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Some pictures taken at our monochrom release party in Graz at Forum Stadtpark (June 7, 2010). Link

Happy times! “Krach the Robot” in “How-To-Do for Me-&-You”!   Link

Check it out. monochrom es un proyecto internacional técnico, artístico, filosófico y colectivo, situado en Vienna en el Museumsquartier (en el ‘Quartier für digitale Kultur’, espacio para la cultura digital). monochrom fue fundado en 1993 por Johannes Grenzfurthner y Franz Ablinger. Más miembros del grupe incluyen: Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald List, Anika Kronberger, Frank Apunkt Schneider, … Read more

A conversation between monochrom (Austria) and Vuk Cosic (Slovenia). Friday, 4 June, 2010 (7 PM) as part of Tactics and Practice: New Media Drivers – A Pilot Seminar in New Media Arts. At Kino Siska Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at Forum Stadtpark Graz == == June 7, 2010, 8 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 science and political activism. 500 pages (67 … Read more

tech4thought interviewed monochrom’s Johannes Grenzfurthner at ROFLCon in Cambridge (May 2010). At Roflcon II, we interviewed Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom.at or www.monochrom.at/english for us. Monochrom is an art/technology/philosophy group based out of Austria. If you haven’t hear of their projects check them out! Link

== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release reading/party at The Model/Sligo, Ireland == == Featuring Special Guest Seamus Kealy == == May 29, 2010, after 5 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, … Read more

A monochrom classic… Around one and a half years ago, the American experimental musician Jerry Zachary Adamski conceived one of the most unusual and exciting projects in recent music history at the University of Cleveland’s Ronald K. Burgmeister Institute for Cybernetic Composition. Link

We received a new donation of 4 euros (in words: four euros) for our campaign “Force Sting”, thus raising the bar to 59 euros! “Force Sting” tries to force the rock singer “Sting” (“Russians love their children too”) to appear for a bad cause (e.g. skinning seal babies, atomic energy in Eastern Europe, total extinction … Read more

There is an ongoing gender debate in hacker and geek culture (see: SIGINT 2010). One of our suggestions is to hack language itself. monochrom’s Campaign For The Abolition Of Personal Pronouns One personal pronoun is enough to address men, women, whatever lies between, and any lifeform capable of producing something like language. Link