2017

RCC@Chaos Communication Congress 34C3: Do Something! Leipzig 27.12.-30.12.2017

Hopefully this Hacker Meeting is already known internationally. It is organized by the Chaos Computer Club which was founded in 1981. The annual congress was launched in 1984. In the past 7 years this Hacker Meeting has grown rapidly to host in 2017 15.000 attendees in the Leipzig congress centre. In the frame of Reclaim Read the full article… »»»»

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Simon Reynolds Discussion @ HU Berlin 3.12. & Book Launch @ HAU 4.12.2017

Simon Reynolds is visisting Berlin to present his recent book and discuss writing about popular music at the Humboldt University Berlin. Paneldiscussion „Writing as Performing Pop“ with Simon Reynolds, Sonja Eismann and Bodo Mrozek Medientheater of HU Berlin, Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin// 19h// Free entrance Glam. Glitter Rock and Art Pop in the 1970s and Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookrelease The Death of Graffiti 20.11.2017 @ Wendel Berlin

The Death of Graffiti is finally out on Possible Books, and celebrated with a panel-discussion at Bar Wendel, Schlesische Str. 42, Berlin Kreuzberg: With texts by David Alexander, Tobias Barenthin Lindblad, Thomas Bratzke, BROM, CLINT 176, Paul Vector Codierer, Christian Driesen, Paul Luis Fechter, Lukas Fuchsgruber, Allan Gretzki, Frank Hartmann, HIDDEN INDEXES, Ilaria Hoppe, ID33, Read the full article… »»»»

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3hd Festival, 22.- 25.11.2017 @ HAU/ OHM Berlin

Whatever You Thought, Think Again 3hd Festival is in its third year, and organisers Daniela Seitz and Anja Weigl of Creamcake are pleased to announce the event will be running from November 22 to November 25. Happening at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and OHM, as well as the internet — the program looks at music, Read the full article… »»»»

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Lecture “Hardcore Territories” @ CYNETART, Dresden 18.11.2017

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No! Music, 9.-12.11.2017 @ HKW Berlin

A concert, film and lectures series about the (im)possibility how to say no in music. Nearly all men are slaves, claimed the French writer Nicolas de Chamfort: “Because they can’t say no.” There are two ways in which musicians can say no: either through musical decisions, texts, or career strategies which express their refusal. Or Read the full article… »»»»

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We Make Waves Conference & Festival, 09.11. – 11.11.2017 Berlin

Introducing We Make Waves, a new Berlin-based festival and conference made for women, trans and non-binary people poised to disrupt the music industry. This November, we will bring together a group of renegade performers, artists, and activists from Berlin and beyond in order to share transformational ideas, experiences, and motivation for future projects and collaborations. Read the full article… »»»»

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Reframing Worlds – Mobility and Gender in a Postcolonial, Feminist Perspective, 4.11.-21.1.2018

Galerie im Körnerpark: 4 November 2018 – 21 January 2018 nGbK: 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018 Friday 03rd November 2017, 18h, Exhibition Opening: Galerie im Körnerpark Sunday 05th November 2017, 17h, Performance: Unlistening White Feminism – Ida Pfeiffer’s Travel Diaries Revisited (en), Galerie im Körnerpark, A Sound-Performance by Antye Greie aka AGF Friday Read the full article… »»»»

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WiseUp 10/2017 female:pressure – Monika Werkstatt – Baba Vanga @ Mixcloud

End of August the network female:pressure presented their new facts counting on female presence in electronic music festivals at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. WiseUp cut-up some excerpts on the outcome of the survey. In October WiseUp made a trip to UH Festival in Budapest, a festival for adventurous music, where Monika Werkstatt played the opening concert Read the full article… »»»»

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Sonifications – Audible Data Streams, Berlin 27.- 29.10.2017

The Berlin Society of New Music presents the festival Sonifications Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 4a, 10115 Berlin How does a pulsar sound? What noises are made at night by a dreaming human brain? What might we hear when New York guitarist Hans Tammen sonifies his own DNA data live on stage during his „Endangered Guitar“? How Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookrelease: The Death of Graffiti, Possible Books

For everyone who seeks to find out about graffiti practices and its entanglements with the social, the economic, the arts and society at large. 33 Activists, Scientists and Practitioners discuss, analyse or reflect on the 50 year history of graffiti as a social and asthetical phenomenon of the present. The Death of Graffiti is finally Read the full article… »»»»

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Cynetart Festival, Dresden 16.-19.11.2017

CYNETART 2017: First Announcement 24 HOURS Caroline Beach / Valentina Cabro / Katharina Christl / Marcello Lussana / Jonas Marx / Lotte Mueller / Mika Oki / Guillaume Pires Parada / Jo Siamon Salich / Robertina Šebjanič / Anne Seidel / v4w.enko / Charles Washington / Luo Yuebing AUSSTELLUNGSPROJEKTE HeeWon Lee : Plui / Infinity Read the full article… »»»»

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Ultrasound Festival/ Ultra Hang Fest, Budapest 1.10.-8.10.2017

UH Fest – Ultrasound in english – is dedicated to adventurous modern music in Hungary. Since 2001 we have staged more than 450 performances during 7 festivals and a number of one-off events. Due to our decade-long activity and the scope of our events (both in terms of number of acts and stylistic variety) UH Read the full article… »»»»

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CTM 2018 Preludes: 09-11/ 2017 feat. Tara Transitory, Group A, Pharmakon u.a.

