DaddyD writes: "When I was a kid we had three kinds of tech art thingies to choose from. Etch-a-sketch, Spirograph, and LiteBrite. Etch a sketch was a serious bitch do use. Try as I might I couldn't make it do anything worth looking at. Spirograph was sort of cool in a psychedelic kind of way, but the sheer mass of little plastic bits meant sloppy kids like myself wound up losing most of the stuff you needed to make anything at all. That left LiteBrite. It was basically a light box with a black plastic mesh in front, black paper, and lots of colored, translucent plastic pegs. Working with it was a lot like doing sprite design. Think of each peg as a pixel and you will know what I mean. I always wondered how many future pixel artists actually cut their teeth on lite bright as a kid. There must have been one or two, because someone actually took the time to make a digital version and put it online. It's not quite as cool as having your own glowing work of art next to your bed, but it's getting there." 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]
