.11.07 :: TONIGHT at Mudd Club, Nomad Sound System with a bundle of friends, including the live debut of Spark ( Shazam and Adamatics from NYc, Peghini Trio, Mohak (Global Mestizo Sounds), and Selectress Nisha (Club India)… Also playing :: 1.12.07 :: at Podium Mozaiek […]

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If you are a wide-scoped and socially engaged artist already wary and/or already taking aim at the specimen harvesting of new media and the science-infused art industry for their refined Spectacle lubricants, a conference about the histories of technology, science, the humanities, and art is treading a treacherously thin and grease-splattered ice. And while Re:place, […]

We will only be catching the last day of Re:place Conference in Berlin. No chance to provide preview info here before travelling there, and no links to other blogs as yet, but the program is full of backround info, and a massive list of presenters, many of which were just here in Praha for Mutamorphosis.

While Mutamorphosis has been full of people with an inspiring wealth of knowledge and pioneering creative direction, the event as a whole struggled to grapple with the bigger picture of what art and science as a collaborative medium might become for our seriously challenged times. Ironically the one “Paper” that provided the most potent articulation of […]

We came imagining that we needed urgently to gather up all our arts + science limbs and muscles, hearts and brains, and Act Accordingly, and yes we need all that because the urgent necessities scream out all around us. We came imagining that the planet will require some collective interventions that must proceed immediately on […]

… Stelarc’s third ear Printing organs in the future?! Previous evening at the Kampa Museum… reading Leonardo… Frank Malina… Plenty to absorb and process from the first day of Mutamorphosis… analysis coming soon… meanwhile some highlights for Day 2: Plenary Speech: Vaclav Cilek – Climate as the Last Wilderness The Art & Climate Session: Beatriz da Costa: PigeonBlog: Interspecies Co-production in the Pursuit […]

Perhaps one of the most crucial aspects of looking both backward and forward at the paths of Frank J. Malina (1912-1981) is his unique pivotal turn from a brilliant scientist suddenly at the core of new military trajectories to establishing a journal and network for international cooperation and open communication between the arts and sciences. […]

The Mutamorphosis conference is an extraordinary convergence of artists and scientists coming together in Prague, Nov. 8-11, combining the 40th anniversary of Leonardo, and overlapping with the annual International Festival for Arts, Sciences, and Technologies – Enter3 – organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences. More than enough futurological themes to stretch your mind between […]

Opening yesterday at the MoCA in Los Angeles is an exhibition of Emory Douglas’ art made while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. Organized by Sam Durant, with the assistance of ** Alden and Mary Kimbrough** and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics the show features approximately 150 works and runs until Jan.20, 2008. An excerpt from the MoCA site: “With a firm understanding of the need to disseminate information and communicate the party’s agenda visually, Douglas’s bold illustrations and striking images spoke forcefully to a community ravaged by poverty, police brutality, and poor living conditions.

More critical art events to keep those adversarial worlds at bay and all our ports open for ingenuity and collective imagining : ++ From some of the compas who brought us Reboot FM, Rolux, and Pirate Cinema, a conference on “The Oil of the 21st Century” in Berlin. Opening event is Oct.18th with Jamie King, Alan Toner, and Sebastian Luetgert. Main events Oct.25-27 includes Volker Grassmuck from Wizards of OS, Pirate Bay (SE), Felix Stadler (CH) and many more. Sure to be many-a- left-hook from this convergence of liberated space pioneers!

Lots of news of things coming up just around the corner where XLt Organisms will be participating, covering, sporing, remxing, converting to Mass energy, formulating into art maps and praxis engagements, etc. etc. Note: we will be updating this entry through the weekend so check back to see what we’ve added. ++ THIS weekend at New College. Read more at Indybay.org ++ Mutamorphosis, Nov. 8-10 2007 in Prague, will be celebrating Leonardo’s 40th anniversary, as part of this CIANT and Enter3 festival which will be hosting the first retrospective of Frank J.

