Quote: >He revolutionized photography, helped the Allies win World War II, allowed Jacques Cousteau to see deep under the sea, and even hunted the Loch Ness monster. Harold "Doc" Edgerton, who spent a lifetime teaching people to see the world differently, is the subject of an exhibit at the MIT Museum, on the Cambridge, Mass., campus where he worked and taught for half a century. Through his revolutionary work in stroboscopy, Edgerton showed what time looks like when it stands still. His photographs of a milk drop forming a coronet after splashing on a tabletop, and of athletes in multiple-action sequences, blurred the line between science and art.< 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]
