… < 07.03 > CiTiZEN KiNO presents “Electric Sheep Revisited” Wednesday, March 7th at TheaterKapelle, Boxhagenerstr. 99 – Berlin, 21:00h, 5€ [ the Fedbook invite here. ] [ Added Note: Great ‘afterparty’ concert downstairs at Knochenbox w/ Budzillus, ANd we are able to stay upstairs in the kapelle until late, so stick around, discuss the show, and drink all your replicant troubles away.] … CiTiZEN KiNO is a LIVE mix of Theater, Film and The Net which sets the stage for you to take over the controls in the media sanitorium !

{ David Gelernter in Berlin’s Renaissance Theater } Foto comes from a report by Dr. Wolf Siegert at Iris Media, (auf De) with a deep index of links. … We’ve written about the effects of the IT landscape + culture as a “Virtual Migration” for a number of years. After listening to David Gelernter’s talk on the weekend […]

… Without having seen many films this year at the 62nd Berlinale, our brief glimpses into the sausage-making of the grand entertainment industry had us muttering all kinds of cynical and barbed attacks upon the red-carpeted Spectacle machine. But today, we were reminded that as far as film industry festivals go, Berlinale has to rank as […]

{ Schokoladen / Club der polnischen Versager /Artists / Homies face eviction ! } … : Schokoladen is Saved ! berliner zeitung article , extraordinary news ! … < 22.02 > Räumung zu verhindern!!! Stop the eviction !!! Schokoladen Stays ! Everyone’s invited for breakfast/actions on feb 22. Come by, at the latest 8:00h, weds. morning to show your […]

Coming Soon, in the not-too-distant reality/future: … … < 07.03 > Citizen Kino #14: Electric Sheep Revisted at TheaterKapelle, Berlin. 21:00h ” Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world. Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized […]

… Let’s see how real the art sector can get ! … < 03.02 > Transmediale Conference: Anonymous Codes: Disruption, Virality and the Lulz,Panel with Jacob Appelbaum (us), Gabriella Coleman (us), Dana Buchzik (de) and anonymous , Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de), Chaired by Krystian Woznicki (de/pl) :: 14h, at HdKW, Berlin ( also live streams for those on […]

{ “The ATM Trek and lost civilizations” by Podrescu } … An XLTerrestrials’ “Kickstarter”: We are in the midst of producing a roaring new CiTiZEN KiNO show (and global tour)… as usual to save the world, and to eat … cake … If you would like to be a co-sponsor, co-producer or merely invest in “the most inventive […]

{ taken from deBug’s intro to Transmediale 2012, w/ Ubermorgen : PsychOS } … < 31.01- 05.02> Transmediale’s 25th festival In/Compatible, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and around Berlin. For anyone who likes to gorge on a countercultural feast, this year’s Transmediale has stuffed the house with a smorgasbord, a veritable whos who of indignados in […]

{ Schokoladen in Ackerstr., under threat of eviction. } Notes On… The Work of Art in the Age of The Digital Replicant v.1 ( work-in-progress ) … To begin, many thanks to Chaos Clubbers, Telekommunisten, Interflugs… and the Mindpirates programmers, for illuminating Many things last night! … Dear Mindpirates: ” Great atmosphere last night ! So glad to see someone setting up extended family, lush living room jam session nites … like slow food for the ears and mind/body-belly. We had just come from an intense, deeply Nerdy, Very political … but also ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY discussion on Netwrks + Free Culture set up by Interflugs – an autonomous students’ Org at UDK.

… { C-Kino Retrospex } … < 21.01.12 > more coming soon.

… Have you Heard?! The NET is ON A SOPA STRIKE ! Today, Jan 18th ! [ XLterrestrial analysts think this concept may need to be expanded for more than a day, but for now: try limiting yur use, and try and get a sense of what it would be like to not just have Free Communications, […]

{ 2012 : Year of the Water Dragon } … So much news flying at us, we’re going to throw up some things very quick and then fill out more info as soon as we can… 2012 is off to a fierce leap into new territories … … … < 11.01 > TONIGHT > Rauch Haus had a fire during […]

{ eric joyner’s ‘robots + donuts’ expertise, link below. } … work-in-progress Note: This was our preface piece, written the night before 28c3 began … and now we’re working on a 2ND musing, in response to the many inspiring insights gathered thus far. Cory Doctorow’s incredible talk the first night, has triggered many thoughts… and many concerns and […]

( CC+C , #27 ? } < 27.12 – 30.12 > 28C3 : Chaos Communications Congress : Behind Enemy Lines, BCC at Alexanderplatz, Berlin … :: RESOURCES + NEWS :: LIVE Streams : http://28c3.fem-net.de/ ( from anywhere : ) – Thx Fem-net !!! :: Twitter resources : #28c3 | @cbase | exiledsurfer | … :: CCC site, full 4-day schedule, speaker abstracts, etc. ( site currently down, see Mirror ) :: View with your friends in your town, follow remote locations here : #nonerdleftbehind

{ Cern } … { latest Banksy } … { evol jam } … Incredible stillness. The white hole in the sky reaches for 2133 and her (sterilized) holster. Art undoes the clothed essentialists and leaves em out to freeze overnight, while the artificial intelligentsia sucks this hairball of tactical bandit poetry. We slipped out long ago, Not in protest… like 2-d ducks at a shooting gallery. But to burn the […]