monochrom interview // About work... and water cycles: A conversation with German researcher Hans-Joachim Rieseberg, first published in monochrom issue #11-14 1/2. I thought it would be good to refer to this interview again, taking into account the current discussions about floodings in Europe, the New Orleans disaster and the talks about climate change/non-climate change. Quote: "Basically, all catastrophes that we are experiencing these days are easy to describe. We have dried out all swamps, we have cleared the upper regions of rivers, and we have speeded up the exertion of nutrients from the ground. We made the water flow. A sustainable ecological system builds on stable water, not flowing water. This is how we have changed the climate. Our team (we are a few people) is already able describe how the sum of individual effects from local areas are the cause for the climate changes, instead of global causes. This is a different point of view. The general perspective until now was that of global warming, etc., which is only a rather small part. The big changes in climate that are a result of the interplay on the planetary surface, meaning between water, earth, plants, animals, and farming." 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]
