monochrom presents:
++TAUGSHOW #7++
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 / 8:30 PM
The flat hierarchies of talk shows are about as subversive as
NYC Democrats smoking dope. But count us out! We won't produce
a talk show. Nope. We produce a TAUGSHOW! Which means: we dig
it. Our guests are geeks, heretics, and other coevals. A joyful
bucket full of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture,
self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair, condensed into
the well known cultural technique of a prime time TV show.
[taugen; Viennese slang: to dig/love/adore something]
Host: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Content Manager: Roland Gratzer
Location: dietheater/Konzerthaus, Lothrinerstraße, Vienna.
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/// RYOSUKE TEI
(Interpreter: Silvia Groniewicz)
Ryosuke Tei is the Creative Director of Furi Furi Company. Tei-san
founded Furi Furi Company in 1998, and is the creator of Girls
Power Manifest and the Bash figure series, as well as the innovative
RPG Giftpia for the Nintendo Gamecube in Japan. He is considered
to be one of Japan's most important figures in the character and
game design scene. He was president of Furi Furi Company from
1998 to March 2004. By focusing on character & graphic design
as the core, he covers all the media that connect to this core:
planning, designing, direction, etc.
Established in 1998,"Furi Furi Company" is a personal,
professional design team based in Tokyo. They cover every aspect
of design from consulting and planning to media promotion. Their
charm is in the creation of POP, CUTE, VIVID, and UNIQUE characters
that appeal to a broad range of people. These characters that
break through the language barrier have been expanded and disseminated
worldwide.
They have received high praise in many fields including merchandising,
advertising, games, and other medias. Through their works, they
will make everyone HAPPY.
Tei is currently Subotron Artist in Residence.
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/// ANINITE SPECIAL
The AniNite is the largest festival of Japanese pop culture held
in Austria. The 6th festival so far took place August 25th - August
27th 2006. The annual event is considered to be an established
venue for Austrian and international fans and sympathisers of
Japanese pop culture. The AniNite provides an interesting and
varied three-day-agenda, including Anime screenings, costume-role
play competition, various workshops and contests, Manga and video
games, and shopping opportunities.
The AniNite is run by AniManga Austria, an umbrella society of
Austrian Anime and Manga clubs. Next year the AniManga events
will include workshops for Manga artists, film screenings and
the preview event Ani'Lite' in spring for the main event AniNite'07
in August.
Festival: www.AniNite.at
Forum: www.AnimeBoard.at
Society: www.AniManga.at
+ SILVIA GRONIEWICZ: Born in Vienna with no
real goal in life except reading books, many books. That changed
when she watched a Japanese show she was taping for her boyfriend.
Now, 9 years later, she's absolutely obsessed with Japan and works
for a Japanese company.
+ RICHARD PYRKER: In charge of public relations
for the digital culture festival [d]vision and AniManga. He talks
about Japanese pop culture events in Austria.
+ AYA and SCHU: Two female Cosplayers talk about their obsession
and will present their newest creation.
What is Cosplay? Cosplay, a contraction of the English words "costume"
and "play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing
as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and,
less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy
movies, or Japanese pop music bands.
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/// DAVID DEMPSEY
Interna(tiona)l Reflections: a low altitude flyover of the small
dark spiegelkammer of the soul.
David Dempsey is an ADDled informationmaniac who has replaced
his mostly dysfunctional long-term memory with the web and small
electronic thingies. Despite massive incomprehension of any concepts
that can be described using the terms modern, post modern, or
mildly clever, he has found a happy and comfortable existence
as a media monkey for an Austrian radio station, where he is occasionally
paid for providing commentary on the frequently brutal stupidity
of his native country.
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/// EDDIE CODEL @ HAT FACTORY, SF
A video message comes to you from Eddie Codel inside the infamous
Hat Factory in San Francisco, Kalifornia, Untied States of Ameerika.
Quote: “I take you on a short tour of this thriving center
of culture, leisure and humanity that I call my home. The Hat
Factory building is known as the oldest live/work loft space in
San Francisco, which places it squarely in the prehistoric early
1990's”. Eddie fancies himself as a video producer, making
videos generally of other people talking about themselves or their
big ideas. You can find out more about him at his personal site,
eddie.com or on his geek video site, geekentertainment.tv.
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/// Regulars:
EVELYN FÜRLINGER, MA.
Semantics, syllables, and sounds.
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/// Showband:
PETER NATTERER AND INGMAR VERSOLMANN
Two masters of Viennese groove kitchen present their jazzy blend
of sax and live-effects served on a well balanced, hot style mix
of electronic beats and sounds.
Peter Natterer: Tenor Saxophone, Effects
Ingmar Vesolmann: Laptop, Percussion
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/// MONOCHROM
Taugshow is a project by monochrom. But what is monochrom?
monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing
with technology, art, context hacking, and philosophy which was
founded in 1993. They specialize in an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic
fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, and political
activism. Their mission is conducted everywhere, but first and
foremost "in culture-archaeological digs into the seats (and
pockets) of ideology and entertainment."
Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming
project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets
of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles,
buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies
of the art system with the Thomann Project. In Austria they ate
blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize
the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes
they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and they
have hosted the first annual festival concerned with cocktail
robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography
as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. They
also do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet
theater, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering, and -
sorry to mention - modern dance.
More infos:
wikipedia
monochrom
