{ scooped and appropriated from a 26c3 image search, thx to whomever captured the vibe ! } XLt presents Kill Your Avatars! Disembodied information in utopia might provide some interesting fantasy outlets and MAYbe even some educational, evolutionary + transpersonal + psychodelic-like experiences, but given that societies are in a state of perpetual colonization, full of predatory mutants and consumer viruses, for one to enter into the avatar medium and imagine producing liberating futures is a highly problematic venture, if not delusional.

< 27-30.12 > 26c3 : Chaos Communications Congress, Here Be Dragons… Live Streams (+ archives) HeRe. Full Schedule Here. < 29.12 > The Future @ c-base, parallel event organized by classless Kulla) … < 31.12 > Journey to the End of the Year tbc…

{ via Carl at the MS Stubnitz , now ported in CPh } As we write this there are reports that there are about 20-30 (?) people remaining in jail and there are a few sites to keep an eye on all that… if you have any footage regarding police abuse they will need such things […]

a { the 12th Hour via TckTckTck / Oxfam – London aquarium } { Outside the Øksnehallen, KlimaForum – the people’s venue – after Obama’s flailing speech } Update: It’s official … the CPH summit will extend into the weekend. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon requested delegates stay for another day for more talks. See More … Xtended […]

{ http://xlterrestrials.org/2010.php } Dear Global Citizens, Today we are launching our Post-COP(15) 2010 Project : DON’T FEED THE MONSTERS! B/c if the people don’t step up to save the planet, SOMETHING ELSE might, and it could be ugly, very ugly. So NOW IS THE TIME to share […]

{ Taipei Dec.12 } Archbishop Desmond Tutu puts it like this: “We are facing impending disaster on a monstrous scale … A global goal of about 2C is to condemn Africa to incineration and no modern development.” from NAOMI KLEIN’S LATEST ANALYSIS : Copenhagen climate conference Better to have no deal at Copenhagen than one that spells catastrophe + LIVE BLOG Updates - Final Day? ( Guardian Uk) Cop15 Day 11 Round Up ( Guardian UK) + < 18.12 > ‘People’s Platform’ at Bella Centre metro ( press release ) 10h

{ the robotrons at work, guarding the sinking ship } It’s been some rough days, and we won’t attempt to analyze much in this round. We’ve been spending the day preparing for Our Post-Cop(15) project launch which we will post more about 2morrw. But you can already go and check out some fantastic design work by […]

{ “Let’s Make a Deal” : Tony + Arnold in L.A. in Oct. at GGCS 2 } Look at the movie Saturday Night Fever. That movie came out and no matter what government agencies you would have had in the world, and what kind of coordination from the […]

{ ((i)) } 15th Dec Timeline: http://indymedia.dk/action_timelines/14th-dec-timeline + Today’s Actions: http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/11/01/resistance-is-ripe-agriculture-action-day/ + offline Beyond… + Stay tune for more updates!

{ the newest forms of protest being tested in CPH.v.1 } Work-in-progress There’s 2 angles here that trigger eruptions of laughter and pathos equally upon repeated viewing of the image above: One, the expressions are like a massive blow to the whole foundation of Cop World, as a thoughtcrime bubble rises above them saying, “Oh thank heavens, […]

The 2010 Projects Page will be used to give XLterrestrial Funders + Supporters + Fans a view of our upcoming projects. Coming Soon To A Theater Near You !

{ Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant. Photo by Lu Guang at ChinaHush.com } Orientation # 3 : Remember, for the global citizen, the meaning of the Copenhagen Climate Conference is Not about Climate and Negotiating Co2 Emissions! Those are the symptoms, not the lunacy that drives the disease. Recently a “CLimateGate” story broke in the news. Some leaked emails from climate scientists in the UK. Don’t waste yur time, but if u must here’s the wiki. (And ya gotta wonder who hired the hackers!

{ rooftops in Iran } < 1.12 > Globale invites: open roundtable discussion “Becoming the media” at New Yorck in Bethanien, Berlin “Becoming The Media” with: AkKraak, Joanne Richardson, XL Terrestrials, Globale December 1st / Tuesday 19.30 New Yorck in Bethanien “Raum für emanzipatorische Projekte” Südflügel Mariannenplatz 2A, Kreuzberg The former censorship of the mainstream media has now turned into new and more refined forms of disinformation, based on overload and noise rather than the removal of information. At the same time, the claim for the democratization of the media, which in the past 10 years gave birth to a large number of independent media projects, seems to have empowered the web 2.

