I'll be in Berlin as well - my film The Bi Apple is screening in its entirety on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. I'm also on a panel at 6 pm on Saturday at Neue Kant Kinos: "Good Porn for Good Girls": Panel discussion on women directors in porn with Erika Lust (Barcelona), Julia Ostertag (Berlin), Ovidie (Paris), Petra Joy (Brighton), Audacia Ray (New York).
On 9/29/07, kjacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Audacia Ray Office: 718.554.1714 * Cell: 917.334.8618 Community Manager: http://thepeeq.com Personal Blog/Projects: http://wakingvixen.com Executive Editor: http://spreadmagazine.org _______________________________________________ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
