{"id":11183,"date":"2010-10-07T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-2de-1914"},"modified":"2010-10-07T20:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:39:34","slug":"sfbg-ber-arse-elektronika-the-performant-dies-arses-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/sfbg-ber-arse-elektronika-the-performant-dies-arses-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"SFBG über Arse Elektronika: ‘The Performant: Dies Arses have it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCouldn\u2019t make it out to the “Oscars of computer art” at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria? Me neither, but thanks to Viennese techno-prankster collective monochrom<\/a>,
\n\tI could stay in San Francisco and experience a slightly more warped
\n\tversion at the 4th annual Arse Elektronika instead. An exploration of
\n\tsex, tech, and space — inner and outer — Friday evening\u2019s lineup of
\n\tlectures and presentations turned the Center for Sex and Culture<\/a> into a grown-up game of show-and-tell.<\/p>\n

\tFirst up was “Spaceman” Sam Coniglio of the Space Tourism Society<\/a>
\n\tpresenting on one of his favorite topics: “Sex in Space”.
\n\tUnfortunately, as Coniglio notes, this is not NASA’s first priority as a
\n\tresearch topic and the jury is out on whether or not anyone has ever
\n\tsuccessfully joined the 217-mile club or not. (If so, “they’re not
\n\ttelling.”) But such lack of information hasn\u2019t stopped the hopeful from
\n\tdesigning prototypes of gear that might assist in future feats of space
\n\tsex. With the help of volunteers, Coniglio showed off his own favorite, a
\n\tplushy “snuggle tunnel”\u2014like a giant slinky covered in velveteen. <\/p>\n

\tJason Brown\u2019s extremely entertaining talk, “The Endosymbiotic
\n\tCha-Cha” took the concept of sex in space from the outside in, beginning
\n\twith the premise that humans may fantasize about boinking a reasonably
\n\tattractive, bipedal extraterrestrial race, but in reality, scale might
\n\tbe the real barrier. Perhaps alien life forms already live among us (or
\n\tin us!) at a microscopic level. Are multiplying viruses getting it on
\n\twhile we suffer the side effects of their fevered touch? Wrapping up the
\n\tevening was Heather Kelley, aka moboid, presenting an iPhone app she
\n\tdesigned called Body Heat which allows the user to manipulate the speeds
\n\tof a vibrator using a touchscreen. She showed off its incidental
\n\tpercussive potential along with Jordan Gray, or starPause, who
\n\taccompanied her with electronic blips and sampled bits.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Couldn\u2019t make it out to the “Oscars of computer art” at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria? Me neither, but thanks to Viennese techno-prankster collective monochrom, I could stay in San Francisco and experience a slightly more warped version at the 4th annual Arse Elektronika instead. An exploration of sex, tech, and space — … 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deutsches-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11183","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=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}