directed by Derek Sajbel, [US] 2004, 30 min.
> MON 28/01 > MAO Lounge > 20:00
 
Wow and flutter-type clip-documentations from New Yorker, Derek Saybel, who describes Circuit Bending – the individual modification of mass-produced electronic instruments – as a counter-cultural phenomenon. Circuit Bending can equally be considered as global resentment of the increasingly widespread digitalisation of the means of cultural production, and as a critical reaction to a society that is ever more radically conditioned by consumer electronics and prescriptive formulas for their use. A non-commercial and decidedly nerdy network of international activists, which originated at the New York BENT Festival, now stays in touch across the globe via workshops, blogs and festivals.
 
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