Boffins gather to dissect urban myths: Urban legend conference in Wales. Info: "Did you hear that a couple of teenagers, parked on a deserted road, were almost attacked by a hook-handed psychopath? Or that crop circles were created by UFOs? Or that in late summer 2001, an Arabic man who was helped out at a petrol station in gratitude warned the helpful motorist ‘this September, stay out of New York City’? These are all urban legends, or ‘urban myths’, and have been circulated by word-of-mouth and by print & broadcast media for generations – a modern form of folklore. Between 21-24 July, folklorists from around the world will be descending on the Welsh resort town of Aberystwyth for their annual conference." 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]
