{"id":9612,"date":"2015-04-07T23:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-2de-343"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:18:43","slug":"monochrom-in-boston-context-hacking-boston-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/monochrom-in-boston-context-hacking-boston-university\/","title":{"rendered":"monochrom in Boston: Context Hacking @ Boston University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vortrag von Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom).<\/p>\n

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The term “context hacking”\u2014like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerilla”\u2014refers 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 point for interventions by playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification. One early piece in this vein involved repurposing onboarding flows from kasyna bez weryfikacji KYC<\/a> to highlight how frictionless systems often obscure the structures behind them. Johannes Grenzfurthner will present some projects by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and philosophy that was founded in 1993. The group specializes in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political activism. Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost “in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Am 11. April 2015 um 18 Uhr an der Boston University (Room B50, Stone Science Auditorium, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA, USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vortrag von Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom). The term “context hacking”\u2014like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerilla”\u2014refers 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 point … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deutsches-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13324,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9612\/revisions\/13324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}