2nd June 2007

Paradiso Amsterdam
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Table of Contents 1

Preface 2
Speaker Biographies 3
ArtisT Biographies 8
Time Schedule 11
OPEN LETTER 12
Click Me Publication 16
STIMULATOR BIOGRAPHIES 18
CLICK ME & THE THIRD DIMENSION 19
Practical Information & Credits 20
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CLICK ME is an event to investigate internet pornography in a non-conventional way.
We are looking forward to a queer event without any rigid queer correctness (as queer
doesnt always mean good porn!). We want to rethink the society of the netporn spec-
tacle: the digital zeitgeist that has given us a hypersexual body. What to do with our bod-
ies and digital machines? Pornography has found its way into every nook and cranny
of the Internet, but how can we still be queer radicals or body artists, private hedonists
or fervent bloggers in this climate? Do we still need to have a sanctifed space like an
underground or a dungeon, when we produce desire with our foating networked bod-
ies? Porn went porn chic years ago. Today netporn goes into Myspace bedrooms and
everyday realcore.
CLICK ME is not only netporn displays, but strategies of public engagement and shar-
ing thoughts about netporn. While creating a visibility of desire, we try to experiment
with a new invisibility of identities. From the era of queer communities, we move into
the culture of crossbreed pornography. Even amongst those horny mobs targeted by the
netporn industry giants, people cherish their own queer varieties. Netporn means the
messy process of personal affections and anomalies melting into the databases of porn
masses. In the era of pornifcation of mainstream imagery, there is no more society with-
out netporn, but a lot has to be done to sexualize the critical multitudes. Queer and net
activists, theorists and artists once again gather in Amsterdam to discuss the growing
pains of autonomous culture zones, but also netporn as sexwork, production of affective
commodities and one of the biggest global markets.
CLICK ME wants to create a networked debate, continuing the discourse started with
the frst Netporn Conference in 2005 which was organized by Katrien Jacobs, Matteo
Pasquinellie and the Institute of Network Cultures. After that connecting to other experi-
ences across Europe and elsewhere, like the Porn Film festival and the Post Porn Politics
symposium both held in Berlin in 2006. What does a post-porn politics mean after en-
tering the digital realms of the network society? And what will be the destiny of the porn
genre in the age of the affective technologies? Before brainstorming the dissolution of
porn into commodities or its future explosion in global conficts, our specifc DIY contri-
bution is an anti-essentialist and intoxicated event, with input from new publics, with a
nostalgic embrace of (post) punk wet dreams and sex revolutions. Most of all, CLICK ME
invites you to experience the sexual evolution of the digital generation.
Your stimulators,
Katrien Jacobs, Matteo Pasquinelli and Marije Janssen
PREFACE
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SPEAKER
BIOGRAPHIES
Feona Attwood
Feona Attwood teaches Media and Communication Studies at Sheffeld Hallam
University, UK. She has published widely on sex and the media. Her research inter-
ests include new pornographies, cybersex, women and sexualization and the study
of sexual media in education. She is currently working on online pornography and
womens use of online sex sites.
Maxime Cervulle
Maxime Cervulle teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Lille
3 Charles de Gaulle and works on a PhD about white identity and cinematic
representation at the University of Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne. He has written sev-
eral articles on pornography, identity politics and queer theory, and has translated
into French works from Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
He has edited the frst Stuart Hall reader ever to be published in France, Identits et
cultures. Politiques des cultural studies and is currently working with Nick
Rees Roberts on a book entitled Homo exoticus: race, class and queer critique to
be published in 2007.
Florian Cramer
Florian Cramer holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. He is a writer on experi-
mental arts. Since several years Cramer lives and works in Rotterdam as course
director of the Media Design M.A. programme at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Wil-
lem de Kooning Academy.
http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70
Lotte Hoek
Lotte Hoek is an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam. She studied
Cultural Anthropology and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam
and South Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her
current PhD research project entitled Vulgar Frames: Commercial Cinema in Ban-
gladesh focuses on the production and consumption of commercial Bangladeshi
cinema. At the centre of debates about public morality, the research attempts to
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understand the current controversy over vulgarity in Bangladeshi cinema. The
research tries to see how the controversy infuences flmmaking practices and the
work performed by obscenity accusations within society.
