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.
Arse Elektronika 2011 (San Francisco) SCREW THE SYSTEM: Sex, technology, class, and culture Call for papers, performances and machines. Deadline: 28 February 2011 The remarkable diversity of human behavior across cultures and classes also extends to sex and technology. Most discussions in this area tend to make certain assumptions about the culture, class, and race … Read more
It’s a pretty tough job to create a one hour TV show about Marxist sock puppets discussing censorship. But we can do it, fuckers. (Roland “Kiki and Bubu” Gratzer, exhausted) The movie will be called “Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us” and is to be released early in 2011. Expect wool.
== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == A semi-entertaining release performance == == Presented at Urban ReThink in Orlando, FL == == Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL 32801 == December 16, 2010, 8:00 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe — … Read more
In the early 2000s, notorious Austrian art group monochrom decided to have a little fun with the spirit of Ostalgie (nostalgia for the Soviet era), the cultural whiplash from the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier. monochrom founder Johannes Grenzfurthner, having been born well after the USSR ceded East Austria in 1955, … Read more
A talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom. The term “context hacking”—like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerilla”—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 the starting … Read more
A talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom. monochrom’s project “Soviet Unterzoegersdorf” started ten years ago as the implementation of a “false reminiscence” into the European cultural memory — a fictitious, tiny country, first presented as a prankish theatrical LARP performance and public intervention, then turned into a adventure game series. According to postmodern debates, “history” and … Read more