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We are migrating our Facebook activities from our monochrom group to our monochrom page. We even have a great new mechanism for it. Franky is working on it: In the meantime, just go here and press “Like”.

Austria’s international art-theory-DIY collective monochrom celebrates 20 years of existence in 2013. The group’s approach — political, philosophical, sociological, artistic, and economic — is thoroughly transdisciplinary, and the energetic intensity of their output could only be achieved by a collective. monochrom’s work has resulted in an extremely nuanced and complex oeuvre. The group took part … Read more

Fearless comradettes! Class-war-fighting comrades! Get your January 2013 issue of Wired UK! Turn to page 84! Be astounded! NOW! Link

Brand new poster design for our 20 years of monochrom exhibition (January-April 2013 at MUSA in Vienna): “Die waren früher auch mal besser” (“They used to be better”) Link

“TECHNOSENSUAL. where fashion meets technology” presents electronic couture created by international haute-tech designers and engineers and celebrates the variety and growing significance of electronic couture within the field of fashion and technology. As the selected projects showcase their beauty, entertain the audience with flirtation and stories, enhance the body with a new layer of interactivity, … Read more

John Baichtal recommends Roboexotica on the Make Blog. Until what seems almost 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, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt … Read more

The 2012 Roboexotica, a festival for cocktail robots, takes place December 6 to 9, 2012 at the Ragnarhof art space in Vienna. Roboexotica is presented by Monochrom, SHIFZ, & Bureau of Philosophy. Last year, Laughing Squid guest blogger Josh Ellingson was on hand to snap some photos of Roboexotica 2011. Link

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.