… 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.