Bre Pettis produces the show "Weekend Projects," which is released weekly as a video podcast for Make: Magazine. For his show, Bre makes something every week, and then makes a video teaching viewers how to make it too. In his recent past, he's been a schoolteacher, a multi-artist, and a puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.

Visuell weniger eindrucksvoll, dafür unverblümt, unverschämt und rücksichtslos klugscheißerisch ist der Auftritt der Wiener Künstlergruppe Monochrom, eine Mischung aus kapitalismuskritischer Vorlesung und Arbeiterlieder-Intonation, gewürzt mit theatralischem Irrsinn und einer nichtssagenden Powerpoint-Präsentation. Parallel zu den Theoriebreitseiten wird an allen drei Festivaltagen Musik aufgelegt oder live gespielt.

Bis in die frühen Morgenstunden wurde gekickert, getanzt, ge-Tshirts-kustomisiert. Ein geheimes Highlight übrigens: Die beiden Jungs von "Monochrom" mit ihrer Firmensong-Analyse.

From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development. The porno effect accompanies every new technological development. Is it going too far to assume that research in nanotechnology and genetic engineering will be influenced by our sexual needs? The surgical modification of sexual organs is no longer something very unusual. The question is not whether these technologies alter humanity, but how they do so.

++++ Die Gäste:

//// MARTIN AUER ÜBER HURENTAXIS UND DAS LEBEN DER CALLGIRLS

Fünf Monate lang hat Martin Auer bei einer der größten Wiener Callgirl-Agenturen - deren Besitzerin inzwischen wegen mutmaßlichen Menschenhandels in Untersuchungshaft musste - als Fahrer gearbeitet und aufgeschrieben, was er dabei erlebt hat und was ihm die Mädchen während der Fahrt von einem Kunden zum anderen erzählt haben.

//// MICHAEL ZELTNER ÜBER HI-TECH-STREETART

~ 7. Februar 2007, Rotterdam: Das Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) aus New York stellt L.A.S.E.R. Tag vor: Auf einem fünfzehnstöckigen Gebäude mit nahezu ~40*50 Metern Fläche Graffiti malen, alles per Laserpointer, leuchtstarkem Videobeamer und einem Stück Software.
~ 27. Juli 2007, Wien: Florian Hufsky und Michael Zeltner verbrachten die letzten 5 Tage um die GRL-Software komplett neu zu programmieren um Laser Graffiti nach Österreich zu holen. Für eine Nacht erleuchtet das MUMOK mit Zeichnungen, Tags und Statements der Besucher und etablierten Streetartists aus Wien.
~ 24. August 2007, Anger: Ihr wisst was geschehen wird.

http://laser.72dpiarmy.com/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

++++ Die Regulars

//// MAGISTRA EVELYN FÜRLINGER: Schöne Wörter

++++ Showband:

//// GEORG GRATZER & FRIENDS

Saxophon, Flöten, Bassklarinette.

Ein audiovisuell unterstuetzter Reisevortrag von monochrom.

Bad Kratschmach ist Ihnen vielleicht ein Begriff. Es liegt liegt zwischen Karnamuend und Altmeistritz an der Salawanten-Nordgruppe, am Fuss des Kleinen Tschrunsnock. Wir wollen Ihnen in diesem Reisebericht einige Impressionen und persoenliche Erfahrungen naeherbringen, die wir letzten Sommer in dieser Region gemacht haben. An allen Ecken und Enden roch es nach Urlaub und prekaeren Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen. Zeit fuer Sommerfrische. Aber unser Besuch sollte zu einer Graetsche zwischen touristischem Schein und kosmischem Sein werden, denn was als Erholungsreise begann, das endete auf verschlungenen Wegen in einer mysterioesen Geschichte ueber die Machtuebernahme einer ... sollen wir das jetzt schon verraten? So wahr uns Tourismus- und Bachbluetenindustrie helfe (und die sind zusammengerechnet ein paar Trillionen Euro schwer), nein!

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And I saw, and I heard a voice of many fallen angels followed by drones and the living creatures and the elder hackers; and the number of enslaved users was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a great voice, "Unworthy is the disk that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and might and honor!" And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things are in them, heard I saying, "Blast it from the throne!" And the four living sys admins said, Amen.

The Day of Judgement has arrived. Oh energy redistributed carbohydrates, end the proprietary reign of evil! Thou shalt pull the trigger speaketh the 0ne!

Weareth your hoodie jackets! Joineth! High speed cameras welcome! Even bloggers!

Date: Saturday, Aug 11. Time: 17:00. Meeting point: Statue of Lenin @ CCC Camp.

Signed: Metalab / monochrom / quintessenz. And the faithful peoples of LeiwandVille.

Needed: drum, drummer, high speed camera, maybe bloggers.

monochrom presents:

++TAUGSHOW #12++
Friday, August 10, 2007 / 9:30 PM @ FOO, Chaos Communication Camp, Finowurt

The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.

[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]

Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Michael Zeltner (replacing Roland Gratzer)

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Thanks to the wonderful folks of the CCC and the Metalab for helping us...

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/// RICH GIBSON ON MAPS AND REALITIES

Maps tell stories, and the stories they tell both reflect and create reality. We live in a phenomenal Universe. What we see, smell, hear, taste and touch is mediated by our senses. What we see are the records of photons hitting our eyes, and what we smell is the effect of molecules of that material binding with receptors in our nasal passages (think on that as you visit the porta potty). Because we live in a phenomenal universe in which our experience of reality is mediated by our senses the maps that we create to represent reality also create reality. Rich Gibson is interested in the geospatial component of what people do. Everything we do, think or experience we do, think or experience somewhere. But who cares where you were when you added 'milk' to your grocery list? Consider that our primary source on the lives of many people, including in recent historical time, is their middens and outhouses. That is, their garbage dumps and shit. The locative part of our history is at least as important as our shit! And if handled well we can learn from where we have been.

Rich Gibson appears to be a mechanism for turning sugar and alcohol into energy and ideas. He lives in Sebastopol California where he writes code and words, and tries to understand and perhaps change the ways he and the world interact. He is the co-author of "Mapping Hacks" and "Google Maps Hacks". He works with Meadan.org. We care about what is close to us, and Meadan is working to bring the world close to all of us.

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/// B9PUNK ON PIRATES AND RADIOS

Pirate Radio is not only possible in the US, but easy, affordable, low-risk, and a useful important medium. KBFR (K-Boulder Free Radio) was a enormously successful and long-lived (5 years on the air) station in Colorado, which was made more successful and long-lived with the involvement of hackers. In the end, we had 40 Djs, a rented space, benefit concerts and a cd of local music we recorded at our studio, thousands of listeners, and an unforgettable impact on the community. Together we confronted, and have lots of funny stories to tell about, the many interesting questions involved in running a free station, like pleasing the community, advertisers, free speech at large, "real" radio competition, and of course those evil bastards the FCC.

B9punk is basically a "hacker enabler," meaning that she has had a hand in setting up projects like making a new 2600 meeting, starting a pseudo-hackerspace in New York (the Hacker Halfway House), designing and coordinating the HOPE conference, and most recently Hackers on a Plane. Her most interesting and favorite adventure in this line of work so far, was being involved with a pirate radio station in the US. She currently lives in New York City, but has been spending a lot of time in Europe lately in an effort to pick up some class and avoid being a stereotype.

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/// PHILLIP STEARNS: "I <3 COMPUTER MUSIC TOO!"

Phillip Stearns is a Los Angeles based sound and visual artist, composer and recent graduate of the California Institute of the Arts music composition department. His most recent work is centered around the notion of the circuit as a site for expression through subversion. His projects are personal inquiries into electronic technologies and their role in shaping our notions of community, space, isolation and interconnectedness. The tools of his practice include hacked and custom designed electronic hardware, misused audio hardware, compromised and abused commercial software, and recently antiquated technologies.

"I <3 Computer Music Too!" goes right to the core of electronic media: The Hardware. Rather than engage with the tradition of software programming to generate sound and image, custom designed analog/digital circuitry is used to hack, augment and transform the electronic signals flying around the motherboard of a PC computer into an abstract audio/visual mind-warp. The performance is improvised and deals with negotiations between the performer and equipment in the creation of a real-time media based performance work. Instead of creating a system which converts from one media to another, sound to audio or visa versa, the hardware in "I <3 Computer Music Too!" treats all signals equally. All electronic signals are analog and are without meaning until they are "formatted" to suit a particular display or output device. Within the piece, this formatting is done as directly is possible with the goal of minimal translation.

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/// monochrom regulars:

JAKE APPELBAUM

Jake Appelbaum will talk about Flickr, Yahoo!, unintended consequences of censorship, and publishing on the net as an artist.

Jacob Appelbaum is the monochrom Ambassador. He's currently living in San Francisco.

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/// Showband:

MONOCHROM ALLSTAR BAND featuring Michael Zeltner

An eternity of whetstones per kilo-newton!

Enjoy!

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From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development. The porno effect accompanies every new technological development. Is it going too far to assume that research in nanotechnology and genetic engineering will be influenced by our sexual needs? The surgical modification of sexual organs is no longer something very unusual. The question is not whether these technologies alter humanity, but how they do so.