1st Up: Podopolog News : Dearest Unmediated Organisms, We are very pleased to inform you that you can now finally participate again in the discussion here. The podopolog has been repaired and upgraded, and we are all warm and fuzzy about the potentials for expanding the collective intelligence … far beyond the colonial virtual realms, but well …for now, here we are reading/writing/podopologging. Many thx to IhazIdea, who battled 32 governmental agencies, 213 rightwing drones, a few dozen trolls, battalions of spambots, too many fascists to count, stinky slippery corpo-capitalists (backed by the swine dept.

+ { James Cameron on the set of “Avatar” } Please Note: All media used for XLt education and psychomedia analysis purposes! < 19.11 > Xlterrestrials present Psychotronic Cinema v.5.0 : “Don’t Feed The Monsters!” at Club der Polnischen Versager, Berlin … XLterrestrials, fresh back from Copenhagen, present the latest version of the XLt’s Psychotronic Cinema ( also known as […]

{ Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer opens Digital Labor Conference in NYC tonight } … < Dec.12-14 > The Internet as Playground and Factory, a conference on Digital Labor, begins tonight in NYC at the Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Much online, much will be archived… Join the Discussions! Participants include : Mark Andrejevic, Burak […]

{ on the edge of Norrebro district, CPH } We have returned to Berlin from our initial Copenhagen explorations and while we go through all our plundered goods – an abundant collection of djmixes + world music demos – from Womex09, we can’t help but listen to everything as a soundtrack to the upcoming UN Climate […]

{ Water Knows No Walls, Haubitz + Zoche. Parts of CPH underwater after a 7 meter rise in sea levels, part of Rethink Kakotopia at Kunsthalle Nikolaj, one of the 3 locations of the ReThink Climate exhibition } Excerpt from the Kakatopia catalogue: ‘Cacotopia’ is a term coined by the english philosopher Jeremy Bentham { also known […]

{ Tomas Saraceno’s Biospheres (Ar) at SMK } < 30.10 > SMK -Statens Museum for Kunst / The National Gallery of Danemark exhibition opens: ReThink: Contemporary Art & Climate Change. Various times + locations, see above. Excerpt: “Mega capitalism, the explosion of new technologies, the hyper mobility, the neutralisation of distances, boundless communication and not least the extensive climate […]

++ ++ + + ++ + + ++ + { Womex09 : Valravn, MagaBo, Parno Graszt, Kayhan Kalhor , Socalled, Watcha Clan, Jaune Toujours … to name a few } Musical Re-Organism – work in progress < 28.10-1.11 > We’re headed to Womex09, this year in Copenhagen. The XLterrestrials will be visiting and representing at […]

{ don’t miss it ! ] Soliparty : ***Jump The Fence** 2nite in Kberg !! - für AntiRa-Zweck < Freitag, 23.10.2009 > ab 21 Uhr. Eintritt: Spende In der Meuterei, Reichenberger Straße 58, 10999 Bärlin U-Bhf: Kottbusser Tor oder U-Bhf Görlitzer Bahnhof 21h aktueller Dokufilm über das Leben illegalisierter Menschen in Deutschland … drei Perspektiven auf das Leben in der Illegalität trailer unter: […]

{ clip from Karel Zeman’s na Komete after Jules Verne } … Did corporate media tell you that the US Chamber Of Commerce is one of the many obstructions to Obama and crew having any sort of rational plan going into Climate talks in Copenhagen in December ?! You know, something like a real strategy for preventing […]

{ Jorge Reyes 1952-2009 } Well he passed away already in Feb., but we were just in the process of encountering his music anew, allowing his shamanic river of works to connect us to a 1001 other points, and discovered he died, reportedly of a heart attack, last winter. As close to mind-blowing as you’ll get without the enhanced journeys themselves… The kind of music that makes the current state of the outer world look and feel like a burnt-out and/or shiny-white florescent-bombed shopping mall … stocked to the suffocating brim with lo-grade pop-cult paraphanalia.

