… < 27-3o.12 > 33C3 – Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg Blog: https://events.ccc.de Twitter: @CCC and @chaosupdates LIVE STREAMS Fahrplan / Schedule … < THurs. 29.12 > CiTiZEN KiNO #59: Strategies For Turtle Islands, ROOM C-4 at 33C3, See: the Wiki page for Self-organized Sessions This episode (#59) “Strategies For Turtle Islands” we examine the ways of seeing all our global struggles […]

… < 18.12 > CiTiZEN KiNO #58: The Rise Of Turtles Islands at Club der Polnischen Versager, Sontag 20:00h We continue our theme of Strategies For Turtle Islands as a response to the neoliberal agendas expanding and wreaking havoc on our planet. This is essentially a part 2 to the episode we presented in Nov. just prior […]

… Arts + Tech Strike Back … Let the shaming begin! … Trump met up with the Tech Titans of Silicon Valley this week… a full list of those participating coming soon. Google co-founder Larry Page, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, IBM CEO […]

… There’s a whole lot of analyzing and a whole lot of blaming and a whole lot of anxiety… BUT what’s to be done !?? We’ll be adding to this list, as time allows, but here’s a few good strategy guides, beginning with Bill Quigley – the Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a […]

… { see ‘template’ below to make your own } … When Mass Media becomes primarily a tool owned by the powerful and wealthy, it becomes, more often then not a weapon against the masses. For-profit communication technologies are then used to steer and manage perception… to download direction and instruction, to distract and misinform, to channel and […]

… < 18.11 > Ckino + CryptopartyBerlin + Cbase , 2o:0o h at Rungestrasse We will combine a cryptoparty skillshare session with a little interspersed CiTiZEN KiNO excerpts from the latest Strategies For Turtles Islands ( #57 ) … CK + CP + CB Here’s a sneak preview … Technology can make the planet great again ! … come find […]

… A picture above looks at the Adlon Hotel just down the street from Brandenburger Tor, The US and UK Embassy … where… ” Large areas of central Berlin have been cordoned off during the visit and the US president will travel to meetings in a 27-car motorcade. ” – From the UK Guardian’s “Obama […]

… < Nov. 15 > BIG STRATEGY DAY OF ACTION ! #StandWithStandingRock ! WHERE: EVERYWHERE ! https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/nov-15-nodapl-day-of-action-at-army-corps-of-engineers … Nevermind imperialist pighead presidents, let’s elect WATER PROTECTORS … … Let’s vote for people like Winona Laduke, Dallas Goldtooth, Tara Houska, Bill Mckibben, Naomi Klein, Chairman Dave Archambault II, Josh Fox, Tulsi Gabbard, etc. … TO PROTECT […]

… { Lines in the sand are being drawn ! See below * } Strategies for Turtle Islands… it’s time to assemble a list of emergency responses ! This Trumposis is a life-threatening new illness which further complicates the already fragile state of living systems … We were already in critical condition, and this additional human-made + […]

… { Foto: Junun at Funkhaus Berlin, by XLterrestrials } … While we are assembling a list of carefully considered Strategies For Turtle Islands, we begin with one very simple path. One of the most healing things to do in these terrifying times : GO OUT and SUPPORT and LIVE + BREATHE IN the exquisite diversity of […]

… { Note: A CiTiZEN KiNO collage we made for our series of events, but were reluctant to use, as it put to much emphasis ( and predictive inclinations ) on Trump, when it was a 2-party system horror show – a facade of an election – that gave rise to two inept, sinister, rotten and […]

… [ Fotographer not yet indentified ] … The XLt Guide To Indigenous Resistance - work-in-progress - A Preface : TURTLE ISLAND is the name many indigenous tribes and environmental activists ( since the 70s) use […]

… < Nov. 6 > CiTIZEN KiNO #57 : Strategies For Turtle Islands, Club Der Polnischen Versager, 169 Ackerstr., Berlin – 19: 00h [ the frackybook invite, plz share if so inclined ] A night of tactical media to analyze + discuss what the failing US democracy means for the rest of us, in the EU, and […]

… In 1999 when some 40,000 protestors amassed in Seattle to fight against the injustices of global economic policies being made behind closed doors by the World Trade Organization (WTO), one of the slogans in the streets was ” This Is What Democracy Looks Like ! ” This carried an unexpected double meaning: It proclaimed that […]

… [ another XLT giacomo-carmagnola remix, click to enlarge } … We’d really like to move on to serious strategical thinking, but that last round of debates just needs to be dissected ( and disarmed ) … “Having the last US Selections debate moderated by Fox News is a little like having Hitler’s right and only ball ask […]

{{}} {{}} XLT Remixes from The glitch art of Giacomo Carmagnola Strategies For Turtle Island(s) v.5 Coming soon ! Meanwhile, if you didn’t receive the latest XLterrestrials Newsletter with our US Elections Analysis, send us a mail and let us know you want to be subscribed. None of that fancy automated stuff, just ask our friendly customer service personnel […]

{ 1936 Berlin } … … { Dreams Rewired, 2015 } … ” Connection so fascinates us in our wired-in, modern times, but hardly any film has been able to speak inventively about it. Precautionary tales like “Disconnect” or “Men, Women & Children” have gone in one ear and out the other, no different from tedious Facebook posts griping that our phone usage must be the downfall of all communication. The irony of disconnection through connected tech proves too easy, the nostalgia for non-wired-in days too shallow.

… “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate” “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. ” - from The Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. ” Are we having fun yet ? ” - Zippy the Pinhead comics, at the end of a bloody 20th century ………. Dear friends of arts, activism and “psycho-media” analysis, Times are looking hard, something between divine comedy and daily cartoons in hell, but we should – at the very least – be ready with some counter-proposals to the dreadful futures being prepared for us by the current coalition of willing idiocracies !

… { One of 1,000s of biting viral memes, expressing voter frustrations } Strategies for Turtle Islands Part 3 – The Media ( p.1 + p.2 ) … Naturally we’d like to just move on to discussing what movements are arising in solidarity to steer planetary consciousness away from the US “selectoral” trainwreck and onward to face practical on-the-ground challenges for both local communities and global inhabitants, and not just humans in the Anthropocene scenarios, but all our relations. The activated indigenous cultures ( repeatedly threatened by colonialism, displacement, slavery, genocides… ) are really at the forefront of holistic and revolutionary thinking, because frankly they are just NOT as invested in, or as much suckers to, the seductive + delusional practices/promises of the corporate brain-tap and nation-state agendas.

… < TBA > CiTiZEN KiNO #57+58+59 : Strategies for Turtle Islands Coming Soon ! We’re getting excited about this ! _______________________________________________ proposal: ( YOU are all welcomed to invite the project to YOUR local habitat ! ) Provide an overall summary of your campaign/project CiTiZEN KiNO is an initiative to create a new relationship to our rapidly “shifty” media environments. We experiment with a combination of online participation ( social media platforms ) and social gatherings (various local and neighborhood venues) which begin as a cinema environment, but which ultimately are transformed into realtime public forums.

… Originally we wanted to do a piece entitled ” The XLterrestrials Guide to U.$. $elections ” to help people navigate the mindfuck created by entirely fraudulent, coporate-massaged s-elections. But given the recent extraordinary standoff in Dakota – #NODAPL – against the Oiligarchy’s ever-expanding pipeline(s) to the great ecocide, a “parallel politics” arises which supersedes any critical analysis of the surrender ( and coercions ) into lesser evilism and the usual exercises of total democratic failure. More vital, urgent and engaging Post-Electoral strategies are already being born !

… On The XLT Radar … … … … Note: { * } The frackybook invites / links : … < 10.09 > Arab* Wunderground Panel + Party with Mehmet Aslan, Badre, Habibi Funk, [móa], Moji Taali, Miranda de la Frontera, usw… at Storkower Str. 121, Berlin - { * } < 13.09 > David Graeber + Michael Hudson at Lit Fest, Berliner Festspiele < 14.09 > Jazar Crew presents Palestinian, Tunisian and Kuwati hiphop nite at Yaam, Berlin { * }

… New season, new collaborations, new thin wafer experimints… < 03.09 > CiTiZEN KINO#56: Music Videos on Mount Olympus @ Veteranenstrassefest #2, B-Mitte ( Frackybook invite for C-KiNO ) We’ve assembled an illustrious and juicy XLterrestrials jury to analyze and critique some of the most politically-engaged sounds + vision ( i.e. music clips ) ever made. Part of the […]

