At the time, it would have been hard to predict which of these events 40 years ago would prove to be most momentous:
- Humans step out of a spaceship and walk on the moon. - The Woodstock concert becomes a seminal cultural moment for the baby-boomer generation. - A New York City police raid leads to the Stonewall riots and modern gay-rights movement. - A handful of engineers at UCLA send some data from one computer to another.
You may disagree, but in my opinion, it's the last of the list: four decades ago today, the Internet was born.
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]