A talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner, monochrom.
The term "context hacking"like its older mimetic
sibling "communication guerilla"refers to
unconventional forms of communication and/or
intervention in more conventional processes of
communication. Context hacking is a specific
style of political action drawing from a watchful
view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power,
turning these into the starting point for
interventions by playing with representations and
identities, with alienation and over-identification.
Johannes Grenzfurthner will present some projects
by monochrom, a worldwide operating collective
from Vienna dealing with technology, art, and
philosophy that was founded in 1993. The group
specializes 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."
Dec 9, 2010; 3 PM @ Johnson State College,
Johnson, Vermont, Sterns Performance Space
