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while the wonderful spa is still oozing soothing vibes and good karma (and so wonderfully put together by everyone too!) –  people are falling apart or from the skies or just being smashed to pieces and that smell of burning crashes is drifting –
lets hope we will live through the summer without further accidents and accelerated violence
because after all you and I and everyone have to survive
for the new term if for no other reason
and these reasons are good, man.
 
The new term
Tblisi 1.-10.10
yep, blithely wasting all that nail paint income in Soviet era high rise buildings and the wine is terrific too. Contextual lectures offered by prodigious local volunteers. On 9th a screening and lecture programme at literature museum curated by Gago, I will come moderate or hold up slides or sthg. I also suggested a Hayastan Sharakian celebration excursion – lets see how this works out.
14.10 we can do elevator bitches and I have to say hello to new class members and exchange students and everyone + + + + +
On 24. 10 we are in Essen. We will probably be able to ship a lot of people on the fee you guys are getting and the ppl there are looking for accomodations. Gago, as soon as he recovers, hopefully, sort of, from Rundgang marathon will sort the programme and we´ll let you know further plans. Be there in the afternoon too if you can.
2.12, 13.1, 10.2 will be class meeting days morning to evening.
8 slots per day, book soon, I´ll be there.
14.10,28.10,11.11,25.11,9.12,20.1,3.2,24.2 selforganised tutorials. Kamil said he would moderate some of these, Gago and Boaz also. Volunteers to moderate sessions requested pls. Put your names down all dates on wiki.
In paralell to start of research project  “Language of Things” about alternate webs, material and infrastructural configurations we will have this wonderful weekly seminar hosted by Ana Texeiro Pinto, dates tbc. location 115.
Things that Talk* – Media, gender and fiction in contemporary art
We are at the verge of a new (the second) industrial revolution, which will equip daily objects and household appliances with virtual representations linked together into a network structure. By 2020 there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things. Will technology render us post-human by collapsing the distinction between “increasingly inert human bodies and increasingly energetic and inventive machines?”
Animation, as in computer graphics and 3D animation has been an ubiquitous tool in contemporary art (from Pierre  Huyghe and Philippe Parreno to Ed Atkins et al), but its meaning and genealogy seldom gets addressed outside of the narrow frame of media studies  –one would have to reach for the work of film theorists to be able to sketch a genealogy of animation as it is conspicuously absent from the writings of contemporary critics. In a sense one could see object oriented philosophy and speculative realism as unwittingly announcing this new ontology, but the dialectical entanglement between automation and animation has been there since the beginning of the industrial era, each representing a partial truth, a gendered concept and a political subject.
Techno-utopias are based on the belief that social progress is predicated on scientific and technological advancement; that technological innovation alone will suffice to bring an end to scarcity and social ills. But technology is a product of science as well as a product of fiction.
Cyborgs, clones or drones are technical devices as well as recurring cultural tropes, which produce and perpetuate gender identity and social difference. The irrational and the imaginary are not spontaneous, nor dissociated from the process of socialization. As Donna Haraway put it– “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.”
The present seminar will address media and technology from the perspective of science fiction, employing gothic horror, Afrofuturism or technoscience as tools for examining conceptions of gender and subjectivation across media and disciplines.
Preliminary Bibliography:
-Barbrook, Richard and Cameron, Andy The Californian Ideology, Mute, Issue n° 3, Autumn 1995
-Hayles, N. Catherine How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999),
-Haraway, Donna, “A Cyborg Manifesto – Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature New York; Routledge, (1991), pp.149-181.
-Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization, The MIT Press (2006)
-Galison, Peter The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 21, No. 1. (Autumn, 1994), 228-266.
-Shaviro, Stephen, Post Cinematic Affect, Zero Books (2010)
* “Things that Talk” is a reference to Lorraine Dalston’s book by the same name.
Also two workshops by hopefully soon to be hired and disclosed staff of research project on mesh webs and bitcoin for beginners. Think Freedom Tower and Ethereum, do we want to be governed by algorithm and how to scale alternets kind of thing.
Expect further surprises, hopefully not of the gut wrenching and soul wrecking kind again.
I have some nice ones for you anyways.
Esme and I waving bye bye.
 
 
 

rgb nails – massages – 3d work out elements – skinny bitch/fat sucker – house plants – protein bars – liquid energy – chi boosters – polygonize your abs! – feel your e-motions – lets work it out  – drag and drop – push and pull – scale your body.3ds
wireless orgone for free
lectures by: Josh Crowe, Till Wittwer, Kristof Trakal, Bruno Siegrist at 7pm sharp universal quantum time then fade into leisure and terrific well being with musical acts and color boosted substances – external and internal application – vigorously augmented realities –  first come first spa – plug in your pecs – whip your mesh layers into shape – lube your means of reproduction – incorporate and get tax breaks
become an in-corporate entity.
Delicious cakes and Protone Bars, accelerationist bullshit rehydration
make liposuction worth every cent!
Terrific works evenly distributed across UdK compound. Seek and enjoy!
 

sorry everyone I have to do exams this day – lets just start at 4pm and go on til 8pm.
Presentations by Fred, Eleanor, Kristof, Bruno.
Great new Georgia trip in preparation for upcoming exchange with School for Plumbing and Cable Theft in Transnistria!Also the lensbased beauty salon is shaping up very nicely. Lets talk about details next time!
Here is Liesels inspiring proposition.
Other ideas:
Lord of the Rings Massage parlour

 
Good Luck beauty saloon:
 
Miss Puke WellnessSome ideas for treatments
and drinks:

 
 

thanks dear class for all these excellent, engaging and ambitious presentations today – it was really quite something! we made some decisions for rundgang, pls see wiki for details, work groups and general plan.

This is the announcement for the second instalment of Jesse Darlings seminar later this week

Part II of Jesse Darling <http://bravenewwhat.tumblr.com/> ‘s seminar In [re]search of the real[ <http://inresearchofthereal.tumblr.com/> ness]: a short collaborative enquiry
aka: The Labour of Art in the Age of Digital [Re]Production:
May 31-June 2

This second instalment will consist of individual meetings (book your session here <http://doodle.com/v38iqaekgenxck3t>  – location can be anywhere you like) and a night-hours seminar open to all.
Late Night Radio Salon
June 1st, 11pm-1am
A workshop about speaking and sleeping aloud in the disappearance of public space
In an intimate setting theorist and filmmaker Anna Zett will give a bedtime story lecture on sleep as an entirely subjective and entirely material practice that all articulation is based upon.
Live discussion will follow, along with other contributions tbc
The salon is taking place in the ÖR Schnecke, a temporary radio station by Sara Lehn @Kongress der Artikulation, Kunstraum Kreuzberg
http://slehnova.wordpress.com/

Participants: max 20
Please sign up via email before: jesse@bravenewwhat.org

PLS USE THIS AS GUIDE TO PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATIONS in Leipzig 7-10m either about existing, future work or small exercise work. All travel details are upcoming. thanks, Rodrigo!

HGB expanded cinema
The class introduces into it’s current theme or interest, a melange of science fiction and anthropology – which, in it’s core, could be called social fiction. While some work examples or performances will be presented, clemens does an introduction, and specific notions of the students interests will be speculatively projected into the future.
Hauptstudium / Studiengang Medienkunst
von Wedemeyer, Clemens
Welt am Draht – Science Fiction Anthropologie
(Klassentreffen)
Das Interesse der Klasse Expanded Cinema widmet sich im SS 2014 dem Science-Fiction-Film und dem anthropologischem Dokumentarfilm. Anhand von ausgewählten Beispielen werden beide Formate auf ihre Schnittmenge Social Science Fiction untersucht und das Verhältnis der Disziplinen Kunst, Film und Ethnografie im Spannungsfeld aktueller kunsttheoretischer und kulturanthropologischer Diskurse herausgearbeitet. Dabei spielen utopische Gesellschaftskonzepte, das Konzept des Fremden und der Technikdiskurs genauso eine Rolle wie zB Bourdieus Arbeiten. Währenddessen sollen zu diesem Themenkomplex Projekte entwickelt und realisiert werden.

Neue Schoenhauserstr. 16, 2nd floor. Midia Ninja are a bunch of young people that gathered their self to live stream the protests that happened in June last year in Brazil. Now they are in Berlin to talk about FREE MIDIA and their upcoming coverage of the World Cup and whatever happen during that period. #networkedcameras #swarmstream

Wed, May 7th, 18h, room 143