[hackerspaces] Arse Elektronika 2009: "Of Intercourse and Intracourse"

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On 6/29/09, das ende der nahrungskette <jg at monochrom.at> wrote:
> Arse Elektronika 2009:
> OF INTERCOURSE AND INTRACOURSE
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> Sexuality, Genetics, Biotech, Wetware, Body mods.
> http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/
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> Call for Papers, Performances, Machines and Sponsors.
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> Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation
> called "Culture" in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of
> humanoid people in the "Culture" are born with greatly altered glands
> housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete - on command
> - mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person's
> bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered
> reproductive organs - and control over the associated nerves - to
> enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a
> fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a
> static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral
> change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a
> convention that each person should give birth to one child in their
> lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which
> it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating
> one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society
> would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and
> hence numerical parity will be established.
> Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre?
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> We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species.
> And that's why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex,
> technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies,
> genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of
> literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year
> will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic
> bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our
> ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough.
> "Bizarre enough for what?" -- you might ask. Bizarre enough to
> subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that
> we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within
> the next century.
> Don't you think, replicants?
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> Please send us [arse2009 AT monochrom.at] your papers, ideas, machines!
> Deadline: July 31, 2009!
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> Festival Schedule:
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> October 1: Film festival(*), opening ceremony and Prixxx Arse
> Elektronika(*) Gala
> October 2: Literature, fiction, reading
> October 3: Talks and discourse
> October 4: DIY workshops
> (*) Separate calls will be out shortly.
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> Arse Elektronika 2009 will take place in San Francisco, USA.
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> http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/
> http://www.arse-elektronika.com
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