New monochrom content // Georg Paul Thomann: Funeral Video: monochrom represented the Republic of Austria at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2002 by creating the fictional artist Georg P. Thomann. Through the implementation of this ironic mechanism - even the catalogue includes the biography of the non-existent artist - we tried to solve with pure fiction the philosophical and bureaucratic dilemma usually attached to the system of representation. (More info.)
In July we released a press info that "Austrian artist and writer Prof. Georg Paul Thomann died in a tragic accident at the tender age of 60". On July 29, 2005 we staged his funeral in Hall in Tirol. Thomann's gravesite remains in Hall. So far, Georg Paul Thomann's tombstone is world's only tombstone with an engraved URL. Finally, the video of the funeral is online. 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]