How to fake science, history and religion. An investigation into the invented histories of Atlantis, pre-Ice Age civilizations and cosmic catastrophes.
What is striking about pseudo-histories and sciences is how repetitive they are and, despite their extravagant speculations, how limited their visions are. They are mechanical and lack the éclat - the surprises - of science and history. What is their allure? What are the circumstances of their rise and fall? What is - and was - their audience?
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]