Carnegie Mellon University Lecture: monochrom’s Johannes Grenzfurthner

Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is founder and artistic director of monochrom, and he is founder and director of the sex+technology festival Arse Elektronika in San Francisco (since 2007) and co-hosts Roboexotica (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) (2002-). He gave talks at SXSWi, O’Reilly ETech, FooCamp, Maker Faire, HOPE, Chaos Communication Congress, … Read more

monochrom @ University of Missouri: Context Hacking

Lecture-Performance von 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 … Read more

The Rise of the German Home-Recording Tape Scene: Podcast with monochrom member Frank Apunkt Schneider

Eine Diskussion zwischen Alfred Hilsberg und monochrom-Mitglied Frank Apunkt Schneider. Kuratiert von Felix Kubin. With the foundation of his label ZickZack in 1979, Alfred Hilsberg rapidly became a key figure in the booming German independent music scene, and even came to be known as the ‘Punkpapst’ (punk pope). ZickZack released records by groundbreaking bands such … Read more

Laughing Squid empfiehlt Arse Elektronika 2011

The fifth annual Arse Elektronika, a conference on sex and technology, takes place in San Francisco from September 29 to October 2, 2011. The conference is presented by Austrian art collective monochrom. The remarkable diversity of human behavior across cultures and classes also extends to sex and technology. Most discussions in this area tend to … Read more

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