[aha] CYBORG: Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings

[Lorenzo Tripodi]

Ogino:knauss  ci sarà con estremo piacere. 


> On 18 May 2015, at 12:59, T_Bazz <t_bazz at ecn.org> wrote:
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> vorrei invitarvi al secondo evento del Disruption Network Lab, in cui la
> traduzione inglese del libro Il Cyborg di Antonio Caronia verra'
> finalmente presentata a un pubblico internazionale, attraverso un
> programma di conferenze e live performance.
> Spero che alcuni di voi possano essere a Berlino in quei giorni.
> 
> Cari saluti,
> 
> T_Bazz
> 
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> 
> CYBORG
> # Hacktivists, Freaks and Hybrid Uprisings
> 
> Location:  Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
> Date: 29th of May 2015 (17.00-21.30), 30th of May 2015 (16.00-21.30).
> Admission: 5 Euro per day.
> Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/cyborg
> In English language.
> 
> Second event of the Disruption Network Lab, curated by Tatiana
> Bazzichelli and Daniela Silvestrin, in cooperation with Kunstraum
> Kreuzberg /Bethanien.
> 
> Speakers: Francesca Da Rimini (artist and cyberfeminist, AU); Virginia
> Barratt (performer and cyberfeminist, AU); Jack Halberstam (theorist on
> gaga feminism and queer failure, USA); Franco "Bifo" Berardi
> (sociologist and philosopher, IT, video contribution); Helena Velena
> (trans/gender hacktivist, and technologist, IT); Massimo Canevacci
> (cultural anthropologist, IT/BR); Stefan Greiner (co-founder of Cyborg
> e.V.); Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri (socio-anthropologist,
> cultural producer, DJ, IT/DE); Janez Janša (artist and curator, SI);
> Agnese Trocchi (artist and hacktivist, IT); Magdalena Freudenschuss
> (gender theory researcher, DE); Christopher Coenen (researcher, DE);
> Mariano Equizzi (filmmaker, IT/BG); Paolo Bigazzi Alderigi (sound
> designer, IT); Giacomo Verde (artist and activist, IT, video contribution)
> 
> This two day event presents keynote speeches, panels and live cinema
> reflecting on the relationships between identity, sexuality, technology
> and politics. Hackers, cyberfeminists, (trans)gender activists, artists and
> transhumanists meet to expose power structures embedded in society and
> our everyday life.
> 
> The event is built around the international book launch of "The Cyborg:
> A Study of the Artificial Man", written by political Sci-Fi theorist
> Antonio Caronia (Genoa, 1944 – Milan, 2013), published by Meson Press /
> Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Starting from
> the book of Caronia and going beyond it, the analysis culminates
> discussing the most recent frontiers of biotechnology and transhumanism.
> 
> Antonio Caronia was a political activist during the 1977 revolution in
> Italy, turning after that to the study of mass culture and communication
> theory, and about the relationship between science, technology,
> identity, and cultural imagination. The Cyborg is crucial to the
> understanding of the development of digital culture from the 1980s until
> today, not only in Italy, but internationally. Adopting Science Fiction
> and the critical reflection on technology and the body as a methodology
> of cultural criticism, the challenge is to generate new activist, artist
> and hacker interventions.
> 
> What does Cyborg mean today?  Which new configurations are possible to
> provoke critical awareness and agency through sexuality, the body and
> technology? Do we still need to speak about "a body" or should we go
> beyond physical boundaries to reflect critically on power structures in
> a time of economic crisis and increasing technological surveillance?
> 
> More Information: Disruption Network Lab (www.disruptionlab.org)
> 
> Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director and Curator) tbazz (at)
> disruptionlab.org
> Daniela Silvestrin (Curator and Project Manager) daniela (at)
> disruptionlab.org
> Kim Voss (Production & Social Media) kim (at) disruptionlab.org
> 
> A project funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.
> Supported by the Italian Culture Institute of Berlin. In collaboration
> with the Hybrid Publishing Lab, CDC/Leuphana University of Lüneburg,
> Meson Press, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen, and Aksioma - Institute of
> Contemporary Art Ljubljana.
> Media partners: Furtherfield.org; ExBerliner.com.
> 
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> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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