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Arse Elektronika 2010: Wir suchen Microtalks über Sex, Kunst und Technologie

Wir wollen im Rahmen der diesjährigen Arse Elektronika fünfminütige Kurztalks über Sex und Kunst präsentieren.

An evening of five minute lightning talks about technosexual art and comic culture. We call the evening "Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art" -- and if you want to present your favorite art piece or present your own work: send us an email!

Roboexotica 2010: Festivaltermin steht / 'Robot Dreams' berichtet

The Roboexotica 2010 Festival dates are set for December 2nd-5th in Vienna. If you're into robots, and are of legal drinking age, this is one event absolutely not to be missed.

Here's how the Roboexotica organization website positions this totally unique annual celebration featuring robots contributing to improving life in a meaningful way...

Cheers! Roboexotica will take place in Vienna December 2-5, 2010. Until recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Der Schockwellenreiter rezensiert das "ZukunftsWeb"-Buch aus dem Hause monochrom

Brandneu hingegen ist das ZukunftsWebBuch 2010: Chancen und Risiken des Web 3.0, eine Sammlung von Essays mit Antworten, Ausblicken und Perspektiven von Autoren aus dem Umkreis der österreichischen Künstlergruppe monochrom und der Semantic Web Company (wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe). Ich bin mit der Lektüre noch nicht ganz durch, einige Aufsätze haben mich aber durchaus begeistert, andere meinen Widerspruch hervorgerufen. So soll es schließlich auch sein, denn nur ein kritisches Buch ist ein lesenswertes Buch. Und auf der Website des Projekts wird die Diskussion fortgeführt.

Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY / Programm ist online

Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY

Konferenz, Maschinen, Workshops, Peformances...
30. September bis 3. Oktober 3, 2010
San Francisco, USA

Love hotels. Swinger club design. Phallic architecture. The gentrification of Times Square, kicking out all the peep shows, and similar anti-sex gentrifications and battles. Kids making out in the back seats of cars, and people fucking in parks. Housing for unconventional family units. Augmented reality sex spaces. Furniture for sex. Room design. Creating new environments. Gendered spaces, and gender in the creation of space. Architecture by women, and the potential for the construction of a feminist architecture. Actively gender-segregated spaces, as both empowering and oppressing. Queer-segregated spaces, similarly. The acts of human intimacy, sexual intercourse, and procreation in weightlessness and the extreme environments of space. Erotic space tourism. The visibility of sex, genders, and relationship structures in various spaces. Spaces of sexual control and permissiveness. Sexual subcultures as spaces of social division. Spatial enforcement of relationship structures and gendered power structures. Geotagging as an expression for kinks. The sexual reading of architecture, especially around historical and modern styles and concerning ornament and detail. The eroticization of buildings -- architecture for whorehouses, the Las Vegas strip, people who want to sleep with buildings. What makes design "sexy" and the construction of "sexy" as an architectural category as a comment on late heteronormativity. The terabyte gloryhole. The space in which the male gaze occurs and the space it defines.

Heterosexism, misogyny, and heterocentrism reinforce the dominant cultural structure and contribute to the oppression of large sectors of society. Sexuality, sex, gender, and related constructs are heavily implicated in and reproduce space, and are also constrained and restricted by it and by heterosexism. Let's explore this space of interactions.

monochrom gräbt euch ein, mit Liebe! SIX FEET UNDER CLUB

In the age of data mining, a person's sex life may contain less embarrassing details than their web search history. Does it make sense that the former is a tightly guarded secret while the latter is shared with anonymous corporations daily? Even though a sexual nature is one of the few things most humans share in common, our social convention is to push all trace of it out of the public sphere. The Six Feet Under Club offers attendees a unique opportunity to experience the warping of public and private intimate space.

At monochrom's Arse Elektronika conference, couples can volunteer to be buried together in a casket beneath the ground. The space they occupy will be extremely private and intimate. The coffin is a reminder of the social norm of exclusive pair bonding "till death do us part". However, this intimate scene will be corrupted by the presence of a night vision webcam which projects the scene on to an outside wall. The audience will be privy to the scene inside, but the volunteers in the coffin will be completely isolated from them. The scenario keeps the intimacy of a sexual moment intact while moving the private act into public space. It can be seen as an absurd parody of pornographic cinema or an examination of the high value placed on sexual privacy. Either way, won't you become a member of the Six Feet Under Club?

Jack Sargeant empfiehlt monochrom #26-34

An epic at some 500 pages long, the weight and length of this volume is like a fucking telephone book. Do you remember journals / 'zines' such as Vague or Semiotext(e)? This has the feel of publications like that. And amongst many other pieces, it features my essay on Serge Gainsbourg. So you really should buy this. Enough meat on this to last a long time. It costs a mere $24US. Do you need an excuse?

monochrom: Wie funktioniert das Internet?

Quasihistorisches Dokument: monochroms Erst-Joint-Aufblasung

#fullboycott: Noch aktiv!

monochroms gesegnetes Trinkgelage in NYC

Ja, der Johannes wird sich der Intoxikation hingeben! Und vielleicht auch ein paar Ausgaben von monochrom #26-34 signieren - aber nur wenn er echt zu ist.

Wann, wo?

Am Montag, den 9. August um 20:30 im legendären Burp Castle (41 East 7th Street, East Village/Manhattan; zwischen 2nd Ave & Cooper Square).

Und hier gibts noch ein Facebook-Event dazu.

monochroms "Begebenheit": Ein Kurzfilm über Geschäftssanierung und Die Alten

monochroms Kurzfilm "Vittorio" endlich online

Krach über Kinderhörspiele

Unser gelieberter Busenfreund Krach besprach auf FM4 Kinderhörspielkassetten...

Unbedingt anhören, hier liegt das vollständige MP3 der beispielschwangeren Konversation.

Krachs Blog ist hier auf unserem Server und seine CD "Hello World!" ist im monochrom-Label erschienen.

Boing Boing hyperlinkt auf 'Wikileaks: The Ballet'!

Johannes Grenzfurthner from Austrian mad arts collective Monochrom closed out this year's HOPE conference in NYC with a dramatic presentation about, um, Wikileaks. And unicorns.

monochrom'sche Bücher @ Videotage / Hong Kong

We still have limited copies of the monochrom books left, if interested, please contact us at (852) 2573-1869, or
by email: info AT videotage.org.hk

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