{ XLt + GreenSun + Zebrowski } <10.14> :: Spark*live w/ XLt djs + vjs at Soupanova ( pberg ) special guest: Green Sun live e-painting (aus Wien)… and after: dj Shazam (bln), Badram (nyc) and a wee bit of Podinski (sf ) spinning the eastern Psychotronica. ab 22h :: Stargarder ecke Schliemann, Berlinistan Cost: 3 € … sparks, eye-soup, […]

The XLt Glossary: * rupert pupkinism {Informal, small dog craving for power [Greek pup + kin Old English cyn relative, family ] } n. the act(s) of doing whatever it takes to be a most thoroughly annoying celebrity the metamorphosis of mental + social irritants into lucrative entertainment Rupert Pupkin is a character in Martin Scorsese’s King Of Comedy played by Robert De Niro, which is nearly a sequel of his Travis Bickle role in Taxi Driver, recreated as tragicomedy.

{ Guardian UK reports: Guy Laliberté returns red-nosed to Earth after space odyssey Cirque du Soleil tycoon lands in Kazakhstan after 10 days aboard the International Space Station wearing his clown’s nose } This is inspiring and disturbing at the same time… Does it really take a clown in space to tell us all to get a clue??! […]

Today’s the day NASA blows things up on the moon. Yep they’re launching a missile at the moon. Are the boys just getting bored at Cape Canaveral again ? Not sure how many people are really afraid of the moon being destroyed or pushed out of its orbit or an explosion having some unknown repercussions. It […]

