arse elektronika, the conference on sex and technology.
xfanz.com writes: Kicking off tomorrow, the 7th annual edition of the Arse Elektronika conference will tackle the “big-ass sweeping themes” of sex, technology and identity to answer life’s most pressing questions … like “What does sexual desire mean to a dolphin?” Ok, and slightly more relevant queries: “Will apps like Bang With Friends and gadgets … Read more
w00t, perverts! Hard to believe, but Arse Elektronika is in its 7th year! The annual festival about sex and technology will start Thursday in San Francisco – with talks, machines, games, workshops and performances! Link
The seventh annual Arse Elektronika, a conference on sex and technology, takes place October 3 through 6 in San Francisco. This year’s conference will focus on issues of identity through talks, videos, and performances. The conference will open with a book release party for Screw The System, the fourth Arse Elektronika anthology. Arse Elektronika is … Read more
The new Arse Elektronika anthology will be available soon! Humans are a sexual as well as tool-using species. The remarkable diversity of human behavior shapes and is shaped by sex and technology. But most discussions about this tend to make certain assumptions about the culture, class and race of the participants. Technologically-represented sex and porn … Read more
Oh yes! Get them! NAOW! Link (Eventbrite)
Fellow nerdverts! We were finally able to publish this year’s schedule and all the information about talks, performances and workshops! Hooray! We can’t wait to see all of it happen!
Folks, it is the greatest pleasure being able to announce the locations of Arse Elektronika 2013! – Chez Poulet (Thursday, October 3) – Center for Sex and Culture (Friday, October 4 / Saturday, October 5) – Noisebridge (Sunday, October 6) We are currently sorting through all info and will be posting a complete schedule and … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about Arse Elektronika at “Performing Porn (after the computer became boring)”. The event is concerned with the intersections of performance art and pornography, in the context of changing experiences of everyday technologies. The event will consist of performances, video artwork, artefacts, and talks. Performance art and pornography have been interrelated in a … Read more
On Friday — June 28, 2013, 7 PM — festival organizer Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk about Arse Elektronika at Vienna’s Schwelle7. Join us for an interesting evening of discourse — and hands on! Address: Rotenlöwengasse 12, 1090 Vienna. Please bring indoor shoes, no outdoor shoes allowed! (The guy in the picture is not … Read more
“23 WORKS” is a video series documenting the history of the art/tech group monochrom. monochrom has chosen 23 projects, anecdotes and stories out of their 20 years of material and recreated them as dioramas and machines. The group presented these objects at their exhibition “Die waren früher auch mal besser/They used to be better (monochrom … Read more