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Anthropophag! Eine kurze Geschichte über die monochrom'schen Visitenkarten

Jahrelang hatten Johannes Grenzfurthners monochrom'schen Visitenkarten folgenden Text:
"Johannes Grenzfurthner / Anthropophag"
Und das ist immer noch in diversen Datenbanken.

Beispiel:

Context Hacking @ A4 (Bratislava, Slowakei)

The term "context hacking" --like its older mimetic sibling "communication guerrilla" -- refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Context hacking is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point for interventions by playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification.
Johannes Grenzfurthner will present some projects by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and philosophy that was founded in 1993. The group specializes in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political activism. Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost "in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment."

Tags: digital art practice, subverting communication processes, cultural subversion, viral communication, creativity.

Hedonistika: Call for proposals

Hedonistika is a multi-modal event that brings together food scholars, artists, and roboticists to examine the innumerable (and often hidden) ways in which technology and food are related. By engaging with the hegemony-challenging ideology of hacking, participants will seek to interrogate and expose the mutually constructive bonds of food and tech, while proposing alternative, playful, and stimulating reconfigurations. The event proposes a hack: a hybrid of bricolage, play, criticality, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The goal is to reflect and perhaps undo the assumptions and habits that frame our everyday interactions with both food and technology, while making evident their often-neglected entanglements. Hedonistika will be a one-­week festival that will begin with a 3 day symposium comprised of workshops, a panel discussion, and three session of invited and registered speakers. The goal is to merge research-creation with critical analysis, and community engagement with celebration. (Plus, it will taste and look really cool.)

Hedonistika is looking for robotic projects and performative works that explore the critical issues within these realms. The curators are accepting proposals for complete works (and works almost complete) for the exhibition in the festival portion of the event. Proposed projects should have a technological component. Artists should submit a pdf document comprised of...

· A short CV (2 pgs)
· Short description of the project (150 words max)
· Long description of the project (500 words max) including images if possible
· Short bio
· Description of support material
· Documentation of past work (no more than 10 items)
· URL to artist website

Hedonistika is scheduled for 2013 in Montreal and will be an Elektra sponsored event.
Please e-mail submissions to: hedonistika@monochrom.at
Deadline January 15th, 2013

monochroms Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US @ Laughing Squid

"Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US" is a sock puppet adventure about Internet censorship and love directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner of Austrian art & tech group Monochrom. It is the sixth installment of the Kiki and Bubu series.

monochroms Kiki and Bubu: RATED R US @ Boing Boing

Unbelievable, but Kiki and Bubu are back!
When we created the first couple of episodes for Boing Boing TV in 2008, who would have thought that the two wooly Neo-Marxist fellows would still be around in 2012?
Well, they are! Here is their newest and most epic (50 minutes!) puppet extravaganza!

monochroms Kiki und Bubu: RATED R US! Das Puppenvideospektakel ist endlich online!

Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down from YouTube. On the long quest for knowledge which follows, Kiki and Bubu learn all about Internet censorship. And love.

Enjoy Kiki and Bubu's newest and most epic (50 minutes!) puppet extravaganza!

"Mind and Matter. Comparative Approaches towards Complexity": Rezension in MEDIENwissenschaft

Rezension von "Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization" auf Rock Paper Shotgun

"This 7D (backwards compatible to 2D) world simulation depicts six different key events in the history of Terra ('Earth'), a low-tech civilization that self-destructed several aeons ago. Based on the relatively few biological and cultural artifacts, a team of multi-AI minds was able to recreate a stunningly accurate depiction of this ancient civilization."

PTTC:AATSAC is downright bizarre. I'm not entirely sure what creators Damien Di Fede, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Eric Wenske, and Heather Kelley are hating on with it (so-called "realistic” games, maybe?), but it's beyond surreal. Allegedly, you're playing through a host of major events in human history, but the advanced civilization that's come across the bones of ours has pieced them together all wrong. Unsurprisingly, it's very silly. I was sold when it very matter-of-factly explained to me that humans were strange vacuum cleaner creatures with cube-firing guns for hands. Using my mighty digital digits, I then went on to exterminate an evil race of pink pinata… things, because that's definitely what happened during, say, Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Granted, PTTC:AATSAC has some serious issues. The healing mechanic is (maybe purposefully) tedious, and it's pretty easy for enemies to obnoxiously get the drop on you. As with Crystal Crashers, it's more amusing than it is an example of sound game design.

The Digital and Analogue Subversion of monochrom @ Cyland

Ein Interview mit monochroms Günther Friesinger auf der russischen Website Cyland.

Link (Russisch)

Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization A First Person Research Shooter

This 7D (backwards compatible to 2D) world simulation depicts six different key events in the history of Terra ("Earth"), a low-tech civilization that self-destructed several aeons ago. Based on the relatively few biological and cultural artifacts, a team of multi-AI minds was able to recreate a stunningly accurate depiction of this ancient civilization.

Kreiert von Damien Di Fede, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Eric Wenske und Heather Kelley, als Teil von Damiens Artist Residency bei monochrom im Museumsquartier Vienna.

Download hier!
(für Windows and Apple)

Damien Di Fede: Neuer monochrom Artist-in-Residence @ Museumsquartier Wien

Damien Di Fede is a creative programmer, composer, and founding member of experimental game collective Kokoromi. As a game programmer, he contributed to Red Fly Studio's titles Mushroom Men, Food Network: Cook or be Cooked! and Thor: God of Thunder. Recent projects include audio engineering on Tiger Style's Waking Mars, which was an IGF 2012 finalist in both Excellence in Audio and Best Mobile Game, and as programmer/designer on iPad music creation game Cosmic DJ.

Die Presse: Interview mit Grenzfurthner über Sierra Zulu und Crowdfunding

monochroms "Title Sequence" @ MULTImART Vienna

Es steht schlecht um die Aura der Kunst im Zeitalter digitaler Reproduzierbarkeit!
Image Sharing! Kontextkollaps! Beliebigkeit! Bedeutungsverlust!
monochrom, die immer schon einen Hang zu totgesagten Medien hatten, rücken die Kontextualisierung von Kunstwerken wieder in den Mittelpunkt und garantieren eine eigenständig autonome Bildbeschriftung zu jedem Kunstwerk der Edition!
Jedes Objekt des reproduzierten Bildmotivs wird gewissenhaft rekontextualisiert und mit einem eigenen Titel versehen! Distinktionsgewinn für die hyperindividuelle Kundschaft! Schafft 1, 2, viele Kunstwerkbeschriftungen!

Earthmoving @ TEDxVienna 2012

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