… One of the best things about living in Btropolis is the solidarity networks, particularly around alternative housing projects – hausprojecte. And it’s currently high season for solidarity summer parties – Hoffesten – We’ll be listing a few below. They always make great posters, and while hunting for the one that lists all the 2016 haus parties, […]

… On the XLt radar – summer 2016 – v.1 - … Summery Spirits ( v.2 ) … < Aug 15 > Street artist Topsy Qur’et presents “Doppelwelt” the remixed sculpture, Morgenstern Cafe, Kohlfurter Str. 13 @ Admiralstraße, Kreuzberg, 19.00 Uhr Drinks afterward @ Pirata Bar nextdoor. [ XLt analysts wrote a little interpretive bit about the project HERE ] … Upcoming: < Aug 18 > […]

… The XLT Guide To Getting Over The Big Shillary Hump ! ( Selections in The US ) The XLterrestrial analysts, like many of you, have been spending an insane number of hours slogging through the excruciating news coverage of the US Selection process, in order to be good global citizens, and help navigate the planet’s […]

{ posters in Lyon } … We’ve just returned to Btropolis from Lika Camp – an arts+activist+strategies camp in the Balkans (more coming soon) – where there was very little (or very weak) wifi connection to the corporate news troughs, asocial media and all the virtual ill-realities. And it was a delicious break! … But now that we’re […]

{ a placeholder pic for the southern trails } … Out of the Over-mediated Zones ! ( Updated ) Here are some links to get us started: Original planning doc: https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/LikaCamp2016 Twitter: #LikaCamp2016 https://twitter.com/search?q=LikaCamp2016&src=typd TweetPile: https://tweetpile.com/archives/76/text/ UnCiv mailing list archive: https://lists.puscii.nl And a review + analysis + thoughts for any future LIKA camps is currently being compiled by Vesna at Tech Inc in Amsterdam, stay tune ! … original post follows… … Lika Camp is a project that we won’t say too much about while it’s in progress over the next 2 weeks, but we’re busy taking notes.

… coming soon to your internal cinema engines ! … XTra Special Summer DEAL ! Subscribe now as a Patron of the XLterrestrials + CiTIZEN KiNO series and receive as a perk/gift the GlOBALISTA RADIO KITS – one-a-month for the whole year. Contact us now! Send an email with a request with Subject: “I wanna Telekommune !” And you will […]

… work-in-progress … The artivist Erik Drooker reposted one of his ingenious “pressure cooker” images today, without words. Presumably to share in the screams + tears + outrage in response to the latest eruptions of racial violence, police terror and public fury in N.America. #Castile #Sterling #Dallas #blacklivesmatter … And there’s a pile of underbelly things to analyze in […]

… XLt Guide to Collective Art Identities … and Collective Agency … … If YOU are a Podopolog reader, or just discovering our site now, please consider donating to help us cover arts + politics stories. Write us for details. We need your support to produce articles like the one currently under construction here: an investigation into people – in […]

… < 12.06 > CiTIZEN KiNO #54 at Spektrum, Btropolis < 23.06 > CiTiZEN KiNO #55 at Panke Cafe, Btopolis … updated : Contribute to our Titan pad notes + resources here ( a rough mix ): https://citizenkino.titanpad.com/54 Frackbook invite, please share! https://www.facebook.com/events/881633265276759/ … < 23.06 > CiTiZEN KiNO #55 ( and #54 ): “Collective Art Identities” at Panke Cafe, Btopolis C-KiNO is an ongoing series […]

