Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. He is head of the “Arse Elektronika” festival in San Francisco, host of “Roboexotica” … Read more
Tons of things happening at our big construction site Sierra Zulu. Very cool: Johannes met Mark Mothersbaugh at Mutato Muzika — and Mark wants to compose a couple of songs for Sierra Zulu’s score. w00t! Link
VenusPlusX attended Arse Elektronika 2011. The presentations were extremely wide-ranging, and showed the creativity possible as a new age of sexual freedom emerges. Each one incrementally stretched the group or “hive” mind in real time. Among the dozen+ offerings, we heard from Kitty Stryker in her frank talk, “Sex Work, Disability, and Stigma” and Maymay presented “A Class … Read more
The Roboexotica 2011 Festival dates are set for December 1st-4th in Vienna. If you’re into robots, and are of legal drinking age, this is one event absolutely not to be missed. Here’s how the Roboexotica organization website positions this totally unique annual celebration featuring robots contributing to improving life in a meaningful way… Cheers! Roboexotica … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Johannes Grenzfurthner. We think we have known of each other for years. Maybe 5. Maybe 100. He is a profoundly playful artist working with a group that calls itself Monochrom. We met, at last, as you can probably deduce from our photo. Since attending DiGRA I … Read more
Yesterday we finalized the glorious bureaucratic creation of a US-based company for monochrom. It’s primarily for our feature-film project Sierra Zulu. US collaborators, actors and film festivals are easier to deal with if you can show that you are ‘one of them.’ Let’s call it financial mimicry, comrades. Applause for monochrom Propulsion Systems, LLC Based … Read more
On the heels of Folsom Street Fair, Arse Elektronika, an annual conference on sex, technology and culture arrives in San Francisco from September 29-October 2. Curious to know how sex and technology intersect? Arse Elektronika is certain to titillate. This year’s theme, “screw the system” looks to explore questions such as: “What are the labor … Read more
Today Johannes visited SFX luminary Steve Tolin in his studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steve is our creature effects specialist, an overall great chap, and I think he just offers what we need for Sierra Zulu. Link
Our friend Andreas Rausch lives in Bamberg/Germany and works as an independent illustrator and storyboard artist. We are highly delighted that we could convince him to join Sierra Zulu as the official storyboard maestro. Link
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