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Exotic Cocktail Robots and Vienna Sausages with monochrom

Posted in GETV Episode by ekai on the September 6th, 2006

While recently in New York City for HOPE2006, we caught up with Johannes, the main instigator of the Austrian based art-technology-philosophy group called monochrom. Johannes explains Roboexotica, an annual competition and expo for robots that serve cocktails to humans. Is this all a sausage party or is there real meat behind all this? Come find out.

Episode links: monochrom, Roboexotica, HOPE6, Cocktailbot1, Cocktailbot2, Cocktailbot3, Cigbot, Sausage Party, Let’s Network It Out

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  1. Francisco said,

    on September 6th, 2006 at 8:07 pm

    Pleasant guy, really well mannered. He was all jumpy from eating sugared buns but he never ran out of steam talking about Monochrom’s projects. I think my favorite was their helping out a “nationless’ artist (a dissident sponsors couldn’t help) get his country back with borrowed letters at an international salon. The artist had his country of origin label removed by the exhibitor but Monochrom networked to get various artists to pitch in and donate letters. 😉

  2. torren said,

    on September 6th, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    Yeah, monochrom’s Georg Paul Thomann!

    The whole story can be found here:
    http://www.monochrom.at/thomann/georgpaulthomann—monochrom.txt
    and here
    http://www.monochrom.at/thomann

  3. rego said,

    on September 7th, 2006 at 12:18 am

    Real gentlemen geek entertainer!

  4. torren said,

    on September 7th, 2006 at 12:28 am

    @francisco: here is the story:
    http://www.monochrom.at/thomann/georgpaulthomann—monochrom.txt
    htp://www.monochrom.at/thomann

  5. torren said,

    on September 7th, 2006 at 12:33 am

    ??? the comment tool converted the three hyphens, now the link doesn’t work… seems i have to use tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/fqzlb

  6. Homie Bear said,

    on September 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pm

    I hope they build a giant robot shogun warrior/evangelion type of robot toi serve cocktails. That would be soooo cool.

  7. Matija "hook" Å uklje said,

    on September 8th, 2006 at 4:15 am

    Shoutout to MonoChrome from CyