20.10.2012 Datacide 12 Release Party & Conference

[praxis]

datacide twelve will be out in October and we will celebrate with a
RELEASE PARTY & CONFERENCE
in the spaces of subversiv e.v.
Brunnenstrasse 7, Berlin-Mitte

October 20th

The new issue will be available for the first time at the event!

live sets & DJ’s:

Xanopticon
Split Horizon
Dimentia
Key
LFO Demon
Amboss
H-Kon

talks:
“Electronic and experimental music in Asia and Africa” by Cedrik Fermont
The official history of experimental and electronic music is mostly centered on developments in the “West” from the end of the 19th century through the 1960s, and yet, in 1944, the first known piece of African so-called “experimental music” was recorded by Halim El-Dabh in Cairo. This talk addresses the fact that electronic, experimental music, and by extension noise music, cannot been seen as a typically “Western” kind of music. The origins of the very notion of noise music do not entirely belong to “Western” culture, but most probably stem from technology, modernization, and often urbanism. What about non-Western composers of experimental, electronic and noise music, who have been written out of histories? Which culture(s) and which non-Western nations are they influenced by? Are they still maintained under a post-colonial cultural yoke?

“2012 IS THE SEASON FOR TREASON: An Assault on Establishment Culture in Germany” by the OKK Team Chus Martinez, Francisco José Avestruz & Otto Karl Kamal
Extending the assault on capitalist society through a radical take on Berlin Biennale 7, dOCUMENTA (13) and similar propaganda tools, the OKK Team will present their analysis of and strategies for countering these bourgeois gentrification festivals and their “activist” participants who are often sporting either extreme naivety or some “brown” (i.e. fascist) ideology. For more info go to: http://2012istheseasonfortreason.wordpress.com/

“On the Map – Control and Freedom in Geographic Information Systems” by Split Horizon
The merger of cartography, statistical analysis and database technology threatens our privacy and autonomy, while simultaneously pluralizing our consensus of what exists, or has existed, at a place. Digital map making is now a crucial form of communication, and a newly contested media that begs exploration. This talk addresses the most severe technological consequences of location tracking, while presenting creative directions, détournements, and strategies that free and open source GIS/GPS technologies now make available to the general public.



talks will start in the early evening – a more precise time-table will be posted closer to the date – and will be free to attend.

party will start at 11pm

[nemeton]

Doors/Bar open 6pm

7pm: Datacide – introduction to the new issue by CF

7.30: “Electronic and experimental music in Asia and Africa” by Cedrik Fermont

8.30: “2012 IS THE SEASON FOR TREASON: An Assault on Establishment Culture in Germany” by the OKK Team Chus Martinez, Francisco José Avestruz & Otto Karl Kamal

9.30: “On the Map – Control and Freedom in Geographic Information Systems” by Split Horizon

Each speaker is briefly introduced by Nemeton, and each talk is hopefully followed by lively discussion.

Party starts at 11pm

23:00 – 24:00 datacide dj squad

24-24.40 Key - live

24.40-1.40 Amboss - live

1.40-2.40 Dimentia - live

2.40-3.40 Split Horizon - live

3.40-4.40 Xanopticon - live

04.40 – 05.40 LFO Demon - dj set

05.40 – 06.40 H-Kon - dj set

6.40 – end datacide dj squad