The first Maker Film Festival, a showcase of films by and about the maker movement, takes place August 9th and 10th, 2014 at the Powerhouse Science Center in Durango, Colorado. The festival will include a screening of the feature length documentary Maker and a talk by artist Johannes Grenzfurthner of Austrian art group Monochrom. Inspiring … Read more
WINNER! “Die Gstettensaga” won Best Foreign Cult Movie 2014 at Fright Night Film Festival. The award is a fuckin’ skull. Jesus H Christ! Yes! Link
We learned that an anonymous fan created a wonderful piece of Echsenfriedl fan art! It’s a wonderful wood/metal sculpture! AMAZING! Link
WINNER! “Die Gstettensaga” won Best Hacker Feature 2014 at PhutureCon Festival. PhutureCon Festival will take place October 11 in Denver, Colorado. Proudness, very much so! Link
“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at the New Orleans Comic Expo 2014. The festival will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-23, 2014. Link
Panelists will each briefly talk about the challenges they faced and the hurdles they overcame, from funding to final cut, including one who bootstrapped post-production with a quick crowdfunding push amplified by Kentucky online casinos‘ promo tie-in—perfect for a thriller plot twist involving high-stakes bluffs that echoed the real-life gamble. The group will field questions … Read more
Award-winning post-apocalyptic hackploitation comedy ‘Die Gstettensaga’ is coming to a couple North American hacker conventions, film festivals and other cool locations. July 28 it will be shown at Betalevel (a mysterious art dungeon in LA’s Chinatown), August 1 at Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY, but also at Gen Con, The Indie Gathering, SF … Read more
“Hedonistika: Montréal” was an exhibition held at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montréal as part of the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) in May 2014. The exhibition was a multi-modal event that brought together food scholars, artists, and roboticists to examine the innumerable (and often hidden) ways in which technology and food are related. By … Read more
Johannes of art tech group monochrom will indulge in a public rant about hacker culture and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency, and valid critique of the status quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it onto Google’s YouTube channel.) Link … Read more
Johannes Grenzfurthner of art tech group monochrom wants to indulge in a public rant about hacker culture, and why it has to be saved from itself. Expect strong language, indecency and valid critique of the status-quo of hackdom. (No wonder his 2008 Google Tech talk got censored and never made it on Google’s YouTube channel.) … Read more