25c3 : psychomedia analysis + multiple disorders WARNING … life support malfunction … ” The whole conference has spent a lot of time talking about ways to control uses of information and to protect peoples’ privacy after the information was collected. But that only works if you assume a good government. If we get one seriously bad government, […]

The 25th Chaos Communications Congress starts on the 27th right here in B-mitte, Alcalica ( just returned from a long hiatus in Greece) play with dj Shazam in the revamped Monkey/Hotel Bar, now called Mama Berlin ( new owners ) on Xmas Day (TODAY), Stencil Nation with vj/dj Podinski on the Danube tour trail in January … And if you’re in San Francisco : EFF is having their 18th Birthday with dj Spooky, Butthole Surfers with Negativeland at the Fillmore for New Year’s Eve, and, if you are one of those strange bi-continental hybrids like us you’ll be especially orgonzoed to hear that Craig Baldwin and ATA’s OTherCinema are coming to Berlin in February… and oh so much uncanny news to tell, stay tune for updates.

Our Really Really + Sorta Free Access Pages ( see page 05 :: Free Access ) are yet another time-consuming and underpaid and never-ending XLt project that we do purely for the love of our readers : ) … well NO not you 2nd coming of the Stasi-Fucks and Spambags, but all YOU arts + […]

XLt psychomedia analysts have an exclusive report not yet released to major media. We are about to reveal a film not yet shown on CNN, Al Jazeera, Youtube, Al-Baghdadiya TV, BBC, Comedy Central and other ma$$ media sources. It shows the recent shoe attack on President Bush in Baghdad during a press conference with the […]

Our Really Really Free (+ sorta free) XLt Access pages begins with mapping free WLAN/WIFI spots in a variety of cities. The nourishing nodes. Coming soon: Prague, San Fran, Amsterdam, Bratislava, Copenhagen … and ??… The Free Wired Cafe Hit-List + Nodes ( please feel free to add to the list, write to pod (at) xlterrestrials (dot) org and we’ll plug yur site or whatever it is u do. Thx to Dusanson from Multiplace who started sending info for eastern europa nodes )

A Size 10 Farewell for Bush in Iraq This will undoubtedly become the most watched video on the internet in the Middle East and around the world today. Muntadar al-Zaidi, a brave Iraqi journalist waves farewell to the Dog-Bush empire, forever stained with its contract blood for oil, by throwing his shoes. More than 1 million Iraqis murdered and a global press is still printing the laughable daily press releases for the military-hinged markets and those hopelessly lost fantasies for ticker-tape-streaming parades and business-as-usual.

posted in a rush… 2nite: Amy Goodman at Humboldt University 18:30h Transgressions vernissage at Nuerotitan Gallery, with Lydia Lunch | Niagara | Gudrun Gut | Françoise Cactus | Danielle de Picciotto (pic) | Myra Davies | Breeda C.C. also an afterparty at Eschshloraque with all of the above and A.Hacke ab 23h Kal Spelletich from the Seemen at Tacheles ab 19h … r.i.p. Bettie Page 1923-2008 Was it a man’s man’s world that drove ye to a strangely born again end !

In reverse chron. order … a weekend of wild musika in Berlin : > 7.12 > Figli di madre ignota im R.A.W. Temple ab 21:ooh … die kommen, um den Affen tanzen zu lassen, an eastblok cd release party :: ” Lasst uns nicht lange um den heißen Brei herum reden […]

As part of XminY’s series of events as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations we just experienced a most illuminating debate held at De Baile ( the venue where XLt once got its feet wet in the serious business of tactical media convergences known as Next Five Minutes back in 2003, just as the WTO summit was gathering in Cancun on the other side of the globe ). The dabate pitted the positions of international solidarity funds vs. charity, or grassroots enabling vs.

As we prepare for the next stages of the XLt Transmigration Series, we noticed we weren’t the only ones who have not been weathering November in Berlinopolis well, and wonder: ” Are there galoshes for the psyche? ” Suddenly it occurred to us that those outer felt and rubber layers to hold up against the circumstances and the challenges ahead might entail a pirate map which transforms into a flow chart which manifests as collective gatherings which then becomes inspired action… all accompanied by urgent rebel beats blaring loudly from within.

( -Excerpt- ) _ _ _ – YES! THE WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT, AND MAYBE THIS REALLY IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE EXPERTS WITH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS - The Yes Men struck again with their own collective issue of the NY Times ( PDF for distro here ) dated from the future, Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Filled with so many fresh ideas that never get published in corporate media because, well they just don’t serve the ruling elite, the vested interests, and the Military Entertainment Complex.

