From 20th to 23rd of April, Rokolectiv Festival reaches its 12th consecutive edition, with a selected line up of artists that challenge their own artistic, sociological and biopolitical identities in music performances, installations, videos, special events.
On Thursday night, the festival moves downtown in the beautifully resuscitated Palatul Universul, with three performances in the Apollo 111 theatre, and the opening of “Notes on the Afterlife” - an exhibition speculating on the afterlife and the artificial, hosted by Salonul de Proiecte.
Inspired by galvanism and Frankenstein, Amy Whittle brings a personal interpretation of technology and spirituality coming together in a post-life construct. Chatonsky takes on the physicality of the internet trough a sort of meta-server-heaven, while Chinese artist Lu Yang creates a digital nonsexual human simulator in her own shape and imagines its digital funeral. In a more radical approach, the Iranian / American artist duo Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, with their “3D Additivist Manifesto”, call to push additive manufacturing technologies to their absolute limits and beyond, into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird.
The Opening Night’s performances in the Apollo 111 theatre contribute to a similarly mutating artistic nebula. Hailing from the anterior cortex of Berlin’s electronic hivemind, experimental duo Amensia Scanner decimate and regurgitate tropes of trance, future grime, noise, and mainstream pop, while further accentuating the anxiety that is the very breath of the internet’s post-truthisms. For further cyber ambience and slamming rhythmic constructions, J.G. Biberkopf’s performance takes a field trip into the representations of nature that emerge from the social media scape. And, coming all the way from Yokohama, Takahide Higuchi aka Foodman cooks up an exciting and very personal footwork, in one of the most deconstructed takes on Chicago’s ghetto generated sound.
On Friday, Rokolectiv teams up in premiere with Red Bull Music Academy to co-present a night celebrating shape shifting, club-reconstructionist sets and the transformative minds behind them.
Calling on images of high-tech tribalism, Black Zone Myth Chant, an alias of the French experimentalist High Wolf, conjures Afro-futurist psychedelia with trance-inducing beats.
From Sandwell District, Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant brings in his famous output that shows appreciation to both dark warehouse techno and to DIY post-punk and industrial.
With an unusual genesis in 90s L.A. and a constant shifting throughout our times, Silent Servant is an influential artist for an upcoming generation of young musicians. After studiously educating himself on the world of electronica and obscure electro whilst working in a record store in his native Holland, Berlin based Delta Funktionen comes with a set that reflect his years of dedicated digging and is designed with one eye on the past and two feet firmly stamping forward.
Upcoming elusive talent Șerb closes the night with a techno set that pours analogue honey in post rave ears.
Saturday night turns the scales in favour of forward thinking female musicians, with feminist upcoming star Princess Nokia heading the line-up. This self-proclaimed bruja, former Calvin Klein model and future Mayor of NY (we hope) never ceases to amaze, constantly genre-bending from her jungle rave-inspired “Dragons” to her latest album “1992”. Destiny Frasqueri embraces her Afro-Latino heritage, Harlem/Lower East Side upbringing and her own fashioning of queer mystic feminism to make music that talks to all kinds of people: “from Banjee girls in Harlem to teen brides in the Middle East, to gay boys in East Asia”. The ever surprising Rokolectiv favourite of the past years, Lena Willikens also returns to the festival with her mystical repertoire inducing sentimental flashbacks. Her renowned alien techno selections will wash over the dancefloor and resonate in an extended Sunday morning set.
For a third year in a row, Rokolectiv is part of the European platform SHAPE, co-curated with 15 like-minded festivals. In addition to J.G. Biberkopf, Amnesia Scanner, Black Zone Myth Chant and a list of side special events, the SHAPE pool this year also includes soon-to-be-cyborg Chlorys, Maoupa Mazzocchetti with a live set that gives sex appeal to discomfort, and St. Petersburg’s new kid on the block, Inga Mauer.
TICKETS & venues
FESTIVAL PASS — 2 DAYS — 55 LEI
LIMITED AVAILABILITY ON EVENTBOOK.RO
14.04.2018
Rezidenta Scena 9 — Free admision
18:00 Jared Marks: Keynote Meditation with Cyber Jaya / performance
19:00 ORACOL / exhibition opening*
15.04.2018
Rezidenta Scena 9 — Free admision
19:00 Jan Nikolai Nelles: The Other Nefertiti / artist talk
19.04.2018, 20:30
APOLLO 111 — Free admision
Colin Self (US), Nene H. (DE/TR), Golin (BE)
20.04.2017, 22:30
CONTROL CLUB — 35 LEI — AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
Eomac (UK), Tommy Four Seven (UK), Machine Woman (DE/RU),
Giant Swan (UK), Admina (RO)
21.04.2017
CONTROL CLUB — 35 LEI — AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
Elysia Crampton (US), Errorsmith (DE), Cem (DE), Aleksa Alaska (RO),
December (FR), Marius Georgescu (RO)
*The exhibition ORACOL can be visited at REZIDENȚA SCENA 9 as follows:
19.04: 15.00-20.00
20.04: 15.00-21.00
21.04: 15.00-21.00
VENUES
REZIDENȚA SCENA 9
32 Ion Luca Caragiale Street
APOLLO 111
23-25 ION BREZOIANU STREET, UNIVERSUL BUILDING, CORP B
CONTROL CLUB
4 CONSTANTIN MILLE STREET
THURSDAY 19.04 Apollo111 20:00
ARCHIVE
FRIDAY 20.04 control 23:00
saturday 21.04 CONTROL 23:00
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Nora Al-Badri & Jan Nikolai Nelles
The Other Nefertiti
3D printed object / artist talk
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by German artists Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles. In August 2015, Al-Badri and Nelles scanned the head of Nefertiti clandestinely in the Neues Museum Berlin without permission of the Museum, by wearing a modified Kinect under a scarf; then they handed the files to an anonymous group of hackers that worked on them and gave them back an high quality .stl file, that they made available as a torrent file under a Creative Commons Licence. “With the data leak as a part of this counter narrative we want to activate the artefact, to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany”, the two artists said.
In November 2015, the artists brought some 3D printed copies of the artwork to Egypt, and exhibited them as part of the OFF Biennale Cairo. The event marked a symbolic return of the iconic sculpture to the place where it was excavated and stolen by German archeologists, a hundred years later.
Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neocolonial power structures and representations between the Global South and North, as well as with the various faces of war.
Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. His artistic practice reflects on the absurdity of the human conditions. His work interferes in social infrastructures by misbehavior performances or challenges institutions by civil disobedience. He reclaims a critical reevaluation of actual cultural commons and heritage.
Jan Nikolai Nelles will do a presentation of the project and his artistic practice on 15.04 (18h00) at Rezidența Scena9.
CLAIRE TOLAN
SHUSH Choir
workshop & performance
ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, describes a tingling sensation in the scalp and the spine, a physiological response provoked by soft sounds, such as whispering, nail tapping, and hair brushing. In recent years, a massive YouTube subculture has grown around ASMR, sharing over two million videos that recombine the soft, crinkly sounds in an incredible array of scenarios and soundscapes. The intention of these videos is not only to trigger the tingles, but also to ease anxiety, insomnia, and loneliness.
SHUSH is the central figure of Tolan’s forthcoming fantasy/ASMR tabletop role-playing game. In an attempt to entice SHUSH and speed its arrival, the SHUSH choir performs a devotional with bells and voices, utilising the methods of change-ringing. Change-ringing is a communal system of bell-ringing, developed in English church towers in the 17th century. Change-ringing patterns, or methods, cycle through variations of bell sounding order, following complex, braid-like diagrams. Most methods guide the ringers through a series of unique permutations that open and close with identical sounding orders, ending always where it began.
Participants will experiment with both ASMR and change-ringing techniques, resulting in a performance that plays through methods of whispers and ringing. These patterns combine into an infinitely iterative, looping construction, which locks the voices and the bells into a cyclical holding pattern.
The workshop will last for approximately two hours and it’s open to maximum 10 participants. Following a short break, the SHUSH choir will perform its devotional for an audience.
Ion Dumitrescu
Forms of unknown I (Natures), 2018
MP4 collage, 15’57
“Not to know again. There is no “un-learning” in our contemporary prehistory. The conditions are new, we have never before accommodated contradictions of such magnitude, such major inner un-sync.
Collisions between pre-critical and critical perimeters of meaning are occurring more often. Sparks become more visible, yet there is also calm. A paradoxical stillness. The irrational has proven its own rationality. Predictions have failed.
