… ” In case you swallowed too much Hollywood this year, this media might help you untangle your brain… while not 100% verified, it supposedly comes from N. Korea.. ( which may also be a clever hoax). In 2012 it went viral, and was the hit of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), possibly the most important doc festival for the industry. It kinda makes Seth Rogen, The Interview and the Hollywood censorship ruse look like just another profit-making hemorroid on the asscrack of humanity.

{ picture possibly from 29C3, the 1st of Hamburg returns } Hmm, a quick glance from the program, of the 31st Communications Congress we see Alec Empire as keynote and Laura Poitras in the deeper mix… But this article is a good preface for us, sent via the Uncivilization list ( some sharp, warm and fuzzy folks […]

{ Artist: Yuri Shwedoff } This is not a plog on a specific topic. It’s a latenight weaving together all the info that has been streaming through our brain portals over the last weeks… And an attempt to connect the dots. * Beneath The Planet of The Republicrats Sometimes a powerful image will pull up a big picture of what all these latest jumbled scenarios might mean when combined… Like taking in the latest news of the #NYPD murders and putting it beside the #ferguson and #ericgarner ( and so many others !

… If you are living in the US and have not been standing with the #ferguson #blacklivesmatter #mikebrown #ericgarner #AlexNieto protests YET, now’s an appropriate time to ask yourselves why the f*ck not ?? You cannot be neutral on this murderous moving train ! What are you doing to break from the injustices of the current power structures and systemic inequalities ?? … LOts of demos and actions around the country … check your local listings ! Or go out and make Your Own Protests !

… We will try to throw together a list of resources for actions in response to the injustices in Mike Brown’s killing and subsequent Grand Jury (mis)trial of police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri. Currently the most compelling articles we read these last couple days were from Davey D Cook from KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio and the Hip Hop Corner blog, one of the most engaged journalists we’ve come across on the problems of racism in the US. One text describes the whole corporate media Set-Up for escalating the racial tensions, so precisely !

So, ladies, gents and all migrant aliens on-the-upside-attack … Our upcoming shows: … { Image from Murphy Anderson’s cover of Mystery In Space v. 1 #22 – 1954 } … < Postponed until early February > < Dec 10th > CiTiZEN KiNO # 40.6 : Technotopia, All You Can’t Eat – w/ very special guests at The Internet Archive in SF, 19:00h And here’s the new PIRATE PAD for developing the theme ! This is our open source curating device, where you can suggest media and tactical angles, constructive rants and feedback.

{^} The next episode on The Cali-cidal Tendencies Tour… < Friday Nov 14th > CiTiZEN KiNO #41: The Occupied Territories on the housing struggles at Noisebridge, SF – doors at 20:00h w/ intro films. C-kino performance begins at 21:00h Our XLt analysts ask: Can Home & Shelter as traded market commodities and rent traps STILL be hacked !? … What is C-KiNO ? ABOUT CItiZEN KiNO: It’s media self-defense, it’s cinema hacking, it’s curated screenings mixed with performance and community brainstorming.

{ synagogue in Hannover } … (1) On Nov. 9th in 1938, more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps, roughly around 2,000–2,500 citizens were murdered ( incl. suicides ), over 1000 synagogues (and possibly as many as 2,000) were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses were damaged or destroyed … and the pogroms that lasted 7 years were fully mobilized across Europe. (2) On Nov. 9th, 1989, the DDR fell ( or in eng, GDR ) and Germany was on its way to reunification ( treaty signed August 31, 1990 ).

… < Nov.8 > Aaron Swartz Day At The Internet Archive, 6pm On what would have been Aaron Swartz’s 28th birthday (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) , a planet-wide event begins today to honor his dreams of making the world a better place! To protest the injustices of his and others’ thuggish persecution. And to mobilize the movements further ! We finally had time to catch “The Internet’s Own Boy” in full, and it’s very emotional stuff, and probably best to watch and share it together with your friends + community … rather than absorbing it alone in the cubicle mode.

