<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center; ">02.10.2014 | Düsseldorf</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">###</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Dear all,</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">finally, it is done! </div><div style="text-align: center; ">The digital3mpire has opened its doors in Düsseldorf@Kirchfeldstraße.</div><div style="text-align: center; "> We celebrated the day with a BYOB last friday evening</div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://digital3mpire.com/byob-duesseldorf/">http://digital3mpire.com/byob-duesseldorf/</a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "> Thanx to those who supported, thanx to those of you who celebrated with us </div><div style="text-align: center; ">and many thanx to those who contributed:</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Matthias Danberg, Daniel Dwyer, Lance Kiu, Max Kuwertz, Jens Mittelsdorf, </div><div style="text-align: center; ">Matthias Neuenhofer, Mark Pepper, Sebastian Blank, Florian Winkler, </div><div style="text-align: center; ">Martin Wisniowski, Dmitry Zakharov</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">It has been a wonderful and colorful evening.</div></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Of course we served becks and rich kids beer.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Hope to see you there next time.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">*** </div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">The #digital3mpire onsists of a <a href="http://digital3mpire.com/">blog</a>, </div><div style="text-align: center; ">the <a href="http://floriankuhlmann.com/">INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR AESTHETIC CONSULTING AND DIGITAL ISSUES</a>, </div><div style="text-align: center; ">and a projectspace-gallery called <a href="http://digital3mpire.com/the-hub-space/">THE HUB</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "> It is also a node in a global network of hidden places and platforms dealing with similar themes. The aim of the project is to collect ideas and strategies for connecting the digital and the natural sphere in an intelligent, accessible, and humane way. We work on both the daunting problems and vast opportunities of an increasingly digitally formed synthetic reality.</div><div style="text-align: center; ">THE HUB is our local base to present the projects we like to a broader audience and host discussions on the aesthetics of the rising global digital empire. </div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">General focus areas include: </div><div style="text-align: center; ">#NewsAesthetic, #AwesomeCode, #Digitalization, #OpenSource, #Cybernetics, </div><div style="text-align: center; "> #SyntheticReality, #AetherDesign, #MetamodernMythology, #InternetInGeneral, #CloudThinking </div><div style="text-align: center; ">and the ongoing exploration of #NON.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Everybody welcome 24/7.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://digital3mpire.com">http://digital3mpire.com</a></div></body></html>