Porn pour porn soiree
20:00 saturday oct 1
Porn Pour Porn Soirée
Porn Pour Porn Soirée on Saturday night will have performances, screenings, DJ/VJ acts, live music and drinks.
The evening will kick off with the book launch of Katrien Jacobs’ book: ‘Libidoc: Journeys in The Performance of Sex Art’ (Maska Publications). The launch will be followed by a mixture of live and mediated acts, screenings, and will end in party sounds and video specials by Phag off and girlswholikeporno.
The Porn Pour Porn performers will engage in a dialogue with the netporn society. Media artists and porn performance will seduce or educate the audience with a provocative mixture of highbrow and lo-fi porn experiments.
Kim Jan Bréwee: ‘Plane’, ‘Fast Evolution City’ and ‘War’ that are all made with footage found on the web.
Shu Lea Chang: ‘IKU’
Dawn/Duana: ‘Sex Dolls’
Darko Fritz: ‘XXX [body . technology . desire . porno]’
Antonia Hernandez: ‘Latex Heart: domestic porn’
Mistress Koyo and Karla Grundick, ‘www.linuxvirgin.info’
Peter Luining: ‘Doktertje Spelen’
Frédéric Moffet: ‘Hard Fat’
Adam Zaretsky and Barbara Groves: ‘Ovarium.org’
Porn Pour Porn Soirée: music, visuals, performances by Phag Off and Girlswholikeporno
Kim Jan Bréwee shows the video animations ‘Plane’, ‘Fast Evolution city’ and ‘War’ at NETPORN. These animations are made from footage found on the Web. The footage is digitally remastered to become short videos, which should be played in loop. His work revolves around image quotes, the use of stereotypical images token from the media and the world of film.
Shu Lea Chang’s IKU is an innovative Japanese production that depicts a world where sex may soon be deemed obsolete by the GENOM Corporation, which develops a machine capable of sexually satisfying the user by connecting a computer directly to the brain. In order to collect data on the sexual preferences of every sort of person, they send seven sexy cyborgs into the city of New Tokyo with the intent of having relations with as many people as possible. Experimental and explicit, Shu Lea Chang’s sci-fi-film crosses all sorts of boundaries while making creative use of digital filmmaking technology.
Dawn/Duane ‘SexDollSex.com’ is a web-based new media project that will feature an Internet sex doll community. Modelled after popular PHP web communities and amateur porn sites, SexDollSex will include a sexblog, photo galleries, a webcam, message boards and interactivity. Dolls will have fantasy personas, will interact and correspond to visitors by writing in daily smut journals, posting sexy/erotic photos, as well as live webcast performances and other media. Visitors will be encouraged to create their own sex doll personas for the site, create sexblogs, submit photos, and join in the sex doll community via message boards and discussion lists.
Darko Fritz’s project ‘XXX [body . technology . desire . porno]’ is a visual composition of encrypted (coded) TV signal dislocated into the physical space (of the art installation). TV broadcasters encrypt the video signal for those who don’t pay a subscription fee. Nevertheless such a signals are present in both the air and at the Amsterdam TV cable. In particular, a TV program with hard-core porno films was recorded. Within unregulated rhythms of distorted and noisy moving images of unsynchronised video signal the image processing just happened by itself: polarisation, black and white and colour negative inversions, image moving out of frame horizontal and vertical, strobe- effect etc. No additional editing was used. During the transfer of analogue to digital video image a new quality of image is achieved.
Antonia Hernandez’s ‘Domestic Porn: Porn as the Last Refuge of Identity’ innovative web graphics—visual essays exploring the subconscious ideas assorted with a particular genre of porn. The piece speaks (visually) about porn as a literary style, the clichés associated to each genre, symbolism,….
Mistress Koyo and Karla Grundick will present ‘www.linuxvirgin.info’. The site www.linuxvirgin.info is currently hosting weekly launches of the linux virgin 1.1-1.5 series, an erotic and informative video series about learning to build a computer to run linux on. In its brief public exposure the linux virgin project has rapidly became a site of contagious, or viral, information exchange. During the two-week preview stage, before the official launch of the site on Valentine’s Day, their project was blogged, linked, posted, and commented on all over the world web.
Peter Luining’s ‘Doktertje Spelen/Playing Doctor’ provokes discussion. The project from 1998 has quite a bit of a history and is considered by some as very controversial. It’s at the moment available online through computerfinearts.com which is hosted by the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art (Cornell University, Ithaca New York). Also there’s no direct link through Google or other search engines to the piece anymore.
Frederic Moffet’s ‘Hard Fat’ is a short documentary about the subculture of gainers (a gainer is someone who deliberately gains weight because he enjoys living in a fatter body) that questions our notions of size, desires, beauty and masculinity.
Adam Zaretsky and Barbara Groves’ ‘Ovarium’ is a playful critique of netporn, through exhibitionistic ‘play’ practices that deconstruct pornographic voyeurism. Making use of space and autonomous media to stream video, broadcast intimate forms of play, as did Zoot en Genant in 8X8X72 Fucking Retreat. They are guided by vitalistic and poetic anti-artifice tendencies in finding a new definition of porn.