Original playlist

Trailblazers is a live web surf event where you can show off
your PRO surfing skills. No keyboard, no google, just pure links!



18.05.2019

TB#9 At New Museum, NY! Hosted by Katie Notopoulos!! DJ --> Molly Soda!!! Prizes by Arcangel Surfware!!!!1

24.10.2015

Pack your digital surfboards! We will be heading to Barcelona to hold TB#8 with the fresh guys of The Influencers festival!! Can't wait to unwrap the trails again :D



10.08.2014

Holy Cow! Dragan an the Rhizome Crew will hold the very first TB#7 overseas :) New Yorkers, better start your hyperlink-training today!



09.11.2013

Another Satellite Contest! The fresh guys of Internet&Tacos at Uni Hildesheim will host TB#6 for their opening party! Hyper hyper, click the links :)



03.02.2013

This year we will be guests at super Transmediale Festival in Berlin! Inside the "Networks" path of the festival we'll have a good time surfing the HKW-café-stage. Raise your Hands for TB#5 :)



27.12.2011

In context of 28C3 Rotterdam based venue WORM will host the very first Trail Blazers contest #4, which is not held by ourselves! Thus we are very happy to invite you to experience Trail Blazers #4 together with 'Jacuzzi, girls and (hot)gluewein'. Pass by and have a great time heavily clicking the hyperlinks!



13.10.2010

Trail Blazers #3 was back from summer at Merz Academy! As well guests were invited to see the Aesthetics of Being Online exhibition, explored by the Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones, featuring:

Michael Ruß The Story Book of Shining Stars and Black Holes
Saskia Aldinger The Web Flair Archive
Chris Heller Walled Gardens
Artur Bergen Picture IP
Olia Lialina Prof. Dr. Style
Wolfgang Schneider Code Vis
Jens Natzschka The Ancient Geeks
Florian Kröner I-Cafe's Last Days
Benni Walther
Theo Seemann Exhibition + Trail Blazers


03.09.2010

The Beautiful Zeros and Ugly Ones were invited to hold Trail Blazers #2 at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. Great surfers, great party and thx again to Aram Bartholl, curator of Tele-Internet!


14.04.2010

Trail Blazers #1*, a live web surfing event, was held at Merz Academy Stuttgart, Germany.






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'There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.'
Vannevar Bush, 'As We May Think', 1945



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