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Metaphysical Journeys at l’Alarme
Today the Funktion-One sound system isn’t pumping techno but avant-garde jazz and conceptual classical music. People are standing still, their eyes are closed, the focus seems to be solely on the sonic experience. A L’larme Festival!started with a powerful solo performance by the violinist Sarah Neufeld. Her spherical sounds turned Berghain into a place of musical Read more
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Sex, Drugs & Tech
Drones are buzzing through the air. People are sitting around wearing virtual reality goggles. A young start up guy is taking a 3D image of a woman with an iPad. Friends are cuddled up in a huge day bed. Music is playing in the background. Vendors are offering super foods. Bloggers are typing into their Read more
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3D Printing the Future
A couple of years ago I attended a 3D printing workshop at my university. It was organized by a bunch of nerds who held a revolutionary speech about the opportunities of 3D printing; how it would change our consumer behavior, how it would restructure the market sphere, and how it was basically the end of Read more
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Decentralize! Self-organize! Commercialize? / Online and offline art
The Berlin of the 1990s, with its occupied houses, temporary autonomous zones, and anarchistic playgrounds, bore close similarity to the open internet which emerged at the same time. Back then, the possibilities cyber space offered to geeks and nerds seemed to be infinite. Neither NSA surveillance nor commercialization had yet reached into the digital sphere. Read more
Marlene Ronstedt 