Archive for January, 2014
Transmediale 2014 v.4 : Seen But Not Heard in the Anthro-Obscene ?!
Friday, January 31st, 2014+ { 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.
More...Transmediale 2014 v.3 : Just Another Round Of The Tool Monkeys !?
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014+ … { 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.
More...Transmediale Prelude v.2, Break-Ins and Breaking Out of Darkness #Eddcon
Monday, January 27th, 2014{ 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?
More...Prelude to Transmediale 2014: The Eternal Dying of The Digital…
Thursday, January 16th, 2014{ 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.
More...2014 is already waking on the wild sides… XLt Winter Blurbs
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014… < 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 ).
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