Sharif Mowlabocus
Sharif Mowlabocus is a lecturer in Media and Digital Media Studies at the University
of Sussex. His research investigates emerging relationships between sexual sub-
cultures and ICTs, with a specifc focus on British gay male culture and explores
the themes of identity, sexual practice, pornography, HIV/AIDS and queer politics.
Throughout his research he seeks to form critical, intellectual and cultural bridges
between online and offine space and to this end places himself frmly within felds
of both new media studies and cultural studies. Sharif teaches on undergraduate
and postgraduate Media and Cultural Studies programmes and is co-director of
the Centre for Digital Material Culture at the University of Sussex.
Audacia Ray
Audacia Ray is an executive editor of $pread, a magazine by and for sex work-
ers, and is a contributor to the porn blog Fleshbot. Her frst book, Naked on the
Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration, is being
published by Seal Press in June 2007. In the summer of 2006 Audacia wrote and
directed her frst feature adult flm, The Bi Apple, which she produced in New York
City under the auspices of her Waking Vixen Productions. The flm was released
by Adam & Eve Pictures in February 2007. She has a BA in Cultural Studies from
Eugene Lang College, and an MA in American Studies from Columbia University.
Audacia lives in Brooklyn, New York and online at WakingVixen.com.
www.wakingvixen.com
Tim Stttgen
Tim Stttgen is author and artist. He holds a BA in Film Studies (London / Berlin) and
is Postgraduate Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. As a journal-
ist (Spex, taz, Jungle World) and theorist he has published on afro-american and
asian popculture, cinema, queer politics and poststructuralism. At the moment he is
editing a reader on Deleuze / Guattari (b_books) with Nicolas Siepen and editing the
reader post / porn / politics. He organized the Queere Kunst. Theorie. Politik.-
Workshop at HfbK Hamburg(with Renate Lorenz and others) and the symposium
Post Porn Politics at Volksbuehne Berlin. Under his drag queen alter ego Timi Mei
Monigatti he has performed in Germany, England, Denmark and the Netherlands.
www.postpornpolitics.com
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Terre Thaemlitz
Terre Thaemlitz is an award winning multimedia producer, writer, public speaker,
educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label.
Her work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexu-
ality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-
economics of commercial media production. Her writings on music and culture
have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals and
magazines. As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist Transgender-
ism and Queerness, Thaemlitz has participated in panel discussions throughout
Europe and Japan.
www.comatonse.com
Francesco WARBEAR Macarone Palmieri
Graduated in Cultural Anthropology inside the Sociology department at La Sapien-
za university in Rome, Francesco WARBEAR Macarone Palmieri is an international
stimulator of confrontation and exploration in felds such as Cultural anthropology,
countercultured, queer studies with a focus on pornography, urban Anthropology,
media studies, literature, art and emotions sociology, cultural studies with a specifc
focus on queer culture. WARBEAR gives life to a multilinguistic queer project called
Phag OFF. Phag OFF produces and ride the sexual new wave: cultural Franken-
stein, freaks identities, morbid war machines. Phag OFF deconstructs inner stereo-
types of gay communities.
Phag OFF co-produces 3 Festivals. The Queer jubilee, Tekfestival and Lady Party
now transformed in Fe.male. WARBEAR and Phag OFF participated at the AHA
- Activism Hacktivism Artivism Conference in Berlin, at Queering Sound Festival in
Washington DC, U.S.A. as Digital Contributors to HOMOBEAT @ Cassero Gay and
Lesbian Center.
www.phagoff.org
Adam Zaretsky
Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist, performer, researcher and art theorist. He is also well
known as a teacher of Vivoarts: Art and Biology Studio. Vivoarts is a studio art
and science crossover lab meant to aid art, science and sociology students in
their own exploration of the intersections between art and life. Zaretsky also has
taught in Steve Wilsons Conceptual/Information Arts (CIA) department at San Fran-
cisco State University, SymbioticA, The Art and Science Collaborative Research
Laboratory at The University of Western Australia Department of Anatomy and
Human Biology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Integrated Electronic
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Arts Department. This spring he has taught Vivoarts at Leiden University Honours
Programme in the Netherlands as a guest of The Arts and Genomics Centre.