The San Francisco Chronicle has reached a new pinnacle of professional journalism this week by giving CW Nevius, sports writer and veteran Rotten Tomatoes film reviewer, a new editorial column on the front page. In a brilliant move to rouse the citizens of our great city to NIMBY extremism, Nevius has been given the noble task of investigating one of the Neo-Con Republicrat party’s most beloved problems: getting rid of homeless people. His new creative style of polling should elevate the discussion amongst fans of Survivor, Fox News, and American Idol.

[Image from Jim Avignon remixed for Pan Optic Radio’s ABCs of Disneyweltschmerz, 2001 ] (Note, this is Part 2 of 3 plog items on Monochrom’s Arse Electronika conference, which begins with prior entry “AE Probes the New Pron World…” ) We are still processing the profoundly messy Arse Electronika conference from this weekend. Ironically it’s (Fuck) Columbus Day, and while this didn’t just happen overnight, we are starting to feel as though this may mark the new era whereupon the latest wave of colonizers began drawing up their company charters inside our pants, having landed on the deepest shores of inner “psychogeography” (an opposite context) with that frothing eye of $cience-cum-plea$ure as their compa$$.

We’re still looking for the quote, but we think it was Roland Topor who once said his worst nightmare would be to have his stomach turned inside-out. But then there’s Pron, that simulated red-lit back-alley bardo of perpetually unfinished business where technology and porn commingle and conceive. And when the marketplace reaches into your sexuality as far as those elongating product-lusting fingers can go, it might very well be that orgasmic fluids come to resemble a new gastric juice served up more horror and fantasy-fresh than anything Topor might have dreamed.

( rev billy, savitri, aaron, and lukas at roxie cinema, 10/2 ) The new Morgan Spurlock produced film about Reverend Billy’s Shopocalypse tour, “What Would Jesus Buy?” - directed by Rob VanAlkemade, now based at the 5lowershop- played at the Roxie as part this year’s SF Docfest, and tonight Billy and partner-in-crime Savitri are being hosted by Chicken John for a serious debate about political party-crashing with a jar full of jams. We will try to get in a full review of the movie before it opens on BUY NOTHING DAY in November ( in SF at the Lumiere Theater ).

Two years ago at the Kesselhaus in Berlin, we were fully entranced by the eastern Romanian masters of Balkan brass, Fanfare Ciocarlia, who ended their roaring set by descending from the stage and playing nearly an entire 2nd show in the midst of the crowd. Last night Balkan Beat Box spliced that frenzied custom into their intro, beginning their percussive and horned assault from the balcony of The Great American Music Hall, and weaving their way through the crowd. When they finally arrived onstage, Tomer Yusef - rapper, percussionist, and frenzy-conductor - declared, “This is not a live show… this is a party!

So much news pouring through this week, we felt an urgency to just throw out as much updating here as possible… Balkan Beat Box afterparty is Not possible this time around but see ya at the Great American Music Hall show ( which may not be sold out Yet) THIS Saturday. This group is on fire, and the latest album Nu-Med has a kind of global solidarity underpinning that feels like it is the new Clandestinos anthem, adding a brass kick and mediterranean-jacked rap to unify the latest rise of smiling warriors on the march !

(Stills from Alfonso Cuaron’s clip for “The Shock Doctrine”: Watch Here.) Making stops in San Francisco 9/26 and Oakland 9/28 , Naomi Klein is on tour with her latest precision analysis “The Shock Doctrine”. Could anyone still sleep through this fire, after absorbing her assessments of free market feeding time in neo-liberal overdrive over the last four decades?! While we haven’t had a chance to get ahold of the book yet, judging from this incredible collaboration with filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron, and her recent appearance on Democracy Now this is one of the most disturbing and spot-on critiques of the current nightmares we are living through today.

(image by joe sorren) Dearest Art Organisms, the XLt news + praxis letter v.1 from the XL Terrestrials : global citizens re-sourcing overt intelligence and musical insurrections ( Your email was given to us by a defecting Google ad executive, who decided to share your entire search history with the XL Terrestrials before escaping to Caracas. In other words, we have […]

Voice Of Roma, the organization behind the most important Roma and Balkan music festival on the West Coast brings back Yuri Yunakov & his Romani Wedding Band to play at the Croatian American Cultural Center ( 60 Onondaga St., SF, CA ) on Sept. 21st. Performing for the Herdeljezi Festival in Sebastopol in 2006, Yuri […]

“One of my very, very first memories is of my parents’ house in Los Angeles. In the late afternoon, the light would come through windows […]

In Baudrillard’s theories in “Simulacres et Simulation“, he once wrote with both irony and penetrating critique that Disneyland was created so that Americans would think that the world they live in is real. Is it possible that the Burning Man festival has upped the game? Now a version of sandbox liberation has been created […]

In the 1950s, Wilhelm Reich, the jewish Galician-born scientist – more commonly considered Austrian – ( this is entirely speculative: but does this mean that good ol’ Dr. Reich was mixing up those orgone theories with the love of the Bukowina stylee? Hoopa !! Maybe we’ll have to come back to that thought) psychotherapist and sex researcher attempted a GREENING of the Arizona desert, and his investigations still remain a labyrinth of hidden knowledge. Fast Forward: Some incredible and absurd and impossible parallels may exist with this year’s Burning Man GREEN theme, and we’ll be analyzing the Man on the XL Terrestrial Couch… from a relatively safe distance of … 10 years to be exact.

What exactly are we talking about?? Parallel Politics? Well if you’re in the SF area come to these benefit screenings and learn from the PROs! Included in the program are some very inspiring clips from Rage Against The Machine, who took their Battle for Los Angeles tour to Mexico City. Also note this is a prelude […]

The XLT story was picked up by Indybay, and today is the last day of fundraising. Here’s a quick follow up to the Parallel Politics story, “The ART of Politics” cont.: Updates: At the time of writing the initial story we were not aware of Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai also running, and there may be others we’ve […]

Analysis of the Chicken John vs. Josh Wolf debate at Chez Poulet ( pic from the omnipresent Scott Beale/ Laughing Squid ) …coming soon! [ See Below ] Meanwhile read the current news here: Debate and here: Dear Gavin Newsom The race is on for both of these candidates to raise enough money to enter into the […]

As we are preparing to present our next media deconstruction and analysis event (XLT ^s. MDC at Station 40 2morrow night – read below) the experience of seeing Herzog’s Rescue Dawn remains a fresh and open wound on the psyche. And we just don’t have the time to fully flesh out all the dizzying falseness this film foments, but fortunately John Pilger has investigated the Vietnam delusions so thoroughly, it was a perfect coincidence to hear him on Democracy Now this morning.

Coming soon to Station 40, Aug.3rd XLT ^s. MDC : where the mechanical bride meets the electro trojan horse kaleidescope As a culture passes the mechanical world threshold, we not only exist more inside the mediated landscape than outside it, we permit a severe mutation and reversal of body and function, such that the ubiquitous prosthetic electronica does not enable […]

We’ll have some news about this show in the next days, and there might be a sneak preview on july 27th as part of a benefit for the Art SF space in the Mission District.

Our return to the belly of the LALa Beast, the Psychomedia Capital, to plot a Balkan /East Blok music outlet/label and a possible Ukrainian Social Center fundraiser event, consider a corporate media merger between the XLTs and the Media Decompression Collective, visit with the inspired Center For The Study of Political Graphics, post Create and […]

As much as it would be easy to lay the blame on Hollywood for Werner Herzog’s decline into The Leni Riefenstahl Hall Of Shame, there were a number of signs that the director didn’t just stumble into this art-meets-propaganda abyss with his latest Rescue Dawn, which has mysteriously been pending release for over a year […]

Cartoon from the consistently masterful brush of Steve Bell at the Guardian UK a few weeks back ( on “Bush and Blair’s last meeting” )… and THis just in from Democracy Now: Bush: Blair Not My “Poodle” …President Bush has paid tribute to his long-time ally and partner in the Iraq war. In an […]

°°°°°°°°°°°°° “Weekly” Playlists from the Globalista Radio Kit IF your willing to submit to the Zuckerborg, you can follow the playlists and other musica news bits on the Frackybook group … An archive of previous playlists coming … eventually… ( Contact us and ask about our public secret location(s) to hear us live, GRK – every tues. nite in Btropolis ) °°°°°°°°° 26.02.19 —o—-ö—-O– gLobALiSta RaDio KiT Playlist —ö—-O—–Ö—- v.114 : w.w.w. – neurobeat, cáry života, iva bittova + pavel fajt, gili yalo, dub colossus, xoas, loxandra, daughter, conrad schnitzler, pyrolator, levellers, the ex, die goldenen zitronen, ton steine scherben, die wallerts, neneh cherry, mop mop, soft machine, amadou and mariam, stony sugar skull, fred frith, skeleton crew, massacre, bill laswell, dr.

