Vortrag von Johannes Grenzfurthner auf dem FSCONS 2013 in Götheborg.
The ultimate horror is not the end of
civilization, but its endless decline. But how
can we get the message out if nobody wants to
listen? We at monochrom call our working method
»Context Hacking,« thus referencing the hacker
culture, which propagates a creative and
emancipatory approach to the technologies of the
digital age, and in this way turns against the
continuation into the digital age of a
centuries-old technological enslavement
perpetrated through knowledge and hierarchies of
experts. Context hacking transfers the hackers
objectives and methods to the network of social
relationships in which artistic production
occurs, and upon which it is dependent. In a
metaphoric sense, these relationships also have a
source code. Programs run in them, and our
interaction with them is structured by a user
interface. When we know how a space, a niche, a
scene, a subculture or a media or political
practice functions, we can change it and »recode«
it, deconstructing its power relationships and
emancipating ourselves from its compulsions and packaging guidelines.
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.
Am 9. November 2013 (16:15), Renströmsgatan 6, Götheborg, Schweden.
<https://frab.fscons.org/en/fscons13/public/events/68>Link
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