Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani present: The Influencers - Festival of Media Action and Radical Entertainment with Alan Abel, Alterazioni Video, Santi Cirugeda, Brody Condon, Laibach, Monochrom, Trevor Paglen :: February 28 - March 1, 2008 :: Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona.

The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions, consumption and technological fetishism. The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories: impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In these three days they are going to present their work, show known and less known material and speak with the public about challenges, goals and strategies.

With The Influencers, the border between disciplines is erased (since the message really is the message, and the medium is just a tactic), links between apparently distant projects are found, and bold genealogies are drawn between different countries and generations. Ambiguities are also explored and contradictions are discussed. In the manipulation of everyday symbols, as well as within what is excessive and politically incorrect, we will possibly find inspiration for changing the present and imagining the future.