{ paranoia warp factor } … Ever since the XLterrestrials have been attending the Chaos Communications Congresses, we’ve had our numerous critiques (and our paranoias well-greased). One XLt angle has often been that those within the IT and coder scenes don’t have or make a clear assessment about the big picture, i.e. who exactly is empowered by […]

… < 21.12.12 > Citizen Kino (#20): Ahpookalypso, the end of the low-grade world, and a beginning of higher consciousness… at the incredible Panke ( also on FBook ) in Wedding. 17:ooh Doors + Soup ( Voku ), 18:30h C-Kino show. “ 2012, Mayan culture is still here. The end of western civilization began with mass media […]

… NEW PROJECTS PAGE - – - Under Construction – - - … Upcoming dates + projects which could use your support: 25.07.13 - Citizen Kino #27 - and every Last Thursday of the month at Panke venue - Berlin 12.09.13 - Citizen Kino’s Dr Podinski, guest speaker for Transmediale’s reSource 006 event and open debate, venue TBA. 12-15.08.13 Citizen Kino presents… ( tentative ) at MM Kamp + Putujuci slobodni radio, Croatia http://mmkamp.gentlejunk.net/2013/07/01/geodesic-dome-workshop/ + every tues. night dj/vj/xj Podinski

{ L’Incal by Jodo and Moebius } News hits the webstreets that the psychomagician himself is coming to Berlin in Feb for Transmediale Festival … Jodorowsky “will discuss his epic sci-fi comics oeuvre L’Incal, originally conceived with the artist Moebius in the late 1970’s. The conversation with Jodorowsky will be followed by a sci-fi […]

Coming Soon ! … work-in-progress … In the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), the lead character – Bart Collins – is trapped at the surreal Terwilliker Institute, where the piano teacher is now a madman dictator who has imprisoned non-piano-playing musicians. There DR. T. has constructed […]

… Yeah, Photographer Hal’s zeitgeist-ly shrinkwrapped couples have been hitting the web and sucking in our eyes for about a year… ok, so we’re a little late to recognize its scalpel-like social commentary… … but wait til you see where we’re going with this… The Naked Net Lunch ::: + +++ ++ … < Thurs. 29.11 > Citizen Kino presents The […]

… < 23.11 > Digital Prozac: Labor and the Business of Life, lecture by R. Trebor Scholz ( New School, NYC ) with respondents Geraldine de Bastion (International Consultant/ Re:publica) & Joel Dullroy (Social Media Week, Berlin) at Supermarkt ( details ), 19:00h extract » Have you ever thought of your social media life as labor? Consider that […]

{ Nina Paley’s on target animation } The haunting images, tales and heated opinions flying across the web regarding the latest outbreak of horrific violence in Gaza has triggered us to create an XLterrestrials plog page for listing resources to analyze the Middle East conflict. And to seek appropriate citizen actions to stop the violence, again […]

{ Polish poster art by Joanna Górska and Jerzy Skakun for Jodorowsky’s El Topo film – “Kret” – remixed. See (more) originals here at their ShivaDog Blog. And you can order them also from the great Pigasus Shop/Galerie in Berlin. } … Added: … < 16.11 > DVA, Nauzea Orchestra and Tsunder w/ Vj podinski ( XLt) im Tschechischen […]

… The #EuropeanStrike of #14N has just started. Join us! … European map of solidarity: http://www.etuc.org/r/1897 … Some POSTERS from #14N Strike in Catalonia http://nblo.gs/EvfvU … Anti-austerity demo tomorrow in #Berlin, Pariser Platz at 3pm. In solidarity with European general strike #14N http://tinyurl.com/chdthvm … … #14N #europe #huelga general #strike #general strike #occupy #revolution #troika … { #14n, solidarity in rome } … tbc

{ a remixed Dish satellite ad } … We can appreciate all those who are taking the time to ‘vote’ … tactically… ( i.e. anti-Romney ). But when this dismal Zombie Game Show is over, if there’s still 2 walking Republicrats, who are not in jail, you’ll know there’s a Lot to be done ! … The US election […]

… REsources v.3: OCCUPY SANDY RELIEF http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ … We’re just beginning to collect resources, as we observe that things for many regions are still very difficult. Many areas still without power. Older folks in tenement bldgs needing suplies, etc. So plz send us what ya got, in the comments below… Frustration Grows as Storm-Ravaged Communities Face Fourth Day Without Power – […]