… { Part 2 of 3… Part 1 is here } work-in-progress … Analyzing Cory Doctorow’s Info-ex-centrisms We’re still processing the rapid-fire concepts of Cory Doctorow, who spoke at the JCCSF last week. The auditorium was oddly empty due to a scheduling mishap pitting a crucial discussion on the future of culture and technology ( in the land of silicon vulture capitalism ) against the un-worldly televised opiate spectacle of ( billionaire-franchised ) baseball. Everything about this presentation of his new book – Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free ” ( out in a couple weeks on McSweeney’s ) strikes us as being misaligned with addressing or resolving the sociological upheavals in the current climate of a voracious technocentric appetite.

… < Oct.29 > JCCSF Lectures w/ Cory Doctorow , with David Pescovitz Presented in partnership with Boing Boing (warning : expensive! ) Extract: ” Can lesser-known artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? Science fiction author, activist, journalist and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the U.K. Open Rights Group. His latest book, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age.

{ Radar and anti-ballistic missile bunker from Cold War 1.0 } … We’ve been using a slide w/ text from the Slow Tech Manifesto ( read in full here ) combined with an image of the Nekoma Safeguard Complex ( aka Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, which cost a mere $6 billion and was a total strategic and operational FAILURE ) for our latest CiTiZEN KiNO (#40) performances focused on analyzing and critiquing Technotopian ideology. Ranting about the misplaced and wasted resources by the Military Industrial Complex was also our theme for a show we did in Leipzig last summer.

… { snapshot from The Great Martian War, and a remix/edit by Plazma } … < Oct.10 > CiTiZEN KiNO #40.5 : Technotopia – All U Can’t Eat ! Scollan Ranch in Sacramento. ( afraid you’ll have to email us if you want directions ). By donation, to help cover our train costs. Yes, California has a few […]

