In der Veranstaltung werden zensierte, erotische bis pornographische Videos und Filme aus den letzten 4 Jahrzehnten präsentiert und die Aktivitäten von Terminal Bar in Prag vorgestellt. Die Videos können den ganzen weiteren Monat gegen Vorlage eines Ausweises im Media~Space! gesichtet werden. Achtung! Einige Videos enthalten extreme Szenen. Nur für Menschen mit guten Nerven und ab 18 Jahre!

The Terminal Bar is a multi-media cafe situated in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, which provides internet, books, magazines, videos, events and coffee in a cultural climate of information sharing and fringe thinking.
See: http://www.terminal.cz/~video

Feminists Against Censorship recognizes that:
1. Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
2. Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
3. Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
4. Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.

Cherie Matrix has been an active anti-censorship campaigner since her early twenties, Matrix edited the Feminist Against Censorship anthology Tales From the Clit (1996, AK Press. London, Edinburgh, San Francisco). She has become a bit of a celebrity, appearing as England’s „babe” feminist whenever her distinct point of view is needed. Matrix presently works as a co-ordinator in the flourishing multimedia industry.

The efforts to regulate ideas and images on the Internet can be understood only in the context of concurrent attempts to censor art and television. Rather than existing as a world unto itself, cyberspace intersects and overlaps the other electronic realms of video art and television in messy, impure ways. This presentation will offer a case study of the interlocking forms of censorship of the whole electronic realm and suggest some tactics for evading them.

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Every evolution in information technology has been accompanied by expansion of sexual expression for the masses. As the Information Age accelerates the dissemination of erotic images and ideas, how does this affect the power of taboo and fetish? Is this leading to greater expression of individualism and healthier personal relationships? Or is this leading to callousness and dehumanization? Midori will discuss the current state of SM, fetish and taboo sex on the net and how it effects individuals as well as greater communities. She will also share how she uses the net and information technology in her daily life as a well known fetishist, artist and dominatrix.

Christened „FetishDiva“ Midori lives a life few could imagine. Domina, educator, author, model, performer, muse, and self confessed jock, she travels tirelessly in fear her life could one day get - ordinary. To date it’s been a journey on roads that never intersect the one she just left. She may very well be beyond the laws of physics.

Raised „Happa Howlei“ (half white) in a feminist household in Tokyo, she moved to America at age 13. Bookish and bright in high school in the Pacific Northwest. Intelligence officer in the US Army, she graduated University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Psychology. Unsatisfied with corporate day jobs she edged into the San Francisco sexual underground until it was clear she had found a home.

Mentored by these world class perverts, she found the people who celebrated their differences and claimed sexual expression as their birthright. Confidence growing with her sizable fetish wardrobe, she was soon modeling for local fetish designers Dark Garden, Catherine Coatney, Stormy Leather, and So Hip it Hurts. Apprentice in a respected San Francisco dungeon she learned „the ropes“ of consensual sadomasochism from the bottom and the Top. Trained as a volunteer for the San Francisco Sex Information telephone hotline she was invited back as a staff member where she helps others through the 50+ hours of training in communication and human sexuality.