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OUT WITH DROUGHT “Matters of Water” properly re-titled “Matters of Life (and Water) returns for World Water Day 2015 (3/22) with a tsunami of film and video demonstrating the importance, meaning, and value of water to human life.
As our blue Earth ball turns in space and life-giving H20 evaporates off its ever-heating surface, ATA is proud to present a selection of work from around the world which examines the raw effects of the Anthropocene or celebrates water’s enduring qualities. Pieces from Hot Water: Water, War and Peace exhibition at Balance-Unbalance: Water, Climate and Place/Reimagining Environments 2015 Conference (Arizona State University/Electronic Arts Experimental and Research Centre/National University of Tres de Febrero) including Detroit Water Brigade, Vanautu Women’s’ Water Music (disaster donation information available!!!), World Water Fund’s Women and Water, Fragmentos de observación by Montserrat Rodríguez, Tracey Benson’s Aeotaroa Wai: Words for Water, Marisa Allan’s Weeping Medusa (homage to Ralph Steiner), Oksana Chepelyk’s COLLIDER_100: Kyiv 2014, Molly H./Simon Cox’s The Litter from War and Commerce Makes Homes for Small Fish, and much more. With possible late-night rain dance, divining rods, and bar.
Hot Water 2015 exhibition selections panelist, OUT WITH DROUGHT curator, and Associate Editor on the Water-wheel 2014 e-book, Water Views: Caring and Daring, Dr. Molly Cox, in person. For more information, please contact: mollybh@aya.yale.edu

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 !

Periwinkle Cinema presents a smorgasbord of queer shorts for you to feast on. Movies that speak of personal stories, community activism, embracing sexuality and the drive to create art.

We are featuring works by:

Mario Ashkar   and Thee Moonbaby

Wren Warner

Ewan Duarte

Peter Max Lawrence

And more!

As always, FREE POPCORN, Raffle and door prizes.