Between all the content and all the critique and all the performativity and transmediality, between the comfort and discomfort, the noise and the tension, two experiences may serve very well to illustrate Transmediale festival 2018 in Berlin. One would be Jonathan Beller trying to recuperate the blockchain euphoria from the capitalist tech bros in the…
Nicolas Moulin – Vider Paris, 2001 (via) The situationist idea to let old city structures like the labyrinths of Amsterdam grow into superstructures across the whole planet with psychogeographic zones according to the needs of the inhabitants (titled “New Babylon”) was defeated by european cities being a collage of old and new. The old often…
The announcement of this sunday’s Europool event by Creamcake provides insights into culture politics and funding terminology related to the cultural sector of Berlin today. Creamcake is a popular party series that has taken place in Südblock and later Ohm, featuring musicians connected to the digital sphere, which also has organised an art festival last…
Some bits and pieces from this text in Shades Magazine: Artistic value in digital communication On the one hand it doesn’t matter in what spaces exactly youth wastes itself. But what activities youth is engaging with does matter, in case one attributes still hope to it. standardization of life through rankings of experience in a…
“Human emotion or it didn’t happen” (NewHive) The Wrong Biennale is a biennale taking place online. Websites are the pavilions. But the spatial and temporal concept of a biennale does not fit the digital realm. Even if exactly this contradiction is what is played out here, I am still unconvinced. Does the vast space of…
For DIS Magazine, Rob Horning reflects in Fear of Content on content online in relation to the content of artworks in Susan Sontags essay “Against Interpretation”: Sontag thought that “to interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world,” but the pox of internet content overwhelms by demanding too little of the intellect, by not having enough…
Remember when all the hip art students were suddenly carrying around french insurrectionist literature by the Invisible Committee and Tiqqun? One could guess it was over in 2010, after that Fox news commercial (insurrectionism became mainstream?), all we can say is, that on the surface only some ironic ripples were left online. Netartists on dump.fm…
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This message is for those who didn’t manage to get or even couldn’t afford a ticket to fusion but still wondering how to kill some time this weekend. 48 hours Neukolln is an other shit which is taking place tomorrow and Saturday in Berlin. Two days of different exhibitions, parties and outdoor events perhaps will…
We have received the following news from Budapest concerning a new film which deals with the life of gay men in Hungary during the times of the state capitalist regime (eastern block)…. How did gay men live during the communist era in the heart of Central Europe? Is it true that the subculture flourished from…
30 minutes video of a Protektorama Performance:
Richard Linklater’s «Before Midnight» will open next Tuesday (june 11th) the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival at Cine Thisio, the best movie theater in the world, according to CNN. The festival returns for a third year with outdoor film screenings and cultural events from June to September, events will be held in the city’s…
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