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| FM4 about Arse Elektronika Robert Glashüttner is reporting about our Arse Elektronika and the Arse Elektronika anthology. Techno dank Porno  Link Posted by johannes, Saturday, December 20, 2008 pr0nnovation: Pornography and Technological Innovation // Austrian presentation Austrian book presentation,... yes! It is our pleasure and privilege to present you with the first Arse Elektronika Anthology: "pr0nnovation?"  From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development. Is it going too far to assume that research in nanotechnology and genetic engineering will be influenced by our sexual needs? The question is not whether these technologies alter humanity, but how they do so.December 16, 2008, 8 PM @ Raum D / Museumsquartier Vienna Link Posted by johannes, Sunday, December 14, 2008 Arse Elektronika Anthology "pr0nnovation?" on Amazon Europe You can now order our Arse Elektronika Anthology "pr0nnovation?" via Amazon Europe. Link Posted by johannes, Monday, October 20, 2008 Mark Dery blogs about "pr0nnovation?" Pr0nnovation? Pornography and Technological Innovation, an anthology of lectures from the first Arse Elektronika conference (which I keynoted, in San Francisco, in September 2007), published by the legendary underground press Re/Search in conjunction with conference organizers Monochrom, an "art-tech-philosophy collective" based in Austria. Link / Mark Dery's blog Posted by johannes, Monday, October 20, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle: "Why Machine Sex?" Violet Blue (San Francisco Chronicle) goes deep undercover to find out why women like to have sex with machines, and why people pay good money to watch. As this year's international sex and technology conference Arse Elektronika 2008 hit its stride last Saturday -- that's Folsom Street Fair eve here in San Francisco – I found myself on a panel discussing "The Erotic of the Machine" with six men and a sizable audience. The men were an assembly of artists from the Bay Area and Seattle to Austria and France, along with a sex machine maker, a sex machine pornographer and a spokesperson from San Francisco's Kink.com, where the most famous sex machine site hails from. (That's F-ing Machines.com, also here in San Francisco.)Link Posted by johannes, Thursday, October 02, 2008 Arse Elektronika 2008 Flickr Group Arse Elektronika 2008: Yeah! Thanks to all the visitors, helpers, speakers, performers! Arse Elektronika 2008 was a blast! We still don't know if androids sleep with electric sheep... but what the heck. Please help us organize, fund and promote Arse Elektronika 2009... A reminder: the Arse Elektronika Anthology "pr0nnovation?" is out and can be ordered here or via RE/Search. More pictures and reactions soon. Posted by johannes, Monday, September 29, 2008 Archives
| Arse Elektronika 2008 is being supported by:        Taking up where the successful conference in autumn 2007 left off, this year's Arse Elektronika 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. The genre of the "fantastic" is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, irregardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well. |