Some coverage of our hackbus coummunity… Certains pensent que les idées des hackers, ces bidouilleurs qui aiment détourner les objets de leur destination initiale, sont réservées à une petite élite éduquée ? Le hackbus, un véhicule spécialement équipé, répond à ce reproche en allant à la rencontre des gens. Pour Johannes Grenzfurthner, un artiste viennois … Read more
We define the ‘Zeigerpointer’ as images (in the scope of printed media reporting) of crime scenes, locations of accidents as well as other locations in which some kind of thing has happened that can no longer be seen because the reported happening is already over and no traces are visible (either because none were produced … Read more
Arse Elektronika 2011: SCREW THE SYSTEM monochrom‘s Conference on sex, technology, class, and culture. September 29 thru October 2, 2011 San Francisco, USA The remarkable diversity of human behavior across cultures and classes also extends to sex and technology. Most discussions in this area tend to make certain assumptions about the culture, class, and race … Read more
Erntefestival (co-organized by monochrom and several other groups) is an open and barcampish unfestival in Lindabrunn, Austria. We want to celebrate all of our creative tries and fails… join in! August 26-28, 2011 @ VSL Lindabrunn. Link (Project page) Link (Facebook event)
The video is online! Panel participants: Jason Bobe (Harvard University, DIYBio), Jernej Turnsek & Tina Lebar (iGEM Slovenia), Sonja Bäumel (freelance artist), Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom) (Interesting aspect of the first minute: try to spot how Johannes tries to hide his chewing gum.) Link
Yes! Hans Nieswandt published a remix album and is featuring our boomboom megahit “eBay the Force” (originally published on monochrom’s “Carefully Selected Moments”). Link (German review) Link (English review) Link (Amazon)
Nerdverts! Pervgeeks! Arse Elektronika 2011 will open its doors on September 29! TICKET! SALE! ENGAGE! Link (Eventbrite)
Speakers: Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom), Jens Ohlig (CCC) We need a radical rethinking of how we discuss privacy. As our lives are exposed on Google, Facebook and Twitter, the dissolution of privacy shatters personal and social securities. This loss of control can be embraced and molded into productive, emancipating “post-private technologies of the self” (Ganz), making … Read more
Thumbs up! Go! We want to see a couple thousand people play Massive Multiplayer thumb-war! Right before the concert of the wonderful headliners Goldenen Zitronen! August 13, 2011 at the Dockville Festival in Hamburg, Germany.
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