Upcoming monochrom project // Roböxotica 2004 / Call for Papers and Robots: monochrom and Shifz are organizing the first and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics (here in Vienna/Austria). We try to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. There is an Annual Cocktail Robot Award for 1. serving cocktails, 2. mixing cocktails, 3. bartending conversation, 4. lighting cigars/cigarettes, 5. other achievements in the sector of cocktail culture. And as you can imagine ... these tasks aren't trivial. If you are interested in coming to Vienna to present a robot, hold a workshop or a lecture, please send me an email. 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]