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Die Gstettensaga: Best Hacker Feature 2014 at "PhutureCon Festival"

Proudness, very much so!

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"Die Gstettensaga": Maker Film Fest of Durango 2014 Official Selection

monochrom @ "Make your movie: a conversation with the low-budget feature filmmakers of Fright Night/Fandomfest"

Panelists will each briefly talk about the challenges they faced and the hurdles they overcame, from funding to
final cut, to finish their feature film that is screening at Fright Night / Fandomfest. The group will field questions from aspiring filmmakers, encouraging everyone to make a movie of their own!

Panelists:
Sophia Cacciola / Michael J. Epstein (Somerville, MA, USA) - TEN (movie)
Johannes Grenzfurthner/monochrom (Vienna, Austria): Die Gstettensaga
Eamon Hardiman (Charleston, WV, USA) - Pig Girl
David L. Eblen (Portland, OR, USA) - Ravana's Game
Jesse Knight (Boone, NC, USA) - The Orbs
Jaysen Buterin (Greensboro, NC) - The Gospel According to Booze, Bullets & Hot Pink Jesus

Spread the word!

August 2, 2014; 12:15 pm at room 211 at Fright Night/Fandomfest in Louisville, Kentucky.

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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.

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