The ultra-primitive announcing the most advanced. Surface studies, self-randomizing, neo-infantilism, pre-truth strategies.”
Ion Dumitrescu started with classical ballet, then he went abruptly into contemporary dance arriving to the postspectacle practice in 2008. Postspectacle proposed different methods of art interventions, media hacking (OTV action), while also engaging in dark pseudo-political campaigns and multiverse speculations. He co-founded and contributes to Bezna publication and Hyper Black-Box (a speculative toolbox designed by Alina Popa and Florin Flueraș). He co-assembled contexts and made performances that attempt to destabilize and shuffle artistic identity, collapse time duration, in an effort to drastically investigate the structure of the spectacle inside and outside the black-box - white cube conspiracy.
He infrequently writes, developing various conceptual instruments, tools for transgression and navigation.
Ion Dumitrescu is also concerned with music, as a co-initiator of the Bucharest label Future Nuggets and its sub-label P-Balans. He is part of the SHAPE platform.
Pinar Yoldas
Artificial Intelligence for Governance, the Kitty AI, 2016
Video, 12'40
Pinar Yoldas imagines an artificial intelligence (AI) that has taken over the world. In the video, a 3D-animated cat talks about itself and its work as ruler of a megalopolis in the year 2039. The AI takes on the appearance of an adorable kitten to avoid frightening people. It speaks from the future about the unsolvability of past crises such as the refugee crisis, climate change, and an ominous “p-crisis,” as well as the inability of humankind to manage gigantic infrastructure. AIs like Kitty AI have, as a result, taken over the positions of politicians and other professional groups in this imagined future. According to the AI’s logic, governmental form is a question of quantity: “Democracy was born in a polis—no surprise that it dies in a megalopolis”.
Pinar Yoldas is a cross-disciplinary artist and researcher. Her work develops within biological sciences and digital technologies through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video, with a distinct focus on posthumanism, eco-nihilism, the Anthropocene, and feminist technoscience. She holds a PhD from Duke University, M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, M.S. from Istanbul Technical University, M.A. from Istanbul Bilgi University, and B.Arch. from Middle East Technical University. Her solo shows were shown at, among others, Rödasten Konsthall in Gothenburg and the project space of Schering Stiftung in Berlin. Group shows include, among others, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Polytech Museum in Moscow, Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, ZKM in Karlsruhe, and the 14th Istanbul Biennial. In 2015, she was recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts.
Alan Butler & Elaine Hoey
Prospero AI, 2017
Video, 7’39 / online project
“Prospero AI” is an ongoing collaborative research project by artists Alan Butler and Elaine Hoey that addresses potentials for the creation of a working AI conceptual artist, while currently available technologies do not enable such realities to exist. This work has formed as a speculative fiction, which reimagines the function of labor in a society in which automation has replaced the need for human work. The role of the artist in the age of fully creative technologies is utilized as a solution to the very existential human problems it has caused. Prospero AI Residency is an online web artwork (presented as a video in the gallery space) which takes the form of a fictional artist residency set in the future. This work addresses the problematic hegemony between humans and technology, stemming from the perspective of capitalist realism.
The Web was introduced during the last century as something immaterial, « in the clouds ».
Elaine Hoey mainly creates interactive based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. Her work has been exhibited as part of the exhibitions: Design and Violence (2016) at the Science Gallery, Dublin (co-curated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), Futures (2016) at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; This is not Architecture (2017) at Highlanes, Drogheda; Open Codes at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2018)
Alan Butler’s work often conceptually reflects and refracts the inner-workings of the internet, the implications of new media technology, and the politics of appropriation. Recent activities include solo exhibitions The Need To Argue In The Master’s Language, Visual Carlow, Ireland (2018); Down and Out in Los Santos, Malmo Fotobiennal, Sweden (2017); HELIOSYNTH, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2017); We Were Promised Anarchy, But What We Got Was Chaos, Solstice Art Centre, Ireland (2015); Youth Outreach In N. Korea, Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden (2015).
He has received awards and grants including Dicream (2014), CAC (2013), CALQ (2012), CRSH (2011), Cap Digital (2010), Arcadi (2010), CNAP (2008). In 2013, he launched TELOFOSSILS at Museum of contemporary art (Taipei). A second version was showed in Beijing (2015).
GOLIN
Golin’s inspiration in folkloric fairy tales and fragmented memories, as well as the variety of layered voices and samples transform her songs into dreamy fantasia.
Rin Suemi is a singer, producer, classically trained pianist and performance artist born in Tagawa, Japan. An alumni of California Institute of the Arts, her performances as Golin are ridden with improvisation, carrying a strong and visceral focus on the body and its possible movements, as well as containing an instant spontaneity that turns her shows into perpetually surprising cinematic experiences.
Golin recently released her debut EP ‘Momo’ on 12” vinyl through Belgian label Midlife Music, and is currently the associated artist of Brussels cultural house Beursschouwburg. As a performer she has worked with artists such as Yoshiko Waki, Ula Sickle and Donna Huanca.
Golin is part of SHAPE platform 2018.
COLIN SELF
Colin Self utilizes the voice, the body and computer software in his practice to open up a highly distinctive space that challenges the boundaries between human consciousness and technology. His music explores the transformative power of the human voice drawing on a diverse set of influences that include queer theory, liturgical ritual, trap rhythms and electro-acoustic sound design. He is known for his highly charged, physical performances that combine his vocal virtuosity with choreographed movement and electronic processing, unfolding into a compelling play of transmutation.
He has performed in galleries worldwide, from the global queer underground to contemporary art galleries such as PS1 MoMA and Issue Project Room. He is also a close collaborator of Holly Herndon, contributing vocals/production on her latest record ‘Platform’ as well as being a member of her new live set up.
NENE H.
Under her given name, Beste Aydin has achieved notable acclaim as a classically trained pianist. Yet, her latest project sees her transform into a different creature altogether. Accessing a somewhat darker, transcendental state, her live performances as Nene H. evolve around hypnotizing electronic music for sophisticated ears. Her mysterious yet powerfully physical sound contents elements of drone, orient, industrial, psychedelic, vocal, dark wave, noise, experimental and techno.
At Rokolectiv she will perform a version of her live set “Fountain of Fire” alongside contemporary dancer Jared Marks.
Nene H. is part of SHAPE platform 2018.
Tommy Four Seven
British born, Berlin-based Tommy Four Seven has established himself as a leading name in today’s techno scene. He runs his own imprint and event series 47 and is one half of experimental electronic duo, These Hidden Hands
The widespread reception of his DJ sets, a skill much refined during his early years as resident of London’s Fire club, has seen him play at some of the world’s leading venues. Tommy’s sets invariably encompass a rich variety of styles, drifting seamlessly between the straight up techno required of the hour, and his signature, more broken form that is laced through his ever-expanding discography.
The final part of his artistic repertoire is 47, an established party series with a supporting label. The aim is to encourage emerging talent, whilst also recognizing established artists in the scene who have helped to shape Tommy’s sound. Previous acts have included Ancient Methods, SNTS, UVB, Shlømo, Killawatt, and I/Y. 47 began as a regular event in Berlin’s Arena nightclub, but 2015 saw the series grow and cross international borders to Paris and Amsterdam, with more events slated in 2016 and 2017. Guests are also invited to contribute to the label’s renowned Various Artists compilations.
Machine Woman
Machine Woman’s gritty techno experiments have struck a particular chord since her cassette releases — on Tesla Tapes, Ono, and Sacred Tapes — emerged in 2014. The St. Petersburg native, AKA Anastasia Vtorova, started out playing in punk and noise outfits, but eventually moved toward making her own uncompromising music as a solo producer. Her works are inspired by late night listening to the sounds of down beat minimal electronica along with melancholic cinema from all over the world. She sets what has been defined as “waltzing the line between techno and avant garde”.
In 2016, she launched Take Away Jazz Records, Vtorova’s own label, the output of which she characterizes as “music for people who can’t sleep at night and are perhaps quite fond of mundane, abstract collages”.
Machine Woman is part of SHAPE platform 2018.
Giant Swan
Imagine an acerbic marriage of energized dance music, quaking bass and hypnotic electronic noise. A twisted vision of techno-not-techno. Currently docking in Bristol, Giant Swan is the brainchild of Robin Stewart & Harry Wright.
Across a table of machines and pedals, incorporating abused guitar and free vocal manipulation, Giant Swan create a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating energy delivered with telepathic intricacy. Vital players within Bristol’s Howling Owl collective and with strong ties to the city’s deep musical heritage, Giant Swan have steadily spread their wings across the UK and Europe, sharing stages with the likes of Surgeon, Vessel, Shackleton, Venetian Snares and Container. On stage, Giant Swan are a maelstrom of potential energy, bleeding between several sonic movements that both obliterate and invigorate. Building on a foundation of rhythmic tension and frenzied improvisation, no two performances are the same.
Giant Swan are part of SHAPE platform 2018.
Aleksa Alaska
The Bucharest based Aleksa Alaska has been carving out her remarkable style very quickly. Her extensive output soon gathered attention from a series of influential online entities such as NTS Radio, Red Light Radio, Intergalactic FM, Radio Cómeme, Rinse FM. Effortlessly juggling the crowd through the hottest beats but always dropping some obscure electronica in between, she began to be sought after by more and more clubs and festivals around Europe and South America.
In between gigs she is the host of 'Subterranean Modern' on Noods Radio, a show exploring the dark and often underrated depths of the 80's electronica, started as an extension of her YouTube channel which is a never-ending gold mine of obscurities.
Easy proof of her dedication is shown in Aleksa's selections. Her mixes are explorations of different moods across the electronic spectrum, no genre restriction and preconception, from crepuscular electro impulses to heavy techno cuts.
CEM
Fresh from the Berlin’s infamous Herrensauna queer party and collective, comes CEM.
CEM has patiently developed a catalogue of influences, with an eclectic collection of music ranging from techno to UK-influenced electro to enigmatic house classics, by artfully merging genres with ease and finesse. Born and raised in Austria, CEM’s relocation to Berlin was a contemplative choice to further develop his ambitions to DJ, having co-founded the Herrensauna series, in addition to the small-scale label of the same name.
Easily shifting his performance abilities between renowned festivals and events such as Berlin Atonal, Hyperreality and Amsterdam Dance Event to countless warehouse events in Copenhagen, CEM offers a tailored musical experience.
Admina
Admina is a DJ, producer, visual artist, and founding member of Corp. collective. Corp. is a project, platform and booking agency which encompasses musical & visual endeavors. It aims to represent and showcase female-identified DJ talent in electronic music, while also being dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds, spanning from experimental & traditional forms from the center, the netherworlds, and beyond.
Admina also produces personal freeform creative projects comprising feminist poems, spoken word, sound and video experimentation.
ELYSIA CRAMPTON pres. RED CLOUDS
Elysia Crampton is a Bolivian-born U.S.-based producer and self-proclaimed "transevangelist". In her productions and performances, American narratives are re-examined and trans-ontologies are given voice and resonance. Through a blend of sounds from critically ignored sources, with heavy emphasis on Latin genres, Crampton creates captivating music deeply embedded in ideas.
Elysia uses a queer experience of the body as a lens through which to question institutional understandings of geography, territory and chronology. Her identification with indigenous culture and nomadism (“I was taught at an early age that mobility is key to survival”) accompanies a disdain for the colonial and the national, with a special concern for heritage and earthiness, while all the while digesting fragments of mass culture and the collisions in between.
At this year’s festival, Elysia presents “Red Clouds”, a new live story centered around clouds of A.S. or Artificial Stupidity that have been exiled to the plant Upsilon Andromedae b: “The A.S. survive in a fissure on the edge of the planet's tidally locked faces, a fog caught between relentless day & perpetual night. Solar flares scatter the A.S. vapors into vortices of synaesthetic anguish & ecstasy as they collapse, condensing into iron rain, only to re-emerge as the violet haze of A.S.”
Errorsmith
Errosmith’s “Superlative Fatigue” was declared “album of the year” in 2017 by a myriad of music magazines and blogs. The track “I'm Interesting, Cheerful & Sociable” became a must play for any “off the beaten path” DJ.
