arse elektronika, the conference on sex and technology.
Arse Elektronika 2013 ID/ENTITY monochrom‘s festival on sex and tech and id/entities. October 3-6, 2013 in San Francisco. Call for talks, performances, workshops, games, machines. Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2013 Sex, technology, identity… big-ass sweeping themes for Arse Elektronika 2013. Identity, but also identification. Technologies for the exploration of identities. Technologies for the articulation … Read more
Eric Cuadra’s great video summary of Arse Elektronika 2012 for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Paolo Pedercini of Molleindustria on procedural representations of sex in videogames. Talk given at Arse Elektronika 2012. Arse Elektronika (not to be confused with the similarly sounding, slightly more established new media art festival in Linz) is the most important conference investigating the intersection of sex and technology. The past six editions revolved around themes … Read more
A chat with Johannes Grenzfurthner, the brainiest pervert of them all. Arse Elektronika’s 2012 incarnation was, to my mind, the world’s first sex-positive, sex-focused gaming conference. It was hosted by Johannes Grenzfurthner, of the philosophy/art/tech consortium Monochrom. The genial host is part MC, part mad professor, tossing around PHD-level queer theory one moment, posing for … Read more
Sex games, (and games about sex, and sexual devices with gameplay elements, and so on), certainly have a ways to go before they become “mainstream” in any real way, if they ever do at all. Perhaps that’s a large part of the appeal – attendi ng Arse Elektronika – particularly the opening ceremony – felt … Read more
Fellow nerdverts! We were finally able to publish this year’s schedule and all the information about talks, performances and games! Hooray! And please help spread the word about our online ticketing system! We can’t wait to see all of it happen! Yours, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Heather Kelley, Günther Friesinger, Jennifer Holmes and the rest of the … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2012 San Francisco, USA 4PLAY: Gamifuckation and Its Discontents Call for papers, talks, workshops, performances, and GAMES. [In addition to traditional talks, workshops, and papers, this year we are also accepting submissions of games. This can include digital games, street games, LARPs, social rulesets, procedural game-art, or other forms, for demonstration, presentation, or … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner (head of Arse Elektronika) will give a presentation at the “Sexual Cultures Conference”. This conference, co-hosted by the Onscenity Research and the School of Arts and the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University, will take place on April 20-22 at Brunel Univesrsity, London, UK. Link
The wonderful tech-art magazine NEURAL (issue 40) printed a review of Arse Elektronika anthology #3: “Of Intercourse and Intracourse” (published by RE/Search and monochrom). Enjoy! (Click to enlarge)
Dan Massey of Venus Plus X sent us a very interesting article he wrote. I thought you might enjoy my recent socialist-capitalist fusion blog “comparing and contrasting” Arse Elektronika and Singularity Summit. Can us wild futurists ever work together? Will the rich invest in erototech? Link