www.emutagen.com
Nat Muller (host)
Nat Muller is an independent curator and critic based in Rotterdam. Her main inter-
ests include: the intersections of aesthetics, media and politics; (new) media and
art in Middle East. She has published articles in off and online media; is a regu-
lar contributor for Springerin, and has given presentations on the subject of (new)
media art (inter)nationally. Her latest projects include The Trans_European Picnic
- The Art and Media of Accession (Novi Sad), DEAF_04: Affective Turbulence: The
Art of Open Systems (Rotterdam); INFRA_ctures (Rotterdam), Xeno_Sonic: a series
of experimental sound performances from the Middle East (Amsterdam), DEAF07
(Rotterdam), and she has curated many video screening programs in a.o. Amster-
dam, Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, and Beirut. She recently coedited
the _Mag.net 2 Reader: Between Paper and pixel_ with Alessandro Ludovico. After
the July War in Lebanon, she initiated with Pierre Sarraf the N Beyrouth Film
Fund which extends modest production grants to young Lebanese flm makers.
She is co-initiator of the Upgrade! Amsterdam, and has taught at the Willem de
Kooning Academy (NL) and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut (LB).
Bahram Sadeghi (host)
Mr. Bahram Sadeghi (1967, Iran) is a former refugee who lives in Holland since
1986. After graduating from the University of Amsterdam in Mass Communication
he has worked for nine years as editor, director and host for different public TV sta-
tions. Currently he is working as reporter for the daily show De Wereld Draait Door
and program maker on globalizations subjects for the Amsterdam culture centre De
Balie. Besides that he writes undercover reportages and opinion pieces for different
national newspapers and weeklys.
Mr. Sadeghi has no hobbies.
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Khan of Finland
Centered around the fgure of Can Khan Oral, Khan Of Finland are a trio
in the traditional sense of the word who make a sound that is anything but.
Utilizing just vocal, piano, human beatbox, they play an all Acoustic Elec-
tronic Blues but also switch roles and improvise. The piano becomes a per-
cussive instrument. The beat melodic. The vocal full blooded, From the blues
to a howl. The sound veering from metal heavy riffs to dubbed out cabaret.
www.khanoffnland.com
Le Clic
Le Clic is sex, drugs and rock n roll in a nutshell - but with an attitude and sound, that
formed the band into one of Amsterdams best kept secrets of the underground. This
is a band with a catchy repertoire of danceable sexy disco-house. An electronic band
that can make the whole crowd dance is quite unique in Holland... Le Clic sails the
seas of deep minimal, groovy disco and music in the best French house traditions.
www.leclic.org
Dj Sandrien
Sandrien is probably the biggest rising star of the Dutch dance scene. Her spar-
kling personality in combination with her qualities as a DJ, brought her to the top
of female DJs in Holland over the last 2 years. Her sets are always surprising and
full of energy, she is known for her fne tuning with the audience, which in return is
known for loosing it when Sandrien plays her mixture of minimal, electro and deeper
freaky sounds.
Dj Abraxas
DJ Abraxas used to be one of Hollands best known hardcore djs. This was a long
time ago in the early nineties, nowadays he entertains the crowd with something
completely different, sometimes in drag, other times unrecognizable behind his
rubber mask. But always with a wild mixture of music. Where electrodisco meets
gabber and Marc Almond meets Marilyn Manson.
Abraxas is a true trans-genre-bender.
