Johannes Grenzfurthner
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[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 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[6]. He is collaborating with groups such as ubermorgen[7], Billboard Liberation Front[8], 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[9][10] festival in San Francisco (2007-) and co-hosting Roboexotica[11] (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[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.
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)
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
External links
- Interview with Marc Da Costa/Furtherfield: part 1 and part 2
- Interview with V. Vale in Pranks! 2