… { usual day in the lab, XLt at Spektrum. foto: Maria Runarsdottir } Recently, while giving an interview to The Exberliner about our work, we were given an opportunity to revisit WHY we’ve chosen a collective identity platform, as opposed to individual identities expressing themselves through our various XLterrestials’ mediums like this Podopolog and […]

~~~ < 12.06 > CiTiZEN KiNO #54 at Spektrum, Berlin < 23.06 > CiTIZEN KiNO at Panke, Berlin Our titanpad for the “ubermensch” theme, where YOU can help us shape the event and share resources, and view some selected media bits. ~~~~ … < 03-04.06 > Digital Bauhaus Summit 2016 Luxury Communism, Weimar Features a mighty group of Left-brained speakers, incl. Bruce […]

… < May 18 > CiTiZEN KiNO #53: Technospheres and Exit Strategies, at Spektrum-Berlin, 20:00h … A titanpad for collecting resources + media links … the frackbook invite … … :-x-: “TECHNOSPHERE (s)“ … A curious + controversial new-ish term – (1960s; earliest use found in Science ) which attempts to describe a human-made “novel ecosystem” ( see wikipedia ) which […]

… There’s probably no better place to be contemplating and writing about the various inputs of the last days then at the 10th Re:publica #rpTEN… The volatile and sublime stew of multi-purposed ingredients cooking in our brains, as we sit in a corner of The Networking Lounge … cozy … equipped w/ 1st coffee of the day… […]

… ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~~ … It’s springtime, and XLterrestrials are on the move… We are currently booking upcoming CiTiZEN KiNO shows – cinema hacking, psychomedia analysis + tactical interventions, a live performance. AND dj Podinski, Podmosis and Podopo are also available, bringing along the Globalista Radio Kits ( XLT archives, i.e. some of the most diverse and engaged collection […]

|—- | —-| ” Technospheres, you’re soaking in them ! ” XLt analyst [ { V.1 } and { V.2 } on the theme ] | —-|—- | An upcoming XLterrestrials public analysis event : < May 18 > The XLt Guide to Technospheres + Exit Strategies, at Spektrum Berlin – 20:00h An evening of cinema hacking + media navigations + […]

.:. .:. work-in-progress … See v.1 for HKW links and seminar curriculum … An Intro to the XLterrestrials Analysis Following 9 days of a trans-disciplinary seminar at HKW on the theme – Technosphere – which was a follow-up from a similarly-framed curriculum in 2014 on Anthropocene – one could easily feel overwhelmed by the immense challenges, and left to float in a […]

~:~ Life and Death In The Technospheres About the Technosphere Project ( 2015-2018 ) at HKW work-in-progress We are currently researching at the HKW in Berlin, where a series of public exhbitions ( and a closed group seminar this week ) are taking place on their new curatorial focus – the Technosphere. The curriculum resources are available online […]

… A user’s manual for the Unicorn Apocalypse coming soon ! Note: We are currently exploring the idea to make this explosive story a “subscriber only” article… b/c nothing’s free forever, right ?! Freelance slavery is not forever, is it ?!

0—-O—-O < 30.3.2016 > CiTiZEN KiNO #52: Mysteries of the Radical Organisms, Spektrum Berlin A hybrid of cinema hacking, tactical new media, performance, forum and fertile resistance ! … Our TitanPad for collecting media bits and ideas for Ck#52. ( many viewable clips already listed ) … Key Words: Biopolitics / Gentech / Chinese sperm / Dusan Makavejev / Mysteries of the organism / Wilhelm Reich / Arundhati Roy / David Lynch / Womb Envy / Sexuality / A.I + Robots / Green Scare + Green Revolution / Ecocide / planetary habitat / Mind-Body-Spirit / Feminism / Matriarchy / Patriarchy / Post-Fordism / Extrastatecraft / Noetic Sciences …

“We need to have a serious chat about DEMOCRACY ! … There isn’t one ! “ XLterrestrial analyst Plan A + Plan B-ERNIE As we were hunting for an image to lead the story on this dramatic global-scale election for who will take the role as Commander In Chief of the US Empire State, we thought to do […]

[[[[[ [} }[ {] }{ {] ][ {} ]]]] And what if the internet is not recuperable … in its krapitalist incarnation ?! #logancij16 A question XLterrestrials have wished to pose for some time now to various players in the current digital culture “exodus”… i.e. for anyone who has access to read this now. As we develop this […]

:<>: :<>: :<>: :<>: :<>: :<>: Our initial preview of the CIJ2016 Logan Symposium is here. work-in-progress Many inspiring tales to take from The Logan Symposium, which brought together journalists, activists, hackers, technical specialists and citizens aiming together to Challenge Power ! The theme of the event brought into sharp focus the multi-layered aspects which are endangering the space for democracies and a free press to evolve around the globe. … Not surprising, given all the changes in media brought on by digital environments, many sessions were dedicated to the new tools in the arsenal today for investigative journalism.

<> <> <> Coming soon ! < 10 March – 9 May 2016 > NERVOUS SYSTEMS: QUANTIFIED LIFE AND THE SOCIAL QUESTION is an exhibition by Haus der Kulturen der Welt ( HKW) in collaboration with the Tactical Technology Collective, co-curated by Stephanie Hankey, Marek Tuszynski and Anselm Franke. ( Note : Opening event in March 10th. ) Watch the Trailer Here at the TTC page XLterrestrials are really excited to see what happens and what results may occur from this exhibition.

+ … So maybe now you’re starting to wonder what all this new A.I. “Space Race” is about… We don’t know about you, but our newsfeed is flooded with items about ROBOTS ! And THINKING Robots ! Well, some of our XLterrestrial analysts have started wondering what’s going on – you know, the big picture ! Especially after watching this video… A NOVA / PBS clip about the work of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer - Research Director at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation and head of the Inria and Ensta-ParisTech (FLOWERS) team …

