{ 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 ).

… XLterrestrials are in Hamburg reporting from the #30C3. Learning curves are always high at the Chaos Congress, and so much going on that these reports will be very sporadic and on-the-fly… Btw, check for the live streams here, watch from wherever you are ! … AND we are also busy preparing our “B-side” shows, that are not officially […]

… < 26.12 > CiTiZEN KiNO #32+33 : Organisms vs. Automatons, at Panke. There’s a chili voku available, starting around 20h and films begin c.21:00h – Berlin … < 29/30.12 > CiTiZEN KiNO #32+33 : Organisms vs. Automatons, aboard the MS Stubnitz in Hamburg … time TBA … w/ special guests + AFTERPARTY, for the late-night fun after the CCC sessions. … the FEdbook invite is here, If yur so inclined. … Dear CiTiZEN KiNO and XLterrestrials friends, fans, and disturbed onlookers, we are urgently raising funds for some never-b4-tried experiments w/ cinema, the internet and YOu… Plz consider donating, so that we can bring some crucial analysis during the 30th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg … ANd for an upcoming ‘empire-state-side’ tour.

Organisms Vs Automatons “The deities of mechanical nature and reductionism science are dead !” – XLterrestrial analysts Nevermind throwing bricks through individual bank windows, or ousting one dictator-bot at a time ( only to be replaced by another bot ), when you can hack the shitty operating systems via the roots of the scientific models and constructs […]

{ CK#32 : work-in progress } … < 6-7.12 > Whatever Happened to Privacy? , a Boell conference at C-base, Mindpirates, and Boell Foundation. Some very important converstaions happening here: > “Whatever happened to Privacy?” brings together international activists on focal topics and combines bar camp style work sessions and political round tables with a classic public event. < … < 5-7.12 > Ma(n)chines at HKW , Berlin ( more coming soon ) … < 29/30.12 > XLterrestrials in Hamburg, more coming soon !

+ … < 28.11 > CiTiZEN KiNO #31 : I’m A Cyborg, And That’s NOT OK ! at Panke… see MORE HERE . ADDed: very special guest Serhat from 2/5BZ from Istanbul doing a Gozel Radio set. ( intermission and post-kino ). C-Kino begins 21:00h. ::: … < 6-7.12 > Whatever Happened to Privacy?, a Boell conference at C-base, Mindpirates, and […]

… < 28.11 > CiTiZEN KiNO #31: I’m A Cyborg, But That’s NOT OK ! … at Panke, Berlin Digital Occupation, colonialism of the Eye, Transhumanism, Man-made machine culture ad nauseum… deconstructed and reboot options provided! ! Riffing off the South Korean masterpiece comedy by Chan-wook Park … Resistance is feminine ! … It’s complicated ! … Visit […]

{ … part of cyberfest, on karl marx allee } < 14-17.11 > Cyberfest at Platoon, ComputerSpiel Musem, and Wye, Berlin Anything still calling itself “cyberfest” 2day should probably consider re-naming ! … XLt suggests ” 24-7, Up Your Cyberbunghole Showcase ! ” … But a huge list of participants, we suspect it could be mildly amusing. […]

… … < 07-09.11 > BerlinerGazette presents Complicity symposium the public talks (pdf ) > “Complicity” takes place in the congenial setting of the event space SUPERMARKT (Brunnenstr. 64). On November 7th and 8th there are three parallel Workshops around the conflicting pairs of pirates and capitalists, professionals and amateurs, programmers and (citizen) journalists. […]

… { still from Securiotic – via Films For Action } … work-in-progress ! … Last week, the XLterresrials presented our 30th episode of CiTiZEN KiNO – a tactical media format whereby we put the media onto the examination table, and analyze the messages ( and Hot current topics ) together with the audience. Our theme for the evening was […]