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.
Computer science: still a male domain? The industry has plenty of female role models, such as Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer, but few women seem to be following them. Wendy M. Grossman also features our panel at HOPE 9. At last weekend’s HOPE 9 (Hackers on Planet Earth) in New York there were the usual minimalist … Read more
This is a review of monochrom and our exhibition “Zeigerpointer” at Project space Aksioma, (6 to 22 July 2011). Author: Jana Putrle. Flatten the road holes with caviar: Pleasure, irony and a deeper insight into the social forces: Kinder Surprise Monochrom With the art group Monochrom – Austrian plural version of the enfant terrible – … Read more
Here is a (still incomplete) press overview of our Kickstarter campaign. Not too shabby. Kurier Kult: “Crowdfunding für Unterzögersdorf” Telepolis: “Monochrom will Science-Fiction-Komödie über Crowdfunding finanzieren” Futurezone: “Filmdreh: Monochrom setzt auf Kickstarter” APA OTS: “SIERRA ZULU: Sowjets bitten das Internet um Geld” Salzburger Nachrichten: “Unsichtbare Verbrechen” Laughing Squid: “Sierra Zulu, A Feature Length Political Sci-fi … Read more
Thank you, bolsheviks! (Here is proof.)
Link to Kickstarter.
Bolsheviks! Upcoming events to promote our Kickstarter campaign for Sierra Zulu! July 13, 2012, 9 PM At HOPE Conference in New York City, Hotel Pennsylvania Lecture performance “Sierra Zulu: How To Create A Feature Film About The Digital Age — And Why That’s Pretty Hard” July 16, 2012, 7 PM A Soviet Drink-Up at … Read more
Honorable internet users! Proletarian scientists! Planned economists! Soviet Unterzoegersdorf needs you! A so-called Kickstarter campaign for our feature film Sierra Zulu is in progress! A desperate (and dialectic) measure to boost our financial might! CLICK IT, bolshevik, CLICK IT! CLICK IT!
Amber Hickey published a “Guidebook of Alternative Nows”… 34 creative thinkers and makers contributed to this book which illuminates ways of devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of now. We are glad we are part of it. Order here.
Sierra Zulu‘s director Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a talk at HOPE Conference in NYC in July 2012: How To Create A Feature Film About The Digital Age — And Why That’s Pretty Hard Movies are exciting. Things crash and burn. Bolts and fists fly. There are bangs and kabooms. People go to the cinemas in … Read more
We are enormously proud being able to use “tools of hypermedia” to “blog post” about new developments on Sierra Zulu‘s casting front! Should the Western development funds ever be transferred to our account, we will be able to welcome two loved and much-admired actors to our team! A guarantee of the complete triumph of communism! … Read more