Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about monochrom’s first computer game “Soviet Unterzögersdorf“. The game was featured in BoingBoing and Edge (games magazine) chose the game as their “internet game of the month” of November 2005. Monochrom has been invited to present the game at the festival for art and digital culture, Transmediale 2006, in Berlin (project page). The fake history of the “last existing appanage republic of the USSR”, Soviet Unterzoegersdorf. Created to discuss topics such as the theoretical problems of historiography, the concept of the “socialist utopia” and the political struggles of postwar Europe. Interview at the monochrom office located at Museumsquartier in Vienna, January 24, 2006, part 3.
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Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny and disillusioning. Johannes Grenzfurthner: “They are like one way communication. Only designed to be recognized but not to be reproduced.” Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner at the monochrom office in Vienna, January 24, 2006, part 2.
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Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media and art formats. Interview at the monochrom office located at Museumsquartier in Vienna, January 24, 2006, part 1.
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