New monochrom content // Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere: My essay on the cultural history of "Amok". Intro: "Every day, the snuff picture sites on the internet display pictures of people, and sometimes animals, who died in the most unusual circumstances. In this gigantic photo depot I also discovered an image of the remains of the head of an American who, after a short morning visit to his office, left his workplace in order to leave a trail of carnage at a nearby supermarket and finally to kill himself. Somehow the police photo landed on the website, and below it was a commentary unobtrusively written in Times New Roman font: “Maybe his inkjet printer had a paper jam.” Who knows? In office space no one can hear you scream. [...]" 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]
