The Influencers
dal 27/2/2008 al 29/2/2008
Segnalato da
27/2/2008
The Influencers
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona CCCB, Barcelona
Festival of media action and radical entertainment - 4th edition. The event explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.
Welcome to 4th edition of The Influencers, the talk show you won’t see on TV!
The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism.
The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories: impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In these three days they are going to present their work, show known and less known material and speak with the public about challenges, goals and strategies.
With The Influencers, the border between disciplines is erased (since the message really is the message, and the medium is just a tactic), links between apparently distant projects are found, and bold genealogies are drawn between different countries and generations. Ambiguities are also explored and contradictions are discussed. In the manipulation of everyday symbols, as well as within what is excessive and politically incorrect, we will possibly find inspiration for changing the present and imagining the future.
The Influencers is a three days event dedicated to imaginative subversion of contemporary mediascape. Focusing on the first hand testimony of some of the protagonist of the international scene, the festival is a selection of the most subtle, elegant and visionary proposals of parallel narratives in the realm of media and global popular culture.
Started in 2004 and in 2008 celebrating its 4th edition, The Influencers festival is the main layer of a wider investigation and documentation process about practices of intervention in and distortion of media, technologies and pop culture in the broadest sense possible. This research is conceived to have various access points which include the festival event and the on line video archive you're visiting here.
CCCB
Calle Montalegre 5 - Barcelona
Free admission