{ the Giantess passing thru the Tiergarten } One cannot just step in during a perfectly executed Grand National Episode, and say “Excuse me, BUt… “ Royal De Luxe created perhaps one of the most photogenic fairytale enactments in the history of historical commemoration. Surely more than a million spectators were on hand to to be mesmerized, in person, over a 4-day anniversary event of the reunification of Germany. Everyone else will be swimming thru the archives … for however long the magic spell will last.

~~~ new pods ~~~ Contact the XLterrestrials here : podinski (at) mailbox ( dot) org For CiTiZEN KiNO info + booking, contact Paolo ( in subject header ) … [ Our old domain contact : pod (at) XLterrestrials (dot ) org is NOT YET repaired ! ] … Indy Arts+Culture and Fertile Resistance Territories urgently need new economic models. Part of that may be citizens with resources to help strengthen our community. If you’d like to become a supporter, patron, donor ….

{ checkpoint, Europa Stunde Null } Swamp, Europa Year Zero. One of the best deconstructions your likely to see about the end of communism told thru a kind of time-travelling backstage history blowjob, but not at Roger Water’s newly styrofoam-christened Postdamerplatz … rather somewhere on a dark bridge between Sarajevo, a Lexus car dealership, 1973 and […]

( a Barbie execution : source unknown ) Work in Progress : Operation Dancing Polanski … A beautiful weekend that felt like spring was cycling back in a full erotic dance in defiance of the calendar. And then the horrible german election news. The idiots won… it wasn’t a surprise, ya know, but then the morning after is a little bit like waking up with a decapitated horse head in your bed. Monday hit with a full gray plunge, cold, wet, an awaiting flat bike tire, piles of work, bank account looking like a ship getting torn in two by a reef in the shallows… and debates about whether Roman Polanksi deserves a bloody nose or a noose or should be given slack for the rape of a 13 yr.

… www.MauerPark-Fertigstellen.de Rule Your Own Backyard and The Rest Will Follow ; ) No Buildings Here Mother$%^#ers ! ::: A messy reportback: We received a note that the Really Really Free Market was happening yesterday in San Francisco’s Dolores Park. Big REsPeX to Kirsten Brydum ( Murdered in NOLa 2008 ) … Long Live the Really ReallY FRee!!! Here in Btown, […]

[ Ana Kiri eludes the waketime thieves ] XLterrestrials are developing a backdoor to the outlands, a new XLt Psy ~ Fi tale… coming soon. If you didn’t yet catch the 1st… it’s here at Plotki.net

{ XLt + Fela } We were so busy with our latest performances, there’s a lot of news we weren’t able to keep up with. Here’s a few bits … and random and not-so-random perceptions: Woke up this morning listening to some older tunes on LastFM and wondering what sucked the life out of that notorious revolt […]

[ XLt meets Piranha meets Ramadan meets Pasolini meets … the Muse + Electric Sheep ; ) ] « 21.9 » Piranha’s Nights of Ramadan finale of a 3 week multi-kulti Ramadan festival featuring U-Cef & The Arab League ( Morocco/Uk ) with Dr. Das (Sri Lanka/UK ) :: Visual System by the XLterrestrials/MDc Crew + Green Sun ( San Fran/Berlin/Wien ) :: Afel Bocoum ( Mali ) :: Skarabaeus (Turkey/Berlin ) :: Kamilya Jubran ( Palestine/France ) :: Mahmoud Fadl & Delta Ensemble ( Egypt/ Berlin ) :: Sidare ( Iran ) and dj Ipek ( Kreuztanbul ) … and many more scared and juicy bits from the Islamic worldS… [ see Links below ]

< 5.9 > w/ djs Pod~inski, Jemek Jemowit, und DJ Maurus Gee …and special guests Dieter Putnigam (Wien) ~ live e-graffiti ( tagtool ) on top of the XLterrestrials’ Psychotronic Ostblok mix :: ab 21h / free at Club der Polnischen Versager, B-mitte “In 10 Jahren sind wir erwachsen! Bis dahin feiern wir Jahr für […]

< 23.8. > Jahcoozi w/ Roots Manuva and Radio Clit … 15 Years of YAAM ! … < 21.8 > Watcha Clan & Sista Fa at Glashaus/Arena Berlin … Popdeurope’s world music season finale with Piranha label representin! … < 13-15.10 > Royal De Luxe comes to Berlin for 20th anniversary of the Mauerfall… Die Riesen Kommen/ The Giants Arrive http://www.riesen-in-berlin.de/die-riesen-kommen/die-riesen-kommen.html ok, […]

[ A wordcloud generated from workshop/discussions of what results are sought from a “media lab” ] … [ foto from Maria - ptqk blog ] … An XLt Analysis of the the entire Sommercamp + Workstation 09 at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt… coming soon, but hey the tropical btown weather is melting large portions of our critical + […]