{ foto by @andjelicaaa } One of the spookiest fotos of the nite, the submerged US-merry-go-round in the eye of Global Chaos… ( Brooklyn) … In particular, because as we woke up this morning and scanned the international news, heard a few radio news hour bits, there’s No mention of global warming, not much about nuclear alerts […]

+ + … Nature comes knocking at Washington + Wallstreet ??!! … We started this blog at 29.10.2012, 3:00h CET, and we’ll continue to add updates, so it’s a bit of a timeline of thoughts and found resources as you scroll down… Please feel free to comment w/ what you come across ! … There’s a lot of both downplaying […]

… { Benka from Serebranaya Svadba } … Last weekend at Digital Backyards symposium we met Inga L., a sharp and courageous cultural creator from Belarus, a country often called Europe’s Last Dictatorship. Often in the West, when we read accounts of dictators we have to ‘chuckle’ a bit. [ up-chuckle? ] For example in the first list of […]

{ foto: Paul Biris, Barcelona } < 24.10 > Citizen Soup presents tactcial cinema every Weds. Nite at KugelBahn in Wedding, films start 20:30h. by Donation. + Supported by Miracle Research : ) … Buchhandlung Cafe : ) Moontrails : ) Giraff Graff Co. : ) + YOU : ) ! CiTiZEN SOUP # 002 presents Occupy A Place Called […]

{Yolandi from Die Antwoord} Clearly one of the fave clips we screened for Citizen Kino’s new Economic Hoodoo show was the new music video from Die Antwoord “Boom Boom Fatty”. It’s not often you get to see someone fucking with pop culture so viciously as getting to see ‘Lady Gaga’ at a Gynecologist visit and [ […]

… “You can’t eat media environments … until now.” XLterrestrials … < every Weds > CiTiZEN SOUP at KugelBahn, Wedding, 20:00h An ALL NEW tactical cinema night + Volksküche ( Voku ) in Berlin, at the extraordinary bowling alley cafe/bar/venue in Wedding. Bear with us on the food side of things, as we are still building a team, finding sponsors, […]

WE WELCOME COMMUNITY SPONSORS FOR THIS SHOW ! If you would like to support the XLTERRESTRIALS to create new educational + life-sustaining paradigm shifts, ask us how YOU can help, contact us here. New: What are some of your favorite films, docs, clips about Money, Banks, Robbery, Economy ? CiTiZEN KiNO wants to know ?! ( […]

… Standby. Top Public Secrets coming soon! CiTiZEN SOUP + KiNO + a little economic HOODOO… YOU In ?! … So Here’s the deal: we’re building a team for a new VoKu ( folks kitchen ) + engaged Cinema, and have a couple local places in mind… … ( Wedding + Neukoelln )… BUt anyway it’s a mobile + […]

+ ++ … More bike pics + poster fun coming sooon! But for now, check out where to ride in your city TOday ! < 28.09 – Berlin > at 8:00pm at Heinrichplatz X-berg, Oranien Ecke Mariannenstr. http://cmberlin.blogsport.de/ …

{ behind the Sudblock, We <3 Kotti ! } … X.2 < 20.09 + 22.09 > Gentleman & Assassins w/ Sxip Shirey, Elyas Khan and Romain Vincent at Wild at Heart and Knochenbox in Berlin, 2x, Don’t Miss Em ! Of course NYC’s Sxip Shirey’s ( via Athens, Ohio ) got his own claim to fame, but we first […]

{ foto by nicholasmirzoeff } XLterrestrials have just landed, and we’re assessing the situation , plz stand by : ) … { Ottoneum, Nature Museum. Kassel } Documenta, is it alive, is it a stuffed animal , is it real, is it engaged ?! One of our most exciting encounters yesterday was not really a Documenta art piece , but […]

FUndraising : Dear XLterrestrial readers, we are conducting research and producing articles that are crucial for navigating today’s dangerous media environments ( this is not an exaggeration, nor an art ploy ! ) and we need your support! Please consider making a contribution ! contact us… … … { Blue Moon over Ritterstr.,Xberg } … < 21-26.08 > Campus Party […]

{ a pink-beam remix from “I Pet Goat II”, Citzen Kino #17 } … < 16.08 > CiTiZEn KiNO premiere Society Of The Psy-pOp-tacle + Fundraiser Afterparty w/ special guests Ella von der Haide, Juerg Bariletti, dj Shazam, at MINDPIRATES Veriensheim, Xberg – Berlin … As part of The Mindpirates: Global Revolution/Local Contradiction Exhibition / Part 2: CITIZENS REPORTING, A […]

