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Philipp Ehmann

A young transdisciplinary artist from Austria, focusing on the relationship between audience, performer and art engagement. Public, virtual, private and mediated space, as well as playful interactions make up the core elements of his work.

His last commission was “Mum’s The Word” for the Exeter Fringe Festival – a pervasive playful episodic performance spanning the entire city and festival.

Markus »fin« Hametner

Structured procrastinator by trade. Connects science & politics, art & technology, organization & engineering.

Has successfully delegated the chase of multiple hundreds of players through Vienna, Berlin and Austin, TX.

Simon Repp

Designer and producer of diverse (and often generative) media; currently explores dark alleys and hidden places in vienna for his cinematic diploma project at the university of applied arts vienna.

Can also be met staging performances at street games or rocking out on stage with his band.

Johannes Grenzfurthner & monochrom

Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group. He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria. He is head of the "Arse Elektronika" festival in San Francisco, host of "Roboexotica" (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics, Vienna and San Francisco), and co-curates the Paraflows Symposium in Vienna. He is currently working on his first feature film "Sierra Zulu."

Günther Friesinger lives in Vienna and Graz; he’s a philosopher, university lecturer, artist, free-lance media producer, curator and journalist; organizer of the paraflows Festival for Digital Art and Cultures in Vienna, the Arse Elektronika Festival and the Roboexotica Festival; tag cloud: contemporary art, activism, performance, media theory, cultural studies, science fiction, free software and copyright.

monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group, founded in 1993. Our offices are located at Museumsquartier/Vienna (at ‘QDK’). monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, political activism and context hacking.