(oh yeah , stay tune for an ectoplasmic eruption from the gut of a future discontent…part 2 under construction ) In this era of epic-scale communication mudslides where the erosion of careful analysis has now become the given precarious terrain in the ever-shifting net streams and slippery mass media empires, praxis artisans, culture jammers, and humanists, […]

“Vivoleum works in perfect synergy with the continued expansion of fossil fuel production,” noted “Exxon rep” “Florian Osenberg” (Yes Man Mike Bonanno). “With more fossil fuels comes a greater chance of disaster, but that means more feedstock for Vivoleum. Fuel will continue to flow for those of us left.” Press release and documentation of “Exxon-Mobil” presentation at the GO-EXPO, […]

Laughing Squid has reported on a curious new clip from Davide Casaleggio about the future of media. And discussions are just beginning there and at Richard MacManus’s Read/WriteWeb site. PB Podovic comments: “This Is a fascinating film to analyze! It certainly makes a slick commercial for Google, Amazon, and Second Life, but here’s a few perspectives that […]

It is of utmost importance to begin by saying that there is no completely authentic analysis that will transpire in the Convenient Containers of The Net, because what happens in life, in the shadows, in the flesh, the fury, the passions, and the birthing of a true-to-humanity response ( much less liberation) has no visual, […]

Our previous G8 analysis post seems to be experiencing some technical difficulty, but for the moment this information is relevant for Sf Bay readers re: June 8th International Day Of Action in Solidarity with G8 protests, and updates of what is happening in Germany can be seen and followed here at Indymedia UK and DE 10s […]

If the G8 policy on climate change will be anything like the glorious successes of its Aid-To-Africa genius ( its focus in Scotland in 2005; read these assessments in the Guardian UK by 1.Monbiot and 2.Larry Elliott and Kate Connolly ), we can all be sure that Planet Inc. will be facing a bleak no-holds-barred, […]

ZDRAVO MUSIKAL ORGANISMS! and artivist friends, see Below and Please spread the word ! KAFANA BALKAN (( part|ii )) : EAST bLOCKERZ on the rISe ! Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 KAFANA BALKAN @ The Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St. between Franklin and Gough San Francisco, Ca 94103 7pm – 2am ( Warning: come early , this will sell out ) Sliding scale […]

Coming Soon a report from The Transmigration research at New College! A whole host of astounding revelations on the state of planetary intelligence and/or decline of western civilization. Mixed and baked with some heavy dosage of reality from a lifted book called “Devices Of The Soul : Battling For Our Selves In An Age Of […]

Mayday(s) 2007 Press Release: XL Terrestrials present THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA May 16, 2007 at New College Theater in San Francisco The XL Terrestrials present “THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA” May 16, 2007 New College Theater 777 Valencia Street San Francisco 6:30-9pm $5, no one turned away The XL Terrestrials, a team of unlicensed psycho-media analysts and illegitimate art practitioners from San Francisco, Berlin and beyond, present […]

Important debate going on at Laughing Squid about whether or not to use the Amazon beast and useful discussions re: how to support artists, local bookstores and publishers, local economies, etc. More reports coming soon, but here’s an XL Terrestrial letter below: [ currently Scott seems to have closed the issue, as well as made some […]

So the next level of Transmigrations will be presented at New College Theater May 16th and we are gathering a few new perspectives: - Assessing the virtual migration Many in the field of Artificial Intelligence have come to the conclusion that intelligence has no bearings without a body, that is to say, without reference to a […]

