Particle Capitalism Project - Opens in Berlin - 10-12-2007

From my friend and advisor Ricardo Dominguez and conspirators and collaborators. I added one of the short stories as well. I interviewed him and Diane on my show Radio Antifascista previously and they performed a reading of some of the shorts from this piece.

PARTICLES OF INTEREST: TALES FROM THE MATTER MARKET (a b.a.n.g lab project)
by Ricardo Dominguez and Diane Ludin (Principal Investigators)
Tristan Shone, Nina Waisman and Caleb Waldorf (Lead Researchers)

http://pitmm.net/

Tags: nanotech, nanotechnology, pitmm, particlecapitalism, banglab, sandiego, newyork, berlin, nomad

Nomadic new york counters Manhattan’s restless flow of money with “decelerated” in-between spaces. Their performance art refuses spectacle.
It takes on a political dimension through the formation of temporary collectives which occupy spaces in new ways. The artists open up New York
and Berlin through their nomadic coming and going, their avoidance of
fixed structures. In Berlin they will tell us a story of life in the
global metropolis, a story that we all have in common.

For the market, nanoparticles hold the 21st century’s great promise. For
critics, they are a vision of pure horror, as long as the toxicological
risks are not known. The era of unregulated nanocapitalism has already
dawned, with these smallest of particles being used today in cosmetics,
fabrics and dyes. Ricardo Dominguez, founder of the Electronic Disturbance
Theater and initiator of virtual sit-ins on the Zapatista resistance, sees
his art as explicitly politically commissioned. He and Diane Ludin invite
the public to a multimedia lecture-performance with two leading
nanotechnologists that will provide insight into the stories of the global
particle market. Knowledge is action!

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2007/new_york/veranstaltungen_14292/Veranstaltungsdetail_1_15249.php

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