Games are a defining medium of our time. The majority of them is produced by multinational corporations, designed to appeal to the mass audience, locked on DRM-protected and region-coded data media, and sold, shrink-wrapped in plastic. Yet resourceful hackers and artists are working on the liberation of this medium. Serious games, homebrew games, and game art are results of their great efforts. Martin Pichlmair and his guests will present a number of game machine hacks - from a modified pinball machine dating back to the 1970s to musical instruments running on the Nintendo DS.
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]