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Cyberpunk seminar at Assembly
Last year's ALT seminar in Assembly event got so warm welcome that we have decided to continue the tradition. Adding to this year's strong league of female guests we present lovely and brilliant sci-fi writer Maria Candia as the seminar speaker. This year's ALT seminar will naturally be about cyberpunk. The topic is "Revisiting the Cyborg Manifesto". Check more from Assembly's site.
Tickets available now for early bird prices!
Buy your tickets now. Early bird prices available before 1st of September so act soon and get the best prices! Choose whole experience, plain and cheaper entrance ticket or why not join us for a luxurious dinner.
Jeri Ellsworth's video interview
One of our two great special guests this year, Jeri Ellsworth is interviewd here and this tells a lot for all of you who allready know some things of her or yet know nothing.
Alternative Party 2009
23 - 25 October 2009 - Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Theme: Cyberpunk
Alternative Party 2009, a demoscene event and a digital culture festival is coming. This page contains the latest news of Alternative Party 2009. Special Guests and Competitions are now published. More info, timetables and detales published during the summer. Stay tuned!
Check also the last year’s website, picture gallery, Results 2008, YouTube channel and join the event on Facebook and Demoparty.net.
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Man Meets Machine
While machines have become more and more a part of our lives, the Alternative Party does not believe progress will stop merely with slightly better keyboards. The first real cybernetic developments have now become reality. Electronic eyes that let a blind person see. Robotic limbs that allow a cripple to walk. There are games that you control with your thought. However, these are only the beginning and, whether we like it or not, the time for cybernetic enhancements is quickly approaching. A time when people will not think twice about upgrading their hearing, their strength, their life span or even their thoughts. When humans develop to the point where they not only construct the world around them, but construct themselves.
The Alternative Party 2009 is celebrating this meshing of electronics, genetics and humans, and to open the future of our species and our identity to debate. After all, we want to become a cybernoid.
- Kristoffer Lawson
See the Man Meets Machine video
Exhibition submit for Art & Technology