XLterrestrials will be heading to the Netherlands in November for some very exciting events, and experimenting with Part/Level 3 of the Psychomedia + Transmigrations series ( more below ). > 21-23.11 > The 4th edition of 2.dh5-festival in Den Bosch (Netherlands) An annual gathering on political activism in the Netherlands. The idea is to organize opportunities […]

[link to clip below] We have waited just a little while to observe the discussions following the election results. Our first sign the morning after that the planet had not all turned into some sort of Dianetics For Republicrats Club, was Ishmael Reed’s post at Counterpunch, but ok we expected that there’d be any number of […]

The stranger in the white suit and red hat arrived outside the Babylon Kino in Berlin Mitte, opened his car door with a Karaoke version of James Brown blaring “I Feel Good!” and sang along beautifully, ecstatic and wide-eyed; Even as he performed, he was real! Later Barak Obama came out on a stage in Chicago’s […]

“I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?

— Ohh so nice listening to “modem radio” Live from the new Tijuana Media Lab, and a friend is sending us relic tracks from one of our favorite Praha bands/musicians Naceva circa 2001, “Mole V.” is asking us thru chat if we can send some of those german work pants (huh??) to SF… meanwhile we’re looking for some fresh ostblok tracks to send to TJ, and here we are babbling on FB… “Syraenia” texts that she flies back to Mexico from Munich 2morrw, and we’re thinking she could be listening to modem radio and should meet the cybercholitos in DF, but don’t know if she has access to a “bio-port” currently… meanwhile sending info to a shadow puppet compa (who once staged a recent Skinny Puppies revival tour with magnificent Balinese-style goblin backdrops) in LAlaland – the capital of the Military Entertainmet Complex – about the rockin rapper Puppetmastaz playing a Btown show ( 13.

((( ))) One of the 12th Jihvala doc festival themes this year is about going beneath the surface, a way of using film to x-ray, penetrate or unveil its subjects and reveal their (often hidden and/or dangerous) contents… Much material for one of our key angles for XLt analysis: humans caught and transformed in the scanner of the mass media frenzy… For us, as we develop new themes and tactical responses to its often fragmenting, disfiguring and disembodying assault… (((

If ever there was a rhizome ready to sprout everywhere… THE REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET, ready for DIY franchising NOW !! Try ONE in YOur Neighborhood TODAY !!! … And if you live near DOLORES PARK… Btw: anybody checking the hits on RRFM at wikipedia?? Bet this one’s gonna explode over the next weeks… Spread […]

:: In Riga:: > 16-25.10 > (RIXC’s) ART+COMMUNICATION 2008 Spectropia : X International festival for new media culture :: In Praha:: > 22-24.10 > CIANT Gallery’s RESET Vol.1 – “Open Spectrum” + Evolutionary Nights :: In Jihlava :: > 24-29.10 > The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival :: In Berlin:: > 25.10 > Freigeist -KurzfilmFestival in Offene Uni Berlin > 25.10 > Grand Opening of Czentrifuga silkscreen studio/gallery (Fleischerei crew) > 25.10 > Cargo Cult in L.u.x with Eat Prunes (Es)+ djs Hanuman and Mr Dread

cont… Note: 2nite’s the final night of Globale fest and Moviemento Kino’s been quite a nice spot to mix with the thinking global peeps… Final program tonight includes “Finally We Got The News”, “Drum Beats Detroit II” ( montage of text, musik, and film in collaboration with Labor B ), and Boom: The Sound Of Eviction by SF’s Whispered Media. XLt analysis : From “We are Winning” to “What Would it Mean to Win?” to … Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg’s film “What Would It Mean To Win?

Two great events happening this week in Berlin : Kreuztanbul, which began on monday ( 13-17.10 ), and Globale 08 Film Festival starting 2nite ( 15.10-21.10 ) !!! … Xlt reports coming soon…. Added: 17.10 : Mercen Dede aka dj Arkin Allen, the master ethnotronic-fusionist from Istanbul/Montreal plays TONIGHT at SO36 also with the band Ayyuka … for the closing party of Kreutzanbul…Don’t MISS IT ! _ _ _ Globale Film Festival Highlights: While there’s always a broad range of issues at Globale 08 – now in its 7th year – from Migration, G8 and Protest, Feeding the World, Gentrification + Lifestyle Apartheid… There aren’t many Doc festivals that can put a focus on Labor issues which does not then become a very specialized interest for those highly dedicated people who strategize against the sausage-making day-to-day of life in the exploitative grinds and traps and precarities.

Warning: This is not an endorsement for Any prezidential puppet/monster show. - – - And well to be fair and balanced, we feel it would be necessary to provide these links to the latest news item regarding the “Palin Pilot”. And here’s Part 1 made some year(s?) ago: “Bush Pilot“. Both with eng. subtitles. _ _ _ We were about to do an in-depth analysis on TACTICAL voting as a follow-up to our piece on Ground Noise and Static ( below) but maybe it will suffice to say:

Orwell’s dystopian scenarios have simultaneously become both a ubiquitous cliche and a gross understatement; the new technological landscape has perhaps become Big Brother’s ultimate wet dream. Citizens willfully participate in their own surveillable trails and profiles via cubicled labor often disguised as daily ritual leisure and entertainment. Now obsessive – compulsive knowledge-as-power and immediate connectedness to everywhere and nowhere is also a direct feed * to state and corporate eyes + controls, as if a sudden metamorphosis of television’s virtualizing scars became overnight a tattoo and bar code parasite upon the inner and outer mind, private and public and industrial spheres.

Stills from Submedia Tv + Pepperspray Productions’ NEW Film “Ground Noise And Static” ” Either the Crumbs or the Batons are on the table for the new democratic process, depending on where you stand. Not surprisingly the gloves are off… Not between those four spineless politico pimps (you see twaddling about on tv and around the net), but between our future and the last relics of that foul electoral charade.” psychomedia analyst through the telepresent glass darkly — The Republicrat Dating Game

:: Coming Soon :: :: 2nite! :: 4.10 > Creole Musik Wettbewerb in der Werkstatt der Kulturen mit Romenca, Polkaholix und dj Yuriy Gurzhi ( Rotfront + Russendisco) 4.10 > Vernissage von Leonard Konopelski – Plakate, Pigasus Gallery (more here) 4.10 > BalkanBeats mit Robert Soko in Pavillion im Volkspark Friedrichshain :: those days ahead :: 11.10 > Freiheit Statt Angst/Freedom Not Fear – International Day Of Action mit Radio 1984 – covering LiVE from Berlin 11.10 > AK Kraak Nr.

[ UK Guardian’s Steve Bell ] You know those bad dreams where the really horrible part starts to loop in slow motion… Yep, they really are so desperate they’re gonna try and steal $700 billion twice in broad daylight! WAKE UP! This is more than just a bad dream! They are trying to pitch it like SOMETHING Has To Be Done, and yeah, something has to be done… they’ve left an 8 fucking yearlong mess, but the answers could range from anything from sending Paulson - “the Sachman” - and his Washington Wall Street crony crew out into the Pacific in a dingy without a paddle and a dozen cans of tuna fish until they find the island Elba or Alcatraz … to setting up a real rescue plan that involves restructuring the world’s most suspicious and volatile enterprise with safeguards against crackheads with yachts and calculators and dim NeoCon bulbs.

Kirsten Brydum 1983-2008 To honor Kirsten’s work on the waking dream of a Really Really Free Market, we hope the parallels and analysis below will give courage to any and all to see that those who attempt to prolong the atrocities of Wall Street ( -run politics) must be held accountable otherwise they will continue to be in our faces with extraordinarily idiotic, self-serving and vicious demands that have very real and immediate impacts on neighborhoods from the 9th Ward to Sadr City to Juarez to your backyard.

:: :: :: 11.10 > Freiheit Statt Angst/Freedom Not Fear - International Day Of Action + Demo: Stop The Surveillance Mania ! Stop the Data Thieves ! For Germany read more at AK Vorrat, participate in their Wiki pages, download banners, spread the word! PLUS many radio groups coordinating coverage, check Mikro.FM based in Berlin. :: :: :: 25.9.08 2.10 > Die Nacht Nach Ramadan w/ Nomad Sound System, Dj Ipek, Sister Fa… with vjs Podinski and MDC … and many more.

25.9.08 : NO BAILOUT FOR WALLSTREET ! PROTESTS in NYC and SF and EVERYWHERE! 4pm … In NYC, meet at the South end of the Bowling Green, at the infamous Wall Street Bull, and bring your UNWANTED JUNK to Sell. Check NYC Indymedia and Arun Gupta’s call to Protest for more details. Read Naomi Klein’s call. Read True Majority’s call. Read Cindy Sheehan’s call at Indybay which suggests bringing your mortgage, medical, and rent bills, student loans, credit card bills , etc and ask the Govt.

While heading to the ESF in Malmo we had started compiling a post-NeoCon Territories Pirate Map ( i.e. Safe Harbors + FreeZones ) to distribute, but THat became a concept for a much longer-term publishing project. So for now, and for purposes of sewing quick seeds with our globalista comrades and fellow eco-Orgs, we printed up this XLt cover above for the latest Podinski sampler: Farther East: Balkan 2 Baltica mix. Contact us if you’d like to get ahold of one, it will help fuel your drunken boat (i.

The 2008 Globalista Elections: Yes or No on United States Re-entry to Planet Earth ? Last June, Slavoj Zizek was in NYC participating in the Left Forum on the topic Resist, Attack, Undermine: Where Are We 40 Years After 68? Also interviewed by Amy Goodman in two full programs on Democracy Now, Zizek in usual provocative form commented on US Elections, suggesting that everyone EXCEPT citizens of the US should vote on the next head of global Empire. It later occurred to the XL Terrestrials to not only take him seriously, but in fact go further with the idea, and more effectively initiate a more up-to-date democracy through a kind of Anti- or Inverted Survivor Game Show to enact truer representation and practical deconstruction of this urgent matter.

