\\\\\\\\\\\.////////// new update: time and locations for Citizen KiNO at 32c3 are not easy to arrange without a writeable Wiki … but we’ll try, here’s our plan: 2x CiTiZEN KiNO @ #32c3, guerilla version 2nite 23:00h at Exploitbar and official version 2morw in Room C4 at 20: 00h http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=14959 … for #32C3 reports see: XLT / DR.PODINSKI TWITTER … < Dec26-30 > […]

… An XLT Review Ok, The Force Awakens wasn’t so bad… We survived it, as an anthropological and psychomedia investigation into a DIM society ! … Its main effect is to make us crave someone, Anyone who would give Lucas (and Abrams) a tough interview about the infantalism and propaganda of Hollywood, current US […]

… Before we begin our own rant, we wish to feature – up front – the plight of the indigenous voices which were repeatedly blocked out by the COP21 and their agreements… and the corprorate media. ‘Indigenous people were silenced and erased’ – An open letter from the Wretched of the Earth bloc to the organizers of […]

… The Paris DEAL was done… And the question remains: Where does that leave us now ?! What message and tasks does that leave us with ?! In one word : GALVANIZE ! verb gal·va·nize ?gal-v?-?n?z\ to cause (people) to become so excited or concerned about an issue, idea, etc., that they want to do something about it […]

+ < DEC.12 > Call for Action ! Create ! Mobilise ! Have the Last Word on #COP21 …in Paris and Everywhere… More Info HERE : #D12 … … WE still don’t know how the negotiations will conclude at #COP21, but we already know that many voices have been excluded. We know that corporate players have been deeply embedded […]

… Not exactly the image we were looking for this COP21 entry… We were hunting for Shaolin kids in a forest, gender diversity, and/or a group of mixed generation people and nationalities all training together, a ferocity of discipline and determination. That combination would be the right direction for seeking solutions under these endangered times. But because […]

… work-in-progress … BREAKING: Flotilla in Paris led by Indigenous Peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon. They [ and we ] want the protection of indigenous rights in the climate deal, real solutions and are calling on world leaders to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Follow these groups for more info + SHARE THEM : Indigenous […]

… The XLterrestrials Guide to… #COP21 … Part 3 | Part 2 | Part 1 … Part 4 : work-in-progress … These are players who just aren’t ready to address Real System Change… … Surfing the news of #cop21 today has been a very depressing affair… and one of the scary things that jumps out at us – XLterrestrials analysts – is […]

… Without global citizens protesting, Cop21 might look like another episode of #TitanicCops … Yep the #21 means that they’ve been at it for 21 years, and are still bumbling about like fools with vested-interest corporate funding up their asses ! And Global MISLEADERS currently seem more interested in starting another World War than solving global […]

… XLterrestrials Guide To Corporate Climate Terror – #COP21 and Beyond – Part 1 is here… … XLT Guide TO C02lonialism at #Cop21 (part 2) : In Germany’s largest left media outlet, Die TAGESZEIT headline image for Dec.1st is the row of world leaders as a mock choir singing “We Are The World”, and a tag for […]

… Coming Soon To A Global Theater Near You ! : < Nov.30-DEc.11 > 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP21 - … Anyone out there wanna help compile some resources for this – for #cop21 and Beyond – and help construct the XLt analytic and tactical view ?!? … contact us ! Send us your […]

… Yes, we all can blabber all we want in some vague fury or some toxic clicktivism on social media * that this is CAPITALISM, CORPORATE INSANITY, and/or TECHNO-FASCISM. And yes, it’s all three. But it’s also a specific company with a CEO, and its major investors… Wonder if all the other f*ckhead CEOs would continue running such […]

… … “When our neighborhoods, our culture , our civilization, our planet are being made into a guinea pig farm and an exploitative industrialized shithole the best thing to do is to go on the OFFENSIVE ! “ XLterrestrials analyst in the lab preparing for the next C-KiNO… < Nov. 16 > CiTiZEN […]

