[dorkbotmtl-infusion] monochrom tonignt

[Dorkbot Montreal]

Who else's coming?

>monochrom:
>"We're great together, the liberal society and it's enemies"
>A gala at Zeke's Gallery 3955 St-Laurent
>July 29, 7:30
>http://zekesgallery.blogspot.com/
>
>monochrom from Vienna is a worldwide operating collective dealing with
>technology, art, context hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993. So
>to sum up, monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe
>work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism. Their
>mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in
>culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and
>entertainment.
>
>monochrom released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a 1 baud
>semaphore line through the streets of San Francisco, started an illegal
>space race through Los Angeles, buried people alive in Vancouver, and
>cracked the hierarchies of the art system with The Thomann Project. In
>Austria they ate blood sausages made from their own blood in order to
>criticize the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy.
>Sometimes they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and host the
>first annual and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail
>robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography as
>one of the the driving forces of technological innovation. Also they do
>international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet theatre, aesthetic
>pregnancy counselling, food catering and -- sorry to mention -- modern
dance.
>
>monochromís talk medley at Zeke's Gallery is a little tour-de-farce about
>their projects and political motivation. A joyful bucket full of good clean
>fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia,
>mania and despair, condensed into the well known cultural technique of a
>gala show. Powernapping highly welcome.
>
>http://www.monochrom.at/english/
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrom
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