July 6 7 8, 2006
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
free entrance
Welcome to episode three of The Influencers series, the live talk show you won't see on TV! With us tonight, we have media pranksters, star remixers of ideas, saboteurs of academic categories and reality agitators of every stripe.
Over the next three days, our 7 guests will present their work and discuss it with us. They will take us into stories of collective hallucinations that turn into reality and vice versa, like the time a Nazi icon was used to celebrate the patron-hero of a socialist state, or that fun time we spent bribing scientists and crushing workers so that our junk food company would come out on top(at least in a videogame).
And more: porn movies transformed into sequences
of letters and numbers, fake newspapers announcing the end of the Polish
communist regime and a
new king Wojtyla, stolen web pages, an apologia for copying, DIY artists
who have cracked the top ten, masked insects hanging from the billboards
of corrupt presidents...
Our 7 guests will talk about the origins of their projects, their challenges
and objectives, giving us all the dirt on the strategies that
work while suggesting clues we can use to explore subterranean
affinities through different periods, disciplines and cultural contexts.
Acquisition of other identities on a mass scale and a trip through the turbulences
of information flows are our recommended remedies to July sunburn and other
nuisances.
7.30 pm
VUK COSIC 
9 pm
PAUL D. MILLER /
DJ SPOOKY
6 pm video
"NSK. Predictions of fire"
7.30 pm
MOLLEINDUSTRIA
9 pm
IRWIN /
NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST
6 pmvideo
"Oscar"
7.30 pm
VINCENZO SPARAGNA
9 pm
OSCAR BRAHIM
10.30 pm talk
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