… work-in-progress … GuineaPigdom and The Climate of Control ( Part 3 of our analyzing current events in Btropolis, see previous blog entries ) … Reflections on the UNCOMMONS Conference put together by Berliner Gazette w/ many partners, such as Bundeszentrale Fuer Politische Bildung, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. EU (?), Knight-Mozilla Open News, Zeit-Stiftung, Avec Lab, Supermarkt, etc… We won’t have time to […]

… { Cat 5 Hurricane * } … To which conference do we send the XLterrestrials to 2day : #UNCOMMONS or #WOHNUNGSFRAGE ??! …. 1st world problems in Btropolis ;) … Last nite following some goood tactical talks at Wohnungsfrage, we got ourselves into a ridiculous debate at the bar about whether Ubu-webby Kenneth Goldsmith is a dick, useless, […]

… { Erbil / Hewler } < Oct 23 – Dec 14 > Wohnungsfrage at HKW, Exhibition, publication series, academy, Berlin … When the call went out for proposals to Haus Der Kulturen’s ( HKW ) exhibition and seminar Wohnungsfrage it was accompanied by this image of Erbil, also known as Hewler , one of the oldest continuously inhabited […]

~|~ Dear XLt Friends and newcomers, we’ve been away ! We’ve been tangled in an inglorious battle to keep our projects alive on THE NET. It’s been TECH HELL ! Over a month w/o access to our website and XLT mails ( new contact: here . If your mails bounced, please write us again there.). But […]

… { ” Install your Executive In Chief ” XLterrestrials 2015 *cc* } … :|: XLterrestrials newsletter :|: [ If you wish to unsubscribe to these low-frequency newsletters contact us. ] Dear arts+praxis friends and organisms, The XLterrestrials are back in Btropolis and we are reloading + relaunching our CiTiZEN KiNO series – a situational and cinematic engagement for tactical explorations. … … CiTiZEN […]

… { Poster image remixed from La Antena film * from 2007 } … CiTiZEN KiNO is back in Btropolis, and we are re-launching the series. Actually we did our first show upon returning at the Chaos Communications Camp, and now working on material to do a kind of report back from the tech resistance sector at an […]

… { A 100+ year-old turtle, and a decoy dolphin robot to “spy on” sealife } … XLt recommends ( and/or things to rant about ) : < 19-23.08 > Berlin Atonal, at Tresor+Kraftwerk, Berlin < 25.08 > Jello Biafra’s Guantanamo School Of Medicine, S036, Berlin < 28.08 > Embedded Artist w/ Wolfgang Spahn and Malte Steiner, Spektrum Berlin <29.08 > BrunnenHoffest, […]

… < 15.08 > CiTiZEN KiNO #45: A Heartwarming Rejection of Decapitating Technospheres – ( title subject to change ) – w/ dr. podinski and special guests at the #BER Village at #CCcamp2015 . 23:00h in the @_omnidome. … … tbc…

… { art by Rob Sheridan } … >> Accepting donations for upcoming CiTiZEN KiNO productions, see more below. « … < Aug.13-17 > Chaos Camp 2015, Ziegeleipark Mildenberg -De #cccamp2015 We must admit the first time we ever went to Chaos Communications Congress, we had images of a convergence / encounter with a very different species… But we also had a […]

… A sad, stupid and disturbing day in German politics !! Markus Beckedahl (left) the editor-in-chief of Netzpolitik.org.and Andre Meister asst. editor ( and also a longtime Indymedia contributor ) were earlier this year given a prize by the govt. of Germany as part of the “Land of Ideas” competition. The site also won the prestigious Grimme-Preis, […]

… You are passing a DARK ALLEY, and therein awaits a savage mob of thieving Krapitalists, thugs with knives, automatic rifles, tasers, networked surveillance tools, corporate bank accounts, an army of investors and lawyers and lobbyists and crony judges. The MASTER NINJA says: It is unwise to pass through the alley in these times. The TECHNOTOPIAN says: Come […]

… and many more things to come…. … … { currently at the German Pavillion in Venice } … … < Sat, July 18 > Platoon venue’s 3 year anniversary { frackbook invite } … … And keep an eye out for more Blockupy style actions and organizing and solidarity at Oranienplatz in Kberg ( i.e. next weds. evening ) . And the O-platz Revival as a […]