We’re sure there’s a good Paul Virillio quote that would be appropriate to describe the backlash and whiplash of dropping out of the PsychoCapital rhythms with its hyper-strained neck sticking out the window to fan the flames and smell the fumes… but no time for that… Here’s a quick drive-by (on bicycle of course) of […]

So we are going to engage (and indulge) in the praxis we have been alluding to with our media deconstructionals: plunging into the deep offline zones for an all-too-brief Breathing In, into the life without the “Bio-ports” ! For those who are not familiar that’s a reference to David Cronenberg’s “Existenz”. It’s one […]

We are so excited to present at LA ECO VILLAGE this Friday, see details below. And we’ve been trying to assemble some text to log the bizarre experiences of LA, Das Psychomedia Kapital, the city that William Burroughs descibed as the place with a paper-thin sky that could go up in flames at any […]

XL Terrestrials made an emergency landing in the Hollywood Hills yesterday. The LA Times is reporting that 2 teenagers from Illinois were setting off fireworks and turned themselves into police that afternoon. Initially detained by LAPD officers and then released to their parents’ custody, they are pending possible prosecution for reckless fire setting. But the story is a cover-up for the city that remains entirely vulnerable to alien invasions and conscious visitations. Later that night 2 of the aliens appeared at Telic Arts Exchange in Chinatown to deliver the message that the Psychomedia Capital is responsible for spewing millions of Spectacle terrabytes into the psychic atmosphere per year and that the situation regarding the mental stability of the planet has become dire.

Press Release, March 23, 2007 XL Terrestrials begin “The Psychomedia Capital” tour on March 30th at Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles. Other SoCal and leftcoast dates TBA. __ __ __ __ __ The XL Terrestrials present “THE TRANSMIGRATION OF CINEMA” A screening program ranging from art flix to mainstream movies to guerrilla media to ubiquitous online effluvium, all presented in […]

As we are assembling new clips and fine-tuning for The Transmigration Of Cinema v. 4.0 for our Psychomedia Capital + SoCal tour, we started revisiting the work of Adam Curtis, “Century Of The Self” (2002) in particular, and realized his newest 3 part BBC Documentary is already being aired in the UK. Sure to be ripe […]

Bush in Colombia: Bush in Brasil: Bush in Guatemala: Bush in Uruguay: Note: Pics from the respective indymedia sites of each country. And in case your missing the hilarious and deadly serious showdown between Bush and Chavez currently in South and Central America, Chavez called the president of the United States a ” political cadaver” and got thousands at a Buenos Aires rally to chant ” Gringo go home ! ” And if you’re just tuning in you can read some of the news at Democracy Now, with an excerpt from the Chavez speech.

Happy Birthday Chris Carlsson! An unstoppable community warrior on the path to uploading all the artivisms and circling all the comrades one may ever need on that long road to utopia. Blogs and books and zines, hot bubbling grey matter, bikes and mass euphorian maps, strategies and dreams, all to keep you actively enagaged with a frame of mind that will have you riding for free on The Committee For Full Enjoyment train immediately: www.chriscarlsson.com the blog: www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson Fall/Winter Talks: http://www.

Steve Bell at www.guardian.co.uk Another dead-on piece by Steve Bell at the Guardian.co.uk

The G8 Dissent Info Tour is just one of a growing multiplicity of organizations mobilizing resistance against and alternatives to the hegemony of the world’s richest nations, which will meet for their infamous annual summit this June 6-8 in Heilegendamm, Germany near to Rostock. For the basic info of where you can catch their events in […]

[ Note: One of nearly a thousand new Polish art posters at Pigasus Gallery in Berlin. More coming soon ! This bit of genius is from FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI ] Standby for processing… A. And the Oscar goes to Al Gore while lathering his ancient rubber chickenhead with Occidental Petroleum as Ellen Degeneres reaches under her skirt to scratch the last of the U’wa tribe and all the Iraqi sitcom-grandchildren from her dry caking botoxed labia before she cracks a head-on smile.

“The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in a historical perspective, but for us, right now. This project implies the withering away of all the alienated forms of communication. The cinema, too, must be destroyed.” G. Debord … The Society of the Spectacle is neither an ivory tower philosophical discourse nor a helplessly impulsive protest, but a ruthlessly lucid examination of the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society we live in. This means that it needs to be reread (and reseen) many times, but it also means that it remains as pertinent as ever while countless radical and intellectual fads have come and gone.

