Podrescu

Username

Podrescu

Name

Paolo Podrescu

Birth year

1977

Gender

male

Country

Germany

Website

http://www.XLterrestrials.org/plog

Description

CiTiZEN KiNO is a live performance and public media navigation system. Together with online and on-site citizens we collect and select archival media files on urgent topics or situations in our societies which require analysis and community strategies. We then screen materials in a live engaged public forum, creating an expanded and recombinant cinema, a newsfeed embedded in an art event and unfolding into a town hall meeting. It's potentially a reclaiming of the old Pathe' newsreels + public service broadcasts intermixed with all those disintegrating Hollwood-screen spectacles and cubicle-izing digital frames and arriving at a re-embodied social media gathering. One that that has real teeth for collective agency and unscripted futures. CiTiZEN KiNO: One small step for occupied humans, one giant leap off the edge of our screens ! An open-source platform to return home and start building community again.

I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in

tactical media, arts and activism, collective intelligence, creating new social paradigms, saving the planet, etc.

Faculty

XLterrestrials Institute

Education

film and communications

Working place

Berlin

Collaborators

too many to mention here !

Music I like

Fanfare Ciocarlia, Professor Shehab, OMFO, Dub Colossus, Asian Dub Foundation, Takemitsu, Schnittke, Thelonious Monk, Satie, Bowie, Eno, The Cure, Hector Zazou, Jean Pierre Smadj, The Clash, Tony Allen, Fela Kuti, Dhafer Youssef, Balkan Beat Box, High Tone, MIA, djs SpatzHabibi, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Dr. Israel, Dub Gabriel, Jack Dangers, Adrian Sherwood, Pink Floyd, Pink Freud, The Specials, Bandistas, Baba Zula, Ton Steine Scherben, Tones On Tails, The Knife, etc.

Books I like

This Changes Everything ( Klein) , Escape the Overcode ( Holmes ), The Peoples Platform ( Taylor ), Extrastatecraft ( Easterling ), God of Small Things ( Roy ), Ubik + Electric Sheep ( PKD ), Frankenstein ( Shelley ), etc...

Films I like

Dr. Strangelove, The Spirit of The Beehive, Spectres of The Spectrum, La Antena, Spirited Away, The City of Lost Children, Undergound, Holy Mountain, Truman Show, Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie ,Sans Soleil, Step Across The Border, Mysteries Of The Organism, Wavemakers, etc.

Communication projects I like

Tactical Tech Collective, Democracy Now, Indymedia, Occupy, Crypto-Party, Womex Festival, Chaos Communications Congress, Rap News, Nettime, Pirate Radio, etc.

Websites I like

XLterrestrials
Continental Drift
Monoskop
Stressfaktor
Democracy Now
Archive.org
etc.

People I like

indigenous -thinking people