monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #12++
Friday, August 10, 2007 / 9:30 PM @ Chaos Communication Camp,
Finowurt
The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as
NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce
a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig
it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful
bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture,
self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into
the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.
[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]
Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Roland Gratzer
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Thanks to the wonderful folks of the CCC and the Metalab for
helping us...
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/// RICH GIBSON ON MAPS AND REALITIES
Maps tell stories, and the stories they tell both reflect and
create reality. We live in a phenomenal Universe. What we see,
smell, hear, taste and touch is mediated by our senses. What we
see are the records of photons hitting our eyes, and what we smell
is the effect of molecules of that material binding with receptors
in our nasal passages (think on that as you visit the porta potty).
Because we live in a phenomenal universe in which our experience
of
reality is mediated by our senses the maps that we create to represent
reality also create reality. Rich Gibson is interested in the
geospatial component of what people do. Everything we do, think
or experience we do, think or experience somewhere. But who cares
where you were when you added 'milk' to your grocery list? Consider
that our primary source on the lives of many people, including
in recent historical time, is their middens and outhouses. That
is, their garbage dumps and shit. The locative part of our history
is at least as important as our shit! And if handled well we can
learn from where we have been.
Rich Gibson appears to be a mechanism for turning sugar and alcohol
into energy and ideas. He lives in Sebastopol California where
he writes code and words, and tries to understand and perhaps
change the ways he and the world interact. He is the co-author
of “Mapping Hacks” and “Google Maps Hacks”.
He works with Meadan.org. We care about what is close to us, and
Meadan is working to bring the world close to all of us.
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/// B9PUNK ON PIRATES AND RADIOS
Pirate Radio is not only possible in the US, but easy, affordable,
low-risk, and a useful important medium. KBFR (K-Boulder Free
Radio) was a enormously successful and long-lived (5 years on
the air) station in Colorado, which was made more successful and
long-lived with the involvement of hackers. In the end, we had
40 Djs, a rented space, benefit concerts and a cd of local music
we recorded at our studio, thousands of listeners, and an unforgettable
impact on the community. Together we confronted, and have lots
of funny stories to tell about, the many interesting questions
involved in running a free station, like pleasing the community,
advertisers, free speech at large, "real" radio competition,
and of course those evil bastards the FCC.
B9punk is basically a "hacker enabler," meaning that
she has had a hand in setting up projects like making a new 2600
meeting, starting a pseudo-hackerspace in New York (the Hacker
Halfway House), designing and coordinating the HOPE conference,
and most recently Hackers on a Plane. Her most interesting and
favorite adventure in this line of work so far,
was being involved with a pirate radio station in the US. She
currently lives in New York City, but has been spending a lot
of time in Europe lately in an effort to pick up some class and
avoid being a stereotype.
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/// PHILLIP STEARNS: "I <3 COMPUTER MUSIC TOO!"
Phillip Stearns is a Los Angeles based sound and visual artist,
composer and recent graduate of the California Institute of the
Arts music composition department. His most recent work is centered
around the notion of the circuit as a site for expression through
subversion. His projects are personal inquiries into electronic
technologies and their role in shaping our notions of community,
space, isolation and interconnectedness. The tools of his practice
include hacked and custom designed electronic hardware, misused
audio hardware, compromised and abused commercial software, and
recently antiquated
technologies.
"I <3 Computer Music Too!" goes right to the core
of electronic media: The Hardware. Rather than engage with the
tradition of software programming to generate sound and image,
custom designed analog/digital circuitry is used to hack, augment
and transform the electronic signals flying around the motherboard
of a PC computer into an abstract audio/visual mind-warp. The
performance is improvised and deals with negotiations between
the performer and equipment in the creation of a real-time media
based performance work. Instead of creating a system which converts
from one media to another, sound to audio or visa versa, the hardware
in "I <3 Computer Music Too!" treats all signals
equally. All electronic signals are analog and are without meaning
until they are "formatted" to suit a particular display
or output device. Within the piece, this formatting is done as
directly is possible with the goal of minimal translation.
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/// monochrom regulars:
JAKE APPELBAUM
Jake Appelbaum will talk about Flickr, Yahoo!, unintended consequences
of censorship, and publishing on the net as an artist.
Jacob Appelbaum is the monochrom Ambassador. He's currently living
in San Francisco.
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/// Showband:
MONOCHROM ALLSTAR BAND featuring MICHAEL ZELTNER
An eternity of whetstones per kilo-newton!
Enjoy!
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/// MONOCHROM
Taugshow is a project by monochrom. But what is monochrom?
monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology,
art, context hacking, and philosophy which was founded in 1993.
They specialize 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."
Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming
project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets
of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles,
buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies
of the art system with the Thomann Project. In Austria they ate
blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize
the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes
they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and they
have hosted the first annual festival concerned with cocktail
robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography
as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. They
also do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet
theater, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering, and -
sorry to mention - modern dance.
More infos:
wikipedia
monochrom
