[artinfo] 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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