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We are developing a new CiTiZEN KiNO episode...
CK93 : Organisms vs. Automatons ( revisited )
working title
We will come back to write a description of our themes, which will be presented at the 2nd Bits Und Baume Conference at the TU in Berlin sept.30-Oct2 ... And to take to venues afterwards to follow up on whatever perspectives we gather from there.
Link to our C-KINO events ( 2x ) in the BB2 fahrplan / program:
We also wish to create here a public resources for all those who work on these issues, and our current ecological situations and predicaments which for some time now are on the planetary scale... in deep shit !
And we ask our comrades and a variety of communities for suggestions of media that would be strong material to bring into the forum to analyse !
THE FORMAT:
We are the XLterrestrials, an arts and praxis group, based in "Btropolis". One of our projects is CiTiZEN KiNO, a series of nomadic situationist-art events, using films + media bits to navigate our challenging times. Sometimes a performative event, interactive, a hacking of the screens, a resistance to the disembodied + download-dominant culture, Media Selbstverteidigung, a Kiez Happening. Sometimes just screenings and discussions.
OUR THEMES:
XLterrestrials present
CiTiZEN KiNO : ( #93 ) Organisms vs. Automatons
- Revisited
From our perspective all is not well in the cybernetic trajectories ! If
we wish to address the full-scope of the ecological, social and
planetary turmoil already unfolding, it will be crucial to reassess our
relationship to technological environments and the
hyper-industrialization of living organisms and our habitat. Our theory
is that an uncanny *trench* * is developing - or a convergence of grave
errors manifesting - in diverse fields such as anthropocene + climate studies,
financial systems, social + political organization, biological
innovation and internet technologies.
Have we crossed a toxicity threshold as a species whereby our/their tech
industry explosions and social mutation now aim to capture, shape and adapt life
in order to feed particular systems and agendas, rather than to serve
the needs of a plurality of societies and cultures and all its rural and
urban inhabitants? These kinds of questions might lead us to other
concerns beyond finding ways to make our tech better and greener, but
more urgently to make it less destructive and less invasive to an entire
eco-system of symbiotic, intelligent and evolving lifeforms !
* the Uncanny Trenches:
not just something in the artificial oddities that are unsettling, obscene or appalling, but a whole structural abyss that is increasingly difficult to get out of.
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the MEDIA Bits:
NOTE: Not all media bits we use in our programs are "good media" or things we agree with. We often use clips that we find necessary to critique and debate. And mostly we will be using excerpts rather than screening full features. Anyone wishing to send us selected parts ( edited extracts ) from works is also a way to help and collbaorate ! Contact us : podinski at mailibox dot org
YOUR SUGGESTIONS WELCOME !
here>>
Steven Donziger info ( youtube clips and interview w/ Demo Now )
On Telesur
Dave vs. the Hal 9000 as Siri
Plug And Pray ( 2010 )
Submedia TV:
trouble #19 : Quiet Storm - Technology + Social Control
Google in BLN
All Creatures Welcome aboutr CCC Congress
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A Possible Playlist so far:
Docs + Art Films:
- Der Laute Fruhling ( 2022 )
( the Loud Spring, soon to have Eng subtitles )
- Rise Up ( 2022 )
- Algo-Rhythm by Manu Luksch ( 2019 )
- Let Me Fix You by Dasha Illina ( 2022? )
- The Great Simplification ( 2022 ) by Nate Hagens + animation team
Archives:
- Die Erdzerstörer - Kompromissloser Blick auf den Industriekapitalismus ( 2019 ) - Jean-Robert Viallet ( for Arte )
- Aldous Huxley interview/remix - by Paul Mobbs ( 2022 )
- MORE DATA Video by Ryan Worsley, + Negativeland ( 2019 )
- THIS IS NOT NORMAL Video by Ryan Worsley + Negativland ( 2020 )
Texts + Research materials:
- The Great Adaptation - Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe.
by Romain Felli ( Verso 2021 )
- Capital and Cybernetics - by Timothy Erik Strom
- Practicing Sovereignty - Digital Involvement in Times of Crises.
by Weizenbaum Institute + many contributors
McQuillan - Resisting AI
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more links coming from indigenous + Global South perspectives !