{ Red Sea Berlin , XLt foto} … Berlin Summer Nights… off and over the walls ! ::: { Chris Marker r.i.p. } < 05.08 > Chris Marker Tribute Screening & Concert, at Oh Tannenbaum, see Fb invite ::: … < 04.08 > Unabhangiges Strassenfest, Weisestr. w/ Die Incredible Herrengedeck and many more … and don’t forget to stop by and support the LarmDemo at Kotti 16h ! ::: { el seed from Tunisia } < 4.08 > ARABIC CALLIGRAFFITI – eL Seed & AKRylonumerik, Pergamonmuseum

{ rob rogers, pittsburg post-gazette, 2010 } … Another brilliant realworld chess move by Julian Assange and the Wikileaks Org, this week announcing the hiring of Baltasar Garazon, who presided over the prosecution / proceedings of Pinochet in the UK. More here at Common Dreams. ::: { Sea Shepherds at work } One of the world’s most famous and well-backed […]

{ foto: matt robinson. 1995 } Alexander Cockburn 1941 – 2012, rip “I am counting on Alex Cockburn to push his way into Heaven and kick God in His tiny testicles. ” writes Greg Palast … His articles always made us at the XLt Lab smile with new ferocity, especially when he made mince meat of Vanity Tool-Boy Christopher […]

… Re : Global Resistance show > outdoor concert at Mauerpark is cancelled due to unpredictable weather, but evening program is indoors and STILL ON ! < … More XLt summer blurbs v.6: < 18.07 > Mindpirates film nights (weds.): Political video art, w/ with works by Oliver Ressler, Vladimír Turner, Marcantonio Lunardi, Max Hattler, Gabriel Acevedo and others. […]

+ { foto 1 / flyer 2, Jahcoozi singer, Sasha Perera } < 13.07 > Border Movement Launch Party, a platform that aims to encourage interaction between the electronic music scenes of South Asia and Germany. Based in Berlin. at Kater Holzig … < 13.07 > Branko Galoic at PANDA Theater … < 13.07 > opening, Mindpirates present : GLOBAL […]

… The XLt BOSS HIGGS scoop… coming soon ! … Breaking News: Robert Foster’s Rap News on the scene at CERN: … … w/ Professor Scott Ridley live from CERN … And the incomplete XLT bits: So who gets to choose the directions of all these mega-science expenditures? Cern’s budget is currently disclosed at 7.5 billion euros. Don’t look to us like it’s the taxpayers, the citizens. And personally, we at the XLterrestrials, now given plenty of facts on the table, might have have voted for science which could save the planet from becoming a crispy potato chip by …2050 ?

{ Bendito Machine Part 4 } … As we were finishing the preparations for CiTiZEN KiNO #16, some Xtraordinary things were passing through Berlin. Events like Brian Holmes landing at the 7.Berlin Biennale to give a workshop focusing on Crises + the Autonomous University project, D-Watts Riot of Ear Conditioning and F-D-Mental / Nation Recs fame gigging […]

{ C-Kino #16 : ‘TechnoDyskopia’ } Coming Soon to A Crashed Multiplex near U ! … … < 20-23.06 > Connecting People Apart, A Post-Media Lab event series, Lüneburg/Berlin includes : Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits (RIXC) , Nishant Shah (Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore), McKenzie Wark, Marcell Mars (MaMa, Zagreb), Tatiana Bazzichelli (transmediale/reSource), Clemens Caspar Mierau (Spackeria/c-base) , […]

{ BB7, KW, Mitte, foto by Max Liboirox } It has taken the XLt awhile to cover the 7.Berlin Biennale, b/c there were/are so many complex critiques + struggles arising… and it will still take time to unravel whether the artivists are transforming the galerie/museum, or the museum has captured the occupy zeitgeist and turned it […]

< 31.5 – 4.6 > 3. Welt Kongress der Hedonist International in Greifswald ( 100km von Berlin ). With an action-packed program of strategic bodily downloads, ranging from CCCs Frank Rieger (De) , Telekommunisten (De), Agent Rosy, Spacehijackers (UK), Aktionskollektiv Ztohoven ( Cz ), Unbekannte Aktivisten ( ! ) and XLterrestrials / Citizen Kino ( […]

