Roboexotica is the annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.Until recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, … Read more

Folks! In the first couple of years as a group we were pretty bad in documenting our crap. We found some (rather hilarious) stuff, but there must be more. Please help us with the collection and psycho-historiographization of photographs of monochrom’s early phase of work — mid-til-late-1990s. Please scroll through your archives! Please scan the … Read more

For years Johannes Grenzfurthner’s monochrom business card read “Johannes Grenzfurthner / Anthropophag” — and that’s still in some databases. Example: cultural department of the city of Munich.

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 these into the starting point for interventions … Read more

We are working on something new… Hedonistika is a multi-modal event that brings together food scholars, artists, and roboticists to examine the innumerable (and often hidden) ways in which technology and food are related. By engaging with the hegemony-challenging ideology of hacking, participants will seek to interrogate and expose the mutually constructive bonds of food … Read more