The Influencers project started in 2004 in order to develop some of the ideas explored during a former initiative called Digital Is Not Analog. Our purpose is sparkling public debate about culture jamming practices in any possible field of today communication. As a festival the Influencers is a selection of independent projects that challenge, deform, contaminate what we could call global pop culture of the digital era.

The festival, whose next edition will take place in Barcelona in February 2010, might well be considered the most eye-catching part of the whole project, which on the other side involves a wider research and documentation. The festival was actually conceived as the main and easiest "access point" to the territories explored in our ongoing research. The other access point is of course the on-line video archive, available on this website, that includes the full documentation of the talks that The Influencers guests gave since its first edition in 2004. The next phases of the project will develop new "access points" such as informal presentations, video or movie screenings, workshops, seminars and publications.

A project by Bani Brusadin, Eva and Franco Mattes.

Eva and Franco Mattes - internationally known as 0100101110101101.org - is a couple of restless European con-artists who use non conventional communication tecniques to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal effort.

Bani Brusadin is an independent researcher and producer. Since 2001 he has been collaborating extensively with cultural institutions, artists and grassroots political groups in Italy, Spain and Venezuela.

Marco Deseriis a.k.a. Snafu, researcher at New York University, activist and journalist, is consultant of The Influencers project.

Mattes, Snafu and BANI first collaborated in the production of Digital Is Not Analog, a series of three international festivals and a few artists presentations who took place from 2000 to 2002, both in Italy and Spain.