With all due respex + affection, some folks have a fUNNy way of celebrating summertime : + + < 10-16.8 > Sommercamp +Workstation 2009 : Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin < 9.8 > Opening performance evening with Jessica Rylan (US), Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US), Hildur Gudnadottir (IS), Halldor Ulfarsson (IS/F), Tore Honore Boe (N/E), […]

REWIND: [ Steve Bell. 2006 ] To analyze the media world’s portrayal and subsequent popular parroting + echoes of what goes on with interpreting the upheaval in Iran, one might rewind the tape just a few years back to 2006, and take a look at Steve Bell’s ripping comic interventions. Replace Bush with let’s say an average […]

+ < 1.8 > “Sowjetisches Kino im polnischen Plakat” eröffnet um 20:00 Uhr PIGASUS polish poster gallery Torstr. 62, 10119 Berlin Ausstellungsdauer: bis zum 31. August 2009 … tbc

[ Summer in the Palestinian Islands ( via dusanson) + greetings to our global citizen compas currently in Jerusalem! ] … Well, having felt a little bamboozled and of conflicted opinions re: the N.a.s.a. L.A.-style party beats last weekend ( more on that in the previous entry ), it’s a good time to clear the musical palette and assemble a list of fresh inspiring things that are on our radar… just press play ( well mostly ) : … …

< 23-25.7 > Freigest Music Festival with Brass Wood and Wires, DLC- Sudsound, Ganjaman, XLterrestrials + Media Decompression ( Sat.), Open Air + Big Tent Kino, Infostands, TV Coop, workshops, & Art resistance in many forms! all at YAAM, Berlin ( a bit subject to weather since most of Yaam is open air ) … < 24.7 > N.A.S.A. lands at Icon, Berlin Some of the Hottest shit ( at least in the pop sector ) to hit these ears this year is NASA’s 1st release, The Spirit Of Apollo.

So many thoughts are pouring thru, maybe we’ll write some down eventually, but for the moment one cannot appropriately post the music or the silence of the emotional and humbling anthropomorphic journeys. Another sign that the reductionism of the digital is a very very funny joke. Maybe a tribute to the man on the moon would fit here too, but for now Gil Scott Heron did one that already hits the spot called Whitey on The Moon. tbc… ( maybe )

< 17-19.7 > Schokoladen Hoffest # 19 with Schokoladen Venue, Club der Polnischen Versager and a whole colorful assortment of true neighborhood flavors in the Hof at Ackerstr. 169, Berlin Added: dj~vjs Youssarian + Podinski ( upstairs ) sat. nite ~ ~ ~ Recently the XLterrestrials determined that a tactical guide to surviving in the 21st century would have to entail a map and a pie-chart and a diagram for multiple escape hatches to exit the “virtual migration” - refering to the commercial+commodities vortex that sucks the libidinal energies, all yur communities’ natural resources, and yur individual hard-earned mullah into the faceless void.

Freezones were never a given, they must be created ! Having navigated Berlin for many years, the XLTerrestrials have observed that the territories for “free living” ( best defined for yourself ) have tragicly declined… and the city life is spiralling into a dismal normalized state. Fortunately the awareness is on the rise, and the time is ripe to take account of where your home is and when to fight for it: 11.7 > MegaSpree Demo ( By no means is this all that is happening, afterall this is a mostly symbolic action, a demo march from here to there to rouse the solidarity spirit and inform the wider public, another small human-scale day going only as far as one day can go.

< 8.7 > Mittwoch Abend 20.30 ~ DJ ~ VJ ~ Performance am Alten Museum in Mitte More info in english here (below): Hallo liebe kulturinteressierte Mitmenschen, am Mittwoch 8.7.09 ist es soweit: die Eröffnung des Berliner Museumsinselfestivals wird zelebriert. Dazu gibts an zentralem Ort eine einmalige Performance von DJ Shazam in Kollaboration mit dem Visual Artist Podinski aus San Francisco und special guest VJ Lillevan and Jen Mai. Ab 20.30 h gibts Musik von mir und etwas später gegen 21.

[ still from Ron Fricke’s Chronos ] < 8.7 > ETHNOTRONISCHE ZEIT & INTERKONTINENTALREISE mit DJ SHAZAM & VJ PODINSKI with special guests Lillevan and Jen-Mai at the Altes Museum, Berlin for the MuseumsInselFestival 2009 ( ab 21h in the Lustgarten ) “Combining museum archives with both cinematic bits and still imagery, XLterrestrial media ecologists provide the emotional and historical triggers to venture deeper into the anthropological overviews, which is usually reserved for a cool detached gaze, as if all these cultural artifacts were not in our being today.

< 25.6 > Freak Cabaret aus Minsk mit dj~vj Podinski im Club Der Polnischen Versager , (B-Mitte) … And more info in english here. Our :: } Little Ostblock in Btown :: } edition cont. below, but first … Liebe arts+musika+praxis organisms, } :: XLT newsletter V.101010101 :: { www.xlterrestrials.org/plog Gruesse aus the B-side-east ! As we write this newsletter, the first one in some time, the XLterrestrials are compiling some essential cultural bits from our little Ostblok hood, so that if you haven’t already joined the eastside Rev, you will have no excuses from here on ; )

[ Inside Moldavia’s Twitter Rev ] Nothing against a bit of rage at the right time and place, But… Hmmm, the last so-called “Twitter Revolution” was in Moldavia in April, and still hard to say who’s winning there. Though we can safely say that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and his financial handlers are again dancing in the halls in their South Park office in San Francisco over all the free ads now attached to the current Iran crisis. And if ever our own countries were in crisis (YES WE CAN!

Banksy vs. Bristol Museum ( > Now thru Aug. 21st ) … Ok, we don’t usually post youtube clips, but this bit HERE might inspire the right troublemaking summer mood. Police States and protesters alike are expected to be on their best behavior this summer as a whole range of eruptions unfold around the world… Coming soon, not yur usual summer cultural tips, but an XLt guide to stay cool and in your tactical best, as things heat up in the hood.

:: 13/14.6 :: Sublime Frequencies at Festsaal, Xberg Sublime Frequencies coming to Btown, bringing the incredible Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh to Festsaal, Xberg. AND Check out this Believer Interview with co-founder Alan Bishop, and remind yurself why supporting the border-hopping pioneers might redeem you of yur sins of having bought that last piece of shit […]

:: 30.5 :: Druckerfestival Finnisage ab 14h party… Later, at dusk (ab 21h) the XLterrestrials + MDC team up to screen a rare + Must See collection of “Money Shorts” … Dr. Podinski recommends 3 out of 4 dodgy films (or more) and Everything You Need To Know About The Current Financial Fuck. Followed by […]

> 21.5 > Talib Kweli in Bohannon > 22.5 > Rope Live, Prenzlberg > 23.5 > Freiheit Statt Angst demo, everywhere… > > 26-28.5 > “Der Besuch” in Ballhaus Naunystr. > 29.5 > 5 Jahre Zentrale Randlage in Prater > 29.5-1.6 > Karneval Der Kulturen > 30.5 > 1st Intl. Druck festival Finnisage in Czentrifuga > 20.6 > Templehof Fuer Alle ! tbc… > […]

So many more Mayday things to list, standby, we’ll try to squeeze in as many as we can, while we simultaneosuly juggle amazing new content to blow yur mind in the XLterrestrials Xtra Xtra LIVE ABDUCTIONS special … see above. And please see part 1, as we won’t repeat all of those entries here. > 16.5 […]

In April, we explored and participated in the 8th Multiplace Festival, which took place this year in 3 countries, Cz, Sk, and Pl, and a total of 9 cities. XLterrestrials landed in Praha, Brno, and Bratislava ( invited to speak at the latter 2 and jumping in on a Share Jam in the first ) […]

Well, we started wondering why there wasn’t any mention of the Mday in the UK and French papers while surfing this morning (ahkkh, a bad habit )… and so what about the auntie from the Dominican Republic ?? A friend and his wife from the Ukraine?? The “SF family” neighbor from Venezuela (yep, also 2day) […]

> 6.5 > Firewater im Kesselhaus + > 29.5 > Five Years Zentrale Randlage im Prater + > 8.5 > Dub Pub with Janaka Selecta (SF), Sonora Milagrosa, Elmo Lewis in Rigaerstr. 77 + > 8.5. > Erste Internationale Roma-Straßenfestival “Herdelezi” in der Neuköllner Boddinstraße, mit Fanfare Kalashnikov, Sinti Fusion, Por Nostros, und mehr ab 17h ( Taz Article ) + > 9.5 […]

+ + + … More on alternative economies and currencies and the various agitprop maestras/os from the Czentrifuga and ex-Flesicherei folk above coming soon…. ok, we’re gettin to it… but meanwhile maydays are already upon uis in Btown. Yep, Btown kicks it in early, and oh so many celebrations to keep ya on the beat: + ++ tbc…

[ only tangently related image from Burnt Toast, directed by Larry Weinstein ] “Don’t you dare say that you weren’t warned that the end was coming soon. And your eyes shined like Oppenheimer as he talks about the moon. And he don’t even taste the food he eats anymore. And there’s a space in place of where his heart was before. And […]

(links coming soon) ~~~GLOBAL MASH~~~ is the title of a new 4 – part series in Mama Berlin Club focusing on the more eclectic side of Global Beatz, wildly mixing colors and cultures. Ethnoelectronic music activists SPARK curate 4 nights in 4 months, all filled with musical & visual input, featuring exclusive Live Acts, moving Visuals […]

