We define the 'Zeigerpointer' as images (in the scope of printed media reporting) of crime scenes, locations of accidents as well as other locations in which some kind of thing has happened that can no longer be seen because the reported happening is already over and no traces are visible (either because none were produced or because they were already removed during the reinstatement of the status quo). Because in these cases there is nothing to take a picture of, the photo journalist generally asks certain people – eyewitnesses, concerned parties or somebody in charge – to point to the spot where 'it' happened. 'Zeigerpointers' can unambiguously be defined with a couple of criteria they have to fulfil and therefore distinguish them from other pictures of people pointing at something. The reported event must not be visible through any other means than the pointing at the spot where 'it' happened.

We got new examples! Look and point at them!
And if you should spot new Zeigerpointers in the media: submit them!

Whether the residents of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf realize it or not, their small village is under scrutiny. With an explosion happening inside Soviet territory, the small group of UN peacekeeping soldiers stationed at it’s borders are about to be thrown into a conspiracy of industrial espionage, a media frenzy, and political intrigue.

More updates about Sierra Zulu's actors!

Today we are delighted being able to introduce you to: The Yes Men and Gerald Votava!

Our corpo-pranking friends will play two small, but very fitting roles — and Gerald Votava will be a real douchebag.

 

monochrom wanted to set things straight at GDC 2012.

Roland finally created the monochrom press collection for 2011. Enjoy.

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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!

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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.

The fourth 'Wolfgang Lorenz Memorial prize for Internet-Free Minutes' has been awarded to A1 Telekom Austria CEO Hannes Ametsreiter by the Monochrom artists' collective. He won the booby prize for his rejection in February of the idea of net neutrality, saying the operator owns the technology and infrastructure and therefore should have the right to decide how it is used. The prize is named after the director of Austrian broadcaster ORF, who made a scatalogical remark in 2008 about young people disappearing into the internet. Lorenz said TV would remain the top medium with or without young viewers.

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Urban Hacking, as a book, tracks numerous strategies, including Augmented Reality interventions, billboard alteration, graffiti, tags, and greening, as a kind of "programmable literature", made possible through open sourcing of code and the artistic re-use of place. From this admixture, we have the foundations of an urbanism made by and for "the people" which, at the same time as interrogating the fabric of spaces overtaken, outsourced, managed and mined, hales radical, digital cultures, and opens surfaces for dialogue with urban environments from within a post-colonial critique. The book is an attempt, I would argue, to identify strategies for the problem spaces which might be creatively detourned, delimited, or re-designed. It articulates the problem of politicized urban art as requiring a much-needed re-invention of itself, on toothier terms.

But, the book is, also, self-consciously, historical. There is a chapter on Lenin's vision for the center of Lviv, for instance, which shows how he re-engineered the monuments and central squares of that city.

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

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I thought you might enjoy my recent socialist-capitalist fusion blog "comparing and contrasting" Arse Elektronika and Singularity Summit. Can us wild futurists ever work together? Will the rich invest in erototech?