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Boing Boing features our "Gstettensaga" North America tour

Award-winning post-apocalyptic hackploitation comedy 'Die Gstettensaga' is coming to a couple North American hacker conventions, film festivals and other cool locations.

July 28 it will be shown at Betalevel (a mysterious art dungeon in LA's Chinatown), August 1 at Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY, but also at Gen Con, The Indie Gathering, SF Global Movie Fest etc. Or, well, PirateBay.

Hedonistika Reader: Call for Papers

"Hedonistika: Montréal" was an exhibition held at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal as part of the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) in May 2014. The exhibition was a multi-modal event that brought 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 and creating, participants interrogated and exposed the mutually constructive bonds of food and tech, while proposing alternative, playful, and stimulating reconfigurations. The event proposed a hack: a hybrid of bricolage, play, criticality, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The goal of Hedonistika was 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. The goal was to merge research-creation with critical analysis, and community engagement with celebration. To compliment the exhibition catalogue we are now looking for papers that explore the critical issues within these realms.

See http://janetingley.com/hedonistika/ and http://www.hedonistika.com/ for details of the exhibition.

We are looking for a diverse range of text – from academic to more experimental. Your contribution should not exceed 40 000 characters including the title, a short biography (max. 10 lines) and references. In addition, the number of images (diagrams, etc.) should be reduced to an absolute minimum. The images must be sent as separate files in print-quality (300dpi) and must be accompanied by complete captions (copyright information, source, etc.). The language of publication is English.

We would like you to complete the finished text by October 31st 2014 by the latest and send the electronic version (as a Word document, Times New Roman, font size 12 for the main text, font size 10 for block quotations) to <office AT monochrom.at>

Thank you in advance for your efforts!

Very best wishes,
Guenther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Jane Tingley and Simon Laroche

Video online: "Fuckhackerfucks! An audience bashing" @ HOPE X

Johannes of art tech group monochrom will indulge in a public rant about hacker culture and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency, and valid critique of the status quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it onto Google’s YouTube channel.)

Fuckhackerfucks! An audience bashing @ HOPE X

Johannes Grenzfurthner of art tech group monochrom wants to indulge in a public rant about hacker culture, and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency and valid critique of the status-quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it on Google's YouTube channel.)

At HOPE X (July 20, 2014; 1 PM), Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, USA.

"Die Gstettensaga": Utopia Festival Tel Aviv 2014 Official Selection

Grand Opening: monochrom's "Wellness As Usual" in Vienna

monochrom – the special interest group for art, theory and context-crafting – is determined to confront you with a multi-layered uber-reception of individual bliss.
Dozens upon dozens of New Age/Relaxation/Esoterica CDs will be played simultaneously, in absolute darkness, and therefore create a cacophonic mist of well-being – an uneasy slur of chilloutlandishness. Whale songs and babbling creeks, synth mountains and harp surges!
n equals n plus x. And x is always radical stress relief!
Experience how the merciless juxtaposition of individual oases of full frontal feelgoodness becomes a painfully energizing sensation.
Don't miss it!

Where? At Raum D, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier.
First slot: Saturday, July 12, 2014; 7 PM. BE ON TIME!
More slots: July 13-20; always 7 PM.

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Die Gstettensaga: Best Foreign Horror Feature 2014 at "The Indie Gathering International Film Festival"

Proudness, ja!

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"Let Me Ascertain You" features Johannes/Six Feet Under Club

This first podcast in the series focuses on death as the ultimate turn-on. To start us off, we have Stephen Plunkett performing a monologue from an interview we did with famed porn director Craven Moorehead. Then we have Sam Breslin Wright performing an interview with Johannes, an Austrian who runs an arts/technology festival that buries people alive, aptly named, "The Six Feet Under Club." Following that, cabaret superstar Lady Rizo performs her original song “Under” which she wrote with Yair Evnine. This song is based on our interview with Kitty, a "Six Feet Under Club" participant who got buried alive with her lover.

Upcoming Gstettensaga screenings in Roswell, Munich and Linz

Roswell, New Mexico (at Roswell International Sci Fi Film Festival): Friday, June 27, 2014

Munich (at iRRland): Monday, June 30, 2014; 8:30 PM

Linz (at qujOchÖ): Thursday, July 3, 2014; 9 PM

"Die Gstettensaga": /slash Filmfestival 2014 Official Selection

Film Threat loves "Die Gstettensaga"

Grenzfurthner's outspoken, swiftly flying little flick is the must-see indie of 2014, as far as I'm concerned. Everyone, be they intellectuals, political-types, or simply those that love great blackly comic, sensual horror, will fall madly in love with Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl. See it, as soon as possible, and I promise you'll never be bored at the movies again.

