[rohrpost] monochrom's Taugshow #11 @ C-Base, Berlin (May 12, 2007)

[das ende der nahrungskette]

monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #11++
Saturday, May 12, 2007 / 8:00 PM @ C-Base, Berlin

The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as 
subversive as NYC Democrats smoking dope. But 
count us out! We won't produce a talk show. Nope. 
We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig it. 
Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other 
coevals. A joyful bucket full of good clean 
fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, 
self-content, identity, utopia, mania and 
despair, condensed into the well known cultural 
technique of a prime time TV show.

[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]

Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Roland Gratzer

Sat May 12, 8pm, C-Base, Berlin, Germany.

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Thanks to the wonderful folks at C-Base and the CCC for helping us...

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/// HEINRICH DUBEL ON HELICOPTERS AND OTHER FLYING MACHINES

Heinrich Dubel is a writer of science-fact and 
-fiction for various german and international 
magazines. He has published books and articles on 
such diverse topics such as urban develepmont and 
history, psychological warfare, the psychology of 
branding, and youth subcultures. His most recent 
works deal with the influence of modern 
technology on the unconscious mind of man. Lives and works in Berlin.

We'll talk to Heinrich about the helicopter. The 
essence or the hidden identity of the helicopter 
appear as a dichotomy; on the one hand a total 
threat coming from above, something you cannot 
possibly escape from, the all-seeing flying eye 
in the sky, the omnidirectional warmachine; and 
at the same time, its opposite: a rescuer coming 
from the air, from heaven above, as an angel.

And what about Nazi UFOs? We'll see...

http://www.heinrichdubel.de/

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/// RÉGINE DEBATTY: THE MEAT IS THE MEDIA!

Régine Debatty (BE/DE) studied Classics in 
Belgium and England, worked as a teacher of Latin 
and ancient Greek, then moved to media, working 
as a documentary director for the Belgian 
national TV, as a reporter for the radio Onda 
Cero in Spain and as a consultant for the MEDIA 
programme of the European Commission in Italy. 
She's now a full-time blogger, a new media art 
consultant for festivals and art commissions and 
writes about the intersection between art, design 
and technology on we-make-money-not-art.com and 
contributes to design and art magazines.

We'll talk to her about her statement "The Meat is the Media".
What happens when artists manipulate life itself, 
hack the genes and grow semi-living entitites in their labs?

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/

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/// KARIN HARRASSER ON FACT AND FICTIONS

Karin Harrasser, Researcher in Cultural Studies 
on the following topics: History of Technology, 
Popular Culture (Science Fiction), history and 
politics of the body, and Gender Studies. She is 
also active in the field of Science Communication 
(exhibitions, conferences, development of new 
publishing formats etc.). Her recent research is 
on the cultural implications of limb-prosthetics. 
She lives and works both in Vienna and Berlin.

We will talk to her about why it still seems to 
be attractive to talk about Science in the mode 
of Science Fiction and why SF is a restricted 
mode for science communication. Karin asserts 
that this is not because SF represents scientific 
"facts" wrongly - this could on the contrary be a 
productive way to communicate science - but 
because SF usually describes power relations in a 
naive way, and because SF hardly ever shows the processes of research.

http://www.science.co.at/personen.jsp?id=15

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/// Regulars:

EVELYN FÜRLINGER, MA.

Evelyn presents "Wicked Wordz", our regular column about lingustics.

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/// Showband:

MONOCHROM ALLSTAR BAND
featuring
KRACH THE ROBOT

An eternity of dhrystones per second!

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/// MONOCHROM

Taugshow is a project by monochrom.
http://www.monochrom.at/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrom