Highgate cemetery: the zenith of nineteenth-century landscape design and funerary architecture
Graveyards in 18-century England were overcrowded and body snatchers active. The Victorians revolted against this, and pressed for secure and hygienic resting places for their dead. A radical reform movement oversaw the building of Highgate, eclectic, ostentatious and quirky. 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]