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHIES
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Team Plastique
Team Plastiques music is Sushi Punk - an unorthodox mix of electro, hip hop and
punk. This decadent threesome grew up in tropical Australia in the shadow of a Big
Pineapple, so their style is Neon Noir - sexy, ex-travagant and colorful, yet dark. The
Team are a performance band and love bending the brains of audiences through
interactive stunts like Food Bondage and Date Tape.
www.team-plastique.com
Phag OFF
Phag OFF is a multilingusitic queer project; the dawn of a new era which produces
lighting designs for a post-gay imaginary. Phag OFF uses its irreverence to express
what lies between new sexual identities and the radical critique to power relation-
ships inside the g.l.b.t. community (as an historifed form of expression of the sexual
differences) and the radical deconstruction of identity.
Phag OFF creates and rides the sexual new wave: cultural Frankenstein, freaks
identities, morbid war machines.
www.phagoff.org
For Your Ears Only by SXNDRX
For Your Ears Only (FYEO) is the latest project by media artists SXNDRX. On the
FYEO website visitors can download erotic audio to listen to them on their mp3
players in the privacy of the public space, at home, or where ever. The website will
be launched at the Click Me festival.
FYEO creates an intimate relationship with the listener, who can secretly listen to
them on every imaginable location possible. Some recordings will be in binaural
stereo format, creating a 3D sound environment for extra stimulation.
FYEO is also a mobile installation where visitors can enjoy a selection of stories
using headphones in a comfortable atmosphere. The visitors can even bring their
own mp3 players and pick stories that can be downloaded on the spot, or have a
cd burned with their own personal selection.
For the CLick Me festival there will be live readings to a selected audience.
www.foryourearsonly.nl
www.mediawar.com/sxndrx
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VJ Zanne
In her very own way, vj Zanne uses the everyday things in life to create her own
animated stories. At frst glace her work seems fashionable and commercial, at
second glace there are deeper layers to reveal. Highlights in her career are her
tour with Lois Lane and Generic City, an autobiographic animation with music of
composer Huba de Graaff. ZANNE is resident vj in the Supperclub and the Sugar-
factory. She is known for her supermanga visuals and is a respected vj in the gay
community in Amsterdam.
www.zanne.nl
vj Infidel
Born as an underground comic author the infdel has through the years mutated
into a terrorist graphical artist for the TORAZINE (now CATASTROPHE) magazine
and actually acts as a vj (using the Flxer fash video mixer free software) for many
roman underground and upperground parties such as PHAG OFF - the ultimate
queer experience (side by side with WARBEAR), LEKTRICA, SUBWOOFER - the
ultimate bear dance party, MINIMAL ROME, PINK FREUD - electronic music thera-
py, TONER, KARPET, MINIMA and the live sets of RODION (gomma records).
www.fickr.com/photos/ynfdel
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Day
Main Hall
Host: Nat Muller
13.00 - 15.30
Audacia Ray
I am Woman, See Me Nude: The Rise
of Independent Women in Online Porn
Florian Cramer
Indieporn.
Loss of Obscenity and Imagination
Terre Thaemlitz
Viva McGlam
Feona Attwood
Porn for Ladies?
Women, Pinups and Altporn
15.30 - 16.00
Coffee break
16.00 - 18.15
Warbear
21st Century Schizoid Bear
Tim Stttgen
Post Porn Happiness
Lotte Hoek
Tangled Technologies, Entwined
Bodies: Bangladeshi Pornography
in Celluloid, Bits and Pieces
Maxime Cervulle
Beur online: pornography as
community making
Basement 18.30 - 20.30
Drinks and book launch
Dinner
EVENING
Main Hall
Host: Bahram Sadeghi
21.00 - 23.00
The Bi Apple
Show Your
(Least) favorite Porn Scene
The Bareback Monologues,
Adam Zaretsky
Food performance,
NIGHT
Main Hall
DJ Sprinkles
(aka Terre Thaemlitz)
0.30 - 1.15 Le Clic
1.15 - 2.00 DJ Abraxas
2.00 - 2.45 Khan of Finland
2.45 - 3.15 Abraxas
3.15 - 5.00 Sandrien
VJ: Zanne
Small Hall
23.30 - 1.00 Cruise Control
1.00 - 1.40 Team Plastique
1.40 - 2.30 Phag Off
2.30 - 3.00 Phag Off Performance
3.00 - 5.00 Phag Off/Cruise Control
VJ: Infdel
Basement
For Your Ears Only by SNDRX
Entresol
Super 8 eros by Maarten Jansen
Hong Kong retro
SCHEDULE
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[The last couple of months the discussion about pornifcation and the objectifca-
tion of women have been a hot issue in the Netherlands. Old feminist issues are
once again debated when Dutch documentary maker Sunny Bergman produced
her documentary Beperkt Houdbaar (Limited Usability) about the Playboy image
that women feel they need to live up to. She states that women are still extremely
sexualised and objectifed and fnds a soulmate in Ariel Levy with her book Female
Chauvinist Pigs. This book also raised a lot of controversy in the feminist debate
in a country that is regarded as openminded but still is underdeveloped in thinking
about contemporary sexuality and media. In the Netherlands, the only alternative
voice comes from Dutch lingerie designer Marlies Dekkers with her book Stout
(Naughty) where she states that the main power of women lies in her sexuality and
she should be naughty to get what she wants. In this pro/contra discussion the
Click Me stimulators try to provide an alternative in their open letter to the main
Dutch newspapers.]
