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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.
monochrom: Killing Capitalism with Christmas!
Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music! Link (Video, YouTube) Link (Audio) Link (Kiki and Bubu page)
TEDxVienna: monochrom’s Johannes Grenzfurthner: On how to subvert subversion
Talk presented at TEDxVienna, November 2010. 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 … Read more
‘This Train Is Not a Playground’: David John Andersson’s thesis on Urban Public Pranks
David John Andersson’s senior thesis is called “This Train Is Not a Playground: Improv Everywhere and Urban Public Pranks” (Harvard College). It’s a splendid piece of cultural analysis of contemporary urban hacking and guerrilla communication. David even won a prize for it in 2009. David interviewed tons of interesting people working in the field: Scott … Read more