[artinfo] Fwd: The Influencers / Barcelona april 7-9, 2005

[Janos Sugar]

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>From: vanni / d-i-n-a <v at d-i-n-a.net>
>Subject: The Influencers / Barcelona april 7-9, 2005
>
>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
>
>***
>
>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
>
>  www.cccb.org