… { We call this one the XLt wormhole logo, which is the what the football-like object on the right supposedly represents } … Make Art / Earn Cash / Spread Activism XLterrestrials propose a LOGO CONTEST ! A community arts exchange idea , a work-in-progress … So XLterrestrials and CiTIiZEN KiNO, our 2 current main projects both need a wider […]

… Resources for the Universal Grexit ! + How to Spot Krapitalism in Your Govt. Before It’s Too Late ! work-in-progress Well, hard to say whether or not we consider Greece exiting the EU a positive direction, but it would be far better to argue for the EU ( and the planet ) to exit Krapitalism * ! … We’ll try […]

… XLterrestrials To/From Greece+Beyond With LOve ! ::: ” We send you a mental image of a 1000 Amelies putting glues in all the robo-bureaucrats shoes ! Solidarity, pranks, revolt, community, counterculture seductions and romance ! We will win ! :::: … The Summer’s getting HOT… here’s a few from our recommended blurbs to get you further ENGAGED ! And support Your local activists, artists, galeries, venues, mom+pop shops, producers, multi-kulti makers, etc … … In Berlin : … …

{ title : XLterrestrials Highly Susceptible To Summer ! } … BLUE GREEN ALERT ! New CiTiZEN KiNO Shows, and New XLt Strategies … … It has been said, by an XLterrestrial analyst in a very bad mood, that “the art world is dead… if you are busy putting pictures up on gallery walls today, you are engaged in postcard art… postcards from HELL … And this will do almost nothing to save the planet from the shit-stew it’s currently boiling in.

… So, how orchestrated is this new love affair between Apple and Taylor Swift ?!… One thing’s for sure, this is really working out great as a huge PR score for both of them. Critical thinking is absolutely required in these predatory times, and if you read this Washington Times post on the matter , and read a little between the lines, you’ll realize there are a few players fighting to be King of the Hill in an industry worth billions.

… Having snapped a front lawn tweety bird, it’s eyes mauled out of its head by an unknown satisfied puppy… … Desperately we try to piece together meaning by grabbing a mediated form here, a video clip there, a snapshot while walking down to the park. And then posting it up somewhere in this thinnest thread to a distant and amputatedly virtual community. Firstly, never assume that one’s mood can be snatched from the abyss by randomly attaching a scream for affection and understanding from the bodiless web!

… A few weeks back we had planned to launch an Indiegogo campaign. This has been indefinitely postponed. While we still consider raising “seed capital” to be a crucial factor in continuing and expanding our tactical arts, the time+effort involved to do the campaigning ( and production of perks) is beyond our capacities currently. We will come back to this ! But for now, we ask you for your support in a more simplistic format. If you would like to be a patron, and donate to XLterrestials and CiTiZEN KiNO media experiments and arts+praxis education please contact us for our paypal address.

… XLterrestrials in LAla land again… Upcoming Events / Action-packed : … … < June 7th > Truthdig presents The Moral Imperative of Revolt w/ Chris Hedges and Sonali Kolkatkar and Zaude Kaufman, Aratani Theater, LA – 4:30pm … < June 9th > The Yes Men Are Revolting, free sneak preview of the new film from, yep, the Yes Men ! at […]

… “Perhaps we can cultivate a new ‘Leave No Trace’ ethics … in regard to the last 500 years! And not have to go binge-shopping at a Kmart in Reno to create an ephemeral + simulated Disney-esque Tomorrowland weekend in the desert as a process of awakening to the plight of the earth and our dismal […]

… Well, this was actually a poster for CiTiZEN KiNO #26 – c. 2013 – but we’re recycling it for our GOING-OUT-WITH-A-BANG & A-FEW-BUCKS sale… < May 30 > Treasures from the shipwrecker city, informal night-time Garage SALE at ATA, 992 Valencia St., SF ( before and after cinema, see below ). XLterrestrials are ‘celebrating’ another fabulous bout […]

: ::: ::::: Smart Cities / Dying Cultures / Resistant Strains Often when we prepare a theme for XLterrestrials analysis, we start with a vj tool called modul8 to produce a collage of overlaid imagery. And sometimes the topics themselves will be overlapping worlds too. Here we have 3 layers : 1.) A review of Gray Area Theater’s conference […]