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UNSAFE+SOUNDS FESTIVAL Vienna // 22.-30. 09. 2017

»VARIABLES OF THE IMAGINARY« 4th Edition of Unsafe+Sounds Festival! There is no english Text for this available. You can view the program and more information here: www.unsafeandsounds.com www.facebook.com/unsafeandsounds »»»»

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Opening Urban Nation Street Art Museum, Berlin 16.-17.9.2017

An impossible museum becomes reality, and let’s just hope the art will be better than the promotional text on their website, which is full of neoliberal vocabulary. As in their main slogan  “Connect. Create. Care.” More of those commercial buzzwords are to be found allover their homepage: “The vision of a global art community, a Read the full article… »»»»

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New female:pressure FACTS SURVEY 2015-2017

“Facts 2017 – what needs to be done?” The new facts were presented at the Pop-Kultur Festival in Berlin on 25.08.2017 and discussed with Sky Deep and Marlene Engel. These are some impressions of the presentation. For all detailed numbers, graphics, methods, download the full survey here:  full survey as PDF [2.1 MB] You can Read the full article… »»»»

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Conference: TAG – name writing in public space 14.-15.09.2017, Berlin

A conference about tagging, in history and today Freie Universität Berlin, GSNAS/JFKI Lansstrasse 7-9, Berlin Written signatures, or tags, are the central element of graffiti culture, and the most widely practiced form of public art. Yet tagging has rarely been the subject of serious examination. The Tag Conference is a first attempt to conceptually frame Read the full article… »»»»

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Ars Electronica Festival 7.-11.9.2017, Linz Austria

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WiseUp 08/2017 Wiener Festwochen – Performeum:Hyperreality:Hysteria

<iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ src=”https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2FWiseupRadioshow%2Fwiseup-082017-wiener-festwochen-performeumhyperrealityhysteria%2F” frameborder=”0″ ></iframe> Wiseupradio explores another club culture avantgarde festival called Hyperreality. HR is part of the Wiener Festwochen, which are happening since the 1950s and are showcasing cutting edge cultural productions in music, theatre or fine arts. This year a new creative director & curatorial team started their work. Postcolonial approaches Read the full article… »»»»

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Vienna Pop music exhibition: Wienmuseum 14.9. 2017 bis 25.3. 2018

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Atonal Festival – Kraftwerk Berlin 16.-20.8.2017

Its time again for Berlin Atonal! After its long break since the 1980s it is going into its fifth round in a new makeup with a new curatorial team mentored by Tresors Dimitri Hegemann. Like the last couple of years all venues of Kraftwerk, inkluding Tresor and OHM will feature new premiering concerts, showcases, installations Read the full article… »»»»

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female:pressure & Meetup Berlin present: Subcultures Under Pr€$$ur€, 14.7.2017 @ AU Wien

14.7.2017, 20Uhr @ AU Wien: http://www.viennau.com/ +++ Subcultures Under Pr€$$ur€ +++ Electric Indigo (female:pressure), Shilla Strelka (Struma + Iodine), Aiko Okamoto (Meetup Berlin), Susi Rogenhofer aka Sweet Susie (Gemeindebautöne, femous.at, Dub Club Vienna), Hicran Ergen (Gravité), Hannah Christ (femdex) femdex.net, Marlene Engel (BLISS / Wiener Festwochen – Hyperreality) and more           Read the full article… »»»»

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HEROINES OF SOUND – FESTIVAL 2017 7–9 Juli 2017

HEROINES OF SOUND – FESTIVAL 2017 7–9 Juli 2017 Radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin Curated by Bettina Wackernagel, Mo Loschelder and Sabine Sanio, the Heroines of Sound Festival, now in its forth year, presents past and present heroines of electronic sound. In concerts, performances, videos and discussion events, early female electronic music is showcased together Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookrelease: Compared to What. Pop zwischen Normativität und Subversion, 30.5.2017 Depot Wien

Dienstag, 30. Mai 2017, 19.00 Pop zwischen Normativität und Subversion Welche Rolle spielt das Subversive im Pop heute? Einerseits stellen Nische, Differenz und Abweichung zentrale Normen des Kapitalismus der Gegenwart dar, andererseits macht die Hegemonie kalkulierter Einzelirritationen das Antitotalitäre der Subversion attraktiv. Dass Widerstands-Rhetoriken gerade auch wieder unter Rechten Konjunktur haben, verkompliziert die Dialektik von Read the full article… »»»»

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WiseUp 03/2017 Sonic Borders

Guillermo Galindo’s interpretation of concepts such as musical form, time perception, music notation, sonic archetypes and his original use of sonic devices span a wide spectrum of output. By appropriating concepts from a variety of disciplines and traditions such as anthropology, electroacoustic music or Jungian psychology – the mexican composer, inventor and performance artist offers Read the full article… »»»»

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WiseUp 01/2017 – Homage Mark Fisher & Zygmunt Bauman

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the 20th Century’s influential sociologists. His core ideas during the last 20 years circled around the “liquidity” of the present.
Mark Fisher was a music journalist and political theorist known as K-Punk – and a founder member of Warwick University’s Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, a multi-disciplinary academic body who brought together philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary music. This review features exerpts of recent lectures they held and music releases of 2016. »»»»

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Jukebox Utopia – Farewell-2016-Mix

End of the year mixdown! Getting the past out of the system with music. Playing tracks by M.I.A., Schwabingrad Ballet, Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, John Lennon and more. Recorded at AU Vienna. Thank you! »»»»

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