num_pages: 240
description: Provocative andpenetrating, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? reveals a wealth ofdepictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address thepresent. As the official artists' collectiverepresenting Vienna at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group— Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry — invented anartist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a veryelaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings thatsame sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collectionexploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literaryforms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to theinvestigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Herequestions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along withthe complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss ofcontrol).
language: English
title: Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: monochrom's Arse Elektronika Anthology
publisher: Re/Search Publications