In the Netherlands we seem to be living the old days of angry feminists who want to
take the streets. In every corner of society women are discussing sex and porn, but
in the mass media we fnd only a polarized portrait. Is that the reason why we have
landed back in the 1970s? Our bimbo culture, the pornifcation of society, the
limited perseverance of the body, are these really the themes that stir us? If we can
believe the media, one is either against any impulse towards public sex culture, and
one babbles endlessly about the victim position, or one expresses a vital femininity
by means of sexuality. Other nuances seem to be lost.
This is the reason why all discussions about womanhood in relation to porn do
not the go beyond the female victim position and the misery that it engenders. Of
course we cannot deny that women are sex objects because of stereotyping, unre-
alistic beauty standards, and the male gaze which they cannot satisfy. But why do
we fnd endless tirades about victimization in the 21 st century? It does not make
us feel any better.
Let us have a look at how we think differently. Of course porn is arousing, sexually
stimulating, thought provoking. Of course we can even participate in DIY (Do-It-
Yourself) porn culture. Of course we are beyond attitudes of radical fear and hidden
New Times, Old sex,
Dutch Women and their Playboy Vaginas
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prudery. The alternatives in the Netherlands dont seem to go much further than the
sexual liberation of Marleen Dekkers and Heleen van Royen and their book Stout
(Naughty). In this book they reduce the position of a strong female sexual identity
to a SBS6 format. Women are supposed to use their sexuality as a means of power
and to be naughty to get what they want. And if we take this suggestion one step
further we become like bimbos.
What seems to be lost in this discussion is that there are also women who look for
a sexuality that is grounded in different values. For instance, we still have to make
a Kinsey style inventory of what women and men, old and young, like to do, and
what they fnd exciting. We also have to look at the evolution of sexuality, instead
of constanty looking back at what has gone wrong. The commotion going on the
Netherland shows that people are willing to consider evolution, but falling back into
jaded pro-porn/anti-porn debates. Of course we cannot always avoid the porno
fght as these are discussions that do touch us, and the ideas come close to our
personal dreams, aspirations and frustations.
It is a most interesting tendency that these personal sensibilities are now surfacing
in the online environments. The internet offers opportunities for people from differ-
ent backgrounds to look for arousing materials. One doees not have to follow main-
stream taste, but one can look a for a personal touch. One does not have search
according to a one dimensional ideal, and this makes the search more confusing
and exciting. Online it is not about the intention of the spectator but that of the pro-
vider, so mainstream beauty standards play a smaller role.
This is a theme that we want to discuss as curators of the Click Me festival, which
is about the role of Internet Pornography in formulating sexual selves and rela-
tions. If we look beyond commercial porn, we fnd a multi faceted underground that
is concerned with other values than satifsying feshly lusts. Womens, queers and
transgender communities may fnd each other in new reality body standards and
playfulness. No more silicone breasts and playboyvaginas, but an environment that
criticizes the mainstream heterosexual ideals of sexuality and aesthetics. Through
digital networks we can reach a quirky individualism and critical playful masses,
and these are some the netporn and post-porn objectives, which are also called
indieporn, altporn or DIY porn movements.