… < 10.03.14 > NOiseBridge Reboot Party Rumor has it that vj podinski ( XLterrestrials + CiTiZEN KiNO ) will be added to the sensory inputs… among all sorts of other wild fun: Mock Church Audrey Spinazola (solo looper/Accordian/uke) Elipton (dark electronic powered by an Apple IIgs Project Euphorbia (aka “The Orbs”), etc… … … more coming soon !

~~~ Ironically this beautiful captured image of the Climate Action march of roughly 400,000 peeps in NYC was taken from a civilian-use drone. A fascinating and expanding Re-re-appropriation phenomenon of what began as a hacker hobby, went full-blown into military and surveillance industry , and now is frequently seen used by activists to get a selfie […]

~ `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º° ~ XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO (#40) on THE CALI-CIDAL TENDENCIES TOUR ~ < SEPTEMBER > < Sept. 16 > Sudo Room / Omni, Oakland, Ca. – 7 pm < Sept. 18 > New Nothing Cinema, San Fran , 16 Sherman Alley (betw. Folsom & Harrison, 6th & 7th) – As part of Shaping SF Talks. 8pm - < Sept.19 > Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., San Fran – 7 pm - ~ { Foto: remixd from Nadine and Nina at C-KiNO launch party in Berlin.

XLTerrestrials and CiTiZEN KiNO coming to a location near YOU ! ::: ~ XLT oN TouR ~ < AUGUST > < 11.08 > C-KiNO #40.1 + Afterparty at Morgenrot Cafe, Berlin 20:00h < 15.08 > Interference Festival / Conference , Amsterdam < 16.08 > Interference Party w/ dj Podmosis and many others at Binnenpret, A’dam ———————————– < SEPTEMBER > THE CALI-CIDAL TENDENCIES TOUR – CiTiZEN KiNO events - TBA - Left Coast Territories – Los Angeles / San Fran / Oakland / Davis

::: XLterrestrials On Tour * New * Please visit the new XLt Tour Page, where you’ll also find a PRESS RELEASE, and ways you can perhaps support us as we construct the itinerary. We plan to present CiTiZEN KiNO at a variety of events and spaces from NOW until Dec. 15, 2014. And we’re also looking further […]

::: ” The massacres continue after another short ceasefire… the footage we’ve just watched is the stuff of nightmares… it feels like civilization is unraveling, not just in Gaza… but in multiple war zones… Because there are no world leaders anymore, just blood-lusting, hand wringing and hand-shaking clowns, all with corpses in their closets, running from […]

:::: Correction : < 31.07 > < 30.07 > WEDNESDAY: CiTiZEN KiNOMATiCA #40 : All You Can’t Eat ! at Panke, Berlin 21:00h ( the fedbook invite ) < 10.08 or 11.08 > ( TBA ) C-KiNO #40.1 at Morgenrot Cafe, Berlin 20:00h < 15.08 > Interference Festival / Conference , Amsterdam < Sept.> The California Ideology Crash tour, TBA ::: The […]

* … … … #OKFest2014 scribbled notes: … Only 2 sessions thus far … And from the dark sides of the Chernobyl-ing Net Culture… 1.The Horrors of Open Data … and 2. E-Waste exploration: opening up our gadgets and looking into what happens when they die… Loads of great people around and about, but we wish we could be planting a garden together […]

::: { image from O Doutrinador by Luciano Cunha * } … < June12-July13 > CiTiZEN KiNO presente ! special edition WOrld Clip Interventions, read more HERE … online, and in Berlin, and beyond. Multiple Venues TBA. … < June21 > “Hacker treffen Harker. Commons Sommerfest” in Berlin am 21.06. … Technophiles, Slow Tech Movement, Free Software Foundation Europe, BerlinerLinux User Group, Freifunk, Solidarity Economy, Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie, Share peeps, etc etc… http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/hacker-treffen-harker-commons-sommerfest-in-berlin-am-21-06/ [ Eng below ] … < June 25 > CiTiZEN KiNO #39 : World Clip Interventions – Brazil focus, at Panke, Berlin ( the Fedbook invite )

… { image remix from O Doutrinador by Luciano Cunha * } … < July 9 > CiTiZEN KiNO #39 : World Clip Interventions – on world cup terror at Morgenrot Cafe, 18:00h – ( Fedbook invite ) … the game plan: 18:00h intro clips / 18:30h World Clip Interventions part 1 / intermission / 19:30h […]

+{+ … Added NOTE: Our apologies for yesterday’s inadequate report, below ! We simply don’t have the time to depict the gravity and complexity of the issues, which are clearly reaching a boiling point in Berlin, and all across the EU. Tensions are rising from situations which are essentially symptoms of global-scale injustices, wars, racism, widespread […]

