Simone Davalos is a professional ne'er do well who writes stuff and plays with robots. She is co-organizer of RoboGames, the world's largest robot competition (at least the Guinness Book says so) and messes around with power tools with The Flaming Lotus Girls, builders of fine large-scale fire art. She tends to blather most at Suicidebots.com, but also occasionally puts out for The Long Now Foundation and Gawker Media, if they take her out to dinner, ask nicely and wear latex. Her attitude has gotten her into trouble in the past. She enjoys being a patsy for Survival Research Labs, has been a member of the San Francisco Cacophony Society since birth, and her most useful collegiate experience was as the assistant pyrotechnician for the Yale University Precision Marching Band.
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]
