Johannes Grenzfurthner
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Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is an artist, writer, curator, director.
He has attended many international symposia and conferences [1] [2] [3] [4], published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy. He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, FM4, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Johannes Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz).
He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria.
Johannes Grenzfurthner is founder of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. Most of his artistic output is labeled as “monochrom”. He is collaborating with groups such as ubermorgen, Esel and Mego (label). He is member of the Community of Fine Arts Austria and a contributor to Vienna Metroblogging. He is administrating Dorkbot Vienna, is supporting the Pirate Party movement and the hackspace Metalab.
He is one of the core team members in the development process of netznetz's Mana, a new kind of community-based funding system for net culture and net art together with the culture department of the city government of Vienna. In 2006 he was main coordinator of the Mana process. He is head of Arse Elektronika[5] festival in San Francisco (2007-) and co-hosting Roboexotica (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics)[6] in Vienna (2002-)
He wrote and directed a couple of theatre plays, mainly at Volkstheater, Vienna.
Recurring topics in Johannes Grenzfurthner's artistic and textual work are: contemporary art, activism, performance, humour, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.
[edit] Publications
- Editor of magazine/yearbook series "monochrom" (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007)
- Editor of "Stadt der Klage" (Michael Marrak, 1997)
- Editor of "Weg der Engel" (Michael Marrak and Agus Chuadar, 1998)
- Editor of "Who shot Immanence?" (together with Thomas Edlinger and Fritz Ostermayer, 2002)
- Editor of "Leutezeichnungen" (together with Elffriede, 2003)
- Editor of "Quo Vadis, Logo?!" (together with Günther Friesinger, 2006)
- Editor of "Spektakel - Kunst - Gesellschaft" (together with Stephan Grigat and Günther Friesinger, 2006)
- upcoming: Schutzverletzungen/Legitimation of Mediatic Violence (2008)
- upcoming: pr0nnotivation? Arse Elektronika Anthology (2008)
[edit] Quotes
- ^ Talk at Chaos Communication Congress Berlin 2007 (23C3)
- ^ Talk at O'Reilly ETech (2008)
- ^ Talk at SXSWi (2008)
- ^ Talk at Maker Faire Bay Area (2008)
- ^ Violet Blue: Arse Elektronika 2007: Porn and Tech Conference, In: San Francisco Gate
- ^ Interview with Geek Entertainment TV at Hope Conference
