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Breakthrough is created as an experimental 12 hour event distributed across Berlin locations, inter-network and radio space from 12 to 24h. Self-organising nodes construct an event occupied with the dislocation of representation [language, software], time and space, and maintained with a strict scheduling and interrupt system backbone (micro-FM and Internet).

Program: http://www.1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html

The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for communication between the past and the future?

Breakthrough, as event, signals a change in direction, a pointing towards new ways of actively describing and creating the world. Within a complex mise en scene of workshops, lectures and performances, diverse artists, theorists, researchers, and hackers collaborate in the creation of a breakthrough which can rupture the enclosure of scientific rationalism and enlightenment without recourse to named magic.

Participants

Benjamin Laurent Aman, Sam Ashley, backyardradio Berlin, Ana Buigues, Benjamin Cadon, Alejo Duque, Leif Elggren, Verena Friedrich, Baruch Gottlieb, Kathrin Guenter, Derek Holzer, Brendan Howell, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Martin Kuentz, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Olga Panadés Massanet, PATO, Shintaro Miyazaki, Douglas Park, Thomas Ploentzke, Otto Rossler, Alia Scalvini, Der Tapeman, TeleKommunisten, Adam Thomas, Marcel Türkowsky, Danja Vassiliev

Breakthough is supported by:

Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009

With the assistance and collaboration of: Backyardradio,   General Public, Mute Magazine, Styx Project Space and The  Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. A production of: _____-micro_research, pickledfeet

Tags: diodes, distributed, paranormal, subliminal