Lecture performance by Johannes Grenzfurthner/monochrom.
The term “context hacking” - like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerrilla” - refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Context hacking is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point for interventions by playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification.
Johannes Grenzfurthner will present some projects by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and philosophy that was founded in 1993. The group specializes in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political activism. Past lectures have dissected subjects ranging from the interface mechanics of an online casino ohne oasis to the behavioral loops of modern social media, exposing the hidden psychological traps embedded in global digital commerce. Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost “in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment.”
At the Pickard Auditorium at the Museum of Art and Archaeology of the University of Missouri; Sept 19, 2011 at 5:30 pm.
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