… Feminist Fury Road Kill ?! “Fury Road, indigenous feminist crack made by white male cartoon pornographers, who wish they could feel the emotional rush of vengeance for something they think they might have lost.” XLterrestrials analyst … ” It’s important to go beyond these narratives and stop fetishizing the apocalypse and start fighting it like we mean it. […]

… ” Writing is a vanity, unless it’s for the friend. Including the friend one doesn’t know yet. In the coming years, we’ll be wherever the fires are lit. ” – Invisible Committee … - Upcoming events, XLt recommended - In Sf Bay: < May 16 > To Our Friends by The Invisible Committee. An evening discussion and celebration of […]

… { Art from the Valencia St. wall } … work-in-progress … “The next time the XLterrestrials come to a meeting of arts+culture people trying to save their city, we think it may be a good idea to bring along a couple of Darpa robots and/or real estate cronies and/or silicon valley execs to go over and lick someone’s face […]

… work-in-progress … “ ok, f*ck the frackbook, the XLt analysts are going off the CrunkCommunicationsFix for a little while to write about Danae Ringelmann, the true SF tech pioneer and social genius who no one has heard of cause Silicon Valley’s all holding their dicks up high in the spotlight for their 15mins of Famine in the […]

… { a new mural by Alex Rupert outside the warehouse artspace formerly known as Cellspace in the Mission District of San Francisco * foto: by Stencilarchive.org portrait of Victor Ayala, RIP } Corporacene. n. – the shortest-lived geological “epoch” on fantasy island, which entertains the miscalculated notion that corporate business models should and will be allowed […]

… { C-Kino #44 work-in-progress } < April 16th > CiTiZEN KiNO #44: The Bitmaker’s Afterlife, at Artists Television Access, w/ special guests and fundraiser launch party (part 1). 8:30 pm. 992 Valencia St, SF the Frackbook invite ( if you’re so inclined ) … We are continuously collecting an amazing archive for our upcoming show of media bits that will help you navigate Neo-Liberal and Neo-Libertarian Gentrification, Silicon Valley’s Technotopian Occupations, and the apocalyptic endgame of The Anthropocene-sters, which is NOT inevitable.

… It’s time to think BIG ! … There’s too little time for anything else… The Social Organisms are requiring a re-plant, a re-seeding, a re-harvesting… And a few matriarchal interventions ! So the XLterrestrials are launching a FUNDRAISER ! To help fund our east-side cultural exchange .. our upcoming tour… We’re heading on the road with Nomadic Village 2015, a project visiting the rural zones of eastern europe to research autonomous zones, healthier neighborhoods, sustainable collaborations, arts+praxis for the peeps !

… … * Stammtisch – translates to a table for the tribe(s), … a reserved table, usually at a local Bierstube / pub for a regularly attending group. … Social Laboratory nights for upgrading collective intelligence: A Stammtisch in Berlin was founded by the Telekommunisten, a politically engaged collective art group to have informal weekly gatherings of fellow […]

… The Mission District in San Francisco is under siege, again ! A diverse, ethnicly- rich, vibrant working class neighborhood is once again at the center of a collision between wealthy development players and the everyday citizens who struggle to survive. White-colonizer supremacy and gentrification takes on new monstrous proportions which brings to mind one of the creepiest sci-fi films we encountered back around 2010, as an in-flight movie ( released in 2009). We had to switch channels before the end, as it was truly freaking us out.

{ more great paste-ups in SF Bay … some of which may be from Political Gridlock, whom we’ve posted before. } … ” YEY, humans, we won, the Open net, we be cyborg sushi, who’s coming to the Amazoooglefrackbook party ? ;) “ XLt analyst … { from our friends at EFF } … The problem with electoral politics-crumbs in the age of neo-liberal corporate democracy vortexes, is that the public is likely to choke to death on them before any benefits ever trickle down into any real shaping of society.

