The wonderful folks over at Arse Elektronika already have the mp3s form their conference up on their website! So we can share our talk with you, and we'd love, love, love to have your feedback on it, so post a comment here!

The focus of our talk was on looking at the notion of the real in radical porn, and how deciding what bodies are real and are not may exclude some people. We propose that perhaps we can talk more about power dynamics in porn, as a qualifier of what makes it radical, instead of talking about who is real and who isn't. We propose that porn performers should have complete control and final say over the final product.

But we also said a lot more than that! So give it a look and a listen and let us know what you think!

Listen to the mp3 here || PDF of our slides, made with Open Office, here || Listen to the rest of the talks here

Come see the Sharing is Sexy crew giving a talk at Arse Electronica! I'll be there. It was a blast last year. Our talk is Sunday, September 28th at 5pm, as part of the Politics day, right before the closing event. So come out and see and hear us!

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ARSE ELEKTRONIKA 2008
"Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep?"

http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/

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A conference dealing with sex, technology and science fiction.
Featuring the Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2008 Awards Ceremony (an unobjectionable award for sex machines, orgasmotrons and teledildonics), the presentation of the Arse Elektronika Anthology "pr0nnovation?" (about pornography and technological innovation), a curated erotic reading about sex in SF/speculative/alt-reality fiction and -- of course -- a three day conference about critical perspectives on sexuality and pornography in science and social fiction (with keynote speeches by Rudy Rucker and Constance Penley).

Registration:
http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/bookings.html

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Its been a long summer day in the city. The street lights glow a soft orange in the alley at midnight and illuminate the sweat on their skin. As J Bird rolls up, Pennyroyal’s face is lit up by her head lamp, showing her inviting gesture for J Bird to join her. J Bird is enticed by her desires to get down in the dumpster. Inside the dumpster their passion for cunt foraging grows. A dirty exploration of a trash fetish and each others sexy bodies.

photos by lotus

Join us at Cream Coffee Shop on Saturday, April 26th at 1:30pm for our second show of Sharing is Sexy Radio!

The amazing folks over at Neighborhood Public Radio have invited us to do 4 radio shows as part of the American Life series. They'll be broadcast from their website, http://neighborhoodpublicradio.org/ , on 103.9 FM and at the Whitney Biennial in New York City, so check us out in one of those places!

For our 4 shows, we'll be talking about the various parts of our project: queer, open source, porn, collective. Last week we talked about the question of queer and what queer means to us and how we can think of a queer politics.

Listen to the first show here, with music by J Bird, Nicky Click and Jenna Riot:

http://conceptualart.dreamhosters.com/npr/archives/229

Cream is at 4496 Park Blvd, (between Meade Ave & Mission Ave), San Diego, CA 92116

Matteo Pasquinelli's recent article The Ideology of Free Culture and the Grammar of Sabotage examines recent practices concerned with licensing as an anti-capitalist tactic and its broader ideological ramifications for dialogs about file sharing and freedom of information, using the ideas of the parasite, cognitive capitalism and offering a strategy of sabotage.

Pasquinelli refers to "large torrents of pornography" as part of the "excess of energy that shapes economy and social conflicts". I would like to discuss a collaborative project which I am participating in, Sharing is Sexy (SIS), as a material example that engages and activates the issues in Pasquinelli's article. In short, Sharing is Sexy is a collective project with the aim of creating queer porn that is licensed under a Creative Commons, By Attribution, Non Commercial, Share Alike license. The process of creating and distributing porn is used to create radical queer community and to facilitate new conceptualizations of gender and sexuality. Most members of the collective consider it an anti-capitalist project...

What is it that drives me to rub my self and get my panties wet? Burlesque! All right, while there are many things that get me excited because I’m an easy little, fucking slut, I must admit that I love the prolonged, erotic performance of a lusty burlesque show. Oh, just thinking about ripping off my incognito, white trench coat to expose my bouncing, tasseled tits brings a smile to face. Not to mention making out behind a luminescent sheet in front of an audience...