[ From Machinarium by Jakub Dvorský (Cz), an adventure Flash game from Amanita Design] > 18-25.4 Enter #4, festival for art/science/technology in Praha > 22.4 opening for the “Adapt” exhibition (Part 2) at Dox Galerie … [ Dadameter by Christophe Bruno (Fr) ] “Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel and a game on language between homophony and equivocation.

[ A Holešovice alien being interviewed for/by/about Multiplace.org, translation coming soon ] [ performance at the closing party of Multiplace at the incredible Bubenec water treatment plant, overlooking the giant cisterns ] [ an XLterrestrial chair with the mad penguins on the Vltava ?! ] [ on the streets of Smichov, translation : " Yes! I want this! […]

~ Raw Transmigration Notes :: In previous Transmigration sessions ( T.of Cinema and T.of the Telepresent/Telematic ), the XLterrestrial positions had not found enough means or footing to turn the corner from picking away at the perceived errors ( technological, social, environmental, etc.). While we warned that making art and documents without praxis regarding sinking ships and […]

[ From the underwater sculpture work of Jason de Caires Taylor ] “Transmigration of the Avatars” Part 3 of the XLterrestrials’ Transmigration Series coming soon to Multiplace #8 festival, “TOA” is a multimedia intervention, reappropriated and deconstructed cinema, psychomedia analysis, psychomagic ritual, lecture, discussion, debate, and virtual exorcism. > In Brno + Bratislava 14-18.4 :: [ From vj Podinski […]

+ + - Level RED psychomedia alert - Shift Happens !? Where do you put your efforts now ?! What do you believe in ?! After a steady stream of decades going elsewhere, the endless beta … let’s call it ‘The Progress Of Absentia’ … Are you Still trusting the manufactured flatlands + Mass Communications platforms?! Have a look […]

> 28.3 :: dj+producer Process Rebel is coming to Berlin for the 1st of 4 “Global Mash” events launched by Spark ( Shazam + Adam Chalk) for the neue Prenzl. venue Mama Berlin. Don’t Miss This !! Truly a rare beats treat ! And all 4 events will feature some very special guests from near and far. We’ll […]

. . The final weekend of the Embedded Art exhibition in Berlin will include a talk tonight by Cecilia Wee (20h), one of the curators of this extensive exhibition examining a whole range of Security (Anti-)Culture topics that have become key themes in the XLt psychomedia analysis over the last years. “Art in the Name of Security” […]

Actions in Solidarity for Tristan and the people of Palestine are springing up in many cities ( Sf to London to Nyc ). Reports, updates, actions at Indybay, Anarchists Against The Wall, Democracy Now, and more links coming soon. And more solidarity posters here. And speaking of Soli Posters, artivist Hugh D’Andrade has offered […]

::: under construction ::: ” Far too much of the public conversation about genes, inheritance, genetic engineering, reductionism, the nature of life, and many related topics proceeds with little apparent awareness that the entire foundation of the conversation has been radically disrupted. When Francis Crick and James Watson announced in 1953 that they had discovered the double-helical […]

[ vj podmosis from Other Cinema tribute ] Ok, we have some tales to tell. the feeds are immense and unstable. standby for processing. Meanwhile, a brief radical musika blurb reminder ( u can read these in the plog entry below with more links): 11.3 > Filastine, with L’ Oeuf Raide, High Tone and Led Piperz, a […]

Update ( 19.3) : COMMUNITY WORKS : HOLLIS IS HOME ! [ A listing of Hollis Hawthorne Benefits Here + Below ] Stop what you’re doing right now, just for a moment, and imagine Life and Death are knocking on your door with equal ferocity. And now that you’ve imagined it, Know For Certain they are Always Knocking. And wouldn’t it be good to know you have friends + family + extended family when you need them most !!? We’ve been meaning to address the Health Care issue for some time, wanting to propose some sort of anarchic front and immediate bypass surgery (and/or electrical shocks) to the beleagured attempts of medical professionals, Washington bureaucrats, pharmaceutical giants, lobbyists, insurance and vacuum cleaner salesmen, and YEs… evil-doers!

Slavoj Zizek 2x in Berlin: 6.3 > at The Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) , 16-17:30h and later at Arsenal Kino with “A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema” screening 20h more on Zizek below… and a quick reminder for 2nite: > Do 05.03. 21:00h Machine Haus East European Roots & Grooves Night Konsonans Retro (Ukrainian Village Brass) Amsterdam Klezmer Band (Klezmer Guerilla) & The […]

Pods of whales and dolphins being murdered is a very personal matter for the XLterrestrials! It is no secret that we share a great affinity with our ocean brothers. Today the news came rolling in from several sources that a mass beaching of whales and dolphins occurred on King Island between Tasmania and Australia. Upon closer […]

