[spectre] The Influencers / Barcelona april 7-9, 2005

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Subject: The Influencers / Barcelona april 7-9, 2005



please forward it to anyone who might be interested

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vanni

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Press release

THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment
http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers

Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona
April 7th, 8th & 9th, 2005

Free admission

>From the 7th to the 9th of April at Barcelona's CCCB,
d-i-n-a presents THE INFLUENCERS, a festival dedicated to ground-breaking
examples of short circuits between art and communication in a public sphere
shaped by the media.

***

thursday April 7th

Hall

19h Adbusters
20.30h Dragan Zivadinov / NSK / Noordung Kosmocinetic Cabinet

friday April 8th

Auditorium
17h "Ceský Sen - Czech Dream". Film by Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda 95' - DVD.
Original version with English and Spanish subtitles

Hall
19h Ceský Sen
20.30h Josh On

saturday April 9th

Auditorium
17h "The Yes Men" film by Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price 78' - DVD
Original version with Spanish subtitles

Hall
19h Eddo Stern
20.30h Marko Peljhan
22h The Yes Men

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The festival is part of a research project that began in Bologna, Italy, in 2000
under the name 'Digital is not analog' and has gradually focused on exploring
controversial strategies for radical intervention in mass communication. They
may make use of revolutionary technological tools such as the internet or p2p
networks, act by breaking into popular culture (mainstream media, pop music,
advertising), or twist marketing strategies and show no mercy in taking over
the imagery of the most out-of-control consumerism.

The artists participating in The Influencers 2005 choose the ingredients for
their recipes from worlds as diverse as history of art, political discourse,
shameless marketing techniques, communication technologies, even videogames or
theater. The result is the direct disruption of everyday flows of information,
meanings and emotions, not just in the mass media but also in the culture of
consumption and entertainment. That is, in all areas and production systems
that are involved in creating collective images and desires, defining social
priorities, and spreading or manipulating shared feelings.

The Influencers often take advantage of favorable situations for their actions
and for a moment, without asking permission, they take over the codes used in
art, politics or business. It's not about new forms of counter information, or
art or technology with political content. These projects are just a seductive
and often surrealistic reaffirmation of ideas that are already in everybody's
minds. But be warned: if you are only concerned with content you may be
disappointed, because their skill involves devising a frame that is almost
invisible, almost, within mass culture.

The Influencers play with your attention, provoke curiosity and appear
ambiguously seductive. But by using strategies like cultural remix, camouflage
and over identification they are really generating a new kind of entertainment,
politically incorrect and radical in its aims. They reappropriate cynicism and
wrap it up in new contexts and mottoes. They take it to extremes, blow it up,
and, finally, throw it back to the public.

Direction:
d-i-n-a

Organized by:
d-i-n-a and Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona

With support from:
· Institut per a la Creació Artística i el Pensament Contemporani (Generalitat
de Catalunya)
· Centro Checo de Madrid
· Embajada de Canadà
· El Tinter

More information:
· d-i-n-a / www.d-i-n-a.net
· CCCB / Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona / www.cccb.org

Press office:
Irene Ruiz
Tel.: 93 306 41 00 / 660 63 13 15
iruiz at cccb.org