We finished the filming of Earthmoving (Sierra Zulu‘s prequel) at UNOV and VIE. Two days of intense, creative work with a truly marvellous team! Here’s to them! Some images for your enjoyment — taken by our wonderful set photographer Magdalena Fischer. More pictures can be found on Sierra Zulu’s Flickr page. Revolutions are the camera … Read more
Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down … Read more
monochrom’s ISS is a ten-part improv-reality-sitcom about living and working on the International Space Station. The four actors playing the ISS crew must develop strategies on the fly in response to surprise situations, which are loosely based on actual ISS data uncovered by monochrom. In space no one can hear you complain about your job. … Read more
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Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down … Read more
Der Exot is the resurrection of a project monochrom started as early as 1997: a mobile robot with a mounted camera that can be controlled via web interface. But that’s tricky. If too many people try to control the robot at the same time it is counter-productive. Der Exot would behave schizophrenically. It would move … Read more
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
“The title for the 12th edition of Pixxelpoint 2011 is appropriately enigmatic: LETS GET READY…, merely defines a space of engagement driven forward by a generative force: ‘to begin again from the beginning’ for those who seek what formulates new media art in its fluent transition between the various manifestations, which can take on new … Read more
The fourth ‘Wolfgang Lorenz Memorial prize for Internet-Free Minutes’ has been awarded to A1 Telekom Austria CEO Hannes Ametsreiter by the Monochrom artists’ collective. He won the booby prize for his rejection in February of the idea of net neutrality, saying the operator owns the technology and infrastructure and therefore should have the right to … Read more