Johannes Grenzfurthner
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Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is an artist, writer, curator, director.
He has published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy[1][2][3].
He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF[4], Telepolis, Boing Boing[5]). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz).[citation needed] He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria.
Grenzfurthner is founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group[6]. He is collaborating with groups such as ubermorgen[7], Billboard Liberation Front[8], Esel and Mego (label).
He is one of the core team members in the development process of netznetz's Mana, a new kind of community-based funding system for net culture and net art together with the culture department of the city government of Vienna. In 2006 he was main coordinator of the Mana process. He is head of Arse Elektronika[9][10] festival in San Francisco (2007-) and co-hosting Roboexotica[11] (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) (2002-).
He wrote and directed a couple of theatre plays, mainly at Volkstheater, Vienna.
Grenzfurthner has been selected as an Official Honoree for The 13th Annual Webby Awards[12].
Recurring topics in Johannes Grenzfurthner's artistic and textual work are: contemporary art, activism, performance, humour, philosophy, sex, communism, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.
[edit] Publications
- Editor of magazine/yearbook series "monochrom" (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007)
- Editor of "Stadt der Klage" (Michael Marrak, 1997)
- Editor of "Weg der Engel" (Michael Marrak and Agus Chuadar, 1998)
- Editor of "Who shot Immanence?" (together with Thomas Edlinger and Fritz Ostermayer, 2002)
- Editor of "Leutezeichnungen" (together with Elffriede, 2003)
- Editor of "Quo Vadis, Logo?!" (together with Günther Friesinger, 2006)
- Editor of "Spektakel - Kunst - Gesellschaft" (together with Stephan Grigat and Günther Friesinger, 2006)
- Editor of "pr0nnotivation? Arse Elektronika Anthology" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2008)
- Editor of "Roboexotica" (together with Günther Friesinger, Magnus Wurzer, Franz Ablinger and Chris Veigl, 2008)
- upcoming: Schutzverletzungen/Legitimation of Mediatic Violence (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ Guerrilla Comm, In: ORF Online
- ^ A Short History Of A Collaborative Conspiracy, In: AC:Collaborative
- ^ Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere, In: Kino unter Sternen
- ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner's column on the website of Austrian National Broadcast ORF
- ^ Various works for Boing Boing
- ^ Tim Pritlove of CRE interviews Grenzfurthner about the founding of monochrom and various projects
- ^ Press release about The Great Firewall of China, Google Campus
- ^ Press release about Casa Altavista, Zurich
- ^ Arse Elektronika 2007: Porn and Tech Conference, In: San Francisco Gate
- ^ Prosthetic Fetishes and Fan Erotica: Sci-Fi Predicts Future of Sex, In: Wired Online
- ^ Bot Bartenders Sling Drinks at Roboexotica USA, In: Wired Online
- ^ monochrom: Category: Blog - Culture/Personal in The 13th Annual Webby Awards
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