Breakthrough in mutual comprehension: Article by Françoise Ploquin. Intro: "There is something disconcerting about hearing a French person ask for directions in Florence, Seville or Coimbra in English. Or hearing a native Spanish or Portuguese speaker do the same in Paris. It ignores the family relationship between the languages of southern Europe and Latin America, all of which are descended from Latin. It is not only desirable but possible to establish mutual comprehension between native speakers of Romance languages — French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian — and it does not take long." 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]