monochrom announcement // "Roboexotica": David Calkins wrote a great article for a US magazine about Roböxotica 2005.
What are the three greatest things in life? In this month's episode of robot competitions around the world, we'll be dealing with the second and third items on that list – robots and cocktails (we'll cover sex and robots in next month's article. The Austrian groups "Monochrome" [sic!] and "Shifz" co-sponsor what is probably the greatest robot competition in the world – Roboexotica – which deals solely with robots as bartenders and drinking companions. Robots shouldn't be gladiators, they should be your buddies! And Roboexotica brings that philosophy home (or at least it brings it to Vienna...) Just as cocktails themselves are international in their nature, so were the entrants. Robots came from around the world to show their mixological abilities.
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]