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He has published numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art, communication processes and philosophy including ''Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity, Do androids sleep with electric sheep?, Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere and Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation''.<ref>[http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1602572/ ''Guerrilla Comm, In: ORF Online'']</ref><ref>[http://www.turia.at/titel/kroeger.html 'We're only Markenwert. Die Übernahme der Lord Jim Loge durch monochrom', in: "Geistiges Eigentum und Originalität", published by Verlag Turia+Kant, 2011]</ref><ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/monochrom-tomann.txt ''A Short History Of A Collaborative Conspiracy, In: AC:Collaborative'']</ref><ref>[http://www.monochrom.at/amok/ ''Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere, In: Kino unter Sternen'']</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Johannes+Grenzfurthner%22 'Google Books - Author Johannes Grenzfurthner']</ref>
He has published numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art, communication processes and philosophy including ''Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity, Do androids sleep with electric sheep?, Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere and Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation''.<ref>[http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1602572/ ''Guerrilla Comm, In: ORF Online'']</ref><ref>[http://www.turia.at/titel/kroeger.html 'We're only Markenwert. Die Übernahme der Lord Jim Loge durch monochrom', in: "Geistiges Eigentum und Originalität", published by Verlag Turia+Kant, 2011]</ref><ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/monochrom-tomann.txt ''A Short History Of A Collaborative Conspiracy, In: AC:Collaborative'']</ref><ref>[http://www.monochrom.at/amok/ ''Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere, In: Kino unter Sternen'']</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Johannes+Grenzfurthner%22 'Google Books - Author Johannes Grenzfurthner']</ref>


He is co-organizing the "Hackbus" community,<ref>[http://hackbus.info/ ''Hackbus: migratory learning and teaching units'']</ref><ref>[http://owni.fr/2011/09/01/sur-la-route-des-hackers-evangelistes/ ''Sur la route des hackers évangélistes'', Sabine Blanc, OWNI Magazine, September 1, 2011]</ref> a platform and movement for mobile [[hackerspace]]s. The initiative was created after publication of Grenzfurthner's much debated pamphlet "Hacking the Spaces", that dealt with inclusionist tendencies in the hackerspaces movement.<ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/hackingthespaces.txt ''Hacking the Spaces'' by Grenzfurthner/Schneider, 2009; in Textfiles.com]</ref>
He is co-organizing the "Hackbus" community,<ref>[http://hackbus.info/ ''Hackbus: migratory learning and teaching units'']</ref><ref>[http://owni.fr/2011/09/01/sur-la-route-des-hackers-evangelistes/ ''Sur la route des hackers évangélistes'', Sabine Blanc, OWNI Magazine, September 1, 2011]</ref><ref>[http://www.brandeins.de/magazin/freiraeume/jeder-ist-ein-lehrer.html
Jeder ist ein Lehrer, in: Brand Eins Magazine (by Oliver Helbig), 2011]</ref> a platform and movement for mobile [[hackerspace]]s. The initiative was created after publication of Grenzfurthner's much debated pamphlet "Hacking the Spaces", that dealt with inclusionist tendencies in the hackerspaces movement.<ref>[http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/hackingthespaces.txt ''Hacking the Spaces'' by Grenzfurthner/Schneider, 2009; in Textfiles.com]</ref>


He was one of the core team members in the development process of [[netznetz]], 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.
He was one of the core team members in the development process of [[netznetz]], 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.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner, picture taken at Museumsquartier, Vienna

Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is an Austrian artist, writer, curator, director. He is known as the founder, conceptualist and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. Most of his art works are labelled monochrom.

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.

monochrom

Johannes Grenzfurthner founded monochrom in 1993. He wanted to create an alternative magazine that dealt with art, technology and subversive cultures, and was influenced by US-American zines like Mondo 2000. Grenzfurthner's motivation was to react to the emerging conservativism in cyber-cultures of the early 1990s[1], and to combine his political background in the Austrian punk movement with discourse about emerging new technologies and the new cultures they create.[2] The magazine featured many interviews and essays, for example by Richard Kadrey, Arthur Kroker, Negativland, Kathy Acker or DJ Spooky[3], in its specific experimental layout style.[4] In 1995 the group decided to open itself to new artistic practices[5][6][7] and started experimenting with different forms of media: computer games, musical, short films, pranks, online activism, a practice that Grenzfurthner calls 'Context hacking'[8] or 'Urban Hacking'.[9] Grenzfurthner represents the group as its artistic director.

Conferences and Festivals

Grenzfurthner is head of Arse Elektronika[10][11] festival in San Francisco (2007-), an annual academic[12] and artistic[13] conference and anthology series that focusses on sex and technology. The first conference was curated by Grenzfurthner in 2007 to answer questions about the impact of sex on technological innovation and adoption.

Grenzfurthner is hosting Roboexotica[14], the international Festival for Cocktail-Robotics (2002-) which invites scientists, researchers and artists to build machines that server or mix cocktails. V. Vale calls Roboexotica "an ironic attempt to criticize techno-triumphalism and to dissect technological hypes."[15]

Director

Grenzfurthner wrote and directed a range of theatre plays[16][17][18], street theatre performances[19][20] and short films. He is currently working on his first feature film, Sierra Zulu.[21][22]

Writing, Lecturing

Grenzfurthner holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is a lecturer on culture jammming at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.[23][24] He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in the United States as well.[25] [26]

He has published numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art, communication processes and philosophy including Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity, Do androids sleep with electric sheep?, Of Intercourse and Intracourse: Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere and Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation.[27][28][29][30][31]

He is co-organizing the "Hackbus" community,[32][33][34] a platform and movement for mobile hackerspaces. The initiative was created after publication of Grenzfurthner's much debated pamphlet "Hacking the Spaces", that dealt with inclusionist tendencies in the hackerspaces movement.[35]

He was one of the core team members in the development process of netznetz, 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.

He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF,[36] Telepolis, Boing Boing[37] and was awarded an Official Honoree for The 13th Annual Webby Awards.[38]

Publications

  • Editor of magazine/yearbook series "monochrom" (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
  • 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)
  • Editor of "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?" (together with Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry and Thomas Ballhausen, 2009)
  • Editor of "Schutzverletzungen/Legitimation of Mediatic Violence" (together with Günther Friesinger and Thomas Ballhausen, 2010)
  • Editor of "Urban Hacking" (together with Günther Friesinger and Thomas Ballhausen, 2010)
  • Editor of "Geist in der Maschine. Medien, Prozesse und Räume der Kybernetik" (together with Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen, Verena Bauer, 2010)
  • Editor of "The Wonderful World of Absence" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2011)
  • Editor of "Of Intercourse and Intracourse – Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere" (together with Günther Friesinger and Daniel Fabry, 2011)

References

  1. ^ Tim Pritlove of CRE interviews Grenzfurthner about the founding of monochrom and various projects
  2. ^ Interview with J. Grenzfurthner in Furtherfield
  3. ^ monochrom back issues 1993-2010
  4. ^ monochrom #26-34 Ye Olde Self-Referentiality in Neural (2010)
  5. ^ Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner in "Rhysophocles", March 16, 2011
  6. ^ How to be buried alive: in Toronto Star, Erin Kobayashi, February 6, 2007
  7. ^ Pop Guérilla: in Libération, Marie Lechner, March 4, 2008
  8. ^ Context Hacking: Some Examples of How to Mess with Art, the Media System, Law and the Market, at O'Reilly ETech 2008, San Diego
  9. ^ Urban Hacking: Culture Jamming in the Risky Spaces of Modernity, Book Review by Molly Hankwitz in OtherCinema, September 24, 2011
  10. ^ Silverberg, David (4 October 2007). "Sex Meets Tech at Kinky Conference in San Francisco" Digital Journal. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  11. ^ Arse Elektronika 2007: Porn and Tech Conference, In: San Francisco Gate
  12. ^ Prosthetic Fetishes and Fan Erotica: Sci-Fi Predicts Future of Sex, In: Wired Online
  13. ^ 'Dirty Deeds Done Six Feet Deep', in Rue Morgue, January 2011
  14. ^ Bot Bartenders Sling Drinks at Roboexotica USA, In: Wired Online
  15. ^ 'Counter Cultural Hour by RE/Search Publications', September 2008
  16. ^ 'Die Außerirdischen in Dir wollen nur Deinen Körper!' by Norbert Mayer in "Die Presse", 04/24/2006
  17. ^ 'Improv Reality Sitcom Gets Spacy', on Discovery.com
  18. ^ Kotze, Sperma und Inventur im Weltraum, Telepolis Magazine, Peter Mühlbauer, June 24, 2011
  19. ^ "Protestors" call games industry a "temple of sin," demand repentance in: Ars Technika, 03/09/2012
  20. ^ Nazi Petting Zoo: on Boing Boing TV, July 2008
  21. ^ 'Sierra Zulu' project page
  22. ^ 'Earthmoving', A Sierra Zulu prequel, in Film.at, February 2012
  23. ^ Faculty page at University of Applied Science, Graz
  24. ^ Faculty Page at University of Arts and Industrial Design
  25. ^ 'Carnegie Mellon Event Calendar - Johannes Grenzfurthner'
  26. ^ 'Webster University Visiting Artists'
  27. ^ Guerrilla Comm, In: ORF Online
  28. ^ 'We're only Markenwert. Die Übernahme der Lord Jim Loge durch monochrom', in: "Geistiges Eigentum und Originalität", published by Verlag Turia+Kant, 2011
  29. ^ A Short History Of A Collaborative Conspiracy, In: AC:Collaborative
  30. ^ Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere, In: Kino unter Sternen
  31. ^ 'Google Books - Author Johannes Grenzfurthner'
  32. ^ Hackbus: migratory learning and teaching units
  33. ^ Sur la route des hackers évangélistes, Sabine Blanc, OWNI Magazine, September 1, 2011
  34. ^ [http://www.brandeins.de/magazin/freiraeume/jeder-ist-ein-lehrer.html Jeder ist ein Lehrer, in: Brand Eins Magazine (by Oliver Helbig), 2011]
  35. ^ Hacking the Spaces by Grenzfurthner/Schneider, 2009; in Textfiles.com
  36. ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner's column on the website of Austrian National Broadcast ORF
  37. ^ Various works for Boing Boing
  38. ^ monochrom: Category: Blog - Culture/Personal at The 13th Annual Webby Awards

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