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I’m not playing

25 January 2013

Next week, there’s a pretty good reason to be in Berlin, Transmediale will be taking place throughout the whole week (and we’ll be there to cover it of course), at the same time CTM Fest runs a parallel program. But then… there’s all these small events happening here and there, like Marco Mendeni‘s “I’m not playing” on Tuesday @ Altes Finanzamat.

I’m not playing” is Mendeni’s latest collaborative piece with musician Bob Meanza and the also musician and founding-member of Altes Finanzamt Filipe Dias De; an audiovisual performance for hacked videogame and real-time sampler which sits perfectly within the transmedia context the German capital will experiment next week.

Im not playing invite
Im not playing invite

A little proposal filled with contaminated games and social experiments, more info on how to get there this way.

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Hack n Hijack

1 November 2012

Disappointingly, the word ‘hack’ did not come from the word ‘hijack’, according to the Collins dictionary. But they don’t seem to know its etymology, so it’s still possible. Either way, hacking and hijacking are the two unrelated buzz words in Mal au pixel #7 currently showing at Gaîté Lyrique, who always put oomph into their exhibitions (I’ve yet to be disappointed). Mal au pixel #7 is not simply an exhibition but a nearly 2-month-long festival with films, conferences and workshops…

Suitcase from !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s surveillance chess (image via Bitnik)
Suitcase from !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s surveillance chess (image via Bitnik)

In true DIY Gaîté Lyrique style, the traditional spectator-art relationship is rejected. But neither are these interactive play-and-see pieces. They deliberately take an authoritative position, inversing control. Confronting our use of information-sharing and communications, Mal au Pixel intrudes into our lives, hacking into public systems and hijacking our private data…all to make us feel a flicker of uncertainty the next time we change our job status on LinkedIn. Orwell would be smug, seeing an artistic commentary on the foresight he had nearly eighty years ago (to whom the exhibit Memopol II is referring). Continue reading Hack n Hijack

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