Unbelievable 10 years ago we released "Sovjet Unterzögersdorf - Sector II", an adventure game based on our story of the last remaining republic of the Soviet empire, located in Lower Austria. Only a few brave comrades could ever solve it. Now we do a public walkthrough. It's education, comrade!

While promoted with shiny campaigns that feature amazing capabilities, many tech innovations quickly become obsolete or don’t even reach maturity. What happens once the hype is over and the hyperbolic promises aren’t delivered? What remains of the slick devices after the manufacturer’s servers and support systems are shut down? The innovation zombies are lurking...
With:
Dani Ploeger
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
Nadine Kooiker (Philips)
Boris Debackere
Lija Groenewoud van Vliet
|| EVENING OF THE LIVING DEAD ||
During the Evening of the Living Dead, Dani Ploeger will present his living dead robot project-in-progress and exchange ideas in conversation with two experts in the field of consumer electronics from very different backgrounds: Austrian filmmaker and ‘Leitnerd’ Johannes Grenzfurthner, who is also artistic director of Vienna-based art-technology-philosophy group monochrom, and Nadine Kooiker, Global Brand Creation Manager at Philips in Amsterdam.
Moderation by Boris Debackere and Lija Groenewoud van Vliet
|| TIME AND ENTRANCE ||
This event starts at 20:00h (doors open 19:30h). The entrance fee is €5,-. The entrance can be paid at the door by card or with cash.
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V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam.

SCREW THE SYSTEM:
monochrom and Porn Film Festival Vienna present a smutty (and brain-pervy) evening
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Lecture performance (~60 min.):
Sex, Tech and the Future of Screw-It-Yourself
By Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species.
From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porn game, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. New technologies are quick to appeal to pornography consumers, and thus these customers represent a profitable market segment for the suppliers of new products and services. Currently, all factors show that high-tech developments owe a great deal of their success to the need for further sexual stimulation. One could cite the example provided by the science-fiction concept of a full-body interface designed to produce sexual stimulation. But it isn't science fiction anymore. It's DIY.
As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. "Bizarre enough for what?" -- you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century. Don't you think, replicants?
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Short film screening (~60 min.):
Best of Porn Film Festival Vienna 2019
Presented by Jasmin La Hagendorfer (Creative Director PFFV)
The Porn Film Festival Vienna was brought into existence in 2018. Its challenging objective is to showcase and celebrate the colorful diversity of porn, and stimulate an open, societal debate. Its mission is to bring a genre back into the public sphere of the cinema that is usually locked away in private quarters. Its prime directive is to present the creativity and political possibilities of a defining (yet always hidden) part of society. The goal is to challenge prejudices and stereotypes and break the monotony boring cheesy mainstream porn - to proudly presents feminist, queer & LGBTIQ* positions. Because porn can be: lustful, honest, friendly and self-determined!
In this screening the best of all porn shorts of this year’s edition will be shown – be prepared for fun, lust und a whole lotta smut.

Mo 17. bis So 30. Juni: kontinuierliche künstlerische Symposiumsarbeit 29. Juni ab 17 Uhr: Präsentation der entstandenen Arbeiten und weiteres künstlerisches Programm.

2019 feiert der Verein Symposion Lindabrunn sein 50-jähriges Bestehen. Gegründet wurde das Symposion an der Schnittstelle zwischen Akademischer Kunst, dem Kunstmarkt und dem absoluten Freiraum. Mit dem Futurologischen Symposium Lindabrunn möchten wir den Gründungsgedanken des Symposions wieder aufgreifen und für 14 Tage KünstlerInnen nach Lindabrunn einladen, um sich mit zukunftsweisenden Konzepten und Ideen alternativer Lebensformen, wie dem Kunstformat „transbionica“, dem Rezeptionsformat „didactica“, dem „NomadMuseum“ oder den „CAL-Container-Art-Laboratories“, die das umraum artcollectiv in den letzten 20 Jahren entwickelt hat, auseinanderzusetzen. Darauf aufbauend erarbeiten die eingeladenen KünstlerInnen neue Objekte und Installationen für das Gelände des Symposions. Am Ende des zweiwöchigen Aufenthaltes werden diese Arbeiten in einem öffentlichen Abschlusssymposion vorgestellt und sollen als Wegweiser in die nächsten Jahrzehnte des Symposions dienen. Das Symposion Lindabrunn wird damit einmal mehr seiner Rolle als Schnittstelle zwischen Kunst in der Region und in der Stadt, zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft und als Kommunikationsknotenpunkt gerecht.