~~~~~~ Looking in search engines for an image of “unchartered waters” unveils a predominantly hideous eye-gouging collection of cheap graphic designs for a popular corporate game product. Interesting and disturbing how this title in the net world could render all other meanings of the phrase as secondary or insignificant. … … One might imagine these infantile + torturous game images being projected on the dingy wall of some Abu-Ghraib-like secret prison on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, where some poor art professor strapped to a chair is being forced to denounce his fellow resistance comrades for teaching traditional skills in a New Media recruitment college.

{{{{ }}}}} < 17.02 > CiTiZEN KiNO #51: Unmapping Existence + Unchartered Waters at Spektrum, Berlin, 20:00h The frackbook invite The C-kino #51 Titan Pad for sharing ideas, media + resources … In part, a response to both the tsunami of metadata-like introspection of “conversation pieces” at Transmediale * and the coming 2 weeks of shrinkwrapped spectacles and celebrity-itis of the Berlinale Festival, we will attempt to use C-KINO #51 to go beyond the screens, the cozy discourse and analytical lenses with pragmatic art attacks !

+ + + + Amazing debates were already unfolding around the initiative to form a new Democracy in Europe Movement – DIEM25 ( and the Manifesto ) on Monday in Berlin … A roundtable discussion w/ Talk Real – with Yanis Varoufakis, Marisa Matias, S. Sierakowski, V. Orazzini, Lorenzo Marsili … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc1vMTTfaQc … skip to VID START: 19m:38s - “Enjoy” and/or pull your hair out, but by all means … pay attention ! ” Today, we feel trapped between a rock and a hard place.

If one could say it one image… No time yet to write down all our impressions of Transmediale 2016 so far… a little overwhelmed by all the insights and the entangled festival formats … 1.5 more days of programming and workshops …. stay tune … the XLterrestrials will attempt to analyze all the straaange, unsettling and/or inspired trails we’ve managed to absorb … While we’re processing all the #TM16 threads… Anxious To Act, Anxious to Share, Anxious to Make, Anxious to Secure, etc…

{ image for Transmediale Vorspiel 2016 * } |.|.| < FEb 3-7 > Transmediale 2016, HKW in Berlin .|.|.|. v.1: Faustian Shadows + Conversation Desserts ( desserts or deserts? … guess it depends on who you’re talking to, and whose picking up the tab ) XLterresrials are pouring over the Transmediale 2016 catalogue program for this years ” Conversation Piece ” […]

+++ < Jan-27 > CiTiZEN KiNO #50, the art festival corpse, at Spektrum for Transmediale ( Vorspiel ), Berlin (And the frackbook invite here ) AND: If you wish to contribute to discussions and collecting materials for this analysis, visit our TitanPad page here ! +++ +++ Dear arts and praxis friends, Hope this finds you all in feisty creative spirits ! Kind […]

XLterrestrials Arts+Praxis Picks [ [[[ || ]]] ] … < Jan 28 – 31 > Globale 2016 – Grassroots + Collective doc fest, Moviemento in Berlin After a couple? years hiatus, Globale is BACK in Berlin, at one of the best cinemas in town… the Real Stuff for engaged citizens … no spectacle prancers here ! Support it, […]

… Much to report back … work in progress !