:: 11/12:: Tonight LOST FILM FESTIVAL at Subversiv ab 21h ____________________ :: This week Creative Commons will celebrate its 5 year anniversary at many locations around the world…i.e. at C-Base in Berlin. But perhaps higher up in the deconstruction of the food chain, the Berlin finale of The Oil of the 21st Century ( there will be […]

Last night we received a precious tip that a special screening of Yüksel Yavuz’s new film Close Up Kurdistan was playing at the Hackescher Hofe Kino, with the whole crew in attendance. An intense, powerful, and intricately woven documentary which connects Yuksel’s own personal story of immigration (to Germany) and the current situation of the […]

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A few dates to sharpie into your calendar : ) :: 29.11.07 :: TONIGHT at Mudd Club, Nomad Sound System with a bundle of friends, including the live debut of Spark ( Shazam and Adamatics from NYc, Peghini Trio, Mohak (Global Mestizo Sounds), and Selectress Nisha (Club India)… Also playing :: 1.12.07 :: at Podium Mozaiek […]

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If you are a wide-scoped and socially engaged artist already wary and/or already taking aim at the specimen harvesting of new media and the science-infused art industry for their refined Spectacle lubricants, a conference about the histories of technology, science, the humanities, and art is treading a treacherously thin and grease-splattered ice. And while Re:place, […]

We will only be catching the last day of Re:place Conference in Berlin. No chance to provide preview info here before travelling there, and no links to other blogs as yet, but the program is full of backround info, and a massive list of presenters, many of which were just here in Praha for Mutamorphosis.

While Mutamorphosis has been full of people with an inspiring wealth of knowledge and pioneering creative direction, the event as a whole struggled to grapple with the bigger picture of what art and science as a collaborative medium might become for our seriously challenged times. Ironically the one “Paper” that provided the most potent articulation of […]

We came imagining that we needed urgently to gather up all our arts + science limbs and muscles, hearts and brains, and Act Accordingly, and yes we need all that because the urgent necessities scream out all around us. We came imagining that the planet will require some collective interventions that must proceed immediately on […]

… Stelarc’s third ear Printing organs in the future?! Previous evening at the Kampa Museum… reading Leonardo… Frank Malina… Plenty to absorb and process from the first day of Mutamorphosis… analysis coming soon… meanwhile some highlights for Day 2: Plenary Speech: Vaclav Cilek – Climate as the Last Wilderness The Art & Climate Session: Beatriz da Costa: PigeonBlog: Interspecies Co-production in the Pursuit […]

Perhaps one of the most crucial aspects of looking both backward and forward at the paths of Frank J. Malina (1912-1981) is his unique pivotal turn from a brilliant scientist suddenly at the core of new military trajectories to establishing a journal and network for international cooperation and open communication between the arts and sciences. […]

The Mutamorphosis conference is an extraordinary convergence of artists and scientists coming together in Prague, Nov. 8-11, combining the 40th anniversary of Leonardo, and overlapping with the annual International Festival for Arts, Sciences, and Technologies – Enter3 – organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences. More than enough futurological themes to stretch your mind between […]

Opening yesterday at the MoCA in Los Angeles is an exhibition of Emory Douglas’ art made while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. Organized by Sam Durant, with the assistance of ** Alden and Mary Kimbrough** and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics the show features approximately 150 works and runs until Jan.20, 2008. An excerpt from the MoCA site: “With a firm understanding of the need to disseminate information and communicate the party’s agenda visually, Douglas’s bold illustrations and striking images spoke forcefully to a community ravaged by poverty, police brutality, and poor living conditions.

More critical art events to keep those adversarial worlds at bay and all our ports open for ingenuity and collective imagining : ++ From some of the compas who brought us Reboot FM, Rolux, and Pirate Cinema, a conference on “The Oil of the 21st Century” in Berlin. Opening event is Oct.18th with Jamie King, Alan Toner, and Sebastian Luetgert. Main events Oct.25-27 includes Volker Grassmuck from Wizards of OS, Pirate Bay (SE), Felix Stadler (CH) and many more. Sure to be many-a- left-hook from this convergence of liberated space pioneers!

Lots of news of things coming up just around the corner where XLt Organisms will be participating, covering, sporing, remxing, converting to Mass energy, formulating into art maps and praxis engagements, etc. etc. Note: we will be updating this entry through the weekend so check back to see what we’ve added. ++ THIS weekend at New College. Read more at Indybay.org ++ Mutamorphosis, Nov. 8-10 2007 in Prague, will be celebrating Leonardo’s 40th anniversary, as part of this CIANT and Enter3 festival which will be hosting the first retrospective of Frank J.