@Simplehuman:
What the world needs is clear ambiguity. And twiddling with cultural codes. It's as easy as that.

@Larf: Yeah. Even pranking has more than two layers of reality!

@Charliedodgson: I recommend to start your own sculpture mob! At least we want to create a movement here! Check out the Yahoo site. But it's pretty uninspiring. We drove by.

@Aviddd: And after all. It's bloody art.

Johannes
monochrom

@trnck: We live in a hypermedial environment. Lots of people will notice it. Walter Benjamin wrote about the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In the meantime -- I guess -- we have to exchange mechanical with something more trendy. Like optodualcorefibrous.

I guess the real object wasn't out there for a long time. I'm sure they pretty quickly called some workers to get rid of it. But we left a bottle of *really* good scotch at the site... for the clean-up personnel. As a cheerful "thank you".

Johannes
monochrom

Thank you for the collaboration.

We needed to maintain a low standard of political metaphor to give American citizens a chance to understand it. From an aesthetic perspective, The Great Firewall of China is radically mediocre. In the end, China's stoic indifference to Western art insanity is quite impressive.

We are currently uploading detailed photographs to a Flickr account. So next time we should visit those guys.

To be precise: Roboexotica is a collaboration between Shifz and monochrom...
and please consider to go to Vienna in December.
Roboexotica will celebrate its 10th anniversary!

A cheerful robot uprising! Prost!

Haha. So I'm German. Please don't tell Austrian immigration. But whatever. It's Schengen zone anyways...

The Soviet blogosphere is buzzing.

Members of the CPSUZöD protest "against a recent smut report on Boing Boing TV." - "A strong political message about suppression was turned into a filthy report about a drunk representative of our country!"

http://sovietunterzoegersdorf.metblogs.com/

@ Chocolatey Shatner:

For economic reasons.

@jimh: Our puppet piece is not directly dealing with economic theory, it is dealing with the shift in power structures. It's a brief summary of Foucault's concept of the -> "disciplinary society" and Deleuze's adaption of Foucault's ideas (-> "society of control").

@Teresa:
Well... I don't want to anticipate too much...
;-)

Hey folks! Greetings from a different time zone...

We definitely have to mention wonderful Jonathan Mann aka GameJew (www.gamejew.com), who created "myfacespace.com" together with us...
...and one more time: thanx to the folks @ Austrian Big Brother Awards (www.bigbrotherawards.at)

There will be a studio version of the entire 7-minutes-micro-musical available on our CD (will be released in May)...

Cheers!
Johannes

@corbie: It's a hurdy-gurdy... the song is an instrumental version of our monochrom song "Die Moritat von Paratii"

@ Xeni: Sorry, a "Wiener Schnitzel" is not a sausage. A "Wiener Schnitzel" is a breaded, thin piece of veal.
By the way... we used "Wellness Sausages Nuremberg Style"...

scott blake, not crawford. ;-)

@ larf: Yes, http://www.monochrom.at/braicin/

@ Och Aye The Gnu: Roboexotica link or the sublinks to the audio server? All should work...

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