Poopsy Club Goes Ladyfest! Thursday, August 10th at 8pm - Rosis, Revaler Strasse 29, U+S Warschauer Strasse, S Ostkreuz Poopsy Club invites you to their Ladyfest Party on August 10th at Rosis. Poopsy Club, the new Queer party in Berlin, consisting of the DJ team: Noisy Pig, Double Agent and A.Ona, presents: VIDEO PREMIERE BY SEXYSHOCK (ITA) AND AHA:ACTIVISM-HACKING-ARTIVISM (ITA-BERLIN) Sexyshock is a communication laboratory that works on political language. To do so Sexyshock have use, also the hacking way, destructuring words and languages, mixing and matching situations and concept and practices; for reinventing the political language and for being more incisive on a vast level of communication. Sexyshock was the first sexyshop managed by women in Italy (in an independent social center in Bologna), but it is also a hyper-place scattered with links, a circuit with which to inract that brings to other circuits. A place where sexuality is central cause, it is the zero degree of connection's desire. In the gender, beyond the gender. The Sexyshock' women use a collective name: "Betty". Expressing the desire to shut down with the need of auto - agency. www.ecn.org/sexyshock AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism, is a networking project based on hacktivism and experimental media art. Created by Tatiana Bazzichelli in 2001, AHA's activity is focused on the organization of events and collective exhibitions, between Italy and Germany. AHA also curates an artistic activism mailing list (aha@ecn.org) and works to spread and study the Italian and international hacktivism. www.ecn.org/aha ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO PROGRAMME VIDEOS BY SEXYSHOCK, presented by Betty (Italy) Donne e Tech 02:42 by SexyShock 2005 Women and technology. Women to be ahead of time and not to have any more problems with cellulite, the use and access to technology is fundamental and this we know. But for those that are forced to pass their entire day in front of a stove or a mountain of shirts to iron, what can they invent? Here is the answer, Bettytech has arrived!!!! Sexual Bricolage workshop on self-produced sex toys Multiply self-production of pleasure, like the making of Chinese balls of your dreams. A workshop on the self construction of Chinese balls in collaboration with "Bricolage Sexual" a project of women in Barcelona. An afternoon where, starting with recycled materials and natural rubber, you are shown manual skill, creativity, desire and hacking attitude in modifying objects of pleasure. Ballare (rap of Carbonifera) SELF-PRODUCTION of TREMENDE, MANU, SEXYSHOCK, TELEIMMAGINI, ORFEOTV, CANDIDA TV(ROMA), NGVISION. A videoclip in occasion of contr(A)zione, two days of mobilization against the then legislation 1514, now the legislation 40 on artificial insemination. Saturday 7th and 8th of February in Bologna 2004. REGGAE DEDICATED TO WOMEN AGAINST THE LEGISLATION on artificial insemination. "BALLARE" Dance or rap of Carbonifera is a reggae dedicated to women, created by Le Tremende, a bolognaise group and Manu. Images and music like effective instruments, inclusive and fun, to produce a campaign against the absurd legislation that was passes regarding artificial insemination. (PMA) ContrAzione Bologna 2004 Saturday 7th of February, over 5,000 people rallied in Bologna against the legislation 1514. Between the approval of the Gaspari law and the Christmas menu, the legislation was definitively approved, now called legislation 40 on artificial insemination. There are many actions against this legislation in various cities to contest the law the regulates the access and application of artificial insemination. The legislation 1514 strongly places the discussion and fundamental rights gained and won by women discriminates homosexuals and has an ethical impastations clearly catholic and interferes heavily on artificial insemination. Between the 18 articles voted without any modification, what also is approved is the legal recognition of the embryo. Now the coalition that supported the legislation is preparing to debate the legislation 194 on abortion. Pinkbus 2004 The 8th of March 2004 a pink bus travels through the streets of Bologna.Citizen action against the legislation 40 that regulates the technology for artificial insemination, promoted by the various women associations of Bologna. Mud fight Sexyshock Bologna 25.09.04 Saturday 25th of September 2004 GOOD BYE LENIN Betty says good bye to social centres after 3 enjoyable and intense years of sex toys and gender politics and beyond gender. Sexyshock moves abandoning the occupied Polivalente Theatre (Tpo) and aims straight to the heart of Bologna. MUD FIGHT, place a bet on a dirty and fun game in the mud.Where the money collected is donated to support the work of Indymedia Italia with the legal team of Genova working on the court case of the G8. Mud fight tour is a benefit format created by the pink association in which includes Sexyshock. www.pinkabbestia.org VIDEOS BY AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism, presented by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Italy-Berlin) Hack.it.art Experimental Video (Berlin, 2005) Hack.it.art, Hacktivism in the context of Art and Media in Italy, has been an exhibition and event about hacktivism in Italy: an alternative and independent way of producing information, art and networking culture. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Alexandra Weltz from January 15th till February 27th 2005, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, the exhibition has shown this widespread phenomenon and presented to the German public the multitude of Italian media and net activism. This video was made by Florian Cramer during the opening of Hack.it.art, January 14th, 2005, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. Info on Hack.it.art: www.ecn.org/aha/English/hackit_art.htm Download the video: www.ecn.org/aha/English/hackit_video.htm Women Hackers Reportage (Berlin, 2005) Video on women hackers realized by the team of Tracks Magazine/Arte TV in occasion of the "Hack.it.art, Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy" exhibition (Berlin, 2005). "In our good old man cyberspace, it should be recognized that the image of the women is one-sided. Their body generally plays a part much more important than their head. It looks still sadder in the hacker scene, the avant-garde of the data-processing culture. Tracks went to the annual meeting of Chaos Computer Club, where the elite of the hacking exchanges and shares the newest knowledge. 98% of the participants were men. But there are some exceptions..." Info (German) Info (French)

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