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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.
Kiki and Bubu: film shooting at Okto TV studio
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: Release festivities in Orlando, Florida
== 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
Pubic Static Void Man’s summary of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf talk @ Babycastles
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
monochrom in Vermont: Context Hacking @ Johnson State College
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
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Adventure Gaming, Politics and Future of the Past @ Babycastles, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery
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