It’s a pretty tough job to create a one hour TV show about Marxist sock puppets discussing censorship. But we can do it, fuckers. (Roland “Kiki and Bubu” Gratzer, exhausted) The movie will be called “Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us” and is to be released early in 2011. Expect wool.
== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == A semi-entertaining release performance == == Presented at Urban ReThink in Orlando, FL == == Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL 32801 == December 16, 2010, 8:00 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe — … Read more
In the early 2000s, notorious Austrian art group monochrom decided to have a little fun with the spirit of Ostalgie (nostalgia for the Soviet era), the cultural whiplash from the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier. monochrom founder Johannes Grenzfurthner, having been born well after the USSR ceded East Austria in 1955, … Read more
A talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom. The term “context hacking”—like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerilla”—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 these into the starting … Read more
A talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom. monochrom’s project “Soviet Unterzoegersdorf” started ten years ago as the implementation of a “false reminiscence” into the European cultural memory — a fictitious, tiny country, first presented as a prankish theatrical LARP performance and public intervention, then turned into a adventure game series. According to postmodern debates, “history” and … Read more
Sean Bonner writes: Last night was the opening event of Roböxotica Festival in Vienna, Austria. Roböxotica is a celebration of the underappreciated art of cocktail robotics. Held annually for the last 12 years, the festival includes an exhibition of robots, gadgets, gizmos, installations and heavy machinery built with to get people drunk. There are also … Read more
Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He views technology as a site for exploring the global society-environment system and how changes in the relationship between society and environment manifest in our technology. Through the medium of networked systems, his … 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
Topics vary from local issues to global adventures, each one centered on the conference’s theme – xross – over. Speakers at TEDxVienna 2010 will be asked to deliver their Idea Worth Spreading in somewhere between 3 and 18 minutes. Set out below are the people that have confirmed their attendance at our event on the … Read more
In early 2011, monochrom will make one of humanity’s old dreams come true: an improv reality sitcom for theater stages portraying the first year of operation of the ISS (International Space Station). The show will depict day-to-day working life in outer space. What is it like to live and work under the special conditions (and … Read more