A Little XL Terrestrial Analysis of Supercolliders, Toblerone, and The End of The World As We Know Not Better ( 9.10 + 9.11 = X - $10bn ) It hadn’t really hit home what was underneath the surface of the much touted and conjectured Big Bang Genesis, Dark Matter and String theories, what exactly might be at the core of the $10bn (£5.1bn) experiment at Cern, until we read towards the end of one of the Guardian’s many intriguing articles that the US also has its own supercollider laboratory (soon to be decommissioned?

6.9 :: Pirate Mapping at Trickster, Oberbaumstr. 11 , Berlin A fundraiser for XLTerrestrials research and radical upgrades at the European Social Forum, Malmo. Rude + Rebel beats from Left-coast to Balkana to Globaltronic with djs Shazam (Nomad Sound System), Trecid aka Globaltronika ( ADF webmaestro, NL), dj Podinski ( XLT, San Fran), dj Hanuman ( Cargo Cult) + + Kino/Vjs from MDCBerlin.org … 3e suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Come early and get an XLT Pirate Map… and for a “possible” MDC vs.

[ Steve Bell from the UK Guardian currently reporting from the US ] More news coming from the RNC in the Twin Cities… Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman among journalists arrested, and 2 cameramen from Submedia TV … for now check their latest RNC Dispatch #3 ( AND #4 ) ! And please send them your support! Note: These 2 media outlets represent 2 very different styles of radical and cutting-edge reporting, one a very sober look at the news ignored by corporate-owned media, the second a very impassioned view disobeying all the rules of corporate newsroom lackey-dom, in other words a highly subjective journalists’ revolt.

” Our Society’s obsession with controlling the future - and with insuring accumulation - has at least 2 major consequences. The first is the organization of a consumer environment for the immediate satisfaction of anticipated desires, with the effect of eliminating desire as such, and creating an atmosphere of suspended disbelief where entire populations move zombie-like and intellectually silent beneath exaggerated images of their unconscious drives. The second consequence, as we have seen with such violence in recent years, is the simple removal of those who might trouble this forcibly tranquilized landscape with any kind of disturbing presence or political speech.

((( We frequently post Radical Blurbs, i.e. recommended EVENTS as Podopolog entries, but this page can be used to keep track of it all in more Chronological order. We’ll even try to link the events to the featured articles where they appear with more details. Key word here is TRY :) … ORANGE-Highlighted events are XLT + Pod(s) related. Please send us your hot blurby event news to : Pod (at) XLterrestrials (d0t) org ))) ::: -08- October ::: 11.10 > Freiheit Statt Angst/Freedom Not Fear – International Day Of Action + Demo: Stop The Surveillance Mania !

[ Still from Benh Zeitlin’s “Glory at Sea”, big winner at SXSW and NOLA Human Rights Film Fest in 2008] Radical Blurb XTraXTra : [ Note: u can now use “Page 04” for a chronological LIST of XLT recommended events] 27.8 : 3 Years After Katrina Movie Nite at Mano’s Bar ecke skalitzer/lausitzer str. Berlin Begins 8pm Special guests: Panpirat, Cyclown Circus musicians, Media Decompression + Podinski Selected films from AK Kraak + PanMove, “Cataclysm” (2006) , Benh Zeitlin’s ingenious and Kusturica-esque “Glory at Sea”( 2007), current news clips from Democracy Now (2008.

[ Graffitti Research Lab tagging the NSA - Verizon “merger” in NYC following the Congress' amendment to FISA Act on July 9th, expanding Prez Bush’s demand for expanded eavesdropping authority. Full Story. ] Latest news regarding GRL is that co-founder James Powderly is one of The Beijing Six, now being held in custody in China. From […]

“The installation of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe is, virtually, a declaration of war.” NOAM CHOMSKY Excerpt of a support letter from Chomsky to Jan Tamáš with the Non-violent Movement against US bases in Czech Republic. With the recent confrontations between US and Russia, and NATO being pushed into the game up-to-its- ears in […]

More musika news ( and links) coming soooon… meanwhile if your in SF, Don’t miss these: Monsters of Accordions OR Mezklah with Fosforo et al !! Ohhh tuff choice, but knowing the migratory Bay Area patterns, the SFsters will go to 12 Galaxies and the East bay will go to the Oakland Bottoms. Also This news […]

[ Dear Podopolog readers and XLt organisms, we are STILL working on the new Wordpress updating (glitch), and still have comments DOWN, so please do not attempt to submit comments, but rather send us an email if you have any thoughts you would like to share.] [ From the film about renegade architect Michael Reynolds, Garbage […]

A Playlist for Ecotopia Gathering 2008: Dear Ecotopians, Enjoy the films! Wish we could be there!! Please let people know about our XL Terrestrials project and the list of resources below. We do a variety of screening presentations, mostly focused on analyzing the media ecology and the current “virtual migration” of digital culture, and exploring new directions in tactical arts and praxis. Didn’t have that much time to assemble a specific energy issues program, but there’s some very relevant films here in the mix…and then a lot of more general activist clips, and then a bunch for Fun inbetween.