{ Funny timing for Ridley to get the TED look so right… } Ridley Scott, the ultimate advertising + futurist craftsman, has been leaking little bits for his new Alien sequel, Prometheus. The TED 2023 Clip. Can’t say we ain’t itching to see it ( for psychomedia analysis ) but just like a TED talk, don’t […]

{ mayday posters from Just Seeds, and more here } maydayS maydayS, all cats on deck ! … … … { SoCalled in the studio } < 14.05 > Asphalt Tango brings the incredible SoCalled to town with a new album “SleepOver”, with special guests Dj Podinski … and rumored Daniel Kahn from The Painted Bird, 21:00h, HBC venue, […]

{ Knistern Der Zeit by Sibylle Dahrendorf } … The premiere of Sibylle Dahrendorf’s KNISTERN DER ZEIT – CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF UND SEIN OPERNDORF IN BURKINA FASO was at Hau Eins on monday. And will begin a cinema tour in June. See the details at FilmGalerie 451 Before Schlingensief left us, he must have given numerous presentations and pitches for […]

{ Chaplin in Modern Circuit Times } re: Re:Publica 2012 (part 1 ) – Conference for media, blogs and digital society Re: Publica 2012 part 2 : In The Shadow Of The Net, S.O.S.! WHAT IF the campaign to “Save The Net” is just another side of the industrial-strength de-humanization and de-naturing ?! Capitulation to the data regimes […]

+++++ { ^ nxt to last foto by a.goetzke } … < 2-4.05.12 > Re:Publica 12 … Live Streams… Berlin. Germany’s largest conference for media, blogs and digital society ( good thing they moved to a bigger venue, or i$ it ? ) gonna party like it’s friendster 1999 !? let’s party like it’s twitter 1999 ?! let’s party […]

> > Dear Podopolog Readers + XLt fans, we are raising the stakes and RAISING FUNDS ! Below you’ll find a number of upcoming projects (not just our own ), and NOW’s a really good time to SUPPORT our work, so we can pull it all off. Got some spare CASH ? Or maybe u […]

Learning… { from ‘LetItRipple’, part 2 of ‘Connected’ } Since it seems to be our week for ranting about techno-evangelism and techno-empire, this film just came into the XLterrestrials lab… via a Mckenzie Wark twitter [ A cloud film making manifesto: http://goo.gl/tPcwb ] … And we can’t resist taking it apart, looking into its vital (trade-)organs, and […]

{ Up, up, and away into those trusted Net clouds } … “Wait, let’s get this straight: So Tim, good ol’ co-founder of the global data pump (net), says the solutions to our clusternetf*ck is to make ALL the data open and searchable so even MORE business ( and govt.) can set up services to crawl up […]

{ The World Tomorrow on RT } … “All memoir is prostitution!” Julian Assange, upon pulling out of his contract with Canongate to publish his autobiography, which then went ahead and published a first draft Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Biography. We’re not sure if we should feel a little guilty peering in, and yet it is a fascinating […]

{ happy to discover the art of Herakut ! } A follow-up report from Citizen Kino #15, and various Btropolis news coming soon. tbc… … { Antwoord, Lynchian mode } sketches: We began C-Kino #15 with the latest Antwoord video by Roger Ballen & Ninja ( with Director of Photography Melle Van Essen ). To give an example of the current […]

{ Alex in Epic Immersion } < 06.04 > CiTiZEN KiNO #15 at the Agora Collective, Neukoelln [ FedBook invite here ] A LIVE mix of Theater, Film and The Net, CiTiZEN KiNO sets the stage for you to re-access your own internally-generated cinema… unplugged and gadget-free ! Where: Agora Collective / Cafe Mittelweg 50, (U8 Leinestr.), Neukölln When: Doors at 19:00h Show […]

{ Dawkins tries the “God Helmet” } … WHooaa ! The universe works in mysterious AND hilarious ways!! Richard Dawkins’ Lobes are proven to be dull ! ; ) … Hahahhaaahaaa ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml We’ve got nothing against atheism, it’s a viable and often convincing belief, but let’s face it, Dawkins has been a thoroughly arrogant ethnocentric menace at the […]

{ a new era, in the embryonic stage * } … “Do we see any examples of (such) a perfected technology? Of course we do! It is called nature. Nature creates no waste…. I propose that the destiny of humanity — if we choose to survive as a species — is to reintegrate with nature — to […]

{ KonyCrap remix … get yur XLt kits 2day ! } … XLT analysts have been studying the Kony Campaign to understand more how the internet has become such a powerful medium… for making consume-suckers buy into almost anything that has a big (campaign) budget behind it… In other words, the net hasn’t liberated society much from […]

