Within the cyberdelic daze of the early Nineteen Nineties, Mondo 2000 was the publication-of-record for the rising digital counterculture. Based by our expensive pal RU Sirius, it was not only a journal (with an expiration date), however a “unusual attractor” for freaks within the new fringe of computer systems, pranks, digital artwork, fringe tradition, hacktivism, psychedelics, consciousness, bizarre science, and hacking. The truth is, RU and the Mondo scene had been the magnets that drew me to San Francisco in 1992.
In right this moment’s surreality, RU’s madcap memetics and laugh-out-loud cybercriticism is required greater than ever. And so, he invitations us to rejoice the madness on the “Gulf of Delirium, A Gathering of the Cyberculture Tribes” in San Francisco, June 7, on the Grey Space theater. Beneath are the small print. Activate, tune in, and freak out.
The occasion celebrates the stay debut of the band R.U. Sirius & Phriendz and the delicate launch of the band’s album The Smarter Kings of Deliria alongside talks and displays by a few of the group’s keenest minds. It celebrates the vitality of the choice cultural universe within the wild new millennium and stirs opposition to right this moment’s discombobulated state of the nation and the world.
Sirius is greatest referred to as the founding editor of the visionary Mondo 2000 journal, which “was at the forefront of a brand new tradition rising round digital know-how,” within the Nineteen Nineties, says Wired journal, which adopted in Mondo‘s wake. He’s the writer of 14 books, together with one co-written with psychedelic pioneer Timothy Leary. Known as “legendary” within the media, Sirius has been featured in a Time journal cowl story, The New York Instances and quite a few different publications. He has recorded three albums of potently unique music: his newest along with his futuristic rock venture R.U. Sirius & Phriendz, one as Mondo Vanilli recorded for Trent Reznor’s Nothing Data (however as-yet-unreleased), and his late Nineteen Seventies/early ’80s punk band the Celebration Canine.
He and the band can be joined by kindred visionary audio system and displays from the Bay Space’s left-field bohemian mind belief:
• Bart Nagel: Artwork director and photographic shaman for Mondo 2000.
• Mark Pauline: Co-founder of the machine-driven efficiency artwork collective Survival Analysis Laboratories.
• Bean (Tina Blaine): Former chief and co-founder of the internationally-acclaimed cybertribal digital percussion ensemble D’Cuckoo.
• Lee Felsenstein: Seminal private pc inventor and unique hacker.
• Naut Humon: Composer, curator, performer and founder/creative director of Recombinant Media Labs, which produces and presents artworks and performances primarily based on spatial media synthesis and its enveloping digital, different and combined actuality offspring.
• Rudy Rucker: Mathematician, pc scientist, sci-fi writer and a founding father of the cyberpunk literary motion.
• Linda Jacobson: Prolonged actuality pioneer and co-founder of Wired journal.
• John Regulation: artist, culture-jammer, neon signal technician and first member of the Cacophony Society and co-founder of Burning Man.
• V. Vale: Editor, author/writer, musician and founding father of RE/Search Publications,whose “against-the-status-quo” works stimulate the creativeness and optimistic skepticism.
• Cindy Cohn: Govt Director of the Digital Frontier Basis.
• John Sanborn: Pioneering media and video artist who has embedded his futuristic work into company and digital leisure tradition and the aesthetic innovative.
• Cintra Wilson: Author, performer and cultural critic referred to as “the Dorothy Parker of the cyber age.”
The occasion follows by means of from Ken Kesey’s famed Nineteen Sixties “Acid Assessments” that fostered San Francisco’s freak counterculture with a twenty first Century improve. The night guarantees inspiration, provocation, mind meals for thought, resistance and rise up, and most of all reveling and enjoyable galore for freely-freaking outsiders and futurists. Its aim is MADA, MARA and MATA accredited: Make America Dance, Rock and Suppose Once more.
The advised donation on the door from $5 to $40; proceeds will profit Grey Space, which just lately misplaced important funding on account of MAGA and Musky DOGE depredations. Doorways open at 7 PM. Particular advance CD copies of The Kings of Deliria in addition to books and different merchandise can be on sale on the occasion.
Beforehand:
• Cyberculture pioneer RU Sirius’s new album of ‘rhymes in opposition to actuality
• New music from cyberpunk pioneer RU Sirius and The Dwarves’ Blag Dahlia
• Interview with Mondo 2000’s RU Sirius on the web’s techno-utopian previous and clusterf*cked current
