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THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

February 4-5-6, 2010
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Spain
http://theinfluencers.org

Featuring: The Yes Men, ZEVS, James Acord, Donkijote, Black Label Bike Club, Joan Leandre Retroyou, Critical Art Ensemble, IOCOSE

The Influencers is an annual cult festival held in Barcelona, Spain, at the CCCB and in various improbable locations around the city. Created and directed by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani, The Influencers promotes controversial forms of art and guerrilla communication, presenting visionary projects that play with popular global culture, infiltrate the mass media and transform everyday things into outlandish spectacles. The Influencers sometimes achieve the impossible.

Please come all and bring your friends!

...and if you still don't have enough of us:

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG talk about their work (if you can call it "work"):

CCCB, Barcelona, February 1, 19:00 (Sala Mirador)
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 9

Scottish veteran techno DJ Dave Tarrida invites Austrian veteran techno DJ Electric Indigo to the Moog.

Come down to Moog on Christmas eve to check out two of the best techno DJs on the circuit.

Canadian electro and digital technology festival Mutek makes a trip to Barcelona, cramming a festival's worth of minimal goodness into just one evening.

Canada's Deadbeat headlines the show demonstrating the mixing skills that have entranced crowds not only at Mutek, Sonar and Club Transmediale in Berlin. Chile's Andres Bucci and Barcelona's own Nerone provide support.

Digital technology festival ArtFutura has chronicled the rapid evolution of digital technology since launching twenty years ago, showcasing cutting-edge developments in areas such as virtual reality, the internet and artificial life.

The festival provides a 360 degree snapshot of how technology-dependent our lives are (as if we needed further proof of that) as well as consistently exploring upcoming trends in digital culture, giving some foresight into how digital technology may shape the future.

So if you can tear yourself away from Facebook for long enough, head down to Imagina Auditorio (courtesy of directions from your iPhone or GPS system) to shake hands with a cyborg or lose yourself of virtual hyper-reailty.

Multitouch-Barcelona is a project that was initiated in 2008 by four youngsters. The group started off with a solid technological base that has expanded to other fields in order to satisfy the curiosity of its members. Presently, the group combines technology with multiple disciplines such as communication, design and interaction.

The principal objective of its integrants is to implicate people in unique experiences. The concept of "user" is too superficial to continue being useful; they prefer to speak of people, of their feelings and their emotions.

One of their latest projects, "HI, a real human interface", suggests the nature of their focus to experiment with the experiencial. The importance of the human figure becomes evident in this audiovisual project in which there is no better interface than human beings themselves.

Charlie Todd comes to Barcelona to present his infamous Improv Everywhere project - a NYC group of 'pranksters' performing in the streets.

Previous actions include the 'freezing' of 200 people in the NY Central Station and filling up a NY metro train in plain winter with passengers not wearing trousers...

The artistic duo was born in London with an anxious desire to illustrate the actual atmosphere. They transform the past and present through worn-out, broken textures, and combine original Super8 images, video and stop motion.

The Loft and Lo.Li.Ta present a night full of fem DJ power, an all-woman line-up:

The Loft:
Electric Indigo and irradiation (live)
Acid Maria

Lo.Li.Ta:
Cio D'Or
Steffi

Artist Unknown (Live)
DJohnston

Artist unknown are not at all what they call themselves--known to insiders as DJ Clé and Mike Vamp, the two long serving Berlin DJs also produce for Pokerflat Records under their Märtini Brös moniker.

Artist Unknown was chosen as an alias for their electro output in the late nineties, and--in the middle of a global electro hype--found Clé and Mike releasing some very successful records on Disko B, flirting with drexciyan atmosphere and old school beats. Their latest work is more akin to the electro clash sound.

Block rocking beats straight outta Berlin.

Alex Smoke: Live (Glasgow)
Akiko Kiyama: Live (Tokio)
Eclec Sonde (Barcelona)

Alex Smoke is a Scottish talent making electronic records that blur together European minimalism, pop structures and emotional strings and pads. He has released two full length albums, 'Incommunicado' and 'Paradolia' [Soma Records] and a slew of singles and remixes, many of which have arrived on Soma and German label Vakant.

Akiko Kiyama was born in Tokyo,JAPAN, 1982. She has been surrounded by classical music education since she was a young girl. At the age of 14, she was absorbed in Drum'N'Bass that was occurring in London at the time, and it was then that she made a commitment to club music, to pursue and evolve with the ever changing sound of techno.

Getting lost in the city has never been so comfortable.

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guides include tours from adept and iconic local partners in arenas such as art&culture, culture, hotels, and events. 

25hrs - a section hosted by international artists, DJ's, musicians and celebrities, allows first-time visitors and frequent travelers to experience these insiders' personal city secrets.

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guides include tours from adept and iconic local partners in arenas such as art, culture, hotels, and stories. 

25hrs - a section hosted by international artists, DJ's, musicians and celebrities, allows first-time visitors and frequent travelers to experience these insiders' personal city secrets.

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Btw: my favourite Berlin guide is Long hot summer - Urban Beach Emulation

Berlin is about to go summer crazy. No matter if you're a foreigner living in Berlin or just a temporary guest - it's inevitable that everyone back home will hound you for suggestions of a good Berlin summer tour.

With such an incredible array of unique spots at a variety of strand bars, sport spots, open-air theaters and endless under-the-sky clubs every week, it's always difficult to pick the right spots to rule them all.

And that's simply because every Berlin summer day is usually guaranteed great events, vibrant mood and stylishly debauched parties.

Berliners' faces you might not see out so much in the winter are everywhere in the summer; the typical Berlin hibernation is over and it's time to let it go. Go outside! Go for a round of Boule, visit the wonderful lake sides outside the city, take your BBQ right by the Spree, put the Burgers on the grill, chill and be prepared for a good smoke.

http://berlin.unlike.net/guides/15-Long-hot-summer

What started with vino tino and tostada de huevos de codorniz in Barcelona turned into a full-fledged love affair with the city of Barcelona.

Vienna surprised us even more with an artist's haven of a place, offspace, that we would have never expected to find in Austria's capital.

After few stressful weeks hovered over the computer, we sojourned to peaceful Copenhagen and recharged at one of the city's foliage-filled gardens.

Suddenly, we found ourselves with three more cities on our radar. Barcelona, Vienna and Copenhagen: countless of hours collecting, testing, and editing. We're taking a little weekend vacation now--we've earned it.