[ new album by Filastine - on tour - ] “Just did a dense tour in France, opening for Leila a few times. They were early concerts, and all with Amelie joining me on cello… The problem is that now that I’m spoiled by having a great string player guest on a number of tracks it’s hard to feel as good about the gigs without her. This means I need higher pay (I actually LOST money on these recent gigs), this means the ticket price goes up, this means that quickly I could find myself only playing to stiff rich people who politely applaud after each track.

:: b-side :: :: a-side :: [ flyers by Chaosdroid ( and a bit of Borderline Digital / Zulah remixed once again ) mucho respex! ] Not that we saw so many films this year, but our experiences of this year’s Berlinale and its component Talent Campus ( for emerging artists … […]

Johan Grimonprez’s new film Double Take at Berlinale ( times corrected) : > 11.2 : Arsenal 2 – 20:30h > 13.2 : Arsenal 1 – 17:30h “Grimonprez’s second film essay ( following the jaw-dropping Dial H-i-s-t-o-r-y ) questions how our view of reality is held hostage by mass media, advertising and Hollywood. Written by award winning British novelist […]

ADDED NEWS : YES MEN BLOCK BMW’s “CINEMA FOR PEACE” + Activists detain them for Q+A ??! (below) Urgent news blip : > 9.2.09 :: Rumor has it that 2 crazy mtherfkers will be appearing 2nite at The Museum Of Capitalism in Betahaus, and the last remaining screening of Yes Men Fix The World at the Berlinale […]

[ art by Draenia, Mx ] Transmediale: Up the Deep North Without a Paddle – XLt analysis Part 2 Aside from the disturbing lack of direction and/or provocation of where to actually go BEFORE the “Deep North” fully plunders all the common ground beneath us and sows its seeds of irreversible chaos/new order, there were incredible insights to be gained at this year’s Transmediale into the vicious loops that continue navigating us into the uninhabitable. As one of the presenters Madina Tlostanova wrote back to us the other day, “Theory nowadays lags a bit behind real life”.

> 3.2 :: Gustav und Schlammpeitziger im Volksbuehne, Berlin [review… + foto credits coming soon] > 3.1 :: Druzbar feiert 7. Geburtstag im New Yorck 59, Berlin > 3.7 :: Soli Party fuer Refugees Emancipation mit Rutrandale, MC Hass + djs Podska und FormVollendet im Kastanienkeller, Kastanienallee 85 >6.2 Metrozones Saloon Freitag, // 20 Uhr im Ballhaus Naunynstraße Istanbul gegen die […]

Transmediale updates: > 30.1 : SLUM-TV 15:00h – CET ( live streamed here ) with Biki Kangwana in Berlin and Alexander Nikolic in Nairobi You can participate thru IRC at: #tm09salon SLUM-TV is a youth-run media cooperative in the Kenyan slum of Mathare. SLUM-TV members document the lives of the people in Mathare and facilitate a process of […]

Well there’s already dozens of tales to tell from the XLt/Stencil Nation tour on the Danubian trails, but we are a bit pressed for time as we prepare for our show in Vienna. > 22.01 Wien, AT – Zeitvertreib @ 7pm with SN vs. XLt after party (spec. guest Dieter Puntigam) As soon as we landed in […]

°¤.¸ … Ahoj friends! This is the first XLt newsletter for 09. And while we don’t care much for the gregorian calendar, we’ll take this opportunity to wish you all the needed strength + élan on yur inspired paths and time travellings! From our current angle, it’s looking like “09″ is the year to fully upgrade to a more sustainable co-existence of desires, and perhaps that means cutting out for new frontiers while holding dearly to all our nourishing wells and passions!

Whenever diplomacy and strategy in a conflict is determined by criminals you can easily predict more war and terror. Because their agenda is ultimately tied to an almost inescapable linearity of their previous and uncorrected actions, they have devised a tragic box of progressive errors for themselves and the people around them. Their actions are usually a very limited road map: to save their own ass attain more power (in order to save their own ass) sow more chaos ( because it will distract the people around you from achieving peace and thus fully grasping the truths) attain more power ( because once you have destroyed your own humanity, there is little logic or recourse to anything else).

14.1 : Xlt vs Stencil Nation Afterparty in Eschschloraque, ab 22h B-Mitte 14.1: Stencil Nation presentation + book party in Neurotitan. 21h, B-mitte … Stencil Nation ( the new book by Russell Howze on Manic D Press ) on tour in the EuroZones! Following the Hamburg date, dj/vj Podinski (XL terrestrials) will join the fun! Russell Howze gives […]