“No chin-scratching IDM here, no dryly academic number-crunching. No, quite the opposite. It’s fun. Wildly, zanily fun. Some of the most fun you will hear on a techno record, certainly on one coming from Berlin. And at a time when underground techno is gloomier than ever before—smeared in charcoal dust, suffused in a post-industrial haze, bled dry of every last iota of colour or joy—Errorsmith’s album, in its manic pleasure, is more than just a vivid demonstration of its creator’s technical abilities. It’s a way out of techno’s self-serious cul-de-sac, a shot of energy just when the genre needs it most.” Philip Sherburne
An expert in realtime live synthesis, he aims to create freedom and immediacy during his shows, using DIY digital tools to build rhythmic dance music that prefigures much of today’s post-genre sounds. He’s also part of MMM with Berghain’s Fiedel and Smith n Hack with Soundhack.
December
December’s DJ mixes are equally inspired, joining the dots between punk electronics, wave, new beat, techno and industrial with relative ease.
Adopting the December alias for his debut 12” on Blackest Ever Black, the Parisian wizard Tomas More found a perfect fit for his slow and moody techno cuts. Fast forward a few years and More has released recordings across a variety of labels, each record seeming to naturally follow on from the last. His signature noise driven, EBM influenced club tracks are becoming more and more fierce, an Exponential Growth as his latest EP for Jealous God might assume. Much of December’s music manages to make the most out of minimal drum patterns, part nod to primitive early 80s industrial and part testament to his ability to craft dance music that is always interesting, yet often intrinsically simplistic.
She hosts a show called Bon Voyage for Radio Cómeme, and on each episode she compiles a playlist with a particular place or person in mind. (She dedicated her first show to the 19th century Russian explorer Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, and she's talked proudly about having no fixed address.)
December is part of the SHAPE Platform 2017.
Marius Georgescu
Bucharest based music enthusiast Marius Georgescu explores the more adventurous side of sub-cultural dance music and 80's/90's Midwest European DIY culture (primarily tape releases). His sets are hypnotic, dark, emotional, yet seemingly exciting. A drum-led hysteria on the gap between minimal synth, industrial, electro and kraut-ish electronics with a whiff of acid.
Georgescu performed at front-line festivals and venues like Positive Education (FR), Wolkenkuckucksheim (DE), Sameheads (DE), Drugstore (RS) and 20/44 (RS).
Eomac
“Given the nature of the composition of this album, most of the tracks were directly inspired by the source material. But not just the sounds in themselves, it was also the images and feelings they conjured in me. Images of morning calls to prayer in foreign cities I’ve never been to; wild drumming ceremonies; street musicians playing raw, life affirming music unconcerned with ‘production’ or a studio, and all the more joyous for it; unfamiliar religious rituals ascending to higher places… there were many things in my head.” Eomac talking about his latest album “Bedouin Trax”, an album that draws from obscure Middle Eastern music, digging deep into a dark mysticism for the dancefloor.
Ian McDonnell a.k.a. Eomac, best known as 1/2 of Dublin duo Lakker, has released genre-spanning club music via The Trilogy Tapes, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Inner Surface, and most notably the 2014 LP “Spectre” on Killekill, garnering support from the likes of Thom Yorke, Surgeon, Nina Kraviz, Ron Morelli, Laurel Halo, and Aphex Twin.
Jared Marks
Keynote Meditation with Cyber Jaya
We are honored to be able to host a live presentation by Cyber Jaya, CEO of Technospirituality Inc. and world leader in today’s spirituality market. His books are bestsellers and his apps have been downloaded by thousands of followers the world over. Cyber Jaya takes ancient wisdom and long-lost teachings and applies them to our contemporary context, providing simple solutions to complex problems. In this live presentation, Cyber Jaya will introduce the main tenets of his teachings and guide participants on a journey within.
In this reflection on the commodification of spirituality in the digital age, Jared Marks uses a popular Silicon Valley discourse, the keynote presentation, as a format to explore spirituality through the eyes of big business. Nothing can escape our market economy, enlightenment included, and the search for a higher power is often used as bait in today’s digital marketing strategies. Through the figure of Cyber Jaya, a contemporary spiritual leader, he explores contradictions proposed by neoliberal spirituality and, more earnestly, what role technology can play in human spiritual evolution.
Jared Marks is one of Cyber Jaya’s most devout followers and is currently working as his social media manager, helping to spread his teachings far and wide.
Keynote Meditation with Cyber Jaya takes place on 14.04 (18h00) at Rezidența Scena9.