The next “Babylon Now” set from Dj Shazam + Vj Podinski + special guests is Sept. 5th. Also inbetween is a series of live events including musicians from Iraq on Aug 22. ( link coming soon). Salut/Salaam/Gruesse arts + praxis organisms! ( mehr auf deutsch unten) Invite: 8.8.8 Babylon Now Dj Shazam + Vj Podinski at Pergamon, Museum Insel, Berlin 19h-21:30h Friday, August 8th a special “Babylon Now” 3 part mix (8.8. + 5.9 will be our 2nd and last sessions at Pergamon)…

This weekend we visited Camp Tipsy, a very non-commercial cultural festival on the outskirts of Berlin. High on the list of inspiring moments (which we are willing to make public in the plogosphere) are as follows… sleeping in a Tipi* while it rains; Jumping in the cool lake waters after not sleeping for more than 24 hours; being nourished by all the Volkskueche action; watching the crew and citizens of the camp delicately attend to an over-intoxicated passenger; witnessing a collective member of the Dub Pub with hardcore, unshakable principles refuse to allow Non-Bio milk to remain anywhere in the vicinity of his bar/dj table at sunrise inbetween making coffee for the few dawn survivors and dropping vinyl…

[ Images: Zulah (Xlt) + Skolska28, Praha - Street Art Exhibition, 2007 ( Xlt remix) ] 30.7 : Dj Podinski’s Psychotronic Ostblok + Balkana set at Bar25, Berlin 1-3.8 : Camp Tipsy, Kleinwall ( near Erkner) Cultural fest off the consumer grid ! Musicians, djs, soundresearchers, workshops, film makers, video artists, theater people, acrobats, clowns, entertainers, […]

[ Another perspective from Obama’s Berlin speech showing a somewhat different demeanor than all the slick corporate media images of the smiling new messenger of “US democracy” with the victory column backdrop ] Historical Spin in the Obama-rama cycle… Where there’s conflict, there’s always at least 2 sides of a story, and with something as complex as […]

Obama and The Perpetual Love Parade of Troops … An analysis of a Washington-scripted Man of our times running a pre-victory lap around the Siegessaule… A good cop bad cop routine, etc etc. Coming soon! _ _ _ The folks at Jib Jab had a pretty fun video during the 2004 election using the Woody Guthrie tune “This Land is Our Land”. It was getting passed around quite a bit, and then to derail its “success” a Guthrie estate suddenly and absurdly appeared (perhaps with a Republicrat push) and tried to have it taken down.

(Cont. from entry below) “We pledge resistance. We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity. We pledge to make common cause with the people of the world to bring about justice, freedom and peace. Another world is possible and we pledge to […]

Please standby we are still trying to correct our comments, currently it’s f*cked. If you need to contact us please see the XLt Info page 21.7 : Paul D. Miller aka dj Spooky at Pro Qm Books, Berlin Mitte 26.7-16.8 : Funkwelle FM 95.2 … and On Air Now! B. Mitte 26.7 : Popdeurope 08 opener with […]

“There are no turns in the middle of the high seas when yur hunting imaginary whales and riding tales of turtle island turned upside down in the kettle of hungry thieves, only the wild wheel , a mad pirate jammer’s map and fantasia riddled by the one-eyed depths. ” space podopolog 07:2008 [ (Gilliam’s) Brazil to Madagascar to ? ] work-in-progress Yesterday […]

24-26.7 Freigeist vs. Zeitgeist at Yaam 1-3.8 Camp Tipsy, in Klein Wall (bei Erkner) 15-24.8 KlimaCamp 08, Hamburg

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people from the Kiez came out to shout “Media Spree Verpiss Dich! Keine vermisst Dich! ” ( Media Spree , piss off! No one’s gonna miss you! ) among other things : ) … And on Sunday, 86% ( of 35,000 voters) rejected the Media Spree plans! Note, this is […]

7.12 Mediaspree Parade at Warschauer Bruecke 15h! see more info below — 7 Dj Shazam and the XL Terrestrial Vjs ( with MDCBerlin assistance ) will be performing at a series of events ( curated by the Pirahna label folks and Shazam from Nomad Sound System) beginning this friday as part of the Babylon Mythos + […]

A few images from the July 1st action – a flotilla blockade – against the MediaSpree project, which is a massive urban development plan affecting 4 districts – Kruezberg, Mitte, Friedrichshain and Alt-Treptow, along a 3.7 kilometer corridor of the Spree canal. It all looks a bit too familiar to anyone who might have […]

