Review of monochrom’s "Urban Hacking" book on ‘Other Cinema’

Urban Hacking, as a book, tracks numerous strategies, including Augmented Reality interventions, billboard alteration, graffiti, tags, and greening, as a kind of “programmable literature”, made possible through open sourcing of code and the artistic re-use of place. From this admixture, we have the foundations of an urbanism made by and for “the people” which, at … Read more

monochrom in Paris @ La Gaite Lyrique: The image of computers in popular music

“I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can’t fall in love…” A talk (with audio examples) by monochrom, presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner. Bourgeois culture was paralyzed and finally overrun by modern technologies which broke through the traditional class barriers. It went into a panic and produced these … Read more

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