Ablinger Franz The 2012 Roboexotica, a festival for cocktail robots, takes place December 6 to 9, 2012 at the Ragnarhof art space in Vienna. Roboexotica is presented by Monochrom, SHIFZ, & Bureau of Philosophy. Last year, Laughing Squid guest blogger Josh Ellingson was on hand to snap some photos of Roboexotica 2011. Link
The 2012 Roboexotica, a festival for cocktail robots, takes place December 6 to 9, 2012 at the Ragnarhof art space in Vienna. Roboexotica is presented by Monochrom, SHIFZ, & Bureau of Philosophy. Last year, Laughing Squid guest blogger Josh Ellingson was on hand to snap some photos of Roboexotica 2011. Link
Alle Jahre wieder ist Cocktail-Roboter-Zeit. Roboter sind nicht nur zum Arbeiten und Angst machen da. Sie können auch Cocktails mixen, selber trinken oder alkoholgeschwängerte Bar-Konversationen führen. Diesen Robotern wird einmal im Jahr eine weltweit einzigartige Veranstaltung gewidmet. 2012 steigt die Roboexotica schon zum zweiten Mal im Ragnarhof in der Grundsteingasse 15, 1160 Wien. Ein würdiger … Read more
Roboexotica is the annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.Until recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, … Read more
In den ersten Jahren als Gruppe waren wir ziemlich schleissig mit der Dokumentation unseres Zeugs. Wir haben zwar schon (ziemlich erheiterndes) Material gefunden, aber das kanns doch nicht gewesen sein! Helft uns bitte bei der Sammlung, Archivierung und Psycho-Historisierung von Fotomaterial aus der monochrom’schen Frühphase, Anfang/Mitte/Ende der 1990er. Bitte scannen. Bitte hochladen. Bitte. Danke. Nur … Read more
Folks! In the first couple of years as a group we were pretty bad in documenting our crap. We found some (rather hilarious) stuff, but there must be more. Please help us with the collection and psycho-historiographization of photographs of monochrom’s early phase of work — mid-til-late-1990s. Please scroll through your archives! Please scan the … Read more
Jahrelang hatten Johannes Grenzfurthners monochrom’schen Visitenkarten folgenden Text: “Johannes Grenzfurthner / Anthropophag” Und das ist immer noch in diversen Datenbanken. Beispiel:
For years Johannes Grenzfurthner’s monochrom business card read “Johannes Grenzfurthner / Anthropophag” — and that’s still in some databases. Example: cultural department of the city of Munich.
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 … Read more
Am 28. November 2012 um 18 Uhr im A4 (Space for Contemporary Culture), Karpatská 2, 811 05 Bratislava, Slowakei. 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 … Read more