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Fuckin’ Fresnel! Link (Flickr) Link (Site)

There is only one way to save a dying medium… Adult Entertainment Expo, Las Vegas January 6-9, 2011 Link

Rue Morgue‘s Nadja Sayev reports about our Six Feet Under Club: “Dirty Deeds Done Six Feet Deep”. Link (PDF)

Our friend and collaborator Johannes Grenzfurthner of the art prank group monochrom gave a really great talk on “How To Subvert Subversion” at TEDxVienna, including the story when they created the fictitious artist Georg P. Thomann. Link

Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music! Link (Video, YouTube) Link (Audio) Link (Kiki and Bubu page)

Talk presented at TEDxVienna, November 2010. The term “context hacking” -­ like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerrilla” -­ refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Context hacking is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning … Read more

David John Andersson’s senior thesis is called “This Train Is Not a Playground: Improv Everywhere and Urban Public Pranks” (Harvard College). It’s a splendid piece of cultural analysis of contemporary urban hacking and guerrilla communication. David even won a prize for it in 2009. David interviewed tons of interesting people working in the field: Scott … Read more

A music video by monochrom (feat. Marek). The dominant life forms on Earth were hairy humanoids living in hierarchical societies. They called themselves “humans”. In the last decades of their existence humans developed a global data communication network… Link (HD video and audio)

monochrom micro-record label is jubilant being able to announce the launch of a new single by Krach der Roboter: “Anderswo”! Enjoy! Download info

Arse Elektronika 2011 (San Francisco) SCREW THE SYSTEM: Sex, technology, class, and culture Call for papers, performances and machines. Deadline: 28 February 2011 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