monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #15++
Business Floing Special 2007 (during Roböxotica
festival)
Friday, November 23, 2007 / 8:00 PM @ Brut, Konzerthaus, Vienna
(presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner und Roland Gratzer)
ANNOUNCEMENT! SPECIAL GUEST HOSTS!
Rudolf "Rudl" Sabastlinger and Josef "Peppi" Schoars are from
the small village of Floing in Styria (Austria) and not very fluent
in the English language. They were part of Beta_flab, an ambitious
hack-space in Floing, and now they want to make some real money
and create a successful start-up enterprise. But first they need
to get vital info from the pros! And who are the pros?
Cory Doctorow, Sean Bonner, Evelyn Fuerlinger, GameJew, Tim Pritlove
and Jeff Moss!
Fri November 23, 8:00pm, Brut (basement of Konzerthaus, Vienna)
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/// CORY DOCTOROW
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com)
is an award-winning science fiction novelist and an advocate for
Creative Commons. He co-edits the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net).
His latest book is a short story collection called "Overclocked:
Stories of the Future Present." He writes columns for the
Guardian, the CBC, Locus Magazine, Information Week, and Make
Magazine.
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/// TIM PRITLOVE
Tim Pritlove is a Discordian
Evangelist and events organizer for the Chaos Computer Club. Tim
is a long time computer hacker, events organizer and member of
the Chaos Computer Club. Working as a programmer, teacher and
consultant he played around with a variety of computer systems
and computer networks since the early eighties. He is the organizer
of the annual Chaos Communicaton Congress and the quadrennial
Chaos Communication Camp. Tim is the coordinator and project leader
of Project Blinkenlights that became famous for interactive light
installations in public buildings. In another life, he is an assistant
professor and system administrator at the University of Arts in
Berlin.
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/// JEFF MOSS
Jeff Moss is the founder of Def Con, an annual hackers' convention
held in Las Vegas since 1993, as well as BlackHat, a convention
for security professionals. A former hacker, in high school Moss
was a phone phreaker--someone who cracks into phone systems to
make free calls. He was a law student for two years before switching
to computer studies, and worked as a security consultant before
focusing on conferences full time. We spoke with him about the
state of Internet security and the role of Def Con in mentoring
young hackers to be more ethical.
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/// SEAN BONNER
Sean Bonner has been putting
things on the internet since 1994. As the creator of several widespread
memes he has been featured in various media and has spoken on
panels across the US about online communities and grassroots local
journalism. As co-founder of Bode Media Inc, he helped create
the Los Angeles group blog, Blogging.la, the flagship site of
the worlds largest hyper local network of city based blogs, Metroblogging.
Based in Los Angeles, he is currently the Entrepreneur in Residence
at The Groop and recently consulted with the LAPD helping them
get their own blog up and running. Previously he helped build
the groundbreaking contemporary art gallery sixspace, ran his
own design firm, and worked as Sr. Designer for Playboy.com and
Creative Director for Victory Records while running his own label
Toybox Records.
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/// Regulars:
EVELYN FÜRLINGER, MA.
Evelyn presents "Wicked Wordz", our regular column about
lingustics.
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/// Showband:
GAMEJEW
GameJew AKA Jonathan Mann, wants to uncover the stories you don't
hear about in the world of video games. Games used for education,
games in Africa, games made for a common good, games meant to
push the boundaries, these are the stories that GameJew looks
at. Game developers, game publishers, game theorists, game luddites,
these are the people that GameJew is talking to.
http://www.gamejew.com
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/// MONOCHROM
Taugshow is a project by monochrom. But what is monochrom?
monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology,
art, context hacking, and philosophy which was founded in 1993.
They specialize in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe
work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political activism.
Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost
"in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and pockets)
of ideology and entertainment."
Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming
project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets
of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles,
buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies
of the art system with the Thomann Project. In Austria they ate
blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize
the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes
they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and they
have hosted the first annual festival concerned with cocktail
robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography
as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. They
also do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet
theater, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering, and -
sorry to mention - modern dance.
More infos:
wikipedia
monochrom
