This A-side of A Rational Tangle, released in 2015 on The Death of Rave has the most beautiful drop. Instead of “driving” one should describe techno as “pulling patterns”, I have proposed on the basis of Henning Baer’s mac…
The most beautiful drop in Techno is the A-side of A Rational Tangle by Rian Traenor Weiterlesen »
This is the translated version of an older text about Mensch Meier club in Berlin, German version below. The same snouts that were biting your face in About Blank club, sitting between runway-floor and toilet-ressort, are now sitting in the corner floo…
Mensch Meier Club, a Critique Weiterlesen »
Some common techno writing attributes just make you shake your head, words like “driving” to describe the flow of a track. With a track like the one above by Henning Baer you can hear a big drum and a dark net, and a machinic rubbing…
A new rave writing term for “driving” Weiterlesen »
The year is 2029, we are sitting in front of the prestigious cultural centre owned since some years by the Hyperreality Festival Foundation and we think back to the year 2019, when the first independent issue of the festival was held in the Austrian ou…
Hyperreality Review Weiterlesen »
Between all the content and all the critique and all the performativity and transmediality, between the comfort and discomfort, the noise and the tension, two experiences may serve very well to illustrate Transmediale festival 2018 in Berlin. There was…
“Nothing to Hide” is a film started by Marc in April 2015 with a journalist colleague of him, Mihaela. At that time They were working on different digital related issues (Marc for instance was focusing on the economical issues of Big Data, Mihaela more on privacy). They started attending more conferences (CPDP, re:publica, CCC..)…
NOTHING TO HIDE: a film about surveillance and you Weiterlesen »
Dean Kissik writes for the Spike magazine about politicans and other non-artists as artists or about the dynamics that unfold once you start thinking about non-artists as artists.¹ Here are two quotes from the text and a shituationist reply. Glenn Beck, practises something similar and has very often been described as a “performance artist” himself.…
The Art Historian of Post-Modern Life Weiterlesen »
“Human emotion or it didn’t happen” (NewHive) The Wrong Biennale is a biennale taking place online. Websites are the pavillons. But the spatial and temporal concept of a biennale does not fit the digital realm. Even if exactly this contradiction is what is played out here, I am still unconvinced. Does the vast space of…
Alright on the WrongGrid Weiterlesen »
Remember when all the hip art students were suddenly carrying around french insurrectionist literature by the Invisible Committee and Tiqqun? One could guess it was over in 2010, after that Fox news commercial (insurrectionism became mainstream?), all we can say is, that on the surface only some ironic ripples were left online. Netartists on dump.fm…