These are open to women and men, and have in mind a cross fertilization between
art and porn, between queer and hetero sex. But these tendencies are to be found
beyond commercial porn, and this culture has not surfaced in the Dutch debates.
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We look at alternative websites such as nofauxxx.com, where porn is interwoven
with a positive and creative activism. This site has meanwhile been linked to many
other sites, and these are social zones for people who may be sick of beauty stan-
dards or who dont care about the demands of commodity culture. These sites offer
alternatives to common ways of framing the porn body and power roles and they
do not start from heterosexual ideals.
These were the themes of the 2005 conference Art and Politics of Netporn, orga-
nized by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with Matteo Pasquinelli
and Katrien Jacobs. It seemed to be an urgent task to host artistic and academic-
activist perspectives on netporn. We deem it important to carry out this progressive
porn research and to further create an international censor free zone where porn
can be discussed and shown, because we do not just want to rely on galleries and
discussions in cyberspace.
We want to meet in an actual space and time. The CLick me Festival will con-
tinue where Art and politics of Netporn ended, and will once again discuss alter-
native porn zones by inviting partcipants and experts from different backgrounds.
The conclusion is that we want to look forward to these netporn circuits. If we
are going back in time, lets us go back the erotic sensibilities of our (bi) curious
(grand)mothers and whatever they were into in their avid masturbations or sexual
affairs with others.
Because it is also about a deep sexual feeling and uge for erotica that remains
constant throughout centuries of porn, despite the fuctuating media. It is about the
joys of being naughty and disciplined. Because we cannot spend all our time with
cranky conversation partners.
Marije Janssen and Katrien Jacobs
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Edited by Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo Pasquinelli
Amsterdam: The Institute of Network Cultures, 2007.
CLick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology that collects the best ma-
terials of two years debate, from The Art and Politics of Netporn conference held
in 2005 in Amsterdam (www.networkcultures.org/ netporn) to the 2007 CLick Me
festival (www.networkcultures.org/ clickme). Opening the feld of internet pornol-
ogy based on nonconventional approaches, mixing academics, artists and activ-
ists, the CLick Me Reader reclaims a critical post-enthusiastic post-censorship
perspective on netporn. The CLick Me Reader covers the rise of the netporn so-
ciety from Usenet underground to the blogosphere, analyses economic data and
search engines traffc, compares sex work with the work of fantasy, disability and
accessibility. The CLick Me Reader also expands the notion of digital desire and
smashes the predictable boundaries of porn debates, depicting a broader libidinal
spectrum from fetish subcultures to digital alienation, from code pornography to
war pornography. The reader concludes by recontextualizing the Queer discourse
into a postporn scenario.
Contributions By:
REGINA LYNN, MARK DERY, SERGIO MESSINA, NISHANT SHAH, AUDACIA RAY,
ADAM ARVIDSSON, MANUEL BONIK, ANDREAS SCHAALE, TIM NOONAN,
MATTHEW ZOOK, FRANCO BIFO BERARDI, MATTEO PASQUINELLI, FLORIAN
CRAMER, STEWART HOME, MIKITA BROTTMAN, MICHAEL GODDARD,
MIREILLE MILLER-YOUNG, KATRIEN JACOBS, BARBARA DEGENEVIEVE, MARI-
JE JANSSEN, JULIE RUSSO, SAMANTHA CULP, TIM STTTGEN, FRANCESCO
MACARONE PALMIERI AKA WARBEAR.
The book will be presented at Paradiso, Amsterdam, on the 2nd of June 2007
A NETPORN STUDIES READER
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Images from CLick Me - A Netporn Studies Reader
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Katrien Jacobs
Katrien Jacobs is one of the curators of Click Me and Art and Politics of
Netporn. She is assistant professor in new media at City University of Hong Kong.
