The telematic progress revisited. under construction> In the telematic age, more is less. Less you, less me, less we and oh-so-plenty of progress + oblivion + disembodiment ahead “In the mid 21st century the communications frontier would be pushed back for good. Now the human element was perceived as static in the data transmission. My presence was simulated by synthesizing my voice. The less I was there, the more I could be imagined. I would join the sirens of silence.

A seasoned alternative pathmaker, Chris Carlsson’s latest book NOWTOPIA has been on the shelf for about a month and will be on a Pacific coast tour through the summer with Russell Howze’s brand new foray into the publishing world ( though already a longtime chronicler and comrade of the street art worlds, i.e. stencilarchive.org ), STENCIL NATION on Manic D Press. Check the full tour schedules at sites above. And if you’re in San Fran on June 6th, don’t miss the sure-to-be-a-Blast street art show and SN book launch at Cafe Revolution.

++ liebe art Organisms and friends of the XL terrestrials ++ This might be our last show in Austria for awhile… so come join the fun !!! +++ [[ And RARE chance to pik up some Podinski CD samplers; HELP SUPPORT the XL Terrestrials GET HOME : ]] Mittwoch – 28.5.08 ::: Podinski’s Psychotronic Ostblok + Russian Frisco party ::: Soho in Ottakring – @ Ragnarhof – Grundsteingasse 12 Freie Entritt ab 21:00h 2008/05/15a.jpg 2008/05/tnso.thumbnail.jpg dj Podinski (XL terrestrials – San Francisco/Berlin) und Überraschungsgast

Global Security Alliance presents World Security Days May 25-30 in Vienna with Konrad Becker, Eva Horn, Brian Holmes… Films from Critical Art Ensemble, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Kuda and much more. Story coming soon! _ _ _ _ Excerpts from the article : “Extraterrestrial Biopolitics and Creative Industries Security “ : “Global media and business networks create a planetary environment for geopolitical experimentation with global parameters of life – and death. The “Grand Chessboard” of the geo-strategic world has expanded to outer space and inner space.

Our next XLT shows are a collaboration with the 10th year of Soho Festival In Ottakring, the Ragnarhof gallery/venue, and our special guests Beta_test, the experimental group whose lab we are currently writing from, where Sonance ( a bit like a collective Laughing Squid arts+culture service provider) meets every Wednesday and the […]

Fran Ilich | Telenovelas als Instrumente der Existenz und des Widerstands “Telenovelas as Instruments of existence and resistance” presentation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2nite! Datum | 14.05.2008, 19.00 h Venue | Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Lehárgasse 8, 1060 Wien, Computerlabor, Atelier Nord im 1. OG Vortrag in englischer […]

WORLD-EX-POSITION 08 – an XLT world premiere @ Labfactory, Praterstrasse 42, 2nd district, Wien THE TRANSMIGRATION OF THE TELEPRESENT [ May 10, Live Stream - And Chat - Here : 21:00 CET ] 10-05-2008: 20:00 CET doors open 21:00 CET performance (+ stream) begin 00:00 CET skype performance(s) with Press/Play in Detroit Admission FREE The XL Terrestrials present ‘TRANSMIGRATION OF THE TELEPRESENT’ Moderation: Dr. Podinski + […]

Beware : The following entry contains organic and volatile ingredients that may corrupt your distorted picture, and should not be viewed without your poetic and physical seat-belts unfastened. Warning: XLT is and is NOT responsible for any heretical juxtapositions and/or jouissance recreated by the reader. Any bodies that may slip through the cracks cannot be […]

“And what do you do on May 2nd?” We have a few XL Terrestrial ideas of course, coming shortly. 2008/05/maygarden.jpg

“abolition of alienated work” … and the avatars unplugged are dancing in the streets ! ??

Live Stream 30.4 from> LABfactory < in Vienna, start:21:30h CET April 30, Dr. Richard Barbrook lands at the World-Ex-Position to bring his deep analysis of the last half-century’s HISTORY Of The FUTURE and the information society’s prophecies of our future… which may describe our fucked up present better than our currently fucked up dreams for the […]

SuperdruzbaR für Tanzbärchen Samstag 26.04.08 ab 22 Uhr in der NewYorck59 Am Mariannenplatz 2 (Bethanien – Südflügel) ( Dj Podinski spins a psychcotronic ostblok set, and many more special guests! ) For a little taste of history about Kreuzberg and the Mariannenplatz a Ton Steine Scherben song always does the trick. Here’s a mix by Empi with […]

World-Ex-Position O8 begins 25.5 in Vienna Two art spaces, LABfactory and Open Space, in Vienna’s 2nd district -Leopoldstadt, will have parallel openings 2morrw nite, with a film/ performance/lecture “My First Burial” by Sister 0 , “I was a teenage pornstar” film by Jessie Darlin, music by Shazalakazoo and Djane White Girl, and all moderated by curator […]

The XL Terrestrials have convened in a secret meeting and have made their call for the 2008 Summer Of Cruel Love: Kill Your Avatars*, Love Thy Neighbor… And the machines, they will lie alone together in a bloody parasitic pool of simulated love and hate, code and unconsummated loops ( the Eternal Return to sender) ! Could it be that the most beautiful violence would not shed a drop of blood, but like the true acts of engagement that shake the embodied worlds with innermost tremors and most transforming bliss be no less real !

Report of the 1st Transmigration Of The Telepresent test drop coming soon. We haven’t had time to do a full report, but the the ToT test drop at the Buko conference last weekend was a grand experiment, with incredibly revealing and charged results. We are still working on our new paper/tract entitled: Watts vs. Clarke*, […]