arse elektronika, the conference on sex and technology.
Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about Arse Elektronika at “Performing Porn (after the computer became boring)”. The event is concerned with the intersections of performance art and pornography, in the context of changing experiences of everyday technologies. The event will consist of performances, video artwork, artefacts, and talks. Performance art and pornography have been interrelated in a … Read more
On Friday — June 28, 2013, 7 PM — festival organizer Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk about Arse Elektronika at Vienna’s Schwelle7. Join us for an interesting evening of discourse — and hands on! Address: Rotenlöwengasse 12, 1090 Vienna. Please bring indoor shoes, no outdoor shoes allowed! (The guy in the picture is not … Read more
“23 WORKS” is a video series documenting the history of the art/tech group monochrom. monochrom has chosen 23 projects, anecdotes and stories out of their 20 years of material and recreated them as dioramas and machines. The group presented these objects at their exhibition “Die waren früher auch mal besser/They used to be better (monochrom … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2013 ID/ENTITY monochrom‘s festival on sex and tech and id/entities. October 3-6, 2013 in San Francisco. Call for talks, performances, workshops, games, machines. Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2013 Sex, technology, identity… big-ass sweeping themes for Arse Elektronika 2013. Identity, but also identification. Technologies for the exploration of identities. Technologies for the articulation … Read more
Eric Cuadra’s great video summary of Arse Elektronika 2012 for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Paolo Pedercini of Molleindustria on procedural representations of sex in videogames. Talk given at Arse Elektronika 2012. Arse Elektronika (not to be confused with the similarly sounding, slightly more established new media art festival in Linz) is the most important conference investigating the intersection of sex and technology. The past six editions revolved around themes … Read more
A chat with Johannes Grenzfurthner, the brainiest pervert of them all. Arse Elektronika’s 2012 incarnation was, to my mind, the world’s first sex-positive, sex-focused gaming conference. It was hosted by Johannes Grenzfurthner, of the philosophy/art/tech consortium Monochrom. The genial host is part MC, part mad professor, tossing around PHD-level queer theory one moment, posing for … Read more
Sex games, (and games about sex, and sexual devices with gameplay elements, and so on), certainly have a ways to go before they become “mainstream” in any real way, if they ever do at all. Perhaps that’s a large part of the appeal – attending Arse Elektronika – particularly the opening ceremony – felt like … Read more
Fellow nerdverts! We were finally able to publish this year’s schedule and all the information about talks, performances and games! Hooray! And please help spread the word about our online ticketing system! We can’t wait to see all of it happen! Yours, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Heather Kelley, Günther Friesinger, Jennifer Holmes and the rest of the … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2012 San Francisco, USA 4PLAY: Gamifuckation and Its Discontents Call for papers, talks, workshops, performances, and GAMES. [In addition to traditional talks, workshops, and papers, this year we are also accepting submissions of games. This can include digital games, street games, LARPs, social rulesets, procedural game-art, or other forms, for demonstration, presentation, or … Read more