Posted March 30th, 2009 by surplus
Monday, March 30, 7:30pm (free)
Please join us for a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker’s Manifesto.
Bifo has been a pivotal figure in Italian social movements for that past 40 years. He co-founded the legendary Radio Alice [...]
Posted March 7th, 2009 by surplus
(Photo credit Cary Conover http://www.caryconover.com)
The Subsumption Machine, is a skeletal multi-level media tower hacked with video projections, TV monitors, billboards, stage sets, building models, live video feeds, and surveillance cameras. As the audience walks through the chaotic architectural structure the onstage and backstage merge. Participants are captured on camera and unwittingly inserted into [...]
Posted March 5th, 2009 by surplus
Join us on March 6 and 7 at Eyebeam for MIXER: EXPO, an alternative “World’s Fair” with airborn surveillance balloons, guerilla media towers, and computerized prayer booths. Explore a temporary village occupied by a dozen engineered pavilions, performances, and DJ sets by Tim Sweeny and Juan MacLean. Not An Alternative’s interactive installation The Subsumption [...]