Arse Elektronika 2010 @ Mission Comics and Art: Call for Microtalks on Sex/Tech/Art
 Sunday; October 3, 2010 8:30 PM Location: Mission Comics and Art Arse Elektronika Main Page Roboexotica 2010: Festival Dates Announced / 'Robot Dreams' recommends
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.  Link (Roboexotica page) Link (Robot Dreams) Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY / Schedule online
Arse Elektronika 2010: SPACE RACY
Conference, machines, workshops and performances  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. With talks, workshops and performances by: Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, Jason Brown, Heather Kelley, Zach Blas, Christophe, Eleanor Saitta, Samuel Coniglio, Mae Saslaw, Ben Dagan, Carol Queen, Adam Flynn, Philip Freeman, Katrien Jacobs, Svenja Schroeder, Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand and many more... Link (Facebook event) monochrom wants you to go down: SIX FEET UNDER CLUB
6fuc in San Francisco, USA @ Arse Elektronika 2010 October 2, 2010 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? Send us an email to reserve your time slot. Project page Facebook event Jack Sargeant recommends 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?(via Facebook, and on his blog) monochrom: How does the Internet work?
Learning this procedure is not easy. This page serves as a brief introduction to the process.  Link Semi-historic document: monochrom's initial joint inflation
 Link #fullboycott: Still active!
Reduce your expenses on media products. To zero.  Link monochrom's merry drinkup in NYC
When? Where? Monday, August 9, 8:30 PM @ the fabulous Burp Castle (41 East 7th Street in the East Village of Manhattan; between 2nd Ave & Cooper Square). And here is a Facebook invite. Boing Boing features '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.Link (Boing Boing) Link (Video) monochrom books @ Videotage / Hong Kong
We still have limited copies of the monochrom books left, if interested, please contact us at (852) 2573-1869, orLink monochrom: "Wikileaks: The Ballet" (feat. Unicorns) @ The Next HOPE Conference
Link Laughing Squid features hackbus.info (Community Wiki For Mobile Hack Vehicles)
Yesterday at The Next Hope in NYC, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom announced Hackbus, a community wiki for mobile hack vehicles around the world. Here’s more on the Hackbus concept.LinkHackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) are a low-threshold way of bringing the culture of hacking to the people. They are migratory learning and teaching units, taking the talented hackers and their ideas out of urban centers and bringing them to people who might not otherwise be aware of the possibilities available to them. Gizmodo features monochrom's Arse Elektronika @ #thenexthope
The idea began over beers. Johannes Grenzfurthner (of monochrom) and friends wondered if the notion that porn drives technology really was true or urban myth. So, they decided, why not organize a public event and find out?Link monochrom is launching HACKBUS community site at #thenexthope
We at monochrom are launching a community site for the evergrowing armada of hackbusses. 
We need a root movement of doing strange things
with hardware which was not intended (aka
"hacking") because only when we use things in
ways other than they were planned can something
new arise. 
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. . monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993.
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