BURUNDI datalab studio displej press not only for april 04
- BURUNDI datalab provides a new space for the study (Maria Riskova, Dusan Barok, datalab.burundi.sk)
- A month dedicated to open source. What, Why, How…from the software installation at our computers to workshop open source (Ana Filip, studio.burundi.sk)
- - an opening of the first exhibition in BURUNDI displej + presentation of the program for april (Aneta Mona Chisa, displej.burundi.sk)
exhibition about: blank
Presentation of short flash animations by the youngest authors working with new media
Authors: Michal Tilsch, Vaclav Vancura and others.
- BURUNDI press releases two issues of magazine BURUNDI weekly: April the 1st, April the 13th (Maria Corejova, press.burundi.sk)

Presentation of the Prague center for art and new technologies
(www.ciant.cz)

resonancity Bratislava
performance by Derek Holzer (us/nl) @ umatic.nl
visuals: Sick
“Resonancity” is a project which collects obscure microscopical sounds from various places, makes them louder and changes them. The aim is to create a new sound city inside the old one, call for curiosity a motivate the exploration of ones own environment. (www.umatic.nl)

Derek Holzer: As an artist, I travel quite a bit, and I am often asked to give an impression of cities that I have visited. Since most of my work involves field recordings, micro-acoustic object studies and radio frequencies, I often use them in combination with narrative to describe places I have been. My proposal is to gather a series of field recordings in the city of Bratislava during my stay, a collection of objects picked up along the way and a live selection of radio sounds of the city, and to incorperate them into a live performance [using only free and open source software on my laptop] at the end of my visit.
For examples of sounds collected during a month-long residency in Karosta/Liepaja, Latvia, see: karosta.edworks.net.

Denisa Kera: Technosexuality
There is often a pornography behind every single new and successful technology. Nowadays the explicit connection of sexuality and technology is represented by a character of Lara Croft and another virtual 3D women or various movements such as Technosexual.org and disciples of caducous discussion forum alt.sex.fetish.robots. It seems that connection of a sexuality and technology is not accidental and that technosexuality can be considered as an extreme case of antropomorphisation of machines or in contrary as a “mechanization” of a human sexuality. The question is if delight should be restricted only for people and if it`s not about a time to re-consider the term: fetishism. Maybe the only fetish which we should give up on is only the image of a “normal” and “healthy” sexuality. We will look at historical and new examples of technosexuality and a fusion of “feminineness, death and technology” to decide if this connection is a sign of a future symbiosis, people and machines, or on the other hand the proof of decadence and destruction. The dominance of pornography in various media could actually be a symptom of evolutionary “exhaustion” of our kind. If we would lean towards the optimistic or pessimistic vision of a connection between sexuality and technology, the future will surprise us either in the field of technology or sexuality.

Denisa Kera is a pedagogue at FF UK and FHS UK, where she teaches the philosophical and artistic aspects of new technologies.