When extreme programming becomes the standard, extreme hiring is the next step. They keep looking for skills, yes. But for kindergarten skills: the next employee will be the one who is collaborative and helps others in fulfilling their tasks. In particular they want participants to "make their partner look good." Guess they are mad as hell.
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]