[spectre] The Influencers festival / Barcelona 6-7-8 july 2006

[Franco Mattes]

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani present:


THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

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*July 6 7 8 - 2006*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers
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with VUK COSIC, PAUL D. MILLER / DJ SPOOKY, MOLLEINDUSTRIA, IRWIN / 
NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST, VINCENZO SPARAGNA, OSCAR BRAHIM, CHICKS ON 
SPEED
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program: http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers/06/en
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Welcome to episode three of The Influencers series, the live talk show 
you won't see on TV! With us tonight, we have media pranksters, star 
remixers of ideas, saboteurs of academic categories and reality 
agitators of every stripe.

Over the next three days, our 7 guests will present their work and 
discuss it with us. They will take us into stories of collective 
hallucinations that turn into reality and vice versa, like the time a 
Nazi icon was used to celebrate the patron-hero of a socialist state, 
or that fun time we spent bribing scientists and crushing workers so 
that our junk food company would come out on top (at least in a 
videogame).

And more: porn movies transformed into sequences of letters and 
numbers, fake newspapers announcing the end of the Polish communist 
regime and a new king Wojtyla, stolen web pages, an apologia for 
copying, DIY artists who have cracked the top ten, masked insects 
hanging from the billboards of corrupt presidents...

Our 7 guests will talk about the origins of their projects, their 
challenges and objectives, giving us all the dirt on the strategies 
that work while suggesting clues we can use to explore subterranean 
affinities through different periods, disciplines and cultural 
contexts. Acquisition of other identities on a mass scale and a trip 
through the turbulences of information flows are our recommended 
remedies to July sunburn and other nuisances.

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