Live in the Bay Area? Come to Arse Elektronika!
Posted at 9:41 AM Sep 22, 2008
By Bonnie Ruberg
West Coast locals, rejoice! This Friday marks the start of Arse Elektronika 2008, a three-day conference on sex and technology held right here in San Francisco. The theme of this year's conference is "Do androids sleep with electric sheep?" That's right, we're talking the convergence of sex and science fiction. Presentations include: "Prosthetics and Future Fetishism," "Mechanical Morality and Robot Love," and something called "Fuck Space, Slashing the Ocean," plus much much more. Tickets for all three days are only $40 ($20 for a single day). So if you live anywhere nearby you should swing by CELLspace and join the fun.
Still not convinced? Then hear this, lovers of all things tantalizingly techie. Yours truly will also be presenting. Specifically, I'm be giving a talk about power dynamics in erotic video game fan fiction: what it means when gamers write sexy stories about the characters they love. I'm scheduled to go on at 3 p.m. on Friday. I'd promise lots of inappropriate references to Princess Peach's underwear, but the entire conference should prove wonderfully inappropriate, so all I can promise is you'll see me in the flesh. The squishy, nervous, excited flesh. Come!
See photos from last year's Arse Elektronika, which took place in the Kink.com dungeon.
