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That’s not bad at all. And it’s for a good cause! To save a dying medium! Link (YouPorn) Link (Overhead Cumshot monochrom page)

With ubermorgen, Peter Moosgard, Constant Dullaart, Bernhard Garnicnig, monochrom. The focus of this event will be on artworks that are always extremely public, but are almost never viewed in public. Works that are released in private, mostly in the middle of the night, and are made public with a very simple but very private interfacial … Read more

Wooster Collective’s book about uncommissioned urban art, published by Taschen, is one brilliant tome. And we are happy they also feature monochrom. In recent years street art has grown bolder, more ornate, more sophisticated and—in many cases—more acceptable. Yet unsanctioned public art remains the problem child of cultural expression, the last outlaw of visual disciplines. … Read more

Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity by Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner and Thomas Ballhausen features one of my photos of the mural at CELLspace as the cover. Link

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

Honey Pie from California is a place. on Vimeo.

Couldn’t make it out to the “Oscars of computer art” at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria? Me neither, but thanks to Viennese techno-prankster collective monochrom, I could stay in San Francisco and experience a slightly more warped version at the 4th annual Arse Elektronika instead. An exploration of sex, tech, and space — … Read more

Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen (eds.) 230 pages, 29.80 € ISBN 978-3-8376-1536-4 Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important … Read more

Rich Gibson and Rose White won a “Golden Kleene” (Prixxx Arse Elektronika 2010) for their project “Personal Portraits of Australia”… Most of us know about as much about the anatomy of our genitals as we do about the geography of Australia. In both cases we see the landscape from a long distance, through a distorted … Read more

SF Weekly published their video documentation of our ‘Six Feet Under Club’ at Arse Elektronika 2010. Sex in A Coffin Arse Elektronika-style! Fill a dumpster with dirt and a wooden box and you’ve got a confined space Arse Elektronika and Monochrom see as the ideal sex environment. Link