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Noisebridge to host Arse Elektronika 2009

EMBARGO UNTIL 2009-09-21 09:00 PDT

Press release: San Francisco, September 21 2009.

Noisebridge (https://www.noisebridge.net), San Francisco's premier hackerspace, today announced it is hosting monochrom's "Arse Elektronika" (http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/) 2009 at its newly expanded facility at 2169 Mission St (at 18th), San Francisco, on October 4 2009.

Other locations of the 4-day festival dealing with sex and technology will be Feminina Potens Gallery, Roxie Theater, PariSoMa and the Center for Sex and Culture.

Arse Elektronika's 2009 theme is "Of Intercourse and Intracourse". We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. And that's why monochrom's annual conference deals with sex, technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. "Bizarre enough for what?" -- you might ask. 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. Don't you think, replicants?

Noisebridge will be the location of several high-class workshops featuring international guest like Rainer Prohaska and Monika Kribusz, but also US sex tech hackers like Noah Weinstein, Randy Sarafan, Uncle Abdul, Ani Niow and Allen Stein (of Thrillhammer fame).

Workshops:

- How to build a Joydick

- FUCK #XXX: Re-designed household appliances as sex toys

- Direct Electrical Stimulation for Sexual Purposes A Survey

- The Steampunk Vibrator

- Teledildonics 101

- Shakti Lila: Hacking Tantra

Interested parties can sign up for workshops.