The Taugshow

Monochrom invited me to Vienna last week to participate in/cover Roboexotica and to be a special guest on their Austrian TV show, the Taugshow — and I had a great time! Yaaaaay! The Taugshow was entirely in English, and was so funny my face actually hurt from smiling and laughing by the time I got onstage. While I was on, talking about SRL, the ethics of cybersex and rape, and having my books attacked by Focus on the Family, Jonathan Moore shot two videos of me from the audience; they are embedded after the jump, or you can watch video 1 here and video 2 here.

Taugshow photos are in this Flickr tag.

The next day, Johannes took a big group of us out into the Austrian countryside to see what he called the “porn castle”. This is where many porn videos have been shot — I actually recognized it on the outside at the locations for Rocco Siffredi’s Marquis de Sade and another bad, dubbed Euro porn film I reviewed for Good Vibes once. I shot two videos; in one I’m outside the castle watching my friends scale the moat; in another I’m getting deep and thoughtful about the rate of consumable information on the web. You can watch these video 1 here and video 2 here, or in the embeds after the jump.

My castle photos are in this Flickr tag. Main post photo by Jacob Appelbaum.


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on friday december 9, I was on the Taugshow TV talkshow in Vienna, Austria. in this video shot from the audience of the first part of my interview, I talk about Survival Research Laboratories, and the sexual ethics of hacking into a teledildonic cybersex exchange when someone in the audience asks me if it could be considered rape.


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this is later in the show: on friday december 9, I was on the Taugshow TV talkshow in Vienna, Austria. in this video shot from the audience of the middle of my interview, I talk a little more about Survival Research Laboratories and the confrontational nature of our art/technology; then I explain the time that christian organization Focus on the Family targeted my first two books and attempted to have them banned.


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last saturday in Vienna, our host Johannes took a whole group of us from Roboexotica to what he called the “porn castle”, a giant castle in the Austrian countryside where porn movies are filmed. here’s my report from the front of the castle; it was very windy so some of what I say gets lost (sorry!). I’m operating on a few hours of sleep, and it’s like 4 in the morning for me at this point…


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in Austria, exhausted and cold, walking around by myself outside the “porn castle”, I go deep in thought about my appearance on the Taugshow the night before. the guest before me, a counterculture icon, thought that the present state of what he called ‘information overload’ on the web was a really bad thing. I realized in this video that I disagree in a very strong way.

part of the video, around 2 minutes in, the audio cut out some of what I said because of the wind. I don’t have a great camera, nor the means to get one right now, and I can’t edit the video after it’s shot, so I transcribed the bits of my little speech that are hard to hear. about 2 minutes in, read along here:

(…) with media especially with news and information, we’ve just been taking what we’ve been given, and we have no tools or what we need to evolve, and adapt the tools to be able to sift through the information we get. and now that there’s so much information it’s forcing us to become consumers of information and consumers of our media, to *shop* for our media, and shop for information and shop for our news — and the sources we get it from. and I think that that’s really powerful. so, I’m all for information overload, because I think it can only make us better.

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