What's a science fiction writer doing hanging out with designers anyway? Bruce Sterling on SF and design. Quote: >Design's bad habits are bad for designers, but they're absolutely great for science fiction writers. I'll give you a cogent example. Let's say you're an industrial designer trying to get a bunch of skeptical industrialists in some corporate boardroom to pony up 20 million dollars so they can retool the factory and build something you've just invented with a pencil and graph paper. This is basically a "suspension of disbelief" operation. It has distinct literary, fictionalizing qualities.< 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]