Moving Forest presented by AKA THE CASTLE
AKA the Castle is a temporal performance troop bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites to realize the 12 hour Moving Forest.
11:00 - 23:00 1st February Transmediale08 HKW Berlin.
The acts
11-12 0]Omen Spiderweb mainframe PD patch bootstrap. Empty code in raven wings.
12-14 1]Remorse The Lady Supreme washes the hand bloody.
14-16 2]Betrayal The lord stands tall above his archers. The first arrow strikes briskly through the silent air.
16-18 3]Overthrow The lord's face-off in a rain of one thousand arrows. Pierced, falling lord.
18-19 — intermission—- moving space
19-22 4]Insurgency An unintentional deceit (world interface) matches divination. An insurgency swarm of camouflaged shamanic branches.
22-23 5]Eternal return: goto 0] Remaining castle monolith.
The players
Castle (HKW)
omen [Mattin]
remorse [Leif Elggren] — concept/setup
betrayal [Kaffe Matthews]
overthrow [Joachim Montessuis] — details
return [Phil Niblock]—Nataliawork
Vocalists [Alexandra von Bolz´n , Tam Dean Burn, Vagina Jones , Christian Kesten, Natalia Pschenitschnikova]
spiderweb mainframe [Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk, Chun Lee, Mattin, Valentina Vuksik] more info... brief and patches
sloganeer [Matthew Fuller] — 500 slogans
arrows and blood [Linda Dement] — arrows and blood
film eating [Graham Harwood]
forest slice [Michael Aschauer]
G-8 blockade [Kein.tv]Block_G8
Forest (mobile):
DS revolt [Gordan Savicic, Gottfried Haider]—go northwest 20 Allied Clearing House
Radio gun revolt [Ricardo Miranda Zuniga] march with radioAK
scrying boards [Martin Howse]scrying
radio fog [Martin Kuentz]
Hivenetworks [Alexei Blinov]
Mobile factotum [Brendan Howell]
Mobile agent [Ilze Black]
Signal coordinate [Olaf Matthes]
Berlin insurgency force
Backyeard radio - http://backyardradio.de
c-base - http://www.c-base.org/
Freifunk - http://www.freifunk.net/
mikro.fm - http://www.mikro.fm
Kein TV - http://www.kein.org
INURA - http://www.inura.org/
Netstreams and FMradio [klubradio]
Substance [Susanne Reiher]
Documentation [Valentin Fuhlenbrok , Sabine Grünke, Dajana Hartig , Barbara Krec, , Christiane Nickel, Lydia Rathgeber]
Print design [Jan-Peter Bauer, Johannes Höchelheim, Mirko Wannemacher]
Concept / direction [Shu Lea Cheang, Martin Howse]
With support from Kulturstiftung des Bundes , Auswartiges Amt, Australian Embassy Berlin, Schwedische Botschaft , Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule
distributed castle
performance space action plan-moving space
inside HKW
FOR act 0] 1] 2] 3] screen 1 - eating film screen 2 - slicing forest screen 3 - arrows + blood screen 4 - mainframe patch manifestation
FOR act 4] 5] screen 1 - eating film continues screen 2 - kein TV g-8 blockade screen 3 - forest insurgency (pre)recoded or live screen 4 - mainframe patch manifestation
distributed forest
CALL for Backyard Frontyard: ALL YOU CAN EAT
CALL for AKradio March: symphony of noise
CALL for DS-revolt: go northwest 20 Allied Clearing House
CALL for AIR: GAMEoverTAKEoverOVER
CALL for transmission: autonomous transmitting units
CALL for netstreams: Conspire and take remote control
moving the forest circling the castle 
THE CASTLE - Haus der Kulturen de Welt
circle 1 - backyard radio outfront - hkw ext - wifi transmit [FM 95.2]
circle 2 - scryingboards - hkw ext - wifi transmit [OSC - wireless or long range]
circle 3 - radio fog -microFM - hkw immediate forest [FM]
circle 4 - nintendo play - microFM -station ttp://www.bundestag.de|Bundestag]](X1) - march toward the castle [FM]
circle 5 - radio gun revolt - station Siegessäule(X2) - march toward the castle - mobilephone transmit [cellphone/UMTS?]
circle 6 - kein.tv + INURA - station JVA Berlin Moabit(X3) - march through moltke bridge(X4) toward the castle - satellite transmit
circle 7 - call for net streams - moving net forest
Study of HKW and surroundingsforest/satellite image HKW surround 4 sites surround HKW