We post em as we see ‘em, so no chronological order here (parts 1+2+3) , be sure to scroll thru the previous Radical Summertime Blurbs (RSB) below for more upcoming dates… And these just in: 28.6 : La Chusma with Dj Badre and Shazalakazoo at R.A.W. Temple … 4.7 : Nanometer Galerie Opening with Pete Missing and […]

[ G.W. Bush as He-Man Master of the Universe, Bryan Boyce 2008 ] Another updated and added list of Radical Summertime Blurbs. Don’t Miss these highly recommended events, mostly in Berlin! >under construction< 25.06: Filmmaker and Culture Jammer Brian Boyce makes his LAST European presentation of “American Mess” an early unofficial G.W. Bush goodbye party in Berlin […]

ON THE XLT HORIZONS: RADICAL SUMMERTIME BLURBS (part1) There’s a lot on our list of things to get involved in or just come out and absorb the radical mix, here’s a first round in semi-chronologic order… >under construction< … oh and send us info on YUR summertime Blurbs, news/events/actions [ pod@… ] : 20.6: Another […]

In general, the XL Terrestrials are not really of the mind that machines are going to save the day, but lately we have reason to smile as we watch the Republicrat Automata coming home to roost, so to speak. Well they are not the first and certainly won’t be the last, and we predict that […]

Recently we covered the No One Is Innocent show in Vienna (HERE, or scroll about 8 entries down), an unlikely city to even attempt a chronicle of the Punk movements. The Kunsthalle show managed to bypass nearly all the heavy hitters ( which might have something to do with the still active “punks” having little […]

The telematic progress revisited. under construction> In the telematic age, more is less. Less you, less me, less we and oh-so-plenty of progress + oblivion + disembodiment ahead “In the mid 21st century the communications frontier would be pushed back for good. Now the human element was perceived as static in the data transmission. My presence was simulated by synthesizing my voice. The less I was there, the more I could be imagined. I would join the sirens of silence.

A seasoned alternative pathmaker, Chris Carlsson’s latest book NOWTOPIA has been on the shelf for about a month and will be on a Pacific coast tour through the summer with Russell Howze’s brand new foray into the publishing world ( though already a longtime chronicler and comrade of the street art worlds, i.e. stencilarchive.org ), STENCIL NATION on Manic D Press. Check the full tour schedules at sites above. And if you’re in San Fran on June 6th, don’t miss the sure-to-be-a-Blast street art show and SN book launch at Cafe Revolution.

++ liebe art Organisms and friends of the XL terrestrials ++ This might be our last show in Austria for awhile… so come join the fun !!! +++ [[ And RARE chance to pik up some Podinski CD samplers; HELP SUPPORT the XL Terrestrials GET HOME : ]] Mittwoch – 28.5.08 ::: Podinski’s Psychotronic Ostblok + Russian Frisco party ::: Soho in Ottakring – @ Ragnarhof – Grundsteingasse 12 Freie Entritt ab 21:00h 2008/05/15a.jpg 2008/05/tnso.thumbnail.jpg dj Podinski (XL terrestrials – San Francisco/Berlin) und Überraschungsgast

Global Security Alliance presents World Security Days May 25-30 in Vienna with Konrad Becker, Eva Horn, Brian Holmes… Films from Critical Art Ensemble, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Kuda and much more. Story coming soon! _ _ _ _ Excerpts from the article : “Extraterrestrial Biopolitics and Creative Industries Security “ : “Global media and business networks create a planetary environment for geopolitical experimentation with global parameters of life – and death. The “Grand Chessboard” of the geo-strategic world has expanded to outer space and inner space.

Our next XLT shows are a collaboration with the 10th year of Soho Festival In Ottakring, the Ragnarhof gallery/venue, and our special guests Beta_test, the experimental group whose lab we are currently writing from, where Sonance ( a bit like a collective Laughing Squid arts+culture service provider) meets every Wednesday and the […]

Fran Ilich | Telenovelas als Instrumente der Existenz und des Widerstands “Telenovelas as Instruments of existence and resistance” presentation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2nite! Datum | 14.05.2008, 19.00 h Venue | Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Wien, Computerlabor, Atelier Nord im 1. OG Vortrag in englischer […]

WORLD-EX-POSITION 08 – an XLT world premiere @ Labfactory, Praterstrasse 42, 2nd district, Wien THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE TELEPRESENT [ May 10, Live Stream - And Chat - Here : 21:00 CET ] 10-05-2008: 20:00 CET doors open 21:00 CET performance (+ stream) begin 00:00 CET skype performance(s) with Press/Play in Detroit Admission FREE The XL Terrestrials present ‘TRANSMIGRATION OF THE TELEPRESENT’ Moderation: Dr. Podinski + […]

Beware : The following entry contains organic and volatile ingredients that may corrupt your distorted picture, and should not be viewed without your poetic and physical seat-belts unfastened. Warning: XLT is and is NOT responsible for any heretical juxtapositions and/or jouissance recreated by the reader. Any bodies that may slip through the cracks cannot be […]

“And what do you do on May 2nd?” We have a few XL Terrestrial ideas of course, coming shortly. 2008/05/maygarden.jpg

“abolition of alienated work” … and the avatars unplugged are dancing in the streets ! ??

