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_mediaklub (Media Club) is an open Ukrainian experimental new media art and electronic music collective. The group's structure changed dramatically when core member Max Robotov enlisted in the Ukrainian Armed Forces following the full-scale invasion, leaving the remaining members scattered across Kyiv and Berlin. To keep creating together, the collective developed "Rehearsal of the Victory Day Gig," a live, multi-location audio-visual performance. Instead of trying to fix the severe network lag, glitches, and sudden signal drops caused by streaming with a soldier deployed on the front line, _mediaklub embraced these communication disruptions, turning them into the rhythmic, improvisational foundation of their music. They created a powerful experimental live performance work titled "Rehearsal of the Victory Day Gig," which addresses the constraints of the war, distance, and military service

ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations across the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and archiving of these forms of ephemeral knowledge production.