{ TPB AFK, 2013 } Berlinale v.3… … Well our cynicsm can only go so far, and with the bitter cold, what else is there to do, but suck down some over-mediation, a little SOMA time, and maybe even some juicy bits from the frontlines of the cultural resistance…. Transmediale v.6… Sadly this film – TPB AFK – wasn’t being […]

{ performance art by Soren Dahlgaard (DK) via Kay Eske… thx } … It’s Berlinale time again… and we’re already thoroughly annoyed ! We’ve been pondering presenting our sorta-annual Leni Riefenstahl award(s) at the next CiTiZEN KiNO event (TBA). But well, Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty isn’t playing at the festival and is so obvious that it has brought […]

{ found on the web, no artist attributed, thx Hernan } … XLterrestrials on Transmediale Festival 2013 in Berlin continues… See v.1 and v.2 + 3 and v.4 … our previous plogs … recommended to start there if your’re just tuning in. … XLt on BWPWAP v.5 : Transmediated like KFC Clockwork … While XLt dives exuberantly into deconstruction, auseinandersetzung, rants […]

{ TM 2013, click on the images above to see larger } … So our coverage of the Transmediale Festvial continues… See v.1 and v.2 + 3 in previous plogs … … XLt on BWPWAP – v.4 : Another Pluto is Poseable … Disposable… Possessed… ? … Our final analysis is under construction… But below are some quick sketches […]

{ “pluto to earth, pluto to earth! can you hear us ?! ” } XLt analyzes the Transmediale 2013 – BWPWAP [ part 1 -intro = resources are here ] We are working within a very visual medium, so we picked the image above which we had gathered for our latest CiTiZEN KINO performances of “20th Century Fix”… […]

… { XLt examines “Back When Pluto Was A Planet”} … XLterrestrials will be doing our usual Transmediale Festival analysis, cause… well… we haven’t yet been able to escape to a tropical island…i.e. where the lemurs live, and fewer anthropocene-sters roam. And we instead have a knaack for finding ourselves … in the vortex … of cold germanic, […]

… For Transmediale’s Vorspiel / Re:source program: < 25.01.13 > CitiZen Kino : “20th Century Fix, social media for social bodies is retro-hackable “ 2o:30h at Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin + Afterparty w/ lovely, roaring line-up, Djs/Vjs/Xjs : shellac Dj Topher Rose ( Salon Obskur ), Mini Matika ( Zentrale Randlage, Kunst Kacke Soundsystem), dr. Podinski ( XLt, Badehaus […]

{ Still in the Ecuadorian embassy ! … } … “If Hollywood’s calling, it can’t be good news!” PK Dick … An XLterrestrial analyst responds to Steven Spielberg + Dreamworks making a new Hollywank on Wikileaks, based on Daniel Domscheidt Berg’s critical book on Assange, w/ assistance by the 4th-estate lackey David Leigh from Guardian UK, […]

… the full text here We’ll come back to analyze and post more resources… many great tributes and analysis from Glenn Greenwald, Lessig, Gabriella Coleman, etc… Meanwhile… Mitch Altman, co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, will be on Off The Hook radio with Emmanuel Goldstein on Wednesday, 7pm EST. This week’s show will be all about Aaron Schwartz, […]

{Amazon old-growth rainforest conservation } The XLterrestrials had a rough year, and we read accounts of many others who struggled through some heavy times… But we thought it would be a good start for 2013 to look at what we did right ! And the VICTORIES in 2012 ! So we’re assembling them here… and if […]

{ paranoia warp factor } … Ever since the XLterrestrials have been attending the Chaos Communications Congresses, we’ve had our numerous critiques (and our paranoias well-greased). One XLt angle has often been that those within the IT and coder scenes don’t have or make a clear assessment about the big picture, i.e. who exactly is empowered by […]

… < 21.12.12 > Citizen Kino (#20): Ahpookalypso, the end of the low-grade world, and a beginning of higher consciousness… at the incredible Panke ( also on FBook ) in Wedding. 17:ooh Doors + Soup ( Voku ), 18:30h C-Kino show. “ 2012, Mayan culture is still here. The end of western civilization began with mass media […]

… NEW PROJECTS PAGE - – - Under Construction – - - … Upcoming dates + projects which could use your support: 25.07.13 - Citizen Kino #27 - and every Last Thursday of the month at Panke venue - Berlin 12.09.13 - Citizen Kino’s Dr Podinski, guest speaker for Transmediale’s reSource 006 event and open debate, venue TBA. 12-15.08.13 Citizen Kino presents… ( tentative ) at MM Kamp + Putujuci slobodni radio, Croatia http://mmkamp.gentlejunk.net/2013/07/01/geodesic-dome-workshop/ + every tues. night dj/vj/xj Podinski

{ L’Incal by Jodo and Moebius } News hits the webstreets that the psychomagician himself is coming to Berlin in Feb for Transmediale Festival … Jodorowsky “will discuss his epic sci-fi comics oeuvre L’Incal, originally conceived with the artist Moebius in the late 1970’s. The conversation with Jodorowsky will be followed by a sci-fi […]

Coming Soon ! … work-in-progress … In the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), the lead character – Bart Collins – is trapped at the surreal Terwilliker Institute, where the piano teacher is now a madman dictator who has imprisoned non-piano-playing musicians. There DR. T. has constructed […]