Dear friends, Here below are the details of the 'C'Lick Me' reader presentation in Berlin at the Gallery Tristesse Deluxe. Mind you (!!) the time has changed from 8pm to 5pm as we did not want to overlap with the talk of our Post Porn Politics allies, which will take place at 8:15 pm.
And there is a lot more going one on at the Berlin Porn Film festival. If you are anywhere close to Berlin, I would say check the schedule and "go go go..." http://www.pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/ ************************** October 25th, 2007, 5 pm, ticket 2 € Lecture and book presentation (in English) Ausstellung "Achtung: FSK 18" Vol. 2, Galerie Tristesse deluxe "C'Lick me, Scratch Me, Gurgle Me: on Netporn's Libidinal Parasites and Overexposure Therapy" On the occasion of launching the anthology "C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader" and the book "Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics", Matteo Pasquinelli and Katrien Jacobs will probe the undergrowth of online porn culture. "C'Lick Me" opens the field of 'Internet pornology' and collects the best materials of two years debate: from the "Art and Politics of Netporn" conference held in 2005 in Amsterdam to the 2007 "C'lick Me" festival in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Based on non-conventional approaches, mixing academics, artists and activists, art and criticism reclaims a post-enthusiastic, post-censorship perspective on netporn, a dark field that has been dominated thus far by dodgy commerce and filtering. Pasquinelli and Jacobs will present cultural-theoretical speculations about porn networks as dystopian biospheres and discuss changes in online dating rituals. Following the views of Ballard, they will discuss the future of ancestral reproductive instincts as they find a path through the channels of a pervasive mediascapes while devouring pornography. They will speculate about the effects of pornography as a "wild joker" within the game of cultural and genetic-biological development. Pornography has been overlooked in discussions of immaterial labour and can reveal perverted, contradictory and obscured feelings of the contemporary psycho sphere. As Sylvere Lotringer writes in Overexposed: "The shadowy figure of the pervert keeps hovering around the fringes of society, haunting its deepest dreams, the object of an unavowable fascination which episodically erupts into violent hysteria and revulsions." The pragmatic response used by sexologists is to neutralize these evulsions by literally over-satiating patients with sex stories and images that capture their exact deviancy. The presentation will evoke the scientist's objective by evoking feverish porn imagery and horny friend finders who embody a rough development and breakdown or breakthrough as sensual humans. The patient will undergo an ambivalent process of experiencing porn as boredom therapy and flippant delicacies. Matteo Pasquinelli Editor of "Rekombinant", Pasquinelli has been involved in several projects around net activism and cultural jamming (from Luther Blissett to Telestreet). He edited "Media Activism" (Rome, 2004) and the "C'Lick Me Reader" (Amsterdam, 2007). He curated the "Art and Politics of Netporn" conference (2005) and the "C'Lick Me" festival (2007) in Amsterdam with Katrien Jacobs and the Institute of Network Cultures. Nomadic, today based between London and Amsterdam. Katrien Jacobs Scholar, curator and artist in the field of new media and sexuality, Jacobs works as assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong. With Pasquinelli and the Institute of Network Cultures, she has organized netporn conferences in recent years http://www.networkcultures.com/netporn and http://www.networkcultures.org/c-lickme. She published "Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics" (2007, Rowman and Littlefield) and "Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art" (2005, Maska Publications) http://www.libidot.org _______________________________________________ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
