monochrom has just announced Arse Elektronika 2009: “Of Intercourse & Intracourse”, their annual conference on sex, technology and the future, which takes place October 1-4 in San Francisco, kicking off with the Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2009 Awards Ceremony on October 1st at the Roxie Theater. Here’s the full schedule.
We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. And that’s why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex, technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. “Bizarre enough for what?” — you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century.
Dont you think, replicants?
At this year’s event monochrom will be releasing their second Arse Elektronika Anthology “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?”.
Taking up where the successful first part of our series left off, this anthology stands under the motto “future” — and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in it. Maintaining a broadened perspective on technical development and technology while also putting special emphasis on its social implementation, this year’s conference focuses on Science and Social Fiction.
Here are a few photos I shot last year at Arse Elektronika 2008.
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- Arse Elektronika 2009 Festival Highlights
- Arse Elektronika 2008, Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep?
- Arse Elektronika 2008 Call For Papers & Sponsorship
- Arse Elektronika 2007, A Conference About Pr0nnovation?
- Photos: Arse Elektronika 2009
