Thursday, April 16, 2015, 8:30 pm, $7-$10
XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO #44: The Bitmaker’s Afterlife, plus a fundraising launch party w/ special guests
CiTiZEN KiNO is a hybrid of film, internet, theater, hacker culture, happening and public forum. Each program is an interactive and tactical media performance, a live cinema with variable outcomes. Media clips, video, film arts and animations are collected as only a potential playlist to mix and navigate current situations, to analyze various topics, and to inspire collective engagement. We re-imagine cinema as a dynamic platform to re-tune our environments to open-source community experiences + dialogue events, as opposed to individual consumers downloading finished scripts from a screen.
In C-Kino #44 “The Bitmaker’s Afterlife” we explore a landscape shaped by Neo-Liberal and Neo-Libertarian Gentrification, Silicon Valley’s Technotopian pre-Occupations, and the endgame of The Anthropocene, that slightly awkward concept that we have now departed from the natural world, and are entering the 100% Corporate Agro-male-dominated Epoch, which spawns a disembodied user-progeny of Zuckerborgs, Googleplexibles, Amazonbrood and i-Wombs.
But wait, don’t despair ! We don’t just navigate dysfunction-utopias, we propose a future social organism, a new political operating system and seeking out higher collective intelligence, without the systemic capture-all parasites sucking all your time space-time and/or plundering all your material-world resources required for a sustainable earthbound existence. There are still options and opt-outs !