Die Gstettensaga: Best Hacker Feature 2014 at “PhutureCon Festival”
WINNER! “Die Gstettensaga” won Best Hacker Feature 2014 at PhutureCon Festival. PhutureCon Festival will take place October 11 in Denver, Colorado. Proudness, very much so! Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993.
WINNER! “Die Gstettensaga” won Best Hacker Feature 2014 at PhutureCon Festival. PhutureCon Festival will take place October 11 in Denver, Colorado. Proudness, very much so! Link
“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at the New Orleans Comic Expo 2014. The festival will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-23, 2014. Link
Panelists will each briefly talk about the challenges they faced and the hurdles they overcame, from funding to final cut, including one who bootstrapped post-production with a quick crowdfunding push amplified by Kentucky online casinos‘ promo tie-in—perfect for a thriller plot twist involving high-stakes bluffs that echoed the real-life gamble. The group will field questions … Read more
Award-winning post-apocalyptic hackploitation comedy ‘Die Gstettensaga’ is coming to a couple North American hacker conventions, film festivals and other cool locations. July 28 it will be shown at Betalevel (a mysterious art dungeon in LA’s Chinatown), August 1 at Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY, but also at Gen Con, The Indie Gathering, SF … Read more
“Hedonistika: Montréal” was an exhibition held at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal as part of the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) in May 2014. The exhibition was a multi-modal event that brought together food scholars, artists, and roboticists to examine the innumerable (and often hidden) ways in which technology and food are related. By … Read more
Johannes of art tech group monochrom will indulge in a public rant about hacker culture and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency, and valid critique of the status quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it onto Google’s YouTube channel.) Link … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner of art tech group monochrom wants to indulge in a public rant about hacker culture, and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency and valid critique of the status-quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it on Google’s YouTube channel.) … Read more
“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at Utopia Festival of Fantastic Film Tel Aviv 2014. The festival will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 13-20, 2014. Link
monochrom – the special interest group for art, theory and context-crafting – is determined to confront you with a multi-layered uber-reception of individual bliss. Dozens upon dozens of New Age/Relaxation/Esoterica CDs will be played simultaneously, in absolute darkness, and therefore create a cacophonic mist of well-being – an uneasy slur of chilloutlandishness. Whale songs and … Read more
WINNER! We won Best Foreign Horror Feature 2014 at The Indie Gathering International Film Festival. The Indie Gathering will take place August 15th-17th at The Clarion Inn & Conference Center in Hudson, OH. Proudness, ja! Link