Johannes Grenzfurthner

Johannes Grenzfurthner, picture taken at Museumsquartier, Vienna

Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is an Austrian artist, writer, curator, director.

He has published numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy.

He 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.

Grenzfurthner is founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He is collaborating with groups such as ubermorgen, Billboard Liberation Front, Esel and Mego (label).

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 is head of Arse Elektronika festival in San Francisco (2007-) and co-hosting Roboexotica (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) (2002-).

He is co-organizing the DIY project "Hackbus".

He wrote and directed a couple of theatre plays, for example at Volkstheater, Vienna.

Grenzfurthner has been selected as an Official Honoree for The 13th Annual Webby Awards.

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.

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)

External links

• Interview with Marc Da Costa/Furtherfield: part 1 and part 2
• Interview with V. Vale in Pranks! 2