Casa Rio Lab
video of Brian Holmes presenting the Casa Rio project
at HKW conference "Zivilizationsfrage" ( framed around Graeber and Wengrow's anthropological work The Dawn of Everything, 2021 )
" Live Like a River "
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Xtras:
James Bridle at HAU Theater on SEpt.27th
Rethinking Intelligence
Bridle's Ways of Being ( 2022 )
Timothy Erik Strom / Arena
Internet for the People
The Fight for Our Digital Future
by Ben Tarnoff
Lewis Mumford
"Only those who are sufficiently awake to the forces that menace us and who have taken the full measure of their probable consequences will be able to overcome them." - Lewis Mumford
Librarian Shipwreck
Search for Mumford :
“Even now, perhaps a majority of our countrymen still believe that science and technics can solve all human problems. They have no suspicion that our runaway science and technics themselves have come to constitute the main problem the human race has to overcome”
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- Lieven De Cauter - Ending the Anthropocene - Essays on Activism in
the Age of Collapse ( 2021 )
- Ben Tarnoff - Internet for the People ( 2022 )
“The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1976)
- /“Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations,
threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a
once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more
effective form in their technology, reintroducing coercions of a
military character no less strict in the organization of a factory than
in that of the new drilled, uniformed, and regimented army. During the
transitional stages of the last two centuries, the ultimate tendency of
this system might be in doubt, for in many areas there were strong
democratic reactions; but with the knitting together of a scientific
ideology, itself liberated from theological restrictions or humanistic
purposes, authoritarian technics found an instrument at hand that has
now given it absolute command of physical energies of cosmic dimensions.
The inventors of nuclear bombs, space rockets, and computers are the
pyramid builders of our own age: psychologically inflated by a similar
myth of unqualified power, boasting through their science of their
increasing omnipotence, if not omniscience, moved by obsessions and
compulsions no less irrational than those of earlier absolute systems:
particularly the notion that the system itself must be expanded, at
whatever eventual cost to life./
- Lewis Mumford ( 1895-1990 )
NOTE:
Apologies for the male-dominant texts list here, we have done a much better
gender-balanced mix in the film department. This is only our very recent
text encounters, we obviously have Other authors, artists and activists in our
research that play a central role - from Le Guin to Zuboff to Vandana
Shiva, Astra Taylor, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Caitlin Johnstone, Lynn
Margulis, Joanna Moll, Angela Davis, various tech feministas +
matriarchal indigenous cultures, etc. )
And Thx to the Cyborg Grrrrls / Cyborg Cinema in Mx for putting us in touch with filmmakers from Latin America... We hope to gte some of those media clips in time....
and will be listing those resources here asap.
...
more James Bridle resources
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I still post occasionally on my blog, booktwo.org.
My public Twitter account is @jamesbridle.
I post images of work to Flickr, and videos at Vimeo.
Code and software projects can be found on Github.
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A good example of where techno-solutionism is a terrible formula...
is looking at what happens when Big Tech starts operating in the sector of Health Care....
a good preface for Dasha Ilina's film ...
Here is ...
Big Tech Won’t Make Health Care Any Better
By Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Felix Maschewski
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- Frankenstein Reanimated ( 2022 ) - collected essays
intreview w/ Marc Garret
B: Using Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” as a filter to analyze the complexity of modern life, many artists, researchers and thinkers gathered and offered their own vision and perception. Why do we struggle to do good?
MG: From my position, what is doing good is reflecting on my knowledge of what it means to be working class and connecting with those who have also been othered in society. Thus, build collaborations with a diverse range of individuals and groups who are left-wing, liberal and anarchist.
I see doing good and creating positive change in society as a constant battle. The struggle with trying to exist within massive systems and structures designed by elite patriarchs is a never-ending journey. However, it’s also a journey of self-discovery that brings rewards such as meeting great people and inspiring friendships. It is a web of confusing and complex experiences and emerging pieces of knowledge that always requires constant attention.
- Ben Tarnoff - Internet for the People ( 2022 )
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ANECDOTES / CHAPTERS :
1. CK 32-33 in 2013 at MS.STubnitz / the CCC show
- A particular moment in the world of the interwebz
2. the early C-KINO - the cyborg threshold of toxicity tale
3. The Anti-globalization struggles.
4. The Anthropocene
the beginnings and the ends…
and the late revelations.
5. The Anti-Google Campaign
Hasta la victoria siempre
Sí se puede
6. Organisms Rise Up
7. Q. +- A + Discussions + Debates
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- THE PLAYLIST
- The Trailers
Rise Up vs. Star Wars
- Andor in Disneyland
- Rise Up
- HAL / Siri
- Public Enemy - Grid music video
- Mario Savio speech
- Beeple Video
- Huxley remix
- Samba Wikileaks
- Donziger
- La tierra violada
- Sub Marcos
- Algo Rhythms
- Fix You
- Der Lauter Fruhling
- Mal Eleve - Music Vids
( med + rev. )
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EXTRAS to consider
- Casa Rio ?
- Negativeland vids ?
- Lauratibor ?
- Earth Destroyers
( edits )
- DVA music video ?
- Fuck Off Google ?
- Bridle ?
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