{"id":9948,"date":"2013-10-19T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-4ae-679"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:16:15","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. The conference keeps pulling from wildly different corners of digital culture \u2014 hardware tinkerers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bycatch.org\/\">online casino slots<\/a> streamers, interactive fiction writers \u2014 and Schodt captures that range well. Worth reading the full piece:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/blog\/ae-mission2.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/blog\/ae-mission.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/english\/\">Monochrom<\/a>,<br \/>\na leftist techno-art collective, who managed to turn such musings on<br \/>\nsex and technology into a small conference in the basement of kink.com.<br \/>\nThat was 2007 and seven conferences later \u2013 the meetings are always<br \/>\nheld in San Francisco \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/\">Arse Elektronika<\/a><br \/>\nhas grown into a gathering, funded by donations, ticket, book sales,<br \/>\nand a small grant from the Austrian government. \u00a0Grenzfurthner, now<br \/>\na\u00a0lecturer on art theory and practice at the University of Applied<br \/>\nSciences in Graz, Austria, presides.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 20 presentations over four days earlier this month,<br \/>\nArse Elektronika 2013 attracted some 125 hackers, makers, artists, porn<br \/>\nstars and activists of all backgrounds and gender identities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sex is very nearly universal, but it just isn\u2019t discussed frankly by<br \/>\nmost people,&#8221; said Eric Sheur, an animator from Portland, who created<br \/>\nthe sex storytelling show <a href=\"http:\/\/mysteryboxshow.com\/\">Mystery Box Show<\/a> with his partner Reba Sparrow.<\/p><\/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. The conference keeps pulling from wildly different corners of digital culture \u2014 hardware tinkerers, online casino slots streamers, interactive fiction writers \u2014 and Schodt captures that range well. Worth reading the full piece: Welcome to the world of Grenzfurthner, the founder &#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":2,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13443,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9948\/revisions\/13443"}],"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}]}}