a l i e n . c i t y

[ l a n d i n g s ]

Ten thousand towers, the cyclonic hum of a trillion twisting gears, all air gone earthquake-dark in a mist of oil, in the frictioned heat of intermeshing wheels. Black seamless pavements, uncounted tributary rivulets for the frantic travels of the punched-out lace of data, the ghosts of history loosed in this hot shining necropolis. Paper-thin faces billow like sails, twisting, yawning, tumbling through the empty streets, human faces that are borrowed masks, and lenses for a peering Eye. And when a given face has served its purpose, it crumbles, frail as ash, bursting into a dry foam of data, its constituent bits and motes. But new fabrics of conjecture are knitted in the City's shining cores, swift tireless spindles flinging off invisible loops in their millions, while in the hot unhuman dark, data melts and mingles, churned by gear-work to a skeletal bubbling pumice, dipped in a dreaming wax that forms a simulated flesh, perfect as thought -

William Gibson/Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine

On the following occasions ALIEN CITY materialised for short periods of time on special locations, incorporating pieces of the found realities and morphing them with its historical apperance. Something new emerged - the city is on the move:

1999 / 09 / 01 - 09:
- Linz, A, O.K Center of Contemporary Arts / ARS ELECTRONICA 99

2000 / 08 / 04:
- Judenburg, A /LIQUID MUSIC stadtsignaturen

2001 / 09 / 06 - 22:
- alien city news, Hamburger Abendblatt

2001 / 09 / 21:
- musikhalle hamburg, GER / hamburger musikfest

2001 / 10 / 12 - 13:
- Graz, A, Dom Im Berg / musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst 01

2002 / 05 / 16:
- Moscow, RUS, Cultural Center DOM / Altermedium 02 Festival

2002 / 05 / 21:
- Yekaterinburg, RUS, Concert Hall of the Moussorgsky Urals State Conservatory

2002 / 10 / 25 - 11 / 09:
- Poznan, PL, Galeria Miejska Arsenal / Sasiad[ka] : nachbar[i]n

2002 / 11 / 15 - 2003 / 01 / 10:
- Warsaw, PL, austriackie forum kultury / Sasiad[ka] : nachbar[i]n

2003 / 04 / 08 - 05 / 07:
- Vienna, A, Fotogalerie Wien / Dokumentation I

2003 / 09 / 20 - 10 / 20:
- Krems/Donau, A, Kloster UND

2003 / 10 / 12:
- St. Petersburg, RUS, Pushkinskaja / Traumlandschaften