monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology, art, context hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993. So to sum up, monochrom is 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-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a 1 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 host the first annual and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography as one of the the driving forces of technological innovation. Also they do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet theatre, aesthetic pregnancy counselling, food catering and -- sorry to mention -- modern dance.
Ein Tag im Winter letzten Jahres: Für den klassischen Schullehrfilm sieht es alles andere als gut aus. In einer Welt der Powerpointpräsentationen und der Downloadplattformen kommt er sich ein bisschen vor wie Cat Stevens in einer Welt der Powerpointpräsentationen und der Downloadplattformen. Dabei könnte er die Zielgruppe da abholen, wo sie abgestellt wurde. Aber wie?! In einer Sprache von heute etwa, so zeitlos wie möglich und so zeitgemäß wie nötig? Vielleicht! Und mit Themen, die der unmitt...
Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music!Link
This is the story of two gay subroutines... "Could It Be" by monochrom (http://www.monochrom.at/coulditbe).From the Semi-Best-Of album "Carefully Selected Moments" (http://www.monochrom.at/moments), available on iTunes (http://tinyurl.com/6mq7l4).
Kiki and Bubu get invited to a fancy cocktail party. But the hosts seem to be rather strange...Link
Someone is crying! Maybe a humiliated, enslaved, abandoned or despised being? Kiki and Bubu want to go and see who it is... Link
In 1938 Austria joined the Third Reich. Millions cheered Hitler and in the referendum 99.75% said 'yes' to 'Greater Germany'. But after World War II, many Austrians sought comfort in the idea of Austria as "the Nazis' first victim". Factions of Austrian society tried for a long time to advance the view that it was only annexation at the point of a bayonet(te). But it's time to embrace history. It's time to remember the feel-good days of 1938. It's time to let our real feelings out! It's time t...
monochrom tells a new story...Bubu ran into a bunch of liberals and they gave him a book. They said if he doesn't read it, they're going to beat him up. But Bubu can't read! And so Kiki helps...http://www.monochrom.at/kiki-and-bubu/
Bubu wants to know why his dad is working all the time.And Kiki explains him why... because of the neoliberal shift.Link
myfacespace.com+++++++++++Roland Gratzer as hillbully23Evelyn Fuerlinger as SweetyBirdJonathan Mann as The Next ContactIvory King as The Very Next ContactJohannes Grenzfurthner as The AdministratorDavid Fine as Wixelstrom, the LawyerSome nice geeks, journalists and political activists as The AudienceLyrics: Roland Gratzer, Jonathan Mann, David Fine, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Ivory KingMusic: Jonathan MannGraphics: David Fine and Johannes GrenzfurthnerDirector: Johannes GrenzfurthnerVideo scrolli...
People of the world, you, who sit in your superficially secure third countries! Soviet Unterzoegersdorf's Armed Forces present their home country, the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with the Republic of Austria – which surrounds it – or with the European Union. Comrades Chrusov and Moloshnikov interview Emmanuel Goldstein (2600, NYC), Jason Brown (Machine Project, Los Angeles) and Evelyn Fuerlinger. They also present a strange elec...