Last night Station 40 hosted a Viral Video Olympics night, which was like a couch potato’s media seppuku ritual. A scene which could have been a gorey cubicle outtake from the 9-5 lunch break with fellow wage-slaves unable to unplug their online umbilical/existenz cords. But this cozy public living room of the old Mission District former post office, a gathered community armed with spontaneous pirate flagging and street-art scalpel smarts, and the panel of expertly odd judges transformed it into a den of hilarious DIY media a few notches past over-indulged, like the amp turned to 11.

“… like so many other things these days, war too seems to be subject to a de- and re-regulation process that radically challenges old certainties and replaces them with new premises that shall not be questioned. DICTIONARY OF WAR sets out to oppose war and, at the same time, calls for “desertion” from a war of words in which facts are created with such force in their communication and propaganda that they can no longer be challenged.” from www.dictionaryofwar.org more coming soon to the guerrilla semiotics Podopolog nearest You!

dearest xtra-passionate terrestrials, In case you haven’t had enough of giving all that Hallmark sentimentality and consumer mentality a good thrashing, Station 40, one of the hottest catalyst collective spaces in SF, has been planning V-day and XYZ-day festivities – as in, THE REVOLUTION AND THE EROTIC OF EVERYDAY LIFE – now set for FEB 16>> at Station 40 3030b 16th street (at Mission ) FEB 16, 9pm – LATE w/dj Podski , Zulah and Many More by donation And YOUR ASs and all Yur tribes’ AsSes are invited !

Grab your sweetheart(s) and take em down to where the Insurrection Landscaping gets HOT!! February 14: Land Grabs San Francisco’s entire history is based on land grabs, within its own borders and far beyond. Sketching this history to the present, we will also look at counter-efforts to grab land and to create open and cooperative spaces in an ever more commercially tyrannized society. (Chris Carlsson, Erick Lyle, James Tracy) At CounterPulse TONIGHT ! AND HEY and he’s organizing another bike tour on somewhat similar topic for the weekend: “… then on Sunday, I’ll be conducting a 4-hour tour on the topic of “Dissent”… meet at 12 at CounterPULSE and bring water and snack, be ready for rain (hard rain cancels, occasional drizzle won’t stop us…).

Well while we are awaiting some visuals from Sunday night’s Monochrom visit at the Exploratorium, we thought we should analyze the burning wreckage left by the prankmeisters of Vienna… Because any traces left by these articulate and transnational leg-pullers may have fair and future use for escaping your own homeland debris and finding/formatting more bricks to throw at the pop culture screens. The McBean Theater was filled to the brim with Squidlisters and Re/Searchers, which made for a ruckus and supportive house to play the live-audience game in this attempted point-blank tv talk show shoot.

Monochrom, a Viennese art-technology-philosophy group known for developing a number of highly controversial Improvisational (Art) Implosion Devices, will be at the Exploratorium in SF this Sunday to attempt to disengage and/or detonate one of the most lethal American mass media forms: The Talk Show. About: ” Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles, buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies of the art system with the Thomann Project.

On Feb.6, Josh Wolf became the longest-imprisoned journalist* who has ever been held on contempt charges in the United States, and it’s time for the solidarity bit to hit high gear! Journalists get your war drums on ! Get your banners up ! Start writing in protest ! Take action ! Use this easy to forward summary of Josh’s story at Common Dreams or this more recent LA Times story also posted on C.D. and mail 10-20-30…friends ,writers, journalists, media activists now !

February 3rd,2007 KAFANA BALKAN @ ARTSF 110 Capp st. @ 16th.st 5 th floor 8PM-1AM Sliding scale $8-15 Come out and support a great cause and listen to some wildly festive music. Boban and Zeljko invite you to our very first installment of KAFANA BALKAN-a benfit for the Bread and Cheese circus that has been making free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo for the past 4 years.The international troupe consists of members from Bosnia,Serbia,Canada and United States.