… < 5. Juli 2014 – 14 Uhr > Antirassistische Demonstration – Hermannplatz – Berlin … REad MORe : http://ohlauer0507.wordpress.com/ ( w/ eng version there below. ) Wordpress text above is from July 2nd, situation has slightly changed since then, police are no longer sectioning off the streets around the school… but now guard the property together […]

{ Refugees demands, 2 of 10 points. See *link below for full texts } … If you are just tuning into the #Ohlauer Crisis – Refugees fighting an attempted eviction by force in Kreuzberg district of Berlin in a dramatic standoff w/city govt… Your are invited to read our previous XLterrestrials reports: EU Fortress vs. Refugees ( […]

{ the peoples press conference, supporters in Reichenbergerstr. foto credit: @chrpape . See § 23* explained, below. } … >> NEWS UPDATES ( DAY 8 – 01.07 ) « ( 01.07 15:00h ) RT > #Ohlauer twitter is going a little berserk ( for Kberg bezirk ; ) … many are saying eviction is imminent… Hard to […]

… vs. … … >» Current Updates for 27.06 SEE BELOW »> … The mendacious and blundering Berlin politicians have now turned the occupied school in Kreuzberg into a massive international rallying point for Migrant + Refugee Rights in Germany and the EU !! … And it’s heating up !! … Follow this story !! #Ohlauer … “We haven’t had time […]

… Just the other day a friend of ours, who we – coincidentally – met on the M.S. Stubnitz – an incredible art venue currently ported in Hamburg – during Chaos Congress, wrote about her dream of a “Sailing Library”. Returning from the conference Radical Openness, which was in Linz, Austria on a beautiful part of […]

… Coming Soon to Supermarkt-Berlin ( june 7 preview ) and Panke ( June 25 full episode ) … More info coming soon ! And would YOU like to invite us to perform This Summer / Fall ?!! contact us ! … … < 07.06 > Dismalware v.2 w/ Telekommunisten, Monochrom, XLterrestrials, at Supermarkt – Berlin, 19:00h doors open [ dismalware v.2 fedbook […]

{ Rabih Moure’ , HKW 2010 } … We Really didn’t want to get sucked into another festival/conference right now. We’ve been feeling a bit on input overload. But we landed at the opening of < 29.05- 01.06 > HKW’s 3rd Berlin Documentary Forum, Berlin And now we’re hooked ! Truly an incredible pleasure on opening night to be […]

… { Note: We’re still processing these two astounding books. This is not a review, but some initial impressions. } … WHat Would Astra Taylor, Glenn Greenwald, You and We (and that bloke in a Congo mine ) Do ?! – - Part 1 … ” Often the analysis we receive today about digital culture is as if you […]

… < 28.05 > Another episode of cinema and digital territories hacked by the XLterrestrials for all your tactical pleasures ! CiTiZEN KiNO #38: Catzilla Clips Forever ! at Panke., Wedding-Berlin. 21:00h … Meanwhile help spread the FBook invite … if you are in fact a user of this Silicon Valley Dunghole ! TWitter it ! … if […]

… #Poplave2014 People in the Balkans are no doubt still reeling from the floods. So many left homeless, many losing all their possessions, city infrastructures in chaos, etc. All this to people who are still piecing together their countries after the war which tore them apart in the 90s. And the flooding appears […]

… We’re just catching up on the films of MARCO WILMS… somehow we’ve managed to miss them until now. If you’re in Berlin this week, now’s your chance to get your fill, a serious dose of resistance culture, brought to you in tactical technicolor and practically dripping from the screen w/ current news … ART WAR features a […]

{ 367 views and many reposts } Vs. { 1, 514 views + a flood of spectacle media + digi-citizen reposts } Vs. { 335 views, and ? reposts } #rp14 / re:publica14 … So, to begin, a slight disclaimer, we are covering #rp14 from a safe distance! We have lots of other pressing work to take care, so we are not […]

… … { Eastern UKR map from WSJ article, red dots – areas of unrest } … We guess it’s been seriously on the brink of war for some time, but this morning’s news of helicopters shot down over Slavyansk seems to indicate a frightening escalation, with Putin saying “Ukraine’s action against Slavyansk has destroyed the last hope of […]

