Great article about Arse Elektronika by Anja Herberth. German only, sorry. monochrom’s “Arse Elektronika” ist ein Festival der besonderen Art: Es geht um Sex, Pornografie und Medientechnologien. Sex und Pornografie haben in der Vergangenheit eine wichtige Rolle in der Entwicklung von Technologie gespielt – und werden sie auch in Zukunft treiben. Bis dato haben Medienfestivals … Read more
I’m a big fan of cocktail robots and the number one destination for barbot enthusiasts is Roboexotica, a festival held every year in Vienna. They’ll also be announcing the Annual Cocktail Robot Awards, which celebrate cool barbots with awards in eight different categories, including mixing and serving, as well as a 3D printed category. The … Read more
Roboexotica 2013, a festival for cocktail robotics, takes place December 5 to 8 at the Ragnarhof art space in Vienna, Austria. The 15th annual Roboexotica is presented by Monochrom, SHIFZ, and Bureau of Philosophy. Until what seems almost recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of Cocktail Robotics as an index … Read more
15 years of Roboexotica… and a really great poster design by James Brothwell. Fuck yeah. Link
How did we miss that? Jane McGonigal gave a TED talk about our game concept for “Massively multi-player thumb-wrestling”. The idea is already almost 9 years old, and still people play it all over the world. Proud. What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that’s … Read more
Going Down? 6fuc in Vienna, Austria @ Schwelle7 November 29, 2013 In the age of data mining, a person’s sex life may contain less embarrassing details than their web search history. Does it make sense that the former is a tightly guarded secret while the latter is shared with anonymous corporations daily? Even though a … Read more
Neural Magazine reviewed our “Context Hacking” book. Nice! In 1993 Johannes Grenzfurthner posted on Fidonet about his intention to start a fanzine on politics, network and pop culture, and Franz Ablinger answered almost immediately. That was how the Viennese “monochrom” collective started. This thick hardcover publication seems to be the perfect container for twenty years … Read more
monochrom’s artist-in-residence Maggie Mayhem will talk about activism, technology and sex work! Where? Raum D (Museumsquartier), Vienna. On November 14, 2013; 7 PM. Link (FB event)
With Amanda Palmer, Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom), Ingrid Brodnig (Falter), Markus Keuschnigg (Slash Filmfestival) and Heinz Wolf (departure, M185). Kickstarter and other crowd funding platforms have opened new avenues for artists and entrepreneurs to realize their visions. Even though a story of success for many, does crowd funding really work for everyone? What are the problems … Read more
The ultimate horror is not the end of civilization, but its endless decline. But how can we get the message out if nobody wants to listen? We at monochrom call our working method »Context Hacking,« thus referencing the hacker culture, which propagates a creative and emancipatory approach to the technologies of the digital age, and … Read more