This week strike out the third annualArse Elektronikaconference , an extravaganza devoted to sex , engineering , futurism , and orgasmic golem . If you ’re in the San Francisco area October 1 - 4 , do n’t drop the naughty , geeky bizarreness .
This year ’s Arse features carrying into action and presentations from a gross ton of amazing folks , including R.U. Sirius , Jonathon Keats , Ani Niow , Jason Scott , Rose White , Violet Blue , and even yours truly ( I ’m go to be part of the opening ceremonies on Thursday , showing some gay porn mashups from Japan ; and then I ’m speaking on Saturday about the future of sexual love ) . There will be a party at theCenter for Sex and Culture , as well as a hand - on technical shop on Sunday at San Francisco ’s kickass hacker spaceNoisebridge .
you could peruse the whole scheduleon the Arse Elektronika site , but here ’s a quick overview :
October 1 ( 6 autopsy - midnight ): Film fete , porta ceremony and Prixxx Arse Elektronika Gala @ Roxie Theater
October 2 ( 8 PM - midnight ): nontextual matter , pixels , interactive performance @ Center for Sex and Culture
October 3 ( 11:30 AM-9 phase modulation ): Talks and discourse @ PariSoMa
October 3 ( after 10 PM ): Party and performance dark @ Femina Potens Gallery
October 4 ( 12 noon-10 PM ): DIY workshops @ Noisebridge
Here ’s how the personal organiser introduce this yr ’s topic :
Scottish SF author Iain Banks create a fabricated group - civilisation call in “ Culture ” in his eponymous narrative . The vast majority of humanoid mass in the “ Culture ” are born with greatly altered gland housed within their key nervous organisation , who secrete – on command – mood- and receptive - appreciation - altering compounds into the someone ’s blood stream . Additionally many dweller have subtly altered procreative organs – and contain over the link nerves – to heighten sexual pleasure . Ovulation is at will in the female , and a fetus up to a sure degree may be re - absorb , aborted , or held at a static pointedness in its development ; again , as willed . Also , a viral change from one sex into the other , is possible . And there is a rule that each person should give nativity to one child in their life . It may sound strange , but bank express that a society in which it is so easy to convert sex will rapidly obtain out if it is treating one sex better than the other . insistence for change within society would presumably ramp up up until some word form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established .
Does this place - up auditory sensation too futurist ? Too utopian ? Too eccentric ?
We may not blank out that mankind is a intimate and tool - using species . And that ’s why our yearly conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex activity , applied science and the time to come . As bio - hacking , sexually enhanced bodies , genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focussing of lit , skill fabrication and , increasingly , erotica , this class will see us explore the possibility that fictional and authentic trunk have to offer . Our world is already way more bizarre than our root could have ever suppose . But it may not be bizarre enough . “ gonzo enough for what ? ” — you might expect . Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century . Do n’t you think , replicants ?
I love a league about sexual futurism that begins with a long discussion of Iain M. Banks . And so will you !
Find out more at theArse Elektronika site , andbuy tickets here.(Tickets are for the events Thursday and Friday night , as well as Saturday lecturing . Saturday night performance and Sunday shop are barren and open to the public . )
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