… < 24.4 > CiTiZEN KiNO #37 : “X-Filet” at Panke, Berlin – 21:00h < 03.5 > CiTiZEN KiNO #37 : “X-Filet v.2″ – 1st time in Leipzig ! … at the Autodidaktische Initiative, ( Georg-Schwarz-str. 19 ), 20:00h … Calling all CiTiZENs ! Help shape the next C-KiNO… Join us on the Pirate Pad, help assemble our themes, […]

… Last night we went with an open mind to check out what author Charles Eisenstein had to say ( currently on a short Germany tour ) … In general, we like his idea of ‘amateur economists’ and Sacred Economics ( the title of one of his books ), primarily because the language of academic or professional […]

+ + + So much to cover + communicate … from the Berliner Gazette’s Komplizen conference ( part 2 ), the Heartbleed BUG and the internet meltdown, to the IPCC Climate Change meeting going on Right Now in Berlin, and Nafeez Ahmed’s take on the leaked report … to the Oranienplatz Refugee Camp being plucked apart by […]

… Today begins the Wave Of Action ! And XLterrestrials are joining ! An incredibly articulate and flexible call to action which appears to bring together a variety of already existing ideas/forces/movements like Occupy, Anonymous, a variety of environmental + hactivist forms, Global Spring revolutionaries, etc etc… and poeticly and pertinently beginning on the day that Martin […]

… < 27.03 > CiTiZEN KiNO #36: Is This The End Of The Art World ?! at Panke, Berlin Program begins at 21:00h. ( Fedbook invite here ) Another round of perceptual assaults and DE-mediations, we’ll examine the transmigration of the artists at the edge of dying empires. CiTiZEN KiNO is an experimental format for hacking our mediated lives !… […]

… < 11.3.14 > 3 UgLy Years of Fukushima… events in Berlin and Beyond… -:1:- < 8.3.14 >Kazaguruma Demo – Brandenburger Tor -(past) :2:- Continuity and Change artists+ specialists in discussion at Ausland -:3:- Fukushima the aftermath art event ( fbook invite) -:4:- “Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin” at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien ( Fbook invite for discussion, […]

… { Snowden on The Daily Show / Stafford Beer’s cybernetics, an XLt remix * } … Let’s not mince words, what Edward Snowden has done to help society out of the dark Labyrinth made by a cybernetic regime dream, and caught with its bloody hands in the global cookie jar, is HEROIC ! And to be handed […]

… … … … … Take a bike dérive in your town today ! … Note on #4: Not an active train…. a little time warp side-of-the-road ‘museum’ … it’s parked…. And of course the foto doesn’t do justice to the full futuro majestic surreality … it’s BRD , West Germany 1980s ? we think. Correction, that’s DDR … “The historic DMU VT 18.16 […]

{ in Jodhpur } … Look ! It’s time to get fed up, it’s time to be outraged, it’s time to be inspired, time to get over all those measly hurdles, and put your skills into action to change the world NOW ! … Yeah. Jodhpur?, looks nice and exotic eh? Well if you’re planning on making a long […]

… Nope, we’re not interested in venturing into the oozing, festering Berlinale Festival Spectacles vortex this year… … <26.02> CiTiZEN KiNO#35 : Beyond the Anthro-Obscene at Panke, Berlin We’ll be looking for ways to evacuate the screens, and re-embody the struggles, as we pick out some highlights – and perhaps low-lights – from this year’s Transmediale Festival… … And explore […]

V v V v V v … R.i.P. Shirley Temple Black – 1928-2014. Perhaps a name for a new cocktail in Washington D.C. ?!? … Interesting to read what happens to super-cute child celebrities put through the military entertainment complex machine ! … From sweet innocence to the homemaker wife of a Navy intelligence officer Charles Alden Black ( son of the president and later […]

… < 6-16.02 > It’s the 10th Year of Director’s Lounge – a fringe smorgasbord of celluloid, video, performances, djs + vjs , cutting-edge underground media makers hanging around … and lots of booze … @ Naherholung Sternchen ( which we just heard will unfortunately close in May, due to the house being scheduled for demolition. […]

