Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 8 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Humans are storytelling beings. From the moment the primordial ooze Mendelized itself into something like consciousness, we have been telling yarns: about the harvest, about the Gods, about the giant cats that wanted to eat us. But - for fuck's sake! - hackers are bad storytellers. Misunderstood by the media (and we're not even talking about the mainstream press!), ripped apart by their own peers, often incomprehensible and boring. But <em>whhhhyyyy???</em> What's going on in the hackersphere is probably shaping the future of our civilization. Narratology refers to both the theory and the study of narrative, and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. You should come and listen, because it might save our movement - and more.
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Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an award-winning director, artist, writer, and researcher. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Durango, Colorado in the USA. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally-acting art and theory group. He likes to engage in "urban hacking", or, more specifically, "context hacking", a term that Grenzfurthner coined. He directed the dark sci-fi comedy Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl, the feature documentary Traceroute, and is currently working on several other movie projects (Tycho!, Sierra Zulu, Nothing To Hide). He is one of the most outspoken researchers in the field of sexuality and technology, and one of the founders of "techno-hedonism". He is head of Arse Elektronika (sex and tech festival) in San Francisco, Hedonistika (food tech festival in Montreal and Tel Aviv), and host of Roboexotica (festival for cocktail-robotics) in Vienna. He teaches art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria, and is a lecturer on culture jamming at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.
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