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ADA Machine

by Virgina Maria Moreira Franco, Cinthia Mendonça, Brunella Provvidente, Luciana Fleischman, Paloma Oliveira y Vanessa de Michelis (Brazil)

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Our aim is to create a machine which can generate presence. This new idea of presence will born from a mix of the exploration of the body capacities with hybrid technologies, merging the real and the virtual. We’ll create corporeal extentions in order to recreate senses often lost in the virtual world. The machine that creates presence works in a spiral shaped time line, far from the default cartesian model. There is no time or space to define, and therefore the presence machine doesn’t have social/ cultural restrictions. The elements are relative and merge into one another, in real time, through images and sounds. There will be bodies created from the fragmentation of the phisicality. Presence as a result of real bodies’ investigation.

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UKI game (level one) - infect a city

by Shu Lea Cheang (France) and Massimo Avvisati (Madrid)

Shu Lea Cheang, with Massimo Avvisati, propose to program and realize in Madrid UKI viral game level one with gestural viral infection of a city.

UKI is Cheang’s sequel to her scifi cyberpunk feature I.K.U. (2000) which tells the story of GENOM Corp. a netporn multinational who dispatches I.K.U. coders to collect orgasm data for profit. In post-net-crash UKI , the I.K.U. coders are dumped on the E-trashscape where coders, twitters, networkers crash. Exchanging sex for codes, code sexing code, UKI as virus emerge while GENOM retreats to BioNet. Taking human body hostage, GENOM reconstitutes blood cells into microcomputing ORGANISMO, void of human intimacy. UKI virus eventually infiltrate BioNet to reclaim lost orgasm data.

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Weapons for Queer Escape

by Zach Blas (USA)

Today, while there is a neoliberal queerness that seeks its politics and recognition through the state, there is another queerness that is anti-identity, anti-state, anti- recognition; let’s call it a politics of escape.

In our ever-increasing world of biometric capture and recognition apparatuses, this queer politics of escape requires weapons. Hardt and Negri have told us “we need to invent new weapons for democracy today.” They give us the example of Queer Nation’s kiss-ins. What kinds of weapons do we need to create for queer escape?

This project will design a series of weapons that aid queers in resisting mechanisms of recognition-control, starting with new scientific studies on gay facial recognition, otherwise known as "fag face."

Conversaciones improbables

by Helen Torres Sbarbati (Barcelona) 

The aim is the generation of intersubjective communications and sound cartographies from interventions in public space with messages issued to randomly selected people in public spaces. These messages will be created in language workshops, recorded in voice workshops and broadcasted to passerbies, who can in turn record their feelings from the experience. All the material will be placed on virtual maps like unlikely encounters. These maps will also include recordings of sounds considered intimate/forbidden/domestic to document sound landscapes that blur boundaries between public and private, corporal and virtual, distance and remoteness, communication and loneliness.

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Identidades deGeneradas

by Eva San Juan García (Madrid)

The main idea of the proyect revolves around the concept of gender, as well as the influence this has on sexuality, identity and people´s individual performances.

It means to show and point out the ways in wich the term "gender" helps to stablish and strengthen certain social models, defining our vital apetites and curbing them in an exclusive way.

[...] To emphasize the globalizing intention of turning us into biotechnological constructions.