Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 3. Marc Da Costa interviews Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of monochrom. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=414
The last of three interviews with Grenzfurthner, where he talks about the birth of monochrome culture and the intricacies of subversion in the era of soft control. An art-technology-philosophy group of basket weaving enthusiasts and theory do-it-yourselfers, working in all forms since 1993. Grenzfurthner has collaborated with groups such as ubermorgen, Billboard Liberation Front, Esel and Mego (label). Grenzfurthner writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is a lecturer at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Since 1993, the Monochrom members have devoted themselves to the grey zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair. The technique underlying Monochrom's work is that of being and working in the fields of Pop/avant-garde, theory/reflection, interventionism/politics, gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification. The project Monochrom pushes into and beyond these fields is, 'networking' events, people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities." (Zdenka Badovinac, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana) Read part 1 of this interview: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=408 Read part 2 of this interview: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=411 ————> Other Info: A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
