BB and LS enjoyed our Sierra Zulu prequel "Earthmoving"... do you?

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Another day at the United Nations Offices in Vienna. The Austrian Foreign Affairs Ministry invited members of the European Protocol Service, the UN Strategic Command Center for Central Europe, the United States Air Forces and a regional politician from Lower Austria to talk about the future of Soviet Unter-WHAT?!

Want to learn to know our film team?Well... have a look! Here is the entire list of our heroes of work!

How did we do it? Here are all blog posts about the production of Earthmoving!

Support SIERRA ZULU!

The wonderful tech-art magazine NEURAL (issue 40) printed a review of Arse Elektronika anthology #3: "Of Intercourse and Intracourse" (published by RE/Search and monochrom).

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It's time indeed.


Saturday, February 4, 2012, 5 PM at Raum D, Q21, Museumsquartier Vienna.

News? As always on our Sierra Zulu blog.

We finished the filming of Earthmoving (Sierra Zulu's prequel) at UNOV and VIE. Two days of intense, creative work with a truly marvellous team! Here's to them!

Some images for your enjoyment -- taken by our wonderful set photographer Magdalena Fischer.
More pictures can be found on Sierra Zulu's Flickr page.









Revolutions are the camera dollies of history.

Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down from YouTube. On the long quest for knowledge which follows, Kiki and Bubu learn all about Internet censorship. And love.



Join us for the Florida premiere of Kiki and Bubu's longest (50 minutes!) and most epic movie adventure!
monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner will present the film and share some behind-the-scenes knowledge. Yada, yada!

January 12, 2012 at 7:00 pm @ Urban ReThink, Orlando
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Rated R Us / project page
Kiki and Bubu / all films

monochrom's ISS is a ten-part improv-reality-sitcom about living and working on the International Space Station. The four actors playing the ISS crew must develop strategies on the fly in response to surprise situations, which are loosely based on actual ISS data uncovered by monochrom.
In space no one can hear you complain about your job.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience on June 25, 2011.

Actors: Jeff Ricketts (Star Trek: Enterprise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly), Maciej Salamon (Musicals: Barbarella, Tanz der Vampire, Sweeney Todd), Claire Tudela (Carmen, Musical: The Producers), Geoff Pinfield (Aoterroroa, Lovepuke)

Directing (aka live torture of actors): Johannes Grenzfurthner and Roland Gratzer

Project page (updates, images):
monochrom's ISS

Video links:
Episode 7 / "Ender's Scam"
monochrom's ISS video album

News? As always on our Sierra Zulu blog.

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Our favorite sock puppets Kiki and Bubu have some feelings, so they sign up for an online dating site. When the People of China want to become their friend, they are excited. However, sending the People of China a video of themselves proves to be difficult: Their content gets flagged as inappropriate and taken down from YouTube. On the long quest for knowledge which follows, Kiki and Bubu learn all about Internet censorship. And love.



Join us for the Austrian premiere of Kiki and Bubu's longest (50 minutes!) and most epic movie adventure!
monochrom's Johannes Grenzfurthner and voice talent David Dempsey will present the film and share some behind-the-scenes knowledge. Yada, yada!

At eSeL's METAmART -- Künstlerhauskino, Vienna (December 10, 2011, 2 PM)

Rated R Us / project page
Kiki and Bubu / all films

Der Exot is the resurrection of a project monochrom started as early as 1997: a mobile robot with a mounted camera that can be controlled via web interface. But that's tricky. If too many people try to control the robot at the same time it is counter-productive. Der Exot would behave schizophrenically. It would move without plan, and wander aimlessly. Der Exot is the anti-crowd source robot. The users have to discuss and cooperate via a chat interface to communicate where they want to go, what corners they want to explore, what to crush.



Der Exot is currently visiting London and is stationed at the Science Museum.

Future plans? Building mazes! And the Internets will have to rescue our poor robot!

Der Exot / Link (you'll see if it's online)

Roboexotica is the annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.Until recently, no attempts had been made to publicly discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out. Cheers!

Roboexotica is a coproduction of monochrom, Shifz and the Bureau for Philosophy.

December 1-4, 2011 in Vienna, Austria.

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"The title for the 12th edition of Pixxelpoint 2011 is appropriately enigmatic: LETS GET READY..., merely defines a space of engagement driven forward by a generative force: 'to begin again from the beginning' for those who seek what formulates new media art in its fluent transition between the various manifestations, which can take on new meanings in multiple contextual re-configurations no matter what of their materiality or mediality. Especially when considering the articulations from the fundamental/historical register to what this could foster at the intersection of new media art's "mission, its destiny."

December 2-9, 2011 at Pixxelpoint 2011 - Let's Get Ready, Bevkov trg 4, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Link to monochrom's BRAVE NEW PONG.

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Enjoy.

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Link (review)
Link (about book)

Director Johannes Grenzfurthner gave a short presentation about traditional narrative cinema, the problems of storytelling and Sierra Zulu.

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Dan Massey of Venus Plus X sent us a very interesting article he wrote. Link

Secret recording at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.
Will only be available as part of the upcoming ISS 2011 DVD box!

Preorder now!
Standard 3-disk set (episode 1-11, making of) for EUR 24.99
Limited edition box (episode 1-11, making of, ISS 2011 patch, signatures of all crew members and team) for EUR 49.99

Order via office@monochrom.at

October 29, 2011, 8 PM @ Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.
(single ticket: € 13; discount single ticket: € 8)
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October 28, 2011, 8 PM @ Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.
(single ticket: € 13; discount single ticket: € 8)
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October 27, 2011, 8 PM @ Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.
(single ticket: € 13; discount single ticket: € 8)
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"I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can't fall in love..."

A talk (with audio examples) by monochrom, presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner.



Bourgeois culture was paralyzed and finally overrun by modern technologies which broke through the traditional class barriers. It went into a panic and produced these very stupid technophobic manifestos and images e.g. of "the computer". Pop music discovered and explored the computer not only as a musical instrument but also as something to sing and reflect about in a less aversive way. In doing so it influenced the conception people had of computers. The public image of computers was shaped by groups such as Kraftwerk as well as through obscure Schlager songs such as France Gall's "Computer No. 3". Not only was that image influenced by high culture computer panic but also by naïve technomania, and so it delivered the very dialectics of the computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.

October 26, 2011, 7pm @ La Gaîté Lyrique, 3 bis rue papin, 75003 Paris, France.

We are part of public art project "Transprivacy" in Düssedorf, Germany.

Here is our poster...

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At TEDxVienna 2011 he will speak about Sierra Zulu.

October 22, 2011 @ Studio 44/Vienna.

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Tons of things happening at our big construction site Sierra Zulu.

Very cool: Johannes met Mark Mothersbaugh at Mutato Muzika -- and Mark wants to compose a couple of songs for Sierra Zulu’s score. w00t!



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VenusPlusX attended Arse Elektronika 2011.

Here is the link.

And there have been many other write-ups and comments, we can't link all of them here, but feel free to google.

December 1-4, 2011 at Ragnarhof, Vienna.

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