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• Yomango
• The Yes Men
• Retroyou
• Eddo Stern
• Candida
• Big Noise

The American Union and The United States of Europe: the old world, the new world and the new world order. Do we really live in political blocks with conflicting interests and diverging ideologies, or are these just interchangeable chessboards for the same transnational players?

d-i-n-a, the Southern European-born collective of media agitators, travels to New York City, the historical bridge between the old world and the new world, to present The War of The Worlds, a showdown of projects and performances from both North America and Europe.

During a two-day session of open and direct confrontation, artists, activists, engineers and pranksters will present their work in the fields of semiotic warfare, critical entertainment and media activism.

The War of The Worlds, a title that echoes both the fiction of civilization’s clash and the media-induced illusion of its reality, will show how these actors are able to imagine and create new worlds, beyond the boundaries of the Atlantic Ocean and the limits of the Atlantic Pact.

The modification of widely available tools of communication and entertainment, high and low profile forms of subvertising and semiotic manipulations, the development of autonomous channels of communication; these are the playing fields of our guests.

The War of The Worlds will have neither winners nor losers, just many enthusiasts playing a game where creativity, knowledge and technology speak the language of advertising, art and entertainment, to create the conditions to efface boundaries and break fences, and ultimately to bring people together and back to reality.