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.
Our new artist in residence arrived! Damien Di Fede is a creative programmer, composer, and founding member of experimental game collective Kokoromi. As a game programmer, he contributed to Red Fly Studio’s titles Mushroom Men, Food Network: Cook or be Cooked! and Thor: God of Thunder. Recent projects include audio engineering on Tiger Style’s Waking … Read more
Check it out, observant Soviets! Die Presse, November 11, 2012. Online version.
monochrom’s “Title Sequence” is laser print of a bootleg photographic image in mounted frame; 33×33 cm. Created for MULTImART. In this age of digital reproductivity, the aura of art is in bad shape. Image sharing! Collapse of context! Randomness! Loss of significance! monochrom, who have always had a fondness for written-off media, will put back … Read more
Comrades! Comradettes! Johannes Grenzfurthner presented Sierra Zulu at TEDxVienna 2011. He will return for TEDxVienna 2012 to give an update and screen Earthmoving — Sierra Zulu’s short film prequel (featuring Jeff Ricketts, Martin Auer). TEDxVienna 2012 @ Odeon, Taborstraße 10, 1020 Vienna, Austria. November 3, 2012.
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
Once, when I was living in Moscow before 2011, I was informed about monochrom by recommendation of my friend: the activist initiatives of this art group from Vienna seemed fascinating due to its art-tech philosophy and it put a smile on my face due to its pop attitude. Later on in Linz Günther Friesinger, one … Read more
KillScreen magazine features Arse Elektronika 2012 a 2nd time! 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, … Read more
Hosted by Johannes Grenzfurthner/monochrom. This panel invites five game designers who are also artists to discuss the boundary between art, games and activism. It is a standard reflex for people to think they are helpless in the face of mighty governments and corporate power. But in a media-based society, everything is controlled by a “cultural … 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 – attendi ng Arse Elektronika – particularly the opening ceremony – felt … Read more