… < 31.10. > CiTiZEN KiNO #30 : Data Spooks & The Children of Teufelsberg … + + Afterparty w/ dj radio&fernseh (Lu) and dj Pod-Mo’tif (Xl)…at Panke in Wedding-Berlin … Cinema Hacking since 1984… Media arts geared to find the exits and the alternatives … before it’s too late ! Each C-Kino episode we research a Hot Topic […]

… Want to drown out the Hollywood/Disney/Touchstone shite version of “The 5th Estate”?! The real stuff is #Mediastan … watch it , spread it, viralize it ! Now out from Journeyman Pictures… … SUPPORT THEM ! RENT IT or BUY IT ! But if you must, here’s a youtube link to watch it in full ( while […]

… { NYC foto by Serge Semenov, click to enlarge! } … An article from David Byrne about saving NYC – “a vital cultural capital” succumbing to 1% plans + politics – is circulating in the newsfeeds… But someone needs to catch him, perhaps while he’s still floating about in Venice, and tell him New York is already […]

::: { a few new resources, links below } A small group of dedicated citizens met at Supermarkt venue in Wedding-Berlin to consider what kind of actions we – the general public – can take to address the crisis in Fukushima/Japan, which is one of the most severe and urgent crises facing humanity today. Such heavy considerations had […]

{ from a Gizmodo post presumably from 2011 } + > added > REPORTS from Fukushima Cafe (#2): see bottom. + … { Hoax?} Even if this map IS mis-used or mis-appropriated, which many on the net have attempted to point out… (we haven’t verified one way or the other). BUT it shouldn’t lessen the concern of radioactive materials spreading into […]

… …. ….. < 26.9. > CiTiZEN KiNO #29 : ” DIY Eco Gnomical ” is being assembled… At Panke in Berlin, begins at 21:00h. ” CiTiZEN KiNO is cinema hacking, prepare to be engaged ! It’s Gilliam meets The Yes Men meets Cypherfunkadelic, unlocking your theater seat. “ Anonymous Times. This episode features special guests- added: Carsten Lisecki ( […]

(+) (+) … Germany is in good hands…. caption translated from a Christian Democrat – CDU – electoral ad with Ms. Merkel’s favourite hand gesture. This giant billboard is beside the Hauptbanhof facing the Reichstag and Parliament buildings. Naturally the web’s had a heyday w/ the image, check here for the full barrel of laughs and a not-so-vague […]

{ Day of the Triffids, 2009, re-appropriated, hacked?, reverse engineered? * } … This weekend becomes Resource 006, the sixth in a series coordinated by Transmediale c0-curator Tatiana Bazzichelli. These are inbetween events that occur as a network extension/layer of the annual festival in January. Or perhaps as more than events, a fertile ground for … ?!! […]

… { Teufelsberg by night … like imagining Henry Kissinger inserting his entire 90 years of bloody Nobel flaccidness into your ear. } The Inverted Sex of The Spy Bots The dark irony should not be lost on the visitors of the abandoned NSA Teufelsberg Spy Station that when you climb the stairs to the top of […]

… { Image from from the Z machine in New Mexico – the largest X-ray generator in the world, designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. Scientism on course for global meltdown ? } … < 12-14.09 > reSource 006 : Overflow, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien + Mindpirates E.V., Berlin ” reSource transmedial culture berlin is the new year-round initiative of transmediale festival, in partnership with CTM/DISK, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and the Post-Media Lab (Leuphana University of Lüneburg).

… { Roger Water’s The Wall 1990, Berlin } … We Don’t Need No Sim-u-lation(s) … We Don’t Need No Pop Control ! Well this would have to be a deep, extensive essay to explain all the feelings that come up while thinking about the return of ‘Pink Floyd’s’ The Wall show , which is playing out at the […]

{ via Kay Eske } … SO XLterrestrials have just returned home from an extraordinary mission in The Balkans, so 1st things 1st, DON’T MISS OUR REPORT BACK + BALKANISTA afterparty at Panke – 29.08 – in Berlin… more below. Thx XLt Tail’s End Blurbs: … … < 29.08 > C-Kino #28.4, Panke in Berlin ( the FB Invite ) … + more info/contexts below ____ … < 30.08 > My Icon exhibition curated by Danielle De Picciotto at Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin ( FB invite ) … afterparty bits at Eschschloraque.

::: “The internet could now be clearly seen as one giant military/corporate app installed on your television-retinas.” XLt analyst in 2014 ::: CiTiZEN KiNO #28 : Geodesic Space-Time-Body < 12-15.08 > XLterrestrials + C-KiNO go to MMKamp in Croatia… < 21.08 > Mobile Art Dome Opening, Mursko Sredisce, Croatia – ( the Fb Invite) ) < 22.08 > C-KiNO #28.3 at Cafe Lavra, Varazdin, Croatia < 29.08 > C-Kino #28.4, Panke in Berlin ( the FB Invite ) ::: - CiTiZEN KiNO #28 v.

+ … < 25.07 > XLterrestrials present C-KiNO #27 at Panke E.V. in Wedding – Berlin. A hybrid of cinema, theater, media hacking and psychomagic. 20:00h voku / dinner 21:00h kino { the Fbook Invite } “As Lacan used to say about Big Data, it’s far more dangerous for man than the atom bomb. ” Evgeny Morozov … Nice one, but nevermind Lacan, we can psychoanalyze till we’re blue in the face. What we want to know is how to get outta here before the shit blows up !

… These difficult times are getting more difficult… And if there happen to be any citizens out there w/ a little or a lotta xtra cash on hand, and want to invest in planet-saving strategies … the XLterrestrials ‘kickstarter’ page is here, since c. 2006… contact info here. Why don’t we put up a real Kickstarter page ? Well, we aren’t totally against it, and you may see one from us eventually. But let’s face it, the media fixated and netted culture is in a number of (damaging) ways shaping and capturing our productivity yet again through these ( business?