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10th of February 2024: Female Pioneers of Electronic Music – lecture @ Folkartmuseum Vienna

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18th-21st January 2024: T Fuckhead & Friends w/ Jukebox Utopia @ Theater am Werk, Wien

ATTENTION ATTENTION! ….we have been lost to the world…. With a 75-hour performance from 🧷18-21 January at the Theater am Werk 🧷, FUCKHEAD will once again manifest their will to 🧨💣⚡️noise and riot,⚡️💣🧨 who also like to immerse themselves in theatrical stage choreographies to explore the limits with the audience. 🍄🌪💨🚀 This epic performance, inspired Read the full article… »»»»

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Extinction III @ 1BM – 2nd December 2023

Dear all, on 2nd December 2023 – starting at 22h we continue at Einbaumöbel and join forces for some Doomcore, Gabber & Co with the Extinction Series part III. Einbaumöbel, Stadtbahnbögen 97, 1090 Wien More Infos: https://www.ausgefinkelt.com/extinction-III/ ♾♾Tired Purple (live) ☠️☠️unkn_wn ⚡️⚡️Seiler Moon 🧨🧨Rites 💣💣Relatic 💄💄Katana 👟👟Jukebox Dystopia 🌪🌪✨Dance, dance, dance – against the cold Read the full article… »»»»

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BRAV Magazin Release Party @ 1BM – 30th November 2023

We have been waiting for this. Finally another edition of the wonderful 🛹🛹🛹BRAV Magazin 🛼🛼🛼 will be released. After the concerts we will serve you music with dead media: I will bring records and the CD-Player crew CDs with playlists just burned for your joy. 🍿BRAV vol.2 Release❤️‍🔥 Einbaumöbel, Stadtbahnbögen 97, 1090 Wien 19:00 open Read the full article… »»»»

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Lecture at the symposium ‘Reclaim! Club Nights, Housing Struggle and Urban Open Spaces’ – June 28th 2023, Linz @ STWST

I am happy to be part of the symposium Reclaim! Clubnächte, Häuserkampf und urbane Freiräume. Organized by Moritz Pisk, Lukas Jakob Löcker and the great Mika Egal. Wed, June 28, 2023, starting at 5pm Stadtwerkstatt Donaulände and STWS. Lectures with: Eugenia Seriakov: No Future on the Dancefloor – Free Tekno as Antithesis to Club Culture. Read the full article… »»»»

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9th of June 2023: Hart Lab presents a night of hard techno & hardcore @ rrr Vienna

I am happy to join forces with the Hart Lab Crew for a night of DJing at rrr. There will be techno, hard techno, dark techno, schranz & hardcore techno for you. Come and join us on the dance floor! The bar opens at 21pm, music starts 23pm! Admission: 7€ »»»»

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May 13th 2023 – Jukebox Utopia @ 11 Jahre KUNSTKANAL Wien

I am super happy to join kunstkanals birthday event and spin some records. Come an join us! :::: kunstkanal 11 Birthday Line-Up :::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SA, 13. MAI 2023 ::: 11 k u n s t k a n a l ::: LINE-UP 16:00 – Saft Opening (Kidsfun) 18:00 – Gulasch à la Spiess 20:00 – Read the full article… »»»»

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May 8th 2023: Art Doc Archive Prototype// Reclaim your Archive Launch Berlin @ Technologiestiftung

A public platform for archiving online content from Berlin’s art & culture scene. For many years, websites and social media feeds have been a central form of publication of artists and cultural professionals’ own work. Self-representation on the web since the 1990s represents an important untapped archive of Berlin scenes, documenting works, spaces, events, and Read the full article… »»»»

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April 28th 2023 – Lecture/ Workshop: Facilitating a Queer Counter Club Culture, Frankfurt Main

In this lecture on queer counter cultures in music and clubbing I will outline discourses and concepts on music, collectivity and sonic bodies or feminist and post-colonial debates in academia and electronic music scenes (1). Early queer-diasporic clubbing in NYC in the 70s & 80s, Free-Tek in the 90s and Anti-Parades in the 2000s are Read the full article… »»»»

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April 22nd 2023: Jukebox Utopia @ Popu Stress Club, Kapu Linz

For all comic lovers – come to the Popu Stress Club Zine Fair!! I look very forward to come with my records to KAPU and play with DJ Shinsekai. Our Mantra will be hard & fast :–>>>)) https://www.kapu.or.at COMING SOON: 13.5. Wiseup Radio @ Radio Orange 94,0, 21-22Uhr: report from the dancefloor @ KAPU Tune Read the full article… »»»»

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3 Recent Films About Feminism: Brainwashed, Women Talking, Feminism WTF

2022/2023 I saw these movies & documentaries all dealing with feminism and patriarchy in differnt ways.. I enjoyed all them and thus like to recommend them!! Check out the trailers and basic infos: Trailer Feminism WTF (Katharina Mückstein, AT 2023) The women’s movement is the most successful social movement of the 20th century and has Read the full article… »»»»

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BOEM presents: Uschi Ultra & Jukebox Utopia – 18. Nov. 2022 Vienna

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October 20th MEK Berlin – artist talk with dancer & choreographer Kadir [amigo] Memiş

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Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna: Politics of Immediacy, September 23rd-October 1st 2022

UNSAFE+SOUNDS IS PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE VIRAL FEELING OF INSECURITY AND FOCUSES ON ARTISTIC POSITIONS THAT CONFRONT OUR REALITY. WE WANT TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND SEARCH FOR AGENCY, FOR APPROPRIATE SOUNDS FOR OUR TAINTED FUTURE AND OUR BEWILDERING EXISTENCE. TAINTED FUTURES – AGENCY OF IMMEDIACY Every day, the Read the full article… »»»»

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Review 25 Years of Fuckparade – Berlin September 3rd 2022

Fuckparade – 25 years protest from below Against displacement, commercialization and senseless highway construction! Against the commercialization of techno Against the closing of clubs, bars and neighborhood shops Against the sellout of the city Against Nazis On September 3rd 2022 the 25th Fuckparade took place in Berlin. Meeting point was at 14Uhr near subway Alt-Tempelhof. Read the full article… »»»»

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Warmup Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna: September 1st 2022 @ Rhiz – DeForrest Brown, Blaq Hammer and more

First Struma+Iodine gig after the summer break comes as a co-production with Unsafe+Sounds Festival, that will happen this year from 23.9.-1.10.2022 at Werk and Zacherlfabrik in Vienna! For the first time Unsafe+Sounds will have a discourse program and I had the pleasure of curating it. More infos coming soon! More infos on the warmup event Read the full article… »»»»

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Rhizom Festival Zurich, CH – 4th-6th of June 2022 : WORKING BEYOND AND ACROSS DISCIPLINES

RHIZOM is a transdisciplinary festival that has developed out of VAZEM collective dedicated to cultivating alternative electronic music and arts. It commits itself to uniqueness, character, innovation, passion and DIY-spirit. During the festival, alternative electronic music and uncompromising club-culture will be experienced. The social responsibility of culture and its consumers will be discussed and envisioned Read the full article… »»»»

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Exhibition Transmedia Festivals running until 31st of May 2022 @ echoraum Vienna

The accompanying photo exhibition to the April event Transmedia Festivals – Between Experiment and Economisation, Reverberation #1 can be seen until the end of May during the opening hours of the echoraum. “Ars Electronica, Hyperreality, Heart of Noise, CTM Festival, Berlin Atonal or Ultrahang… These are some names of events that Bianca Ludewig examines in Read the full article… »»»»

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Input Affective Communities @ Rewire Festival, The Hague (NL) – April 7th-10th,

Lecture/ Talk 9th of April – ‘Affective Communities’ at Korzo Club. “In my research I approach different urban scenes that come together through music as audio social communities. Audio social communities are in most cases affective communities. This is true for most of the scenes linked to electronic music, club culture or experimental sound practices. Read the full article… »»»»

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November 27th 2021 – Sound System Culture: Solidarity Networks in Te(k)no Communities – Panel Discussion @ CURA Berlin

Sound System Culture closes its event series of 2021 with a great day full of concerts, djs sets and a panel talk near Warschauer Brücke: “As we had to postpone our September date, here we are with our promised panel discussion, an exquisite lineup and more noisy glitches – this time in the lovely heated Read the full article… »»»»

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12th of November 2021, Contrapunkt – Club Against Reality @ P.M.K. Innsbruck: Utopia-Apocalypse-Futurism

In the planning stages since 2019, it is finally possible to hold this event: A night of Gabber, Breakcore and Happy Hardcore! I will speak about my book “Utopia and Apocalypse in Pop Music” and Riccardo Balli will talk about his book “Sbrang Gabba Gang”, for which I also wrote the foreword at the time. Read the full article… »»»»

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Music Austria Interview on Club Culture: “We all have a lot of pressure in our everyday lives. The club helps us to deal with this”

mica-interview with BIANCA LUDEWIG 28 June 2021 BIANCA LUDEWIG has been researching club culture as a cultural anthropologist for years. She talks to Stefan Niederwieser about utopias, a communal love of music, stories that are missing and hard work at female:pressure to fight misconceptions. Heart of Noise 2014 / Lumisokea (c) Bianca Ludewig   Is Read the full article… »»»»

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KISMIF Conference Porto 7-10th of July 2021: Keep it simple make it fast, DIY Cultures and Global Changes

The fifth edition of the international KISMIF Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges’  takes place in Porto, Portugal, from 7 to 10 of July 2021 for the fifth time (previous editions held in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018) . This conference is open to artists, researchers and academics likewise who work Read the full article… »»»»

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Conference “Breaking Rules – European Hip Hop Meeting”, 11th-12th of September Rotterdam (NL)

On September 11th and 12th, 2020 the third edition of the European Hip Hop Studies Network Meeting will take place – live and online – in the Netherlands for the first time. And hip hop city Rotterdam will be hosting it. I am happy that I will be part of this exciting conference. Though it Read the full article… »»»»

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Balance Club/ Culture Web-Festival May 20th 2020 // 22nd Input Hardcore Techno

I will do a videoinput about the history and aethetics of Hardcore Techno at/for  The Balance Club / Culture Festival on friday. Here you can access the festival content: balance.ifz.me/webedition2020/ The festival would have taken place in various clubs, concert venues and off-locations in Leipzig from 20⁠–24 May. With over 30 acts and as many Read the full article… »»»»

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Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno. Panel @ Co]l[ab Vienna, February 13th 2020

I am participating in a discussion on how music spaces and activists can deal with a growing commercialization and cultural gentrification. It is gonna happen in a new space in 15th district, can’t wait to see it – more info towards the end… Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno & Club Culture in Read the full article… »»»»

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CTM and transmediale 2020, 28 january -2 february, Berlin@HKW, Bethanien, Berghain and other venues

Another year went by too quick and again it is time for CTM festival and transmediale. Whereas transmediale is much older, and CTM was an attempt to strengthen the music as media art within transmediale, CTM became an independent festival and some people consider it one of the best festival for experimental music and club Read the full article… »»»»

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3hd Festival – Fluid Worlds, Berlin 22nd-27th of October 2019

This year Berlins 3hd Festival is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary! 3hd Festival is organized by Berlin-based the interdisciplinary platform Creamcake since 2015. I will join a panel talk at the festival on thursday 24th with the topic E-scape. Breaking the Trance at Postscheckamt (Hallesches Ufer 40–60). More details here Here is the festivals announcement text Read the full article… »»»»

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Lecture Performance @Lauter Lärm#9: Sa 12th October 2019, Venster99 Vienna

Another cooperation with TerrorNoiseIndustries. TNI (CH) brings Hedonist and Rage Reset of Bloody Fist Label (Australia) along to bass the Venster. DJ Balli (IT) will spin another of his just perfect hardcore sets, and so will Schirin (AT) und Grrrr (AT). Another local support is the label Fall Into Dry Lungs. The evenings kicks off Read the full article… »»»»

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Earth Strike – There is no Planet B, 27th September 2019 Wien

Today a star march took place in Vienna from 3 points (Praterstern, Westbahnhof, Hauptbahnhof) to Karlsplatz. The demos passed symbolic places for politics (Ministry of Transport), economy (Chamber of Commerce) and science (House of the Sea). I joined one of the demonstration flows at Margaretenstraße. Surrounded by many U20 people, who chanted well-known chants (Antifaschista/ Read the full article… »»»»

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FUTURECORE 2000 // ALL BEATS ARE BEAUTIFUL – 13th September 2019 @ KRAFTWERK BILLE, HAMBURG

A dance performance by Gloria Höckner In September the dance piece Futurecore 2000 by the Viennese choreographer Gloria Höckner, who lives in Hamburg, can be seen at Kraftwerk Bille. On Friday we will talk about our perspectives on Hardcore Techno. Dates, see below. Here some excerpts of the info text: “Inspired by the practice of Read the full article… »»»»

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ARS ELECTRONICA: Midlife Crisis der Digitalen Revolution, 5th-9th of September 2019 @Linz, AT

For its 40th anniversary the Ars Electronica composed a ever larger programme of over 500 events and exhibitions. AE is “one of the world’s largest stages for media art, a festival for digital music, a playground for the next generation, a showcase for creativity and innovation – Ars Electronica is a unique festival for art, Read the full article… »»»»

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Review ChaosCommunicationCamp 08/2019 @Ziegeleipark, Germany, Earth, Milky Way

The CCCamp2019 takes place every four years and was materialized in August in Brandenburg. As a lecture on “20 Years of Camp” (subtitles available) clearly showed, the CCCamp is a fusion of “open air and hacker culture”, if not rave and hack. One of the active members of the Chaos Computer Club Hamburg, Tim, was Read the full article… »»»»

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Fuckparade #23, 31st of August, Berlin Hermannstrasse 14pm

For the 23rd time, since 1997, Berliners demonstrated with the means of hardcore music on mobile soundsystems against gentrification and the sell out of their city. As every year numerous political projects and cultural spaces are in danger: Syndikat, Friedel54, Meuterei, RAW, Kili, Mainzer Strasse, Liebig 34, Rummelsbucht. Sorry infos only in German. You might Read the full article… »»»»

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Interview with Viennese Duo EsRap online at Music Austria

“Tschuschistan is everywhere where the diaspora is at home” – says ESRAP in mica (Music Austria) interview After a felt eternity, countless appearances, several mixtapes and digital releases, the debut album “Tschuschistan” (Springstoff) by ESRAP was released on 28 June 2019. The siblings ESRA and ENES ÖZMEN break as a duo not only with gender Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookpresentation “Utopia and Apocalypse…” Fr 19.7.2019@ Kitchen-Zentrum der Tat Vienna

“Utopia and Apocalypse in Pop Music” is a study of hardcore techno in Berlin in the 2010s, but also a study of the sonic characteristics of these styles. Using tracks and videos, the emergence of these styles will be sketched and their references to the sound system culture or gender aspects highlighted. I will present Read the full article… »»»»

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Takeover Street Art & Skateboarding @ Wien Museum July 5th-September 1st 2019

The exhibition “Takeover” on skateboarding and street art opened yesterday with the vernissage at the “old” Wien Museum on Vienna’s Karlsplatz. The exhibition is a kind of temporary use before the Wien Museum is rebuilt and enlarged. The exhibition on “Red Vienna” and staff have already moved to Felderstraße 6-8 in the 1st district. Yesterday Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookpresentation “Utopia and Apocalypse…” @ Provitreff Zürich, June 14th 2019

There will be a bookpresentation of “Utopie und Apokalypse in der Popmusik. Gabber und Breakcore in Berlin” organized by Remote CTRL & Reclaim The Core presenting a bit of the content, and especially the Fuckparade, as there is still the Streetparade in Zürich, the biggest rave-demo in Europe. I will also talk about Gender, play Read the full article… »»»»

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She is the Other Gaze – Filmstart Austria May 3rd 2019

It all depends on the resonance. If we don’t get resonance, we don’t get opportunities. Then we do not exist. “Christiana Perschon’s documentary SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE presents a series of interviews with five female visual artists: Renate Bertlmann, Linda Christanell, Lore Heuermann, Karin Mack, Margot Pilz. Most of these artists started their careers Read the full article… »»»»

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donaufestival – New Society 26th of April to 5th of May in Krems (AT)

When it is spring time in Vienna people who are into performance and edgy music take a trip to Krems an hour away from Vienna to attend the annual donaufestival. The festival frames its linup by a theme which is this year “new society”. This seems a bit overexcited at first glance, or is it Read the full article… »»»»

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Bookrelease: The Mo.ë records, 3rd of May Vienna

The Mo.ë Records. Documents of a Canceled Future. This book documents the former arts and music space mo.ë in Vienna and discusses issues related to gentrification and urban planning. It reflects on the invasive displacement of functioning arts spaces that are put up by the unpaid work of dedicated artists and activists which eventually leads Read the full article… »»»»

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Soundsystem Culture Berlin: Presentation & DJ Set @ Mensch Meier, 19th of April 2019

Wonderful Sound System Culture Berlin is a not-for-profit organization based in Berlin. Soundsystem Culture Berlin are working to create a participatory arts and social space around the theme of sound system culture, which will take place on the 19th of April 2019 in Berlin. I will give a presentation on Sound System Culture and the Read the full article… »»»»

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35C3 Refreshing Memories, Leipzig 27th-30th of december 2018

CHAOS COMMUNICATION CONGRESS REVIEW For the second year we joined forces with Reclaim Club Culture (RCC) at the congress which was again an exceptional experience! For those who don’t know: This Hacker Meeting is organized by the Chaos Computer Club which was founded in 1981. The annual congress was launched in 1984. In the past Read the full article… »»»»

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Heroines of Sound Festival: 6th-8th of December 2018 @HAU2 Berlin

The 5th edition of Heroines of Sound will feature four comissioned works, seven premieres and two German premiers by 30 artists. With: Maryanne Amacher //  Anne la Berge// Mary Ellen Bute // Suzanne Ciani/ / Mary C //  Lucrecia Dalt // Nina Dragicevic //Jessica Ekomane //Gudrun Gut//Ensemble KNM Berlin // Electric Indigo // Fågelle&Beate Kunath // Read the full article… »»»»

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celebrating 20 years of female:pressure @ Mensch Meier Berlin, November 9th 2018

!!This event is open for every sex/gender!! female:pressure* is celebrating its 20 year anniversary! We are working at full speed, to compile a weekend of celebrating, listening, learning and exchanging. In the foreground of course other will be first-class music and art contributed by the artists of our network, as well as the development of Read the full article… »»»»

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Presentation @ POP-POWER-POSITIONS: 3rd IASPM DACH-Conference @ Bern (CH) 18th-20th October 2018

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC (IASPM D-A-CH) University of Bern & Bern University of the Arts Partner: Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media We will do a panel at the conference: Club Cultures between difference, representation and cosmopolitism (Club Cultures zwischen Read the full article… »»»»

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Unsafe + Sounds Festival, 2nd – 13th of October 2018 Vienna

Unsafe + Sounds Festival for Adventurous Electronic Music + Arts  Unsafe+Sounds wants to investigate the interrelatedness of the fundamental changes in our environment and aesthetics, and look for apt noises for our disturbed existence. Under the banner of “Brutal Times”, we gather workers from the musical frontiers to find some medication for this pathological time. Read the full article… »»»»

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Is it dark? by 3ncore. Exhibition, discourse, party dedicated to Liza N Eliaz @ Het Bos Antwerp, 27th-30th Sep. 2018

I will participate in a discussion with Merle Vorwald of 3ncore and Federico Chiari on gabber/ speedcore – genres & subcultures in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are some infos about the project Is It Dark? “Finally the collectives ENCORE + SEXES are presenting the outcome of their residency at AIR Antwerpen. After looking extensively into the Read the full article… »»»»

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Frankenstein or the 8 bit Prometheus, 26th of September 2018 Book presentation @ Echo Books

Cultural anthropologist and music journalist Bianca Ludewig introduces dj/producer Riccardo Balli who will talk about his Frankenstein, or the 8 Bit Prometheus ChiliComCarne.com editions, 2018. About the book/ from book back cover: -1818 First edition of Mary Shelley’s classic: Frankenstein – 2018 Frankenstein gone mad: the many horrifying uses of technology, such as Web 2.0 Read the full article… »»»»

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Documentary The Cleaners, available on DVD by 08/24/2018

“A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like – violence, pornography and – political content. Who is Read the full article… »»»»

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Experimental music festivals in Austria – Part I: DONAUFESTIVAL , Krems 27.4.- 6.5.2018

In Austria there are plenty of festivals that showcase experimental and (post-)club music. Plus something else. In the following series I will discuss three of them. They happen in springtime: donaufestival, hyperreality and the heart of noise festival. This will happen at different platforms. Part I is published on the blog of the shituationist institute: Read the full article… »»»»

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Superbooth, 3.-5. Mai 2018 @ Berlin FEZ Wuhlheide

Sorry this article is only available in German language. But you can find english infos, programme and past press articles about superbooth here: https://www.superbooth.com »»»»

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Sensorium Festival, Bratislava 2nd-5th of May 2018

The first Slovak conference making sense of creative technology. Sensorium is a festival with conference, workshops & showcase bridging the fields of computational art, design and performance. For the third year, a multidisciplinary community comes together to envision artistic futures and its impact on society. Festivaltickets are 39€, for students 13€ – excluding workshops. It Read the full article… »»»»

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donaufestival @ Krems AU, 27th of April-6th of May 2018: endless now

With: ZONAL feat. Moor Mother, Lotic, Perc, Lawrence English, The Space Lady, Mouse on Mars, Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, Puce Mary, Demdike Stare, Deerhoof, Pan Daijing, Simon Reynolds and many more. Curatorial statement 2018 (Thomas Edlinger, donaufestival artistic director): You always have new messages; it just takes the next click for the next kick. Read the full article… »»»»

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MaerzMusik – festival for time issues, Berlin 16.-25.3.2018

The festival 2018 Music offers time a centre. – This trope by John Berger puts the two main concerns of this festival – music and time – into a generative relation. Such a centre – in motion, elusive, non-geometric, plurimodal as it must be – would allow for a different point of view. From such Read the full article… »»»»

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Elevate Festival Graz, 28. Februar – 04. März 2018: Risiko/ Courage

Elevate Festival – Music, Art and Political Discourse Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various central venues around the Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. With its unique combination of critical political discourse and contemporary music and art, the Elevate Festival stands out of the “usual” festival circus. Amongst the guests are Human rights experts, Read the full article… »»»»

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Hardcore Territories, feature by bauhaus.fm

Feature by the experimental radio of Bauhaus University Weimar on our Input at Cynetart Festival: The lecture is in German. Vortrag „Hardcore Territories“   »»»»

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CTM Festival 26.1.-4.2., Berlin

CTM – festival for adventurous music and art – is an event for electronic and experimental music, happening since 1999 in Berlin. CTM 2018 Theme: Turmoil Uneasy times demand uneasy music. The world is in turmoil. And so are many of us. No matter what perspective we take, what used to be familiar is becoming Read the full article… »»»»

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Transmediale 31.1.-4.2.2018 @ HKW Berlin

transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture, and technology. The topic of this year issue is face value Things are what they are—but could they be different? transmediale 2018 face value aims to take stock of current affairs, to recognize things for what they are before Read the full article… »»»»

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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

 This is only available in German, please switch to that section by selecting it above on the right. More Infos: www.cynetart.org/2017/vortrag About cynetart here: www.cynetart.org »»»»

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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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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.

Dieser Beitrag ist nur in englischer Sprache verfügbar. Für mehr Informationen nach oben rechts auf die Ansicht in Englisch gehen. Oder hier: www.ctm-festival.de/news/ »»»»

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

This entry is just available in German language. Switch to German section. Or find english information and details here: www.wienmuseum.at   1040 Wien, Karlsplatz 8 T: +43 (0)1 505 87 47 F: +43 (0)1 505 87 47 7201 E: office@wienmuseum.at   »»»»

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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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Abstract for 19th Biennial IASPM Conference 26 June – 30 June 2017

Popular Music Studies Today 19th Biennial IASPM Conference 26 June – 30 June 2017 University of Kassel, Germany 19th Biennial IASPM Conference Dancecult Presents… EDM Contexts and Representations Bianca Ludewig, University of Vienna: Researching popular music through transmedia festivals The proposed presentation will offer a further development of ethnographic research methodology within the context of Read the full article… »»»»

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Oct 21st 2016 – panel discussion during Elevate Festival 2016

Panel discussion on We Are Europe´s 2016 theme Friday, 21 Oct 2016 – 19:30 – 21:00 Forum Stadtpark: Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz Language of the event: en Live broadcast on Okto.tv on Austria’s cable networks and live streaming on okto.tv Discussion Adrienne Goehler (de) Fabrice Starzinskas (fr) Thomas Burkhalter (ch) Shilla Strelka (at) Bianca Ludewig Read the full article… »»»»

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