Furtherfield reviews "Die Gstettensaga"

Die GstettenSaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl is an Austrian hackploitation art house film by Johannes Grenzfurthner, mastermind of the international art-technology-philosophy group monochrom, co-produced by the media collective Traum & Wahnsinn. Reimagining the makerspace as grindhouse, the story is set in the post-apocalyptic aftermath of the “Google Wars” – an armed global conflict between the last two remaining superpowers China and Google - which has turned what remained of the Alps into a Gstetten.

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The Gstettensaga’s fascinating cinematic pastiche is more than just a firework of rhizomatic intertextuality, a symptom of the depthlessness of postmodern aesthetics or excessive enthusiasm for experimentation in the field of form. In their infamous 1972 book Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have identified the technique of bricolage as the characteristic mode of production under “schizophrenic” capitalism, a facet triumphantly magnified by the filmmakers.

Update: edition mono/monochrom

Arse Elektronika 2014 / Call for Submissions: TRANS*.*

Trans is a Latin noun or prefix, meaning "across", "beyond" or "on the opposite side". What does that mean for sex and technology?
- Transitions, translations, transgressions, transistors & transducers, transactions, transmission (specifically sexually transmitted infections), transdermal?
- How does sex change as we age? As we grow, as we mature? And what about old age? Sex in nursing homes? Sex when people have lost much of their sense of identity with Alzheimer's Disease and the like, but are still horny, still sexual entities? How do pharma and biotech help/monetize this situation?
- Sex under drugs, sex under other altered states? Is Viagra a drug? At what point does a loss of cognitive function take away our ability to consent?
- Transnationality and sex. What about translations and transitions across cultures? For example: Hacking, porn, dissent in Iran? Purity Balls and the American obsession with virginity whatever that really means?
- How does our sex and our perception of sex change with the introduction of new gadgets? Who are the early (sexual) adopters? And what about the adapters? What about (white male) privilege and new gadgets? Google Glass Ceiling?
- SCOT (social construction of technology) research, such as that of Mackenzie and Wajcman, argues that the path of innovation and its social consequences are strongly, if not entirely shaped by society itself through the influence of culture, politics, economic arrangements, regulatory mechanisms and the like. So if its true that technology itself doesnt matter, but the social or economic system in which it is embedded (Langdon Winner), then what does that tell us about the transition from sex tech into the cultural mainstream?
- Is human sexual behavior transforming our planet? What's the sexual side of the anthropocene?
- Transgression and mechanophila? Is our technological society driven by erotogenic fixation on machinery? What about hardcore pornography such as Fucking Machines? Can this be seen as constituting the limit of current sexual biopolitics?
- Sex puppets, Real Dolls and the Uncanny Valley? A never-ending transition?
- Teagan Widmer's latest app, Refuge Restrooms, highlights the importance of providing safe public accommodations for trans people. How can apps like Widmers help with tasks that most people take for granted, like the ability to use the bathroom?
- Is trans* a controversial label online? How do we develop language-theory-activism in general? Programming languages are designed to be inclusive of "trans" in a broad sense for both binary and non-binary gender modalities. Does it have transmisogynist qualities?
- Feminists, among other critical scholars, have long argued the problems with the notion of the Transcendental. Focusing on the transcendental moves our attention away from the day-to-day struggles involving the material and instead replaces it with transcendent ideas and ideals. How is this manifested through issues of sexuality and technology? What can we do about it? What are the power struggles involved, positionalities afforded and relationships to, that transcendental modes of thought afford for socio-economically marginalized populations? Can we compare and contrast notions of transcendence alongside notions of immanence? What is the role of the body and embodiment with respect to transcendentalism? What are the implications of transcendental for power? Grassroots activism? Citizens' movements? Open source? Hacking? Can we have visions of the future without being transcendental?
- And, last but not least, since sex is a pretty biological thing (insofar as things are biological things), we want to remind of genetics with our theme. Genetic transformation/translation/transcription/transmission.

Submit a talk, a performance, a game, a workshop, a machine, a system!
(Online form)

Deadline: August 5, 2014.
Our selection will be announced August 20, 2014.

For questions, please email: office AT monochrom.at

See you in San Transisco!

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"Die Gstettensaga": PhutureCon 2014 Official Selection

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