Two steps back... In 1990 Australia's aboriginal population celebrated the commencement of a bold experiment. The government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke created the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), to allow Aboriginal people the right to govern their own affairs. Fourteen years later, Mr Hawke's successor, John Howard, has declared the experiment a failure and announced that aboriginal self-government in Australia is dead. Article by Greg Barns. 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]
