{ PKd’s Electric Sheep, Japanese Cover } < 16.03 > In collaboration with the MindPirates‘ ( + the Vereinsheim ) weekly film program – this month is sci-fi themed “Into The Future” , this Weds. following the screening of BLADE RUNNER, Dr. Podinski of CITiZEN KiNO presents : Electric Sheep REvisited - a mixed-media presentation on 3 decades of PK Dick + Hollywood-made Replicants in a toxic upstream culture. Including previews […]

… “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” ~Albert Einstein … Note: this is NOT Hiroshima, and NOT the Fukushima nuclear facility, it’s an image of a burning oil refinery […]

… … What’s On Spock’s Scanner , Part 1 … from Black Moon productions Perhaps the one of the best psychomedia analysis pieces we’ve come across lately which hits home what the Web 2.o Plague is all about. Life in a leisure Panopticon doomsday machine! Just one of the clips we’ll be discussing in our collaboration w/ the Mindpirates: < […]

{ please do not be alarmed… thx to Michail at Dense Berlin for image } … < 25. 2 > Dr. Podinksi + the XLT present CiTiZEN KiNO #6 : “If not mutants, then who? ” psychomedia analysis at Filmkunst im Roderich. Glogauerstr. 19, Kruezberg. 20:00h , 3euros … Once a month, XLterrestrials present LIVE Media Interventions at Filmkunst im […]

+++ For CiTiZEN KiNO info + booking, contact the XLterrestrials : podinski (at) mailbox (dot) org +++ … XLterrestrials present **CiTiZEN KiNO** This is Not another program for more media consumption, Not another downloading of hypnotic bits in a deluge of irrealities. This is A DECLARATION OF MEDIA SELF-DEFENSE ! CiTiZEN KiNO is a (touring) film, internet and theater hybrid. We screen a rare collection of art films, tactical media, and a fresh harvest of the planet’s strangest and/or most relevant digital behaviors ( from the net ).

… < 25. 2 > Dr. Podinksi + the XLT present CiTiZEN KiNO #6 : “Berlinale Festival Decompression” + psychomedia analysis at Filmkunst im Roderich. Glogauerstr. 19, Kruezberg. 20:00h , 3euros … more info coming soon ! Meanwhile: … { Society Of Spectacle in 3d by Pascual Sisto } + - under construction - We attended a Berlinale Film Festival / […]

{ Honf, TM.11 award winners from Indonesia } Transmediale.11 Response : Ability an XLT Psychomedia Analysis coming soon ! A few things that were going on this week that we couldn’t help but tie into our thoughts + actions as we processed all the immensely confounding Transmediale.11 (festival for art + digital culture) inputs: The Maghreb Revolt […]

{ Future Replicant Cultures } … Added : Next CiTiZEN KiNO #5 at C-Base, feb. 3 !! < 03.02.11 > DISMALWARE : Toxics, Surveillance, Exploitation, Oh My ! A deep scan by monochrom and Telekommunisten, with an xtra-unplugged XLterrestrials CiTiZEN KiNO … and many special guests + a special article / investigative report coming soon! Replicant Culture, Enjoy! On P.K. Dick […]

{ Fuzzy Piano Trips al a Dr. Seuss } < 16.1 > GRAND PIANO SANCTIFICATION! 16 ARTISTS! at Filmkunst Cafe in Xberg, 17:30h ‘Doc’ Pushkin’s 5000 Fingers! Ok, not exactly 5ooo, BUt Sasha Pushkin curates 16 guest artists to launch the new grand piano at the Filmkunst Cafe !! That’s 160 fingers… from Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Ivory […]

{ Danny Boon as Bazil fantasizing revenge in Jeunet’s MicMacs } In Jean Jeunet’s most recent masterpiece MicMacs, Danny Boon plays Bazil, a videoteque clerk/everyman who is the random victim of a stray bullet fired by some gun-toting gangs in the middle of the night. Lodged in his brain, it can’t be removed without rendering him […]

{ zeros, ones, and true blood in the hood } On Christmas Eve, a truck and some hooded bureaucrats arrived to our friends’ shop, and said they would be taking all their DVDs with them, until the proprietors provided the records of everything they have sold over X# years. The shop called Pigasus in Torstr. 62 sells eclectic cultural artifacts from eastern Europe, mostly Poland, found nowhere else in the city, nor just about anywhere else in the world. One day some weeks ago they received an email, that Philips has a (file/codex) patent on certain?

Update : Due to technical malfunctions at C-base (of all places ), XLterrestrials Citizen Kino (#3) has been postponed until Weds. < 29. 12 > 23:00 h, see C-base link for location details. … { 27C3 } XLt reports coming soon… Meanwhile, schedule, streams and Peace Missions /”Third Places” : http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Welcome http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Peace_Missions Live Streams : http://27c3.fem-net.de/ Added: Rop Gonggri Keynote Address ( as txt ) Sure there will be full a/v archives we can link to soon, and we’ll begin to analyze things tomorrow, but we’ll mention one talk today that was absolutely IMPRESSIVE : A Critical Overview of 10 years of Privacy Enhancing Technologies by Seda

The XLterrestrials sent out a newsletter earlier this week wishing all our readers and arts + praxis friends an inspired year ahead. If you are not on our mailing list and would like to be, contact us. And if you would like to know about our NEW SUBSCRIBER GIFTS, which will help us fund our latest media education projects, it’s all here in the previous podopolog post. … { the calculus of ricochet anarchy } Leaking Wounds, But Not Ours

… { the red-haired Moon, full lunar eclipse } … DEAREST ARTS + PRAXIS FRIENDS, Wishing you all a beautiful full moon winter solstice + lunar eclipse, and rejuvenating holidays to provide a mighty big bucketload of inspiring ideas + actions for the new year! We feel truly honored to have crossed paths with so many Deep Thinking + Wildly Creating people this year! Keep it coming, comrades ! This Planet needs you Big Time ! the XLterrestrials … THE XLT NEWSLETTER v.

{ Anon + Subgenius aesthetics – NSA = EUREKA! } CountCrackulous’s Channel, yummy, better than a sex scandal and the ensuing feminist confusion ( ourselves included ) !? You decide. Watch Here And props to Anonymous sound designers… at 3:13, finally we can appreciate John Williams in his cheeseburger Wagnerian epicness. And no offense meant to the seriousness […]