Moments with Alexei Blinov (1965-2019)
February 2, 2020 @ c-base
Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin
Alexei Blinov: Hero of the Cybersphere
by Simon Worthington @mrchristian99 – co-founder Mute**
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/I use Cybersphere rather than Cyberspace as Alexei occupied the digital
space just above the earth's crust with WiFi and lasers and not only the
imagined Cyberspace of the virtual — World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), or
the Internet.////I knew Alexei in the late 1990s/2000s in London and
Berlin, whether running Open Wireless aerial building workshops together
at the University of Openness in London's East End — a self instituted
university — or at the //BerLon
<https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon>//‘PicoPeering
Agreement' meeting in Bootlab or at 'Wizards of OS' FOSS conference —
both in Berlin, where Alexei would be demoing the 'Hive' mesh-networking
WiFi system.////Alexei was always the one driving things forward, quiet
crazily — with wires popping out all over the place, a continual
work-in-progress, but importantly with the courage that makes a true
artist — that of not needing to inhabit the persona of the artists or
make works that need to look like art.///
/Libre, Non-Gratis, Berlon, 2002, Mute/
///_https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/libre-non-gratis-berlon_///
6pm door open.
7-9pm – OPENING memo by Simon Worthington
talks and talks on free rich air and radio waves with Vladimir Grafov,
Adam Burns,James Stevens,Shu Lea Cheang, Cvan, Elektra, juergen Neumann,
Kaffe Matthews, Danja Vasiliev, Sarah Grant, Franz Xaver.
9pm - 11pm
Performance withkaffe Matthews, Martin Howse, Xname, Delfinov,Iwanka
Skrivanek.
11pm onward –
Vladimir Grafov lights up the dance floor with laser beams.DJs: Iwanka
Skrivanek+++++++
ALL NIGHT
*** MIKE OPEN – share memories of moments with AB.
***KITCHEN OPEN
On the menu
Adam Burns/ragu pot , Kaffe Matthews/ pancakes savoury, deep chocolate,
Martin Howse/grilled shiitake + surprise, Shu Lea Cheang/winter pumpkin
miso, Danja Vasiliev /vinaigrette, Iwanka Skrivanek/Borsch soup
*** BAR OPEN
C-base bar serves beer and softdrink is open for small price purchase.As
a tribute to Alexei, SVP hardcore vodka drinker BYOB.
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