Arse Elektronika 2008
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 29 of September , 2008 at 12:25 am
Arse Elektronika, which ended on Sunday, was a blast. Very sexy/technolog-y/society-y. This year emphasized science fiction and social issues, and while some absolutely fascinating topics were under discussion, there weren’t any robot performances quite on par with last year’s NSFW finale. Or much in the way of robot performances at all (depending, of course, on your definition of robot). Since we’d like to keep things more or less PG-13 around here (after last year, anyway) I’d recommend heading on over to Wired for a probably NSFW captioned slide show, that explains what that thing is in the picture above. Scott over at Laughing Squid also took a bunch of nice pictures.
If you’re more interested in the content of the conference, there are free MP3s of the talks available for download here. Needless to say, they’re NSFW. I’d highly recommend listening to the day 2 panel discussion on The Erotic of the Machine (MP3).
It’s sex, it’s robots, it’s the future. Or it will be sooner or later, anyway… So it’s a good thing we’re all getting so comfortable with it here in the present. ::cough::
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