Taugshow # 14

Nach einer Ewigkeit wieder einmal in Wien. Und das auch noch heute Abend! Illustre Gäste (Emmanuel Goldstein und Jason Brown), erlesene Musikanten (Georg Gratzer und Thomas Mauerhofer) und zwei special guest hosts: Nikita Chrusov und Gennadyi Moloshnikov.

Kommen! Weitersagen! Trotzdem kommen!

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++TAUGSHOW #14++
Friday, September 21, 2007 / 8:30 PM @ Metalab, Vienna

// EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN ON HACKING AND POPULAR CULTURE

Hacking is, very simply, asking a lot of questions and refusing to stop asking. He says this is why computers are perfect for inquisitive people -- they don't tell you to shut up when you keep asking questions or inputting commands over and over and over. But hacking doesn't have to confine itself to computers. Anyone with an inquisitive mind, a sense of adventure and strong beliefs in free speech and the right to know most definitely has a bit of the hacker spirit in them.

We’ll ask Emmanuel Goldstein about hacking and popular culture.

Eric Gordon Corley, also frequently referred to by his pen name of Emmanuel Goldstein, is a prominent figure in the hacker community. He and his non-profit organization 2600 Enterprises, Inc., together publish a magazine called “2600: The Hacker Quarterly“, which Corley founded in 1984. He hosts a weekly radio program in New York called "Off the Hook."

// JASON BROWN ON NON-HUMAN ENTITIES AND COMMUNICATION

How would non-human entities communicate with the primates of earth? Would they use radio signals? Or poorly built spaceships which inexplicably crash in the desert? Or would they communicate through highly charged symbols and bizarre psycho-sexual performances?

Jason Brown is an ambient noisemaker, constellation manipulator, and paranoid historiographer. He is consigliere of Machine Project, a Los Angeles based non-profit which encourages heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious. He is director of Superbunker, a framework for conducting and disseminating critical and creative research. He was a founding member of c-level, a collaborative group which focused on media, protest and play. He is acting janitor of Betalevel, an underground venue beneath Chinatown. He is an instructional technologist at Pomona College.

/// Regulars:

EVELYN FÜRLINGER, MA.

Evelyn presents "Wicked Wordz", our regular column about lingustics.

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/// Showband:

CARYSFORT STORIES

Georg Gratzer is a classically trained musician and plays saxophones, bass clarinet, flute and percussion. He has studied jazz saxophone in Austria and plays in a successful folk band there.

Georg brings elements from all over the musical world to his jazz improvisations and compositions. Currently he is exploring extended woodwind techniques creating entirely new sounds.

Thomas Mauerhofer trained in classical guitar, studied jazz guitar at the prestigeous Graz University, and plays in rock bands. He has developed a huge repertoire of guitar music and styles, which he brings to his jazz improvisations with sublime ease.

Thomas is also a producer and director and continues to "play" the computer to create new musical textures.

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