  Link The Teenar  A guitar shaped like a little girl? that is weird in so many ways. I wonder if Aerosmith or Keith Richards would go on stage with that... Probably it is an artistic comment on the guitar / girl symbolism encorporated and performed regularly if unconsciously by metal guitarists all around the world. Judge for yourself. Link monochrom: Apple Song Eat A Persimmon For Zeus Rubikubism  Rubikubism is wonderful art combining the aesthetics of early digital art with the geekdom of the Rubik's cube. No, it is not retro. Geeks are never retro - these for instance never left the Eighties. Link House extends like a turtle  It my look like the turtle in Michael Ende's "Neverending Story" and all the fur on the roof gives me the creeps, but the overall idea of woodconstruction is pretty cool. Link International Year Of Polytheism: Eat A Persimmon For Zeus Diospyros kaki translates as "The Fruit of Zeus". Zeus, is (or was) the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder, in Greek mythology. His symbols are (or were) the thunderbolt, bull, eagle and the oak. When the world was divided in three, Hades received the underworld, Poseidon the sea, and Zeus the sky.  We want to honor Zeus! We want to moan about the dreadful non-divisional monotheistic singularity! Long enough we were dominated by the concept of the God of the Abrahamic religions and/or the Platonic concept of God as put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite! We want to eat persimmons for Zeus! In anger! Join the force! Eat his fruit! Get a certificate! Los Angeles, California. Sidewalk @ 4810 Sunset Boulevard. February 23, 2007; 1 PM- 1:30 PM. Dorkbot SF pictures  Link International Year Of Polytheism: Still Touring!  Link monochrom: "When I was asked to write about new economy" New economy and neo-liberalism are commonly used terms that are meant to describe certain ways of change in professional (working) life. As buzzwords they omit all pressures to analyse what they are meant to describe. This text, too, will not discuss them in a useful way, as it has to satisfy the crypto-neoliberal demand of "readability, fluffy, so please no academic language" (to quote the commissioning E-Mail sent to me). So let us indeed stick with the desirably vague; neo-liberalism describes what it is commonly understood as, or not. In any case: The fundamental change that these buzzwords are meant to describe really describes the change in work terminology. [...]"  So, if you are interested, please follow the... Link Google Buttplug The Cracked ambience: new and recommended sounds for your living ambience  BLACK TO COMM - wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun (Dekorder) DELILAH - s/t (Zach) HAUSCHKA - room to expand (Fat Cat) FRIDA HYVÖNEN - until death comes (secretly canadian) KUUPUU - unilintu & yökehra (Dekorder) THE MISSING ENSEMBLE - zeropolis (low impedance) ALASDAIR ROBERTS - the amber gatherers (Drag City) ALEXANDER TUCKER - furrowed brow (ATP) VARIOUS ARTISTS - rufs (fenetre) monochrom @ Dorkbot San Francisco 7:30pm Monday 19 February 2007 Place: Encounter Studios, 555 DeHaro Suite 120, San Francisco, CA (Google Map).  Link Laughing Squid posts pictures of Taugshow #10  He lists a couple of other streams: Lori Dorn Violet Blue Karen Marcelo Ian Baker Rubin Starset VBSTV Yours truly, the author of this text, doesn't know how to start this blog-entry because he's so fucking excited, so let's just keep it simple: Spike Jonze is the creative director of vbstv, an online tv-project by Vice Magazine.
It's got shows on travelling, music, skateboarding, the famed do's and dont's, and, as I just found out, a talkshow called Soft Focus (love it!) hosted by none other than Ian Svenonius of Nation Of Ulysses, Make-Up and Weird War fame. The first guest he interviews in front of a live audience is Ian Mackaye, and if you didn't understand anything I just said in the previous sentences, you probably wouldn't care to know who he is anyway, so I won't tell you. Those who know will know. In any case, have a looky at this website, it's going to blow the backdoors off 2007. Link First reports and pictures of 'Premature Burial As A Field Trial For Near Death Activities'  Link Kal Spelletich @ Roboexotica 2006  Link Laughing Squid and Bruce Sterling feature Taugshow #10 Laughing Squid and Bruce Sterling blogged it. If you want to attend the show, please call our hotline (you can the phone number here).  Torontoist announced 'Premature Burial' The Cracked Ambience: new and recommended sounds for your personal space JIM LAUDERDALE - bluegrass / super country hits vol.1 (Yep-Roc) PEEKAY TAYLOH - centrifugal (poeta negra) YOUNG WIDOWS - settle down city (Jade Tree) DANI JOSS - shaper of forms (poeta negra) KOTRA & ZAVOLOKA - wag the swing (kvitnu) NEON - au theatre de sons imaginaire (poeta negra) SPYWEIRDOS - wetsound orchestra (poeta negra) monochrom's Monotheism Watch: Funeral Music For The Masses? All of them are of monotheistic origin. Know your musical enemy.  Link (MP3s) corporate jets everywhere inconvenient truth visuals WoWKodos writes:
I was tired of not being able to find images on the web to the data that Al Gore used in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. So after I purchased the DVD, I set about to capture most of the graphical images in the film. Hopefully this will help others who wish to link to this compelling data.Link (via infosthetics.com) Toronto Star Reports About 'Premature Burial' / Update Prominent picture.  (Click to enlarge.) Daniel Fabry, monochrom: Dressman of Death. Premature Burial: Alarm Raised! "Alarm raised over burial performance" A University of Toronto staff member is protesting that the experience of Austrian art collective monochrom's performance piece "#2: Premature Burial as a Field Trial for Near Death Activities" may be too extreme for some volunteer participants.More info Toronto Star Reports About 'Premature Burial As A Field Trial For Near Death Activities' Article: "How to be buried alive". It's not often that you get to shake the hand of the person who buries your coffin.  (Image Courtesy: Tara Walton / Toronto Star.) More info Eye Weekly Reports About 'Premature Burial As A Field Trial For Near Death Activities'  (Click to enlarge) More info monochrom's International Year Of Polytheism: Get Buried Alive! The people present will have an opportunity to be buried alive in a coffin for fifteen minutes. Volunteers will be able to experience a semi-traumatic situation and possibly get in close contact with various gods and/or afterlives. As a framework program there will be lectures about the history of the science of determining death and the medical cultural history of "buried alive". People buried alive not only populate the horror stories of past centuries, but also countless reports in specialized medical literature. The theme of unintentional resurrection by grave robbers also runs through forensic protocols. Even in the 19th century it was said that every tenth person was buried alive. February 7, 2007. Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga/University Toronto, Canada. Detailled info: The Austrian collective monochrom invites you to be buried alive in a private graveyard at the Blackwood Gallery on Wednesday February 7, 2007 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, and again from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.  Link 1 Link 2 monochrom lecture at Sheridan College Tuesday February 6, 2007 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm @ Sheridan College Art & Art History 1430 Trafalgar Road Oakville, Ontario L6H 2H1 room B125 Link Right To Life "To Be Matter" > The Edge of Surrealism 'The Edge of Surrealism' is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures.
"To be matter" is a review of 'The Edge of Surrealism' published in 'Radical Philosophy'. (Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader, Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2003.) Dig Deeper To Find Martian Life A UCL-led study has found that probes designed to find life on Mars do not drill deep enough to find the living cells that scientists believe may exist well below the surface. Although current drills may find essential tell-tale signs that life once existed on Mars, cellular life could not survive the radiation levels for long enough any closer to the surface of Mars than a few metres deep - beyond the reach of even state-of-the-art drills.
Lead author Mr Lewis Dartnell said: "Finding hints that life once existed – proteins, DNA fragments or fossils - would be a major discovery in itself, but the Holy Grail for astrobiologists is finding a living cell that we can warm up, feed nutrients and reawaken for studying. It just isn't plausible that dormant life is still surviving in the near-subsurface of Mars - within the first couple of metres below the surface – in the face of the ionizing radiation field. Finding life on Mars depends on liquid water surfacing on Mars, but the last time liquid water was widespread on Mars was billions of years ago. Even the hardiest cells we know of could not possibly survive the cosmic radiation levels near the surface of Mars for that long." Link Roboexotica @ Wired Print  You can find it in the January print issue of Wired. Link (JPEG) [The Archives] 
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. . 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.
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[ P r o j e c t s ] Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 2 / The Adventure Game Krach der Roboter: Hello World! Slacking is killing the DIY industry (T-Shirt) Carefully Selected Moments / CD, LP Freedom is a whore of a word (T-Shirt) International Year of Polytheism 2007 Santa Claus Vs. Christkindl: A Mobster Battle Kiki and Bubu and The Shift / Short film Kiki and Bubu and The Privilege / Short film Kiki and Bubu and The Self / Short film Kiki and Bubu and The Good Plan / Short film Kiki and Bubu and The Feelings / Short film / Short film Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 1 / The Adventure Game I was a copyright infringement in a previous life (T-Shirt) Firing Squad Euro2008 Intervention I can count every star in the heavens above -- The image of computers in popular music All Tomorrow's Condensations / Puppet show The Redro Loitzl Story / Short film Law and Second Order (T-Shirt) They really kicked you out of the Situationist International? When I was asked to write about new economy Arse Elektronika 2007, 2008, 2009 etc. The Void's Foaming Ebb / Short film The Charcoal Burner / Short film Fieldrecording in Sankt Wechselberg / Short film Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns Entertainment (Unterhaltung) / Short film Nicholas Negroponte Memorial Cable Experience the Experience! (West Coast USA/Canada Tour 2005) A Holiday in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Massive Multiplayer Thumb-Wrestling Network Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Metroblogging Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere 452 x 157 cm² global durability Blattoptera / Art for Cockroaches An attempt to emulate an attempt The Department for Criticism against Globalisation Disney vs. Chrusov / Short film Turning Threshold Countries Into Plows Roböxotica // Festival for Cocktail-Robotics Cracked Foundation For The Fine Arts Oh my God, they use a history which repeats itself! (T-Shirt) Administrating:  . . . . . |
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