Live Stream 30.4 from> LABfactory < in Vienna, start:21:30h CET April 30, Dr. Richard Barbrook lands at the World-Ex-Position to bring his deep analysis of the last half-century’s HISTORY Of The FUTURE and the information society’s prophecies of our future… which may describe our fucked up present better than our currently fucked up dreams for the […]

SuperdruzbaR für Tanzbärchen Samstag 26.04.08 ab 22 Uhr in der NewYorck59 Am Mariannenplatz 2 (Bethanien – Südflügel) ( Dj Podinski spins a psychcotronic ostblok set, and many more special guests! ) For a little taste of history about Kreuzberg and the Mariannenplatz a Ton Steine Scherben song always does the trick. Here’s a mix by Empi with […]

World-Ex-Position O8 begins 25.5 in Vienna Two art spaces, LABfactory and Open Space, in Vienna’s 2nd district -Leopoldstadt, will have parallel openings 2morrw nite, with a film/ performance/lecture “My First Burial” by Sister 0 , “I was a teenage pornstar” film by Jessie Darlin, music by Shazalakazoo and Djane White Girl, and all moderated by curator […]

The XL Terrestrials have convened in a secret meeting and have made their call for the 2008 Summer Of Cruel Love: Kill Your Avatars*, Love Thy Neighbor… And the machines, they will lie alone together in a bloody parasitic pool of simulated love and hate, code and unconsummated loops ( the Eternal Return to sender) ! Could it be that the most beautiful violence would not shed a drop of blood, but like the true acts of engagement that shake the embodied worlds with innermost tremors and most transforming bliss be no less real !

Report of the 1st Transmigration Of The Telepresent test drop coming soon. We haven’t had time to do a full report, but the the ToT test drop at the Buko conference last weekend was a grand experiment, with incredibly revealing and charged results. We are still working on our new paper/tract entitled: Watts vs. Clarke*, […]

dearest psycho-Active organisms, This is sort of our first nearly official, and very irregular, XL terrestrial Arts + Praxis Newsletter of 2008 and we have an urgent request of yur xtra-Large brain matter, see below. ((A.)) News : Send us your film recommendations !! ((B.)) The Tour Dates : XLt in Berlin : Saturday 12.4, Vienna in May, […]

A quick roundup of things, news, events on our radar , coming up in the various arts+praxis ports from Berlin to LA to SF to … We’ll come back to fill in more details + links when possible: DQ University solidarity (NOW!) SF Bay Area The Right To The City – Soziale Kampfe in Der Neoliberalen Stadt […]

[ Mark Twain + Nikola Tesla : a high voltage frequency is being passed through the body to bring the lamp to incandescence. Spring of 1894 ] March 19th marked 5 years of war waged upon Iraq, and today we received a bulletin from Nikola Tesla, well the Murdyspace Nikola Tesla, reminding us that March 25th […]

As we enter the 5 year anniversary (19.3.03) of “the fictitious war” as it was once called by Michael Moore, this war which corporate media obscures by parroting success tales told by criminals, it’s a good time to revisit Thomas M. Disch’s analysis of the sci-fi world we now live. His book ” The Dreams […]

Today in San Francisco is Prison Awareness Day. As a collaborative effort with Intersection for the Arts programming 2008 The Prison Project, PLAIN HUMAN invites Bay Area families, friends and advocates of human rights, to wear orange on March 11, 2008. “By collectively wearing this color in a public space,we are subverting the silence. PLAIN HUMAN will […]

Rather frequently we have found some startling angles on Laughing Squid (that high-speed and tentacled portal of San Francisco viewed arts and tech and culture) that just don’t add up to a culture jammers‘ code. Code ? What Code? If in fact there is or even should be one… it may or may not […]

In the News and On The Road: Kultur Shock, The Coup, Balkan Beat Box (blocked at the border), Filastine, Genetic Drugs, Dub Gabriel, Balkantronika, etc. __ __ . __ __ __ __ . __ __ __ __ . __ Just before the 2006 summer, Indybay’s Fault Lines interviewed Seattle-based Kultur Shock just prior to the the […]

This image adequately captures the essence of the tool used by the typical Hollywood Psychomedia Players to lodge projectiles of blood-simple cynicism and cool emptiness into its cattle brain victims. Stay tune for the XL Terrestrial analysis of Joel and Ethan Cohen’s latest “No Country For Old Men”. Have the so-called masters of “cinematic craft” […]

