{"id":10448,"date":"2011-10-18T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-1179"},"modified":"2011-10-18T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T11:05:14","slug":"arse-elektronika-come-for-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/arse-elektronika-come-for-science-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arse Elektronika: Come for science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VenusPlusX attended Arse Elektronika 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tThe presentations were extremely wide-ranging, and showed the<br \/>\n\tcreativity possible as a new age of sexual freedom emerges. Each one<br \/>\n\tincrementally stretched the group or &#8220;hive&#8221; mind in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\tAmong the dozen+ offerings, we heard from\u00a0Kitty Stryker in her frank talk, <em>&#8220;Sex Work, Disability, and Stigma&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>and\u00a0Maymay\u00a0presented &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/maybemaimed.com\/\">A Class Analysis of Social Status in the BDSM Scene<\/a><\/em>\u201d (also available on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rWNzYt4RlgE&#038;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube<\/a>).\u00a0David Fine, who vaguely describes himself as &#8220;<em>a Sex Robot from the 25th century&#8221; <\/em>spending\u00a0his<br \/>\n\ttime in our era guiding technology in useful, or at least interesting,<br \/>\n\tdirections, brought us his reimagining of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindflex\">Mindflex<\/a>\u00a0kids&#8217; toy (available on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mattel-P2639-Mindflex-Game\/dp\/B001UEUHCG\">Amazon<\/a>) which he modified to activate a vibrator, simple and perhaps the first attempt we\u2019ve seen to apply an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroencephalography\">EEG headset\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0to a sex toy; The future possibilities are endless.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venusplusx.org\/columbia\/?p=4184\">link<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd there have been many other <a href=\"http:\/\/maybemaimed.com\/2011\/10\/05\/re-caste-ing-alternative-sexuality-a-class-analysis-of-social-status-in-the-bdsm-scene-arse-elektronika-2011-screw-the-system\/\">write-ups<\/a> and comments, we can&#8217;t link all of them here, but feel free to google.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venusplusx.org\/columbia\/?p=4184\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VenusPlusX attended Arse Elektronika 2011. The presentations were extremely wide-ranging, and showed the creativity possible as a new age of sexual freedom emerges. Each one incrementally stretched the group or &#8220;hive&#8221; mind in real time. Among the dozen+ offerings, we heard from\u00a0Kitty Stryker in her frank talk, &#8220;Sex Work, Disability, and Stigma&#8221;\u00a0 and\u00a0Maymay\u00a0presented &#8220;A Class &#8230; <a title=\"Arse Elektronika: Come for science!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2011\/10\/18\/arse-elektronika-come-for-science-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}