The announcement of this sunday’s Europool event by Creamcake provides insights into culture politics and funding terminology related to the cultural sector of Berlin today. Creamcake is a popular party series that has taken place in Südblock and later Ohm, featuring musicians connected to the digital sphere, which also has organised an art festival last…
End of march exhibitions, presentations, sounds, places: Chto Delat exhibition is still on at KOW Gallery Florence Jung at Edmund Felson until the 25th Achim Szepanski/Andrzej Steinbach book presentation Ultrablack of Music 29th at Echo Books Long Now in Kraftwerk Berlin 25th-26th 28th Dead Ladies Show 23rd+24th Säule Opening at Berghain yours,
“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..)…
The London based blog History is Made At Night recently reported that the National Government archives of the UK released Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990, including discussions amongst Ministers and officials of how to clamp down on ‘Acid House’ parties: “A letter from the Home Secretary to Geoffrey Howe from 2 November…
Richard Spencer spreads racism, yet he seemed surprised when somebody answered on a violent level and interupted him from spreading his calls for “peaceful ethnic cleansing”. This was last week, you have probably seen one of the countless music remixes of the event. Some people online now claim to have identified the person who did…
oops excuse our downtime, we renewed the domain now. happy new year back online, the ninth year of existence for shituationism. and remember: shituationism is not ‘accept everything’ shituationism is not ‘alternative facts’ shituationism is not ‘the present in drag’ shituationism is not a myth shituationism is not hedonism shituationism stands for: radical sounds rave…
Why did the internet feel broken today, as in major websites, like netflix and spotify, were not accessible? I only experienced it through small glitches, some parts of twitter not properly loading, and then a lot of people talking about not being able to reach some websites like paypal, etc.. In this shared experience of…
A short Note If you follow our blog for years you have probably noticed already the name “ION” the project of one of the vanguard artists of electronic music scene in Athens. In times of capitalist crisis Ion is still an active project throughout more than 19 years. I was still a child with…
In case you wondered why it is so hard to find a flat in Berlin, isn’t it supposed to be cool AND crazy AND cheap? Short explanation, it’s capitalisation, the Berlin myth is a collectively produced marketing sheme that is programmed to go out of hands. Our special brand of gentrification, where there is not…
In the current Berlin Biennale there is a section inside a business school in a former GDR government building, because that’s what this Biennale is about, putting art and cyberspace and the economy and the city’s history in touch. In this section of the show the artist Simon Denny has put fair booths of cryptocurrencies,…
Some bits and pieces from this text in Shades Magazine: Artistic value in digital communication On the one hand it doesn’t matter in what spaces exactly youth wastes itself. But what activities youth is engaging with does matter, in case one attributes still hope to it. standardization of life through rankings of experience in a…
…The conflicts of the image economy are currently pacified by myths of the potentials of artistic autonomy and the dangers of financial speculation with art… The hypergraphics of Systaime blur the distinction between money and image in a hyperreality of the market-circulation as digital network and digital network as art world. Currently on view in…
