{"id":9948,"date":"2013-10-19T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-4ae-679"},"modified":"2013-10-19T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:49:29","slug":"mission-local-what-is-arse-elektronika-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/mission-local-what-is-arse-elektronika-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Local: &#8220;What is Arse Elektronika?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Local&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/missionlocal.org\/author\/christopher_schodt\/\">Chris Schodt<\/a> published a great piece on Arse Elektronika (2013) and monochrom.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/blog\/ae-mission2.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/blog\/ae-mission.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\tWelcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/english\/\">Monochrom<\/a>,<br \/>\n\ta leftist techno-art collective, who managed to turn such musings on<br \/>\n\tsex and technology into a small conference in the basement of kink.com.<br \/>\n\t\u00a0That was 2007 and seven conferences later \u2013 the meetings are always<br \/>\n\theld in San Francisco \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/\">Arse Elektronika<\/a><br \/>\n\thas grown into a gathering, funded by donations, ticket, book sales,<br \/>\n\tand a small grant from the Austrian government. \u00a0Grenzfurthner, now<br \/>\n\ta\u00a0lecturer on art theory and practice at the University of Applied<br \/>\n\tSciences in Graz, Austria, presides.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWith more than 20 presentations over four days earlier this month,<br \/>\n\tArse Elektronika 2013 attracted some 125 hackers, makers, artists, porn<br \/>\n\tstars and activists of all backgrounds and gender identities.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;Sex is very nearly universal, but it just isn\u2019t discussed frankly by<br \/>\n\tmost people,&#8221; said Eric Sheur, an animator from Portland, who created<br \/>\n\tthe sex storytelling show <a href=\"http:\/\/mysteryboxshow.com\/\">Mystery Box Show<\/a> with his partner Reba Sparrow.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2013\/arse-elektronika-sex-and-technology-in-the-mission-2\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Local&#8217;s Chris Schodt published a great piece on Arse Elektronika (2013) and monochrom. Welcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder of Monochrom, a leftist techno-art collective, who managed to turn such musings on sex and technology into a small conference in the basement of kink.com. \u00a0That was 2007 and seven conferences later \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Mission Local: &#8220;What is Arse Elektronika?&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/mission-local-what-is-arse-elektronika-3\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arse-elektronika","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9948","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=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}