One of Berlin’s canal-side venue gems, the GlasHaus at Arena hosted Watcha Clan (now signed with Piranha) and Nomad Sound System on a powerhouse diaspora double bill Saturday nite, and with dj Pepe Vargas from Terra Beats keeping it bouncing for a last, mostly balkan, round. W-Clan is a high-energy Marseille-based band with a “multi-Port” sound mixing flavors of Barcelona, Casablanca, Oran and Algiers… along with some novel electronica/drum and bass/dub elements that take it sailing over the edge, at points almost rave/psy-trance -like but much more deeply rooted.

http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/index.php/uncategorized/transmigration-of-cinema-tour-20-in-production/xltmdc2/ [ You can read the above text here ] The Transmigration Of Cinema 2.0 is in production! That means we are re-assembling the project ( TOC 2006-2007 tours) for another XL terrestrial round, because recent assessments show that the arts+tech and mediated culture wave have a looooooong way to grasp the critical stage of our sit-com planet, wherein No documentaries, No feature films, No tv series, No new media installations, No digital art, No website will serve as an evacuation plan, much less a lifeboat, for the Virtual Titanic Anatomies of Militarized Supermarket Life, or Anti-life , as the case may be.

“Why Democracy?” is a very intricate question, especially when asked through the wide lense of global films. And when one considers the Gore Vidal line that true democracies have only ever existed for about 5 minutes, the possible perspectives in works of 5- 15- x minutes are bound to only scratch the surface of a very deep and complex itch. Nevertheless this last day shorts program of the Berlinale (Talent Campus) under the curatorial helm of South African Don Edkins and STEPS International succeeded in bringing together some very impressive political filmmakers.

Coming soon : an investigation of Dusan Makavejev’s remarkable feats of a fully sexualized post-68 cinema. In the meantime, two of his groundbreaking films are now available at Criterion.

[ from the XL terrestrials' forthcoming de-manifesto: The Revolution Will Not Be Virtualized! ] In Bela Tarr’s 2000 film Werckmeister Harmonies, an unlikely circus caravan comes to town with a mysterious cargo. The carny types push and bark their hidden prize and the town lines up to get a glimpse of the unknown. Rumors and […]

[ Images from Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Transmediale 2008 : project: Amazon Noir ] Coming soon, the Xlt reports

A multitude of art groups converge at Transmediale to render the final scene of Kurosawa’s version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle ( aka Throne of Blood 1957). A 12 minute scene expanded to a 12 hour sonic collage, orchestrated by Shu Lea Cheang and Moving Forest. Mikro.FM is one of the groups you can join in […]

[ imagery from Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood and movingforest.net ] The unofficial opening of Transmediale 08 festival ( transmediale.de) kicks off 2nite, 28.1.08 at C-base ( the space station/ e.V. cooperative for geek culture enthusiasts ) with the 5th annual installment of Dorkbot Berlin, which is the international rhizome of salons under the banner of people […]

Transmediale, a festival which began in 1988 as a kind of video appendage to the Berlinale Film Fest, gradually shifted to become a wide-scope medium through which to explore digital culture in all its revolutionary glory … and dubious constructs. Perhaps this year’s theme ” Conspire” has the unenviable but urgent task to shed more […]

If you’re in the SF Bay Area on Jan. 15th you can join The Electronic Frontier Foundation in celebrating 17 years of their pioneering efforts to fight for our digital rights at the 111 Minna Gallery in Soma. For all the party details check here. And wherever you are, you can get plugged into the […]

On the 9th day of Radiowoche 2008, mikro.FM invites guests from a wide spectrum of Berlin communities ( and beyond) such as dj nordpolzigeuner und dj mona, guests from der koepi (where all punk bands from the east eventually land, so we’ve been told ), reports from funkhaus uelzen, freies radio wendland, and a […]

STANDBY: Technical difficulties with server, the mikro.FM site is currently down (from about 1:00h -jan.8 ) , it is now 12:52 – jan.8 and we have located the problem and should be back in the next hour/minutes… But if you have already connected to the stream it is likely still in your cache and stream […]

Day 8: Radiogeschichte BRD / Brandenburg The last 2 days left in the mikro.FM project focuses on the history and current activities of free radio projects in BRD – Germany. Some special guests will be coming into the studio throughout the day. Wolfgang Mueller (photo in studio) from Die Toedliche Doris, Janusz Dewoyciechowski about deutsch/polnisch/russisches theater […]

The 4th day of Liberation Radio Week covers North American community radio/media projects. Full story and many radio active links here: http://mikro.fm/archives/61

The first day of RadioWoche 2008, the project of Mikro.fm, now based at the new bootlab location at Tacheles ( Oranienburgerstr. 54) , kicked in with radio plays and “senderpausen”, and a live transmission xchange with Radio Blau in Leipzig. Day 2 begins with soldering and transmitter building workshop at noon, and later in the program […]