No Longer Home Movies: Intro: "The most famous motion-picture credit of the last century belongs not to a brilliant Hollywood director or a heroic newsreel cameraman, but to a rank amateur who could barely hold steady his 8-millimeter camera but who, on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST, in Dallas, happened to be standing at the right intersection for a collision with history. Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the Kennedy assassination is the supreme example of the serendipitous transformation of ordinary imagery into hypnotic history. But what about the other reels in Zapruder's oeuvre -- and the home movies of countless other shutterbugs who recorded the quotidian passages of their own lives without being interrupted by a news bulletin? Until recently the answer was simple: Who cares?" Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
