 johannes grenzfurthner (; born 1975, vienna) is an austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director. he is known as the founder, conceptualist and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group. most of his artworks are labelled monochrom. recurring topics in grenzfurthner's art and writing are contemporary art, film, activism, performance, humour, philosophy, sex, communism, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, popular culture studies, science fiction, and copyright. ==career overview== ===monochrom=== johannes grenzfurthner founded monochrom in 1993. he wanted to create an alternative magazine that dealt with art, technology and subversive cultures, and was influenced by us magazines like mondo 2000. grenzfurthner's motivation was to react to the emerging conservativism in cyber-cultures of the early 1990s,"cre062 monochrom" and to combine his political background in the austrian punk movement with discussion of new technologies and the cultures they create.marc da costa, "interview with johannes grenzfurthner of monochrom, part 3", furtherfield. the magazine featured many interviews and essays, for example by bruce sterling, hr giger, richard kadrey, arthur kroker, negativland, kathy acker, michael marrak or dj spooky,monochrom back issues 1993-2010 in its specific experimental layout style."monochrom #26-34 ye olde self-referentiality", neural, 15 june 2010. in 1995 the group decided to cover new artistic practicessimulacrum fisticuffs (interview with johannes grenzfurthner), rhysophocles, march 16, 2011erin kobayashi, "how to be buried alive", toronto star, february 6, 2007marie lechner, "", libÃ©ration, march 4, 2008. and started experimenting with different media: computer games, musical, sho
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