An Evening with monochromMonochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment.
Additional description from Ian Monroe:
You've never heard of monochrom ? Well, then you haven't been paying attention. If you had, you would have seen them just the other day on Boing Boing collecting barcodes http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.giffor Falco. Maybe you would have seen them demonstrating how to install a USB interface into a human spine or singing an 8-bit love song to/about Creative Commons mastermind Lawrence Lessig.
Or maybe you're a Luddite, and you hate the internet. Perhaps you'd be more familiar with Georg Paul Thomann, the fictional artist that saved 'Taiwan' at the 2002 Sao Paulo Art Biennial? Maybe you heard about the multi-city exhibition where they buried participants alive in a coffin for 15 minutes. Or the time they boiled 20 gallons of Coca-Cola down to a sludge so they could make their own brick of coke.
Perhaps you'll be familiar with Arse Elektronika (a conference in San Francisco earlier this year that explored the intersection of art, pornography and technology). Or maybe with the Roboexotica conference, which celebrates the state of the art in cocktail robotics. Or the International Year of Polytheism ("The number of the beast is one.")?
Where:
Redlight Redlight
535 W. New England Ave Winter Park Fl 32789 (MAP)
When:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
8:00 pm
Cost:
No cover
21+ only