[aha] Fwd: The Influencers - Barcelona, february 4-6

[Dedalus]

* The Influencers *

Art, communication guerrilla, radical entertainment
Presentations, screenings, workshops, actions
A project by Bani Brusadin, Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a.
0100101110101101.ORG

February 4 - 6, 2010
Center of Contemporary Culture - Barcelona, Spain
http://TheInfluencers.org

With the participation of:

The Yes Men
ZEVS
James Acord
Donkijote
Black Label Bike Club
Joan Leandre a.k.a. Retroyou
Critical Art Ensemble

The Influencers is a three day think-tank that tackles the potential of
non
conventional communication in contemporary society. We are interested in
exploring the hybrid zones wherein autonomous experiments and mainstream
culture blend and collapse into one another. Projects that stem out of a
deeply rooted do-it-yourself attitude, even when they develop into
complex,
large scale projects.

Since 2004, The Influencers has been gathering a limited but carefully
selected number of diverse projects. This 6th installment makes no
exception: celebrity pranksters (with a cause), tactical media artists,
computer games modders, hi-tech donkeys, extreme bicycling gangs, atomic
sculptors, ads' kidnappers, and media transformers will come together for
three long evenings to present, discuss, and perform their work. Whether
they are art works or life long projects, or just weird ideas one came up
with, these practices are fed by a visionary taste for weirdness and
desire
for social change.

Unlike other festivals, The Influencers has no theme, but if you are
looking
for threads to string stories together, this time you will encounter at
least a couple. First, examples of mind ecologies, life after dumb
consumerism, DIY survival strategies for after the brands feast is over.
Second, risky and dangerous narratives. Those risks that you take on when
you force physical, aesthetical, legal, and political boundaries of our
society, and challenge collective imagination to desire the unthinkable.
We
want to show that taking risks is possible, never easy, frequently fun,
and
always very instructive.

The detailed program is available at
http://theinfluencers.org/en/festival/2010/program
For press inquiries, please contact Cristina Diaz:
cristina at theinfluencers.org



-- 
"Ci sono cretini che hanno visto la Madonna e ci sono cretini che non
hanno visto la Madonna.
Io sono un cretino che la Madonna non l'ha vista mai.
Tutto consiste in questo, vedere la Madonna o non vederla."

email: dedalus at autistici.org
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