monochrom is organizing a community site for the evergrowing armada of hackbusses. We need a root movement of doing strange things with hardware which was not intended (aka “hacking”) because only when we use things in ways other than they were planned can something new arise. Hackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) are a … Read more
== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at HBC, Berlin == == Featuring Special Guest Andreas “Krach” Stoiber == == November 13, 2010, 9 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility in an impossible universe — an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural … Read more
Counter culture? Art? Your average guy does not go to exhibitions, concerts nor does he get in touch with art and counter culture media. Counter culture and the art world are niche places. And even if people would go there they would consider what happens there to be ‘just art’. Art is the place where … Read more
monochrom will be part of Shift Festival 2010 — and present our adventure game series “Soviet Unterzoegersdorf” and a nice little best-of-monochrom gala show. Why? Media technologies alter our view of cultural production in bygone days. People often speak nowadays of an ‘overwhelming flood’ of images or of data. This bubbling whirlpool of information brings … Read more
Yesterday night — at the Austrian Big Brother Awards Ceremony — Mister Gratzer and Mister Grenzfurthner decided to restart monochrom’s long-term project “Scrota Contra Vota”: a form of radical political protest for 50 percent of the elective population. Men (and that’s a statistical fact) are in charge of a lot more right-wing political hogwash and … Read more
An office is a room or other area in which people work. Art (or the creative arts) commonly refers to the act and process of making material works (or artworks) which, from concept to creation, hold a fidelity to the creative impulse. Office art (especially office drawing) is a regular technique used by people in … Read more
monochrom will be in Ljubljana at Sonica (Festival of transitory and experimental art) to… a) present monochrom #26-34 b) feature our project Hackbus. When? October 23 and 24, 2010!
Short interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner on the hackbus, the hackbus movement and the future of learning. Hackbusses are migratory learning and teaching units, taking the talented hackers and their ideas out of urban centers and bringing them to people who might not otherwise be aware of the possibilities available to them. [monochrom and Dave Dempsey] … Read more
Elevante’s discourse and film program picks out the sociopolitical role of progressive initiatives of civil society and social movements as a central theme. Together with The Yes Men star prankster Mike Bonanno, representatives of the worldwide most important environmentalist groups like Nnimmo Bassey of Friends of the Earth International and Bill McKibben of 350.org as … Read more
Marc Da Costa interviews the ever dynamic Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of monochrom. Part 2. This is the first of In 2002, when Monochrom was invited to act as the representative of Austria at the Sao Paulo Biennial, instead of going as yourselves, you sent Georg Paul Thomann, one of the country’s most prominent avant guard … Read more