Ars Electronica 2004 is on its way. In fact, Ars Electronica is boring. But boredom is the only thing that lets you experience time, isn't it? Anyway, as the thing that it is, a new funnel that continually demands to be filled with old wine. Maybe boredom is an emancipating way to experience time: what outer space is to architectural space. No now, no later – emancipation from plans, from agenda, from the false projections of possible events that never occur anyway. That would mean that boredom makes something genuinely new possible in the first place. On the other hand, the web is boring, and how often have you really seen anything new, except the Japanese cat bred in a jar. Link
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. [more]