… Washington Post reports today that Jeb Bush, Columba and Frank Zappa were wedded in 1974 , by photographer Marvin Bush. Here’s the WaPo facts . ( In short, the story goes, Marvin used the same roll of film twice, and all but one of Jeb’s wedding fotos were destroyed … by a Zappa concert. ) But we’ve got more … Truth be told, the XLterrestrials believe this WAPO bizness is to pre-emptively cover for fotos of Marvin, Jeb and Columba on the Sheik Yerbouti Tour in 1977, which are undoubtedly going to surface during the 2016 campaign, so why wait til then…

… When asked how they made their tough decision for the best documentary, an academy awards juror stated, “We felt it was a powerful story for our times about a white american tech bro.” The XLterrestrial Onion For more statistics on the diversity of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which governs the Academy Awards, […]

[ foto remix : podinski + ropinski ] Our XLterrestrials article for Otherzine’s Issue #28: Autonomous Zones…. which goes online on February 21, including articles and artists’ projects by Erik Lyle, Lynne Sachs, Eric Stewart, Erin McElroy, Walter Alter, La Caca Colectiva, XLterrestrials and others. Co-edited by Robert Edmondson and Molly Hankwitz. Taking over all your Netz… Read more here! … Here’s our piece, which we’ll be adding to on this site, as we continue to develop our CiTiZEN KiNO versions on the housing struggles…

{ plucked image from the networld, artist unknown } “Never scream alone, when everyone around you is in the same intolerable boat !” XLt collective analyst … So the last few nights we’ve been perusing some of the deep analysis doomsayers, and as much as we can agree that humans currently appear to be “up shit creek, clueless, and without a paddle”, and that in many cases we are being lied to about the severity of the crises, a total collapse scenario is not one we should get comfortable and cuddle with, but rather view as a portal to extraordinary paradigm-shifting and/or transmigrational times.

. .. The Killing of The Gods … R Us ” It matters what you believe.” a nomadic urban tribesman ” Tools devised and used by humans in an upside down world are proportionately misused. ” XLT analyst .. . Part 1: On the cartoon path against belief systems … … This juicy image above ( and 2 more below ) from a […]

{ see below for info on street art in this poster } … XLterrestrials presents CiTiZEN KiNO #42: “The Occupied Territories” < Friday, Jan. 30th > At: Station 40 3030b 16th Street, SF, CA. 21:00h – 19:30h by Donation ______ CiTiZEN KiNO is a Berlin-based series of events to inspire collective intelligence and new forms of arts + praxis. A hybrid of film, internet, theater, hacker culture and public forum to analyze and strategize around urgent social issues. Currently on tour in the US.

… “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.

… Ridley Scott’s making Philip K. Dicks’s Man In The High Castle … for BBC TV and now via Amazon. Perhaps you’ve already noticed: Episode 1 is already available. The image above is, in part, taken from one of the original covers for PKD’s 1962 Hugo award-winning alternate history tale in which the Axis powers are present within the US as the victors of WW2. It weaves an ingenious social analysis of a totalitarian state from that odd and uncomfortably close scenario.

… { Photo was taken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where children bathe in water that is contaminated with lead paint and scrap metal. One of the places where retired and abandoned cargo ships -that transport products across the globe to feed our civilization’s consumer addictions – end up to be “recycled”. S. Salgado? } … An investigative analysis of the 1% dreams for the future. … work-in-progress When The 1% Start Singing Whalesongs … In the Long Now… Run ! ( part 1 )

… Now THere’s A Sharp Pen ! #CharlieHebdo No, we don’t mean the cartoon artist above – Mark Knight, Herald Sun, we mean the incredible analysis provided by Corey Oakley in REDFLAG, an Alternative Socialist newspaper out of Australia. His piece is called Charlie Hebdo and the hypocrisy of pencils … And it’s like this whole can of worms, and all the debates we’ve been getting into on this squirmy matter, have finally been given the proper context and a fully articulated light.

( vj podinski mix of an Ai WeiWei portrait * ) … -work-in-progress - Dysneytopia Coincidentally the same week we went to go see the Ai WeiWei exhibition on Alcatraz, we got a couple emails about a razor sharp talk at #31c3 – The 31st Chaos Communications Congress – by Hans de Zwart, a civil rights activist with @bitsoffreedom. A presentation about living under permanent surveillance, which is not just the state of the famed Beijing artist embattled with the Chinese govt.