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<font face="Courier New, Courier">###### monochrom's<br>
##### Arse Elektronika 2010<br>
#### SPACE RACY<br>
### Talks, machines, workshops and performances<br>
## San Francisco, September 30-October 3, 2010<br>
# At Chez Poulet, Center for Sex and Culture, Parisoma, Noisebridge and
Mission Comics and Art<br><br>
#
<a href="http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/<br><br>
<br>
</a>### SPACE RACY?<br><br>
Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The
gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and
similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the back
seats of cars, and people fucking in parks. Housing for unconventional
family units. Augmented reality sex spaces. Furniture for sex. Room
design. Creating new environments. Gendered spaces, and gender in the
creation of space. Architecture by women, and the potential for the
construction of a feminist architecture. Actively gender-segregated
spaces, as both empowering and oppressing. Queer-segregated spaces,
similarly. The acts of human intimacy, sexual intercourse, and
procreation in weightlessness and the extreme environments of space.
Erotic space tourism. The visibility of sex, genders, and relationship
structures in various spaces. Spaces of sexual control and
permissiveness. Sexual subcultures as spaces of social division. Spatial
enforcement of relationship structures and gendered power structures.
Geotagging as an expression for kinks. The sexual reading of
architecture, especially around historical and modern styles and
concerning ornament and detail. The eroticization of buildings --
architecture for whorehouses, the Las Vegas strip, people who want to
sleep with buildings. What makes design "sexy" and the
construction of "sexy" as an architectural category as a
comment on late heteronormativity. The terabyte gloryhole. The space in
which the male gaze occurs and the space it defines.<br><br>
Heterosexism, misogyny, and heterocentrism reinforce the dominant
cultural structure and contribute to the oppression of large sectors of
society. Sexuality, sex, gender, and related constructs are heavily
implicated in and reproduce space, and are also constrained and
restricted by it and by heterosexism. Let's explore this space of
interactions.<br><br>
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### SCHEDULE<br><br>
## Opening Night and Prixxx Arse 2010<br>
# Hosted by monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner.<br>
With a superspecial keynote by Susie Bright (All Along the SexTower: Sex
on Stage in America, from Susie Bright's Reporters Notebook)<br>
Featuring many guests stars, like Thomas S. Roche, Charlie Anders (Erotic
mind control via the Internet) and Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas
(virus.circus)<br>
Thursday, September 30, 2010<br>
9:00 PM at Chez Poulet (3359 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco)<br><br>
## Discoursive and Performative Approaches<br>
# With Samuel Coniglio, Jason Brown, Heather Kelley and starPause/Jordan
White<br>
Friday, October 1, 2010<br>
8:00 PM at Center for Sex and Culture (1519 Mission Street between 11th
and So. Van Ness, San Francisco)<br><br>
## Conference for Brainy Pervs<br>
# With talks by Ella Saitta, Ben Dagan, Philip Freeman, Adam Flynn,
Svenja Schroeder, Mae Saslaw, Katrien Jacobs, Annalee Newitz, Carol
Queen, Zac Benfield, Kitten Calfee<br>
Saturday, October 2, 2010<br>
12:00 noon at Parisoma (1436 Howard St. at 10th, San Francisco)<br><br>
## Six Feet Under Club<br>
# Let's have sex in a coffin! monochrom wants you to go down<br>
Saturday, October 2, 2010<br>
9:30 PM on street outside of Parisoma (1436 Howard St. at 10th, San
Francisco)<br><br>
## Screw-It-Yourself: Workshops and Unconference<br>
# With Christophe, Maia Marinelli, E. Conrad, Elle Mehrmand, Micha
Cárdenas, Zach Blas, Heather Kelley, Robert Glashüttner<br>
Sunday, October 3, 2010<br>
2:00 PM at Noisebridge (2169 Mission Street, San Francisco)<br><br>
## Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art <br>
# Lightning talks about technosexual art and comic culture! Give your own
5-minute presentation!<br>
Sunday, October 3, 2010<br>
8:30 PM at Mission Comics and Art (3520 20th St. Suite B, San
Francisco)<br><br>
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### FESTIVAL PASSES<br><br>
# Single day pass: $20 (with a possibility of student discount)<br>
# Festival pass: $50<br>
# Workshops @ Noisebridge: free, but possible material costs</font>
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