Ein Projekt im Rahmen des Viertelfestival Niederösterreich - Industrieviertel 2019.
U.a. teilnehmende Künstler_innen: Judith Fegerl, Karin Frank, Chri Strassegger, Christoph Weber
Symposiarch: Günther Friesinger

SCREW THE SYSTEM:
monochrom and Porn Film Festival Vienna present a smutty (and brain-pervy) evening
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Lecture performance (~60 min.):
Sex, Tech and the Future of Screw-It-Yourself
By Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species.
From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porn game, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. New technologies are quick to appeal to pornography consumers, and thus these customers represent a profitable market segment for the suppliers of new products and services. Currently, all factors show that high-tech developments owe a great deal of their success to the need for further sexual stimulation. One could cite the example provided by the science-fiction concept of a full-body interface designed to produce sexual stimulation. But it isn't science fiction anymore. It's DIY.
As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. "Bizarre enough for what?" -- you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century. Don't you think, replicants?
+++++++++++++++++++++++
Short film screening (~60 min.):
Best of Porn Film Festival Vienna 2019
Presented by Jasmin La Hagendorfer (Creative Director PFFV)
The Porn Film Festival Vienna was brought into existence in 2018. Its challenging objective is to showcase and celebrate the colorful diversity of porn, and stimulate an open, societal debate. Its mission is to bring a genre back into the public sphere of the cinema that is usually locked away in private quarters. Its prime directive is to present the creativity and political possibilities of a defining (yet always hidden) part of society. The goal is to challenge prejudices and stereotypes and break the monotony boring cheesy mainstream porn - to proudly presents feminist, queer & LGBTIQ* positions. Because porn can be: lustful, honest, friendly and self-determined!
In this screening the best of all porn shorts of this year’s edition will be shown – be prepared for fun, lust und a whole lotta smut.
Short films by:
Johnny Love
Rubis Collective
Vinnie Gottfredsen
Ethan Folk and Ty Wardwell
Arthouse Vienna
Ramses Rodstein
Deike Schwarz
Bea Höller
Werther Germondari
Inka Winter (with Q&A afterwards)

Four days of exhibitions, discussions, workshops, amusement and destruction, with/by/for monochrom and its friends. Are there better ways to spend time in the Austrian countryside? Definitely not.
We will meet in Lindabrunn (Lower Austria) at VSL... August 29 (6:30 PM) to September 1, 2019 (6:30 PM)!
What is it?
Verein Symposium Lindabrunn (VSL) was founded as a sculpture symposium around 50 years ago... and over the years they created a big sculpture park. There aren't any sculptural artists wrong at VSL anymore, but the location features all the infrastructure that is needed to live and work together, including a lecture room for 30 people, workspaces (both for office work and building stuff), and a big outdoor BBQ area. The central buildings are located beside a quarry (needed in former times to mine stones for sculptural work) and overlooks a big landscaped park area.
How to get to monocon?
VSL is located around 60km south of Vienna, in the municipality of Lindabrunn.
By plane
Via Vienna International Airport (VIE), take a rental car from there. Or take the public transport (ÖBB) to Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn.
In case you want to arrive with your own Cessna: Wiener Neustadt Airport (QEW/LOAN) is 10 miles away.
Via public transport
Next train station with regular and frequent operation is Leobersdorf, located on the southbound train line from Vienna to Wiener Neustadt. You can buy online tickets from OEBB. Note that only regional trains and Schnellbahn will stop at Leobersdorf. Change there to a local bus to Lindabrunn HTV. It will terminate directly at the entrance of the sculpture park at Steinbruchstraße. You can buy an online ticket for the whole route at once.
By car
Map search: Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn. There is one parking space at Steinbruchstraße located under shady trees, but around 300m walking distance upwards to the building (driving up is restricted) and another one at Hernsteinerstraße, mainly used for day visitors, more sunny, but almost on the same level as the building (50m to the building, you just need to cross the grassland).
Where to stay?
Accommodation we can recommend:
* 20 tents are available directly at the sculpture park (full infrastructure at main building). Contact us to reserve one. If you want to bring your own mobile palace, please check with us in advance.
* Sportschule Lindabrunn: The dormitory of this school is within walking distance - around 1 km. By June 2019 around 30 rooms are available. Price is 50-70 EUR / night.
Contact them by phone: +43 2256 / 81282 or by mail: hochmayr at noefv.at.
* Gästezimmer Pfleger: Still in walking distance (below 3km, around 30 minutes walk). They do have a pool. Call them at +43 2256 81988 or email: office at zimmerpfleger.at.
* If you come by car and want a higher standard, we can recommend Leobersdorfer Hof, 6km distance from VSL

Buried Alive (auch bekannt als Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive und Lebendig begraben) ist eine Performance-Reihe der österreichischen Kunst- und Theorie-Gruppe monochrom. Das Grundkonzept besteht darin, freiwilligen Teilnehmern die Möglichkeit zu bieten, sich fünfzehn Minuten lang lebendig in einem Sarg unter der Erde begraben zu lassen. Als Rahmenprogramm bietet monochrom Vorträge über die wissenschaftliche Geschichte der Feststellung des Todes und die medizinische Kulturgeschichte der vorzeitigen Bestattung. Im Rahmen des Festival A Place to be - 50 Jahre Verein Symposion Lindabrunn wird monochrom erstmal seit 2015 wieder ein Buried Alive in Österreich durchführen! Erscheinen sie zahlreich, wenn geht manisch!