She has lectured widely on pornography, sexuality, art, and new media. She was
born in Belgium and received her Ph.D. degree in comparative literature and media
from the University of Maryland, with a thesis on dismemberment myths and rituals
in 1960s and 1970s body art and performance media. Her forthcoming book Net-
porn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics delves into new porn genres and skilled
amateurism. Her travelogue book Libidoc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art
published in 2005. As a curator and artist, Jacobs has organized several exhibits
in different countries.
www.libidot.org
Matteo Pasquinelli
Matteo Pasquinelli has been working as curator on Art and Politics of Netporn and
Click Me. He has been based in Bologna, Italy, for a long time. After dealing with
several media activism projects (from Luther Blissett to Telestreet), he is now a Ber-
lin based free lance curator and critic, focusing on media philosophy. He is the au-
thor of *Media Activism* (Derive Approdi, Rome 2002) and editor of Rekombinant
(www.rekombinant.org), an infuential italian speaking webzine and forum about
media activism, culture jamming, and radical philosophy.
Marije Janssen
Marije earned her MA title in January 2006 with her thesis about cyberfeminist per-
spectives on the representation of the female sexual identity in online communities.
She has worked as a research assistant with the Institute of Network Cultures for
the Art & Politcs of Netporn conference which was held in October 2005. Currently
she is working as a producer/researcher on the follow up of the conference, as well
as a publication that will be presented at the Click Me Festival in Amsterdam. Next
to that she organizes Gayporn for Girls nights and works partly as phone operator
at the frst female run escort agency in the Netherlands.
Stimulator
biographies
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1, 2, 3 dEE and a pair of glasses
The Click Me stimulators invited Kernow Craig to introduce another dimension to
the the Click Me happening. Anaglyph images were used throughout the Click Me
promotion to allow people to don a pair of red and blue glasses and experience the
poster, fyer, website and book in three dimensions, almost as if they were in the
same room as the DIY porn stars in the photos.
W. Rollman frst illustrated the principle of the anaglyph in 1853 and it has seen
many applications since, from the 3D movies of our childhoods, to the erotic three
dimensional slides of the 19th and 20th centuries. This three dee viewing technol-
ogy has seen a recent resurgence due to the to the presentation of images and
video on the internet, CDs, and once again, even in print.
Kernow is currently working on an illustrated and photographic picture book, the
Three Dee (Vegan) Animal Porn Book, initially conceived with Australian hybrid
artist Lara Thoms, this book features friends and family dressed up and undertak-
ing a diversity of beastial acts.
CLICK ME AND
THE THIRD DIMENSION
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Practical information
Ticket Prices
Day Ticket: 7,50 euro
(incl. membership Paradiso)
Evening Ticket: 12,50 euro
(incl. membership Paradiso)
Night Ticket: 12,50 euro
(incl. membership Paradiso)
Or stay the whole day:
Passepartout: 27,50 euro
including festival dinner and
membership Paradiso
Tickets can be bought at:
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6-8
+31 (0)20 - 626 45 21
Ticketservice
www.ticketmaster.nl
national: 0900 300 1250
AUB Ticketline
national: 0900 0991
international: +31 20 621 12 88
Contact
Paradiso
Weteringschans 6-8
1017 SG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 (0)20 - 626 45 21
www.paradiso.nl
Check also:
www.c-lickme.nl
www.myspace.com/clickmeamsterdam
Credits
Concept & Program:
Katrien Jacobs
Matteo Pasquinelli
Marije Janssen
Night Program:
Katrien Jacobs
Matteo Pasquinelli
Marije Janssen
Maz Weston
Advisory board:
Nat Muller
Arie Altena
Hosted by:
Paradiso
Institute of Network Cultures
Click Me is supported by:
Stichting Democratie en Media.
Fonds voor Amateurkunst
en Podiumkunsten.
Special thanks to:
Maarten Duinker
Anneke Jansen
Design: Kernow Craig
Website: Kernow Craig, Nick Koning
Printer: Sneldruk
Many thanks to the models:
Mira Me, (Night Flyer)
Tota P. & Beral T. (Day Flyer)
DLock. (Poster)
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