We had a very informal meeting of XL Terrestrials at one of our undisclosed caffeinating locations today to discuss TOC v.3.O. That’s “Transmigration Of Cinema” for all you slackheads just tuning in… Welcome! Slackers ( yes, “praise slack!” even in 2007, minus the xtra retro-cheese and quite possibly all that [se]x-ist wanking ! ) situationists, cacaphonists, jammers, media contortionists and escape artists, future re-writin hacklabbers, and sustainability/realtime tinkerers are all a part of our color palette and calling. So if you have a moment, try this latest version on for size and let us know if you think the XLT Organism can help you bear fruit and proper arms in these troubled times:

This is a pure web teaser! There is no Sons of El Topo project to see in the cinema, the proposed sequel to Jodorowsky’s cult classic El Topo. But both this 1970 oddity-masterwork (which was the beginnings of the midnight movie due in part to Lennon and Yoko Ono) and Holy Mountain are screening at Castro theater this weekend, which means something must have recently occurred in the film’s legal status…having been locked up in a decades-long struggle with producer Allen Klein.

Yep, there’s a magazine dedicated to hactivism and new media which runs a pretty mean gamut from up-to-speed resistance measures to music reviews on the outer limits to cultural oddities that will keep you on your toes… Nueral.it In hardcopy it is supposedly available at Cody’s Books in the Bay Area, but you can also dig in onlne in eng and italian. No. 26 : Disturbing the System has bundles of info that you should be downloading into your consciousness and your toolkit immediately.

Goethe’s 12th “Berlin and Beyond” festival at the Castro looked a little thin and fluffy from the program at first glance, but we are very happy to have our first impression totally dismantled. All of the films we have seen in this year’s selection so far have either proven to be unexpected surprises, engaging, intense, challenging, or in a couple cases, curious fodder for XL terrestrial (propaganda) analysis. And this year’s filmmaker panel session grappled with the complexities of “violence in film”, which reflected a recurring theme from many featured guest directors.

We think it might be important for those who have made the pilgrimage to Macworld this week to get a grip on the fact that unless the new iphone has upgrades to work underwater and/or during the next ice age, withstand ied-s, and/or annihilate the deathstar of the warmongers… there’s not really much social progress that will be made with a phone, an ipod , and a camera wrapped into one ( wow, revolutionary as a latte with xtra foam on valencia street!

Steve Bell

“Join EFF for a birthday bash to celebrate 16 years fighting for your rights.” They are asking for $20 donations , but no one turned away for lack of funds, and proceeds go toward one ofthe most progressive legal teams on the planet. January 11, 7-10 PM at 111 Minna Gallery in Soma, SF. Scott Beal of Laughing Squid will be on hand to donate a generous gift and you can find out about all the raging battles for what’s left of digital freedom…

When Neil Postman used to analyze the Media Ecology and the Technopoly he’d say that we were becoming heavily wired for a catastrophic excess of solutions to problems that didn’t previously exist, and that even our language for expressing the new social complexities was migrating into forms more groomed for pushing hair products. Then as the Age of Biotech was just beginning to get us into slippery-slope wetware re-designed it quickly went molecular, so that the Ick Factor became a little too abstract to alarm or nauseate the uninitiated citizen/human.

Somewhat surprising and very unfortunate for US audiences that nearly 2 years after winning best documentary at the SF International, no one’s picked this film up for cinema or dvd distribution, but it’s available from their own site. Czech Dream makes a highly instructional piece for pulling back the shabby curtains on mass media, advertising firms, and the hypermarketed every-Man in a way that reveals the sausage-making of manipulative campaigns and should spawn a new wave of pranking collision-course consumerisms. And here we get a taste of the east-block currently undergoing the high-speed colonization “upgrades” to shopping-mall democracy.

spring 2007 west coast Wednesday May 16th new college theatre 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco www.newcollege.edu Friday March 30th 2007 7-10pm TELIC 975 Chung King Rd. in chinatown www.telic.info Friday April 6th 2007 7-10pm Eco Village 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004 www.laecovillage.org Monday April 9th 2007 7pm CRCA - Center for Research in Computing and the Arts University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, Ca. with SD Indymedia and NewMediaFix.net Previous Tour Dates: NorCal Station 40, San Francisco