… < 24.4 > CiTiZEN KiNO #37 : “X-Filet” at Panke, Berlin – 21:00h < 03.5 > CiTiZEN KiNO #37 : “X-Filet v.2″ – 1st time in Leipzig ! … at the Autodidaktische Initiative, ( Georg-Schwarz-str. 19 ), 20:00h … Calling all CiTiZENs ! Help shape the next C-KiNO… Join us on the Pirate Pad, help assemble our themes, […]

… Last night we went with an open mind to check out what author Charles Eisenstein had to say ( currently on a short Germany tour ) … In general, we like his idea of ‘amateur economists’ and Sacred Economics ( the title of one of his books ), primarily because the language of academic or professional […]

+ + + So much to cover + communicate … from the Berliner Gazette’s Komplizen conference ( part 2 ), the Heartbleed BUG and the internet meltdown, to the IPCC Climate Change meeting going on Right Now in Berlin, and Nafeez Ahmed’s take on the leaked report … to the Oranienplatz Refugee Camp being plucked apart by […]

… Today begins the Wave Of Action ! And XLterrestrials are joining ! An incredibly articulate and flexible call to action which appears to bring together a variety of already existing ideas/forces/movements like Occupy, Anonymous, a variety of environmental + hactivist forms, Global Spring revolutionaries, etc etc… and poeticly and pertinently beginning on the day that Martin […]

… < 27.03 > CiTiZEN KiNO #36: Is This The End Of The Art World ?! at Panke, Berlin Program begins at 21:00h. ( Fedbook invite here ) Another round of perceptual assaults and DE-mediations, we’ll examine the transmigration of the artists at the edge of dying empires. CiTiZEN KiNO is an experimental format for hacking our mediated lives !… […]

… < 11.3.14 > 3 UgLy Years of Fukushima… events in Berlin and Beyond… -:1:- < 8.3.14 >Kazaguruma Demo – Brandenburger Tor -(past) :2:- Continuity and Change artists+ specialists in discussion at Ausland -:3:- Fukushima the aftermath art event ( fbook invite) -:4:- “Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin” at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien ( Fbook invite for discussion, […]

… { Snowden on The Daily Show / Stafford Beer’s cybernetics, an XLt remix * } … Let’s not mince words, what Edward Snowden has done to help society out of the dark Labyrinth made by a cybernetic regime dream, and caught with its bloody hands in the global cookie jar, is HEROIC ! And to be handed […]

… … … … … Take a bike dérive in your town today ! … Note on #4: Not an active train…. a little time warp side-of-the-road ‘museum’ … it’s parked…. And of course the foto doesn’t do justice to the full futuro majestic surreality … it’s BRD , West Germany 1980s ? we think. Correction, that’s DDR … “The historic DMU VT 18.16 […]

{ in Jodhpur } … Look ! It’s time to get fed up, it’s time to be outraged, it’s time to be inspired, time to get over all those measly hurdles, and put your skills into action to change the world NOW ! … Yeah. Jodhpur?, looks nice and exotic eh? Well if you’re planning on making a long […]

… 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: […]