{ entrance to the ol’ cinema – High End Kino 54 – Tacheles / foto: Shazam } plz note: some unusual errors occurring with the complete posting of this story, but it is now restored. … If you’ve lived in Berlin for some time, you probably thought it was dead by now… but listen… there are fierce creatures […]

… < 07.03 > CiTiZEN KiNO presents “Electric Sheep Revisited” Wednesday, March 7th at TheaterKapelle, Boxhagenerstr. 99 – Berlin, 21:00h, 5€ [ the Fedbook invite here. ] [ Added Note: Great ‘afterparty’ concert downstairs at Knochenbox w/ Budzillus, ANd we are able to stay upstairs in the kapelle until late, so stick around, discuss the show, and drink all your replicant troubles away.] … CiTiZEN KiNO is a LIVE mix of Theater, Film and The Net which sets the stage for you to take over the controls in the media sanitorium !

{ David Gelernter in Berlin’s Renaissance Theater } Foto comes from a report by Dr. Wolf Siegert at Iris Media, (auf De) with a deep index of links. … We’ve written about the effects of the IT landscape + culture as a “Virtual Migration” for a number of years. After listening to David Gelernter’s talk on the weekend […]

… Without having seen many films this year at the 62nd Berlinale, our brief glimpses into the sausage-making of the grand entertainment industry had us muttering all kinds of cynical and barbed attacks upon the red-carpeted Spectacle machine. But today, we were reminded that as far as film industry festivals go, Berlinale has to rank as […]

{ Schokoladen / Club der polnischen Versager /Artists / Homies face eviction ! } … : Schokoladen is Saved ! berliner zeitung article , extraordinary news ! … < 22.02 > Räumung zu verhindern!!! Stop the eviction !!! Schokoladen Stays ! Everyone’s invited for breakfast/actions on feb 22. Come by, at the latest 8:00h, weds. morning to show your […]

Coming Soon, in the not-too-distant reality/future: … … < 07.03 > Citizen Kino #14: Electric Sheep Revisted at TheaterKapelle, Berlin. 21:00h ” Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world. Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized […]

… Let’s see how real the art sector can get ! … < 03.02 > Transmediale Conference: Anonymous Codes: Disruption, Virality and the Lulz,Panel with Jacob Appelbaum (us), Gabriella Coleman (us), Dana Buchzik (de) and anonymous , Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de), Chaired by Krystian Woznicki (de/pl) :: 14h, at HdKW, Berlin ( also live streams for those on […]

{ “The ATM Trek and lost civilizations” by Podrescu } … An XLTerrestrials’ “Kickstarter”: We are in the midst of producing a roaring new CiTiZEN KiNO show (and global tour)… as usual to save the world, and to eat … cake … If you would like to be a co-sponsor, co-producer or merely invest in “the most inventive […]

{ taken from deBug’s intro to Transmediale 2012, w/ Ubermorgen : PsychOS } … < 31.01- 05.02> Transmediale’s 25th festival In/Compatible, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and around Berlin. For anyone who likes to gorge on a countercultural feast, this year’s Transmediale has stuffed the house with a smorgasbord, a veritable whos who of indignados in […]

{ Schokoladen in Ackerstr., under threat of eviction. } Notes On… The Work of Art in the Age of The Digital Replicant v.1 ( work-in-progress ) … To begin, many thanks to Chaos Clubbers, Telekommunisten, Interflugs… and the Mindpirates programmers, for illuminating Many things last night! … Dear Mindpirates: ” Great atmosphere last night ! So glad to see someone setting up extended family, lush living room jam session nites … like slow food for the ears and mind/body-belly. We had just come from an intense, deeply Nerdy, Very political … but also ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY discussion on Netwrks + Free Culture set up by Interflugs – an autonomous students’ Org at UDK.

… { C-Kino Retrospex } … < 21.01.12 > more coming soon.

… Have you Heard?! The NET is ON A SOPA STRIKE ! Today, Jan 18th ! [ XLterrestrial analysts think this concept may need to be expanded for more than a day, but for now: try limiting yur use, and try and get a sense of what it would be like to not just have Free Communications, […]

{ 2012 : Year of the Water Dragon } … So much news flying at us, we’re going to throw up some things very quick and then fill out more info as soon as we can… 2012 is off to a fierce leap into new territories … … … < 11.01 > TONIGHT > Rauch Haus had a fire during […]