[spectre] Moments with Alexei Blinov (1965-2019)

[Shu Lea Cheang]

Moments with Alexei Blinov (1965-2019)

February 2, 2020 @ c-base

Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin


Alexei Blinov: Hero of the Cybersphere
by Simon Worthington @mrchristian99 – co-founder Mute**

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/I use Cybersphere rather than Cyberspace as Alexei occupied the digital 
space just above the earth's crust with WiFi and lasers and not only the 
imagined Cyberspace of the virtual — World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), or 
the Internet.////I knew Alexei in the late 1990s/2000s in London and 
Berlin, whether running Open Wireless aerial building workshops together 
at the University of Openness in London's East End — a self instituted 
university — or at the //BerLon 
<https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon>//‘PicoPeering 
Agreement' meeting in Bootlab or at 'Wizards of OS' FOSS conference — 
both in Berlin, where Alexei would be demoing the 'Hive' mesh-networking 
WiFi system.////Alexei was always the one driving things forward, quiet 
crazily — with wires popping out all over the place, a continual 
work-in-progress, but importantly with the courage that makes a true 
artist — that of not needing to inhabit the persona of the artists or 
make works that need to look like art.///

/Libre, Non-Gratis, Berlon, 2002, Mute/

///_https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon_///


6pm door open.

7-9pm – OPENING memo by Simon Worthington

talks and talks on free rich air and radio waves with Vladimir Grafov,  
Adam Burns,James Stevens,Shu Lea Cheang, Cvan, Elektra, juergen Neumann, 
Kaffe Matthews, Danja Vasiliev, Sarah Grant, Franz Xaver.

9pm - 11pm
Performance withkaffe Matthews, Martin Howse, Xname, Delfinov,Iwanka 
Skrivanek.


11pm onward –
Vladimir Grafov lights up the dance floor with laser beams.DJs: Iwanka 
Skrivanek+++++++

ALL NIGHT

*** MIKE OPEN – share memories of moments with AB.

***KITCHEN OPEN

On the menu

Adam Burns/ragu pot , Kaffe Matthews/ pancakes savoury, deep chocolate, 
Martin Howse/grilled shiitake + surprise, Shu Lea Cheang/winter pumpkin 
miso, Danja Vasiliev /vinaigrette, Iwanka Skrivanek/Borsch soup
*** BAR OPEN
C-base bar serves beer and softdrink is open for small price purchase.As 
a tribute to Alexei, SVP hardcore vodka drinker BYOB.

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