== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality ==
== A semi-entertaining release performance ==
== Presented at Urban ReThink in Orlando, FL ==
== Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL 32801
== December 16, 2010, 8 PM ==
The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is an impossibility
in an impossible universe -- an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic
fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political
activism. 500 pages (67 ounces) of outrageous printed bestiality. And
we plan to thoughtfully present it at Urban ReThink... in the Most
Central of all possible Floridas!
But what is monochrom?
monochrom is a magazine object appearing in telephone book format,
which is published by the art/tech group of the same name. monochrom
came into being in the mid-1990s as a fanzine for cyberculture,
science, theory, cultural studies and the archaeology of pop culture
in everyday life. Its collage format is reminiscent both of the early
DIY fanzines of the punk and new wave underground and of the artist
books of figures such as Dieter Roth, Martin Kippenberger and others.
With a great deal of forced discontinuity, a cohesive potpourri of
digital and analog subversion is pressed between the covers of
monochrom. Each issue is an unnostalgic amalgam of 125 years of
Western counterculture cocked, aimed and ready to fire at the
present. It is a Sears catalog of subjective and objective
irreconcilability -- the Godzilla version of the conventional coffee
table book.
<http://www.monochrom.at/english>http://www.monochrom.at/english
http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/
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