Mission Local: “What is Arse Elektronika?”

Chris Schodt von “Mission Local” hat einen sehr netten Beitrag über die Arse Elektronika (2013) und monochrom geschrieben. Welcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder of Monochrom, a leftist techno-art collective, who managed to turn such musings on sex and technology into a small conference in the basement of kink.com.  That was 2007 and … Read more

Mission Local: “What is Arse Elektronika?”

Mission Local’s Chris Schodt published a great piece on Arse Elektronika (2013) and monochrom. The conference keeps pulling from wildly different corners of digital culture — hardware tinkerers, online casino slots streamers, interactive fiction writers — and Schodt captures that range well. Worth reading the full piece: Welcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder … Read more

monochrom: Was ist Context Hacking? Unser Essay ist online!

Unser Essay über “Context Hacking” ist nun online zu finden. (Aber auch im monochrom’schen Theoriesammelband gleichen Titels.) Since the advent of modernism, artists have repeatedly attempted to counteract the conflation of work and subject, because they have seen themselves forced into an undesired role: that of a freedom and independence whose flip side is isolation … Read more

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