{ special guest, dj/xj Edgar Alien Pods } … “OH Man! Are We Ever Fucked !” XLt analyst … But not to despair entirely, THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM EDGAR ALIEN, and we’d like to invite YOU to our upcoming XLterrestrials events: < Thurs. 06.02 > XLterrestrials present dj/vj/xj Podinski spinning a mix of Eastblock Globalista, Psychotronic Dub and Gothic Pfunk, etc … at Eschschloraque ! Rosenthaler Str 39, Berlin – Mitte 22:00h – ? At < MIDNIGHT > we’ll present a small excerpt of our upcoming CiTiZEN KiNO episode #35: “Seen But Not Heard in The Anthro-Obscene” ( an unauthorized Transmediale “Nachspiel” ).

{ Henke’s Code + Lasers } work-in-progress A friend of Robert Henke’s told us after the premiere performance of “Lumiere” for the finale of CTM and Transmediale, that Robert had considered making his show a tribute to Chelsea Manning. Maybe it was just one of those bar chats with half-truth tales. In any case, instead, what we got was a minimalist’s Ode To Code. Or more specificly, an epic military-grade laser light advertisement with its slogan seared into our retinas -”LOVE CODE”, the only words amidst other flickering numerical and geometric fragments.

+ { 1. from Birdwatchers film 2. Protest in Rio } … IF you’re on Twitter ( yes, it’s another digital vortex ) you can follow our quicker, realtime reports:@podinski… Day 5 ( including opening ceremonies night ) at Transmediale. … Currently being transported by the Brazil perspective… no, not the dystopian Gilliam film version ;) < > Micropolitics of the post-digital: […]

{ XLt pic: We interrupt this message… } Literally TWO min after entering, this uninvited art citizen was being questioned by security. Possibly TOO post-digital + dangerous !?! #transmediale pic.twitter.com/YmcJwCVM1h … We didn’t stick around to see him bloodied to a pulp in a backroom ;) … But safe to say he will either be allowed to wander the premises and give the Transmediale guests a little chuckle, or he will be told he can’t make art with a sign, unless he submits a proposal to Transmediale 2015.

+ { pics: @jeliliatiku } + + + #transmediale #afterglow #Anthro-obscene -work-in-progress- … Wired Africa, Seen But Not Heard in the Anthro-Obscene ?! “On the internet, no one can hear you scream ! ” @non. … In general, XLterrestrials have been less focused on performance art at Transmediale festivals in the last years. Since the symposium-side grabs on to huge sociological themes, it becomes necessary and urgent to analyze what directions such a cultural ( and primarily academic) enterprise tries to steer us, the technological trends, and our behaviors within them.

+ … { foto by @olofster : @arthackday #afterglow (by Mario de Vega & Victor Mazon) pic.twitter.com/saQZcOxK0F } … “There is no technological redemption in a civilization of tool monkeys!“ XLt analyst * … Here we go (again) ! …Transmediale 2014: Afterglow A little orientation to the Festival program… which is broken down into 3 basic sections : Hashes To Ashes / And Afterglow of The Mediatic / Will You Be My Trashure ? (But more on those later.

{ pic from Kiev Occupation } Breaking-In and Breaking Out of Darkness – Part A … RT @pondswimmer “It’s great to fight over how to deal with “intrusion of neo liberal logic” but eventually we should take it outside this small room” #eddcon. RT @Linuzifer “I guess few people are happy with @bruces telling everyonr off, but it’s exactly what we need to be told.” #eddcon “Is it now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine disconnecting from a cybernetic regime?

{ XLt remix } … This year the XLterrestrials + CiTiZEN KiNO declined to participate in Transmediale ( p2p Vorspiel ). There are a number of complex reasons, but most important is that increasingly we have no faith in Festivals (for digital culture) to adequately take on the struggles inherent in a colonial situation. No optimism that a radical position can be formed, when a cultural enterprise, with expectations – and obligations – to entertain the masses AND please the digi-cult industry, is at stake.

… < 10.01.14 > A Lou Reed Celebration at Szimpla Badehaus, Berlin ( fedbook invite ) Currently there’s 32 artists/musicians working on an internal list to make this event happen ! … Needless to say this is going to be a bad ass event ! … Come on down ! … And now you can win some very cool prizes if YOU want to participate in sharing w/ us YUR HIGH WEIRD TALES of VU+Reed illuminations ( written and/or ‘open’ mic-style ).