28 November 2009, mkrause
When Tesla was going to die, U.S. authorities had to deal with the problem how to seize his property. It was understood that the stuff was valuable, regarding Tesla’s repeated reports of particle beam weapons and death-ray machines. A trick was found. Authorities declared Tesla’s belongings as alien property so it could be seized by the Office of Alien Property. This made it possible to get a hold of the stuff immediately after Tesla’s death. But it also meant that now that it was alien, Sava Kosanovic, Tesla’s nephew, could put his hands on Tesla’s heritage in the end. So, with a little clever trick, the U.S. deprived herself of the physical heritage of Tesla. But still, his concepts, visions and ideas are still for free.
12 November 2009, mkrause
As a kid, Tesla had the naive idea of a ring around the earth providing us ‘earthlings’ with power and intelligence (at least he claimed this idea in his autobiography “My Inventions”). Today, geostationary satellites implement Tesla’s vision- for the intelligence part. But at the time of publication, nobody understood the significance and usefulness of this thought of Tesla’s. Instead, it seemingly made more sense (or: fitted better into the idea of the boogeyman within) to transform Tesla and his “nasty” ideas into the villain threatening mankind and charging Superman. Until today, it seems rather uncommon to accept divergent thinking; to separate the thought from the thinker; and to invest whatever it takes for the benefit for all of us. We might learn from this story where to turn our heads next and take whatever it needs, just for the benefit.
6 November 2009, mkrause
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November 6th, 7.30 p.m. Berlin Kurfürstendamm 195 Galerie POPUP 195: Michael Krause presents the energy revolutionary Nikola Tesla. www.30tagekunst.blogspot.com
“Nikola Tesla inspires like no other modern inventor. Around 1900, his inventions laid the foundations of the second industrial revolution, much more was attributed to him. Nikola Tesla invented AC technology, the radio and remote control and loguc gate technology. His “World-System” of free energy transmission would have solved all of our energy needs in an environment-friendly way. Tesla’s “death-ray”-machine provided the masterplan for “Star Wars”-technology - and some even think he came from Venus.
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December 11th, 7.30 p.m., URANIA BERLIN:
