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 ).