[spectre] The Influencers - Barcelona, february 4-6

[alt.bani at gmail.com]

* The Influencers *

Art, communication guerrilla, radical entertainment
Presentations, screenings, workshops, actions
A project by Bani Brusadin, Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a.  
0100101110101101.ORG

February 4 - 6, 2010
Center of Contemporary Culture - Barcelona, Spain
http://TheInfluencers.org

With the participation of:

The Yes Men
ZEVS
James Acord
Donkijote
Black Label Bike Club
Joan Leandre a.k.a. Retroyou
Critical Art Ensemble

The Influencers is a three day think-tank that tackles the potential  
of non conventional communication in contemporary society. We are  
interested in exploring the hybrid zones wherein autonomous  
experiments and mainstream culture blend and collapse into one  
another. Projects that stem out of a deeply rooted do-it-yourself  
attitude, even when they develop into complex, large scale projects.

Since 2004, The Influencers has been gathering a limited but  
carefully selected number of diverse projects. This 6th installment  
makes no exception: celebrity pranksters (with a cause), tactical  
media artists, computer games modders, hi-tech donkeys, extreme  
bicycling gangs, atomic sculptors, ads' kidnappers, and media  
transformers will come together for three long evenings to present,  
discuss, and perform their work. Whether they are art works or life  
long projects, or just weird ideas one came up with, these practices  
are fed by a visionary taste for weirdness and desire for social change.

Unlike other festivals, The Influencers has no theme, but if you are  
looking for threads to string stories together, this time you will  
encounter at least a couple. First, examples of mind ecologies, life  
after dumb consumerism, DIY survival strategies for after the brands  
feast is over. Second, risky and dangerous narratives. Those risks  
that you take on when you force physical, aesthetical, legal, and  
political boundaries of our society, and challenge collective  
imagination to desire the unthinkable. We want to show that taking  
risks is possible, never easy, frequently fun, and always very  
instructive.

The detailed program is available at http://theinfluencers.org/en/ 
festival/2010/program
For press inquiries, please contact Cristina Diaz:  
cristina at theinfluencers.org