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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 @ SHIFT – Festival of Electronic Arts (Basel, Switzerland)
monochrom will be part of Shift Festival 2010 — and present our adventure game series “Soviet Unterzoegersdorf” and a nice little best-of-monochrom gala show. Why? Media technologies alter our view of cultural production in bygone days. People often speak nowadays of an ‘overwhelming flood’ of images or of data. This bubbling whirlpool of information brings … Read more
monochrom’s Scrota Contra Vota: Join!
Yesterday night — at the Austrian Big Brother Awards Ceremony — Mister Gratzer and Mister Grenzfurthner decided to restart monochrom’s long-term project “Scrota Contra Vota”: a form of radical political protest for 50 percent of the elective population. Men (and that’s a statistical fact) are in charge of a lot more right-wing political hogwash and … Read more
monochrom presents new pieces of Applied Office Art
An office is a room or other area in which people work. Art (or the creative arts) commonly refers to the act and process of making material works (or artworks) which, from concept to creation, hold a fidelity to the creative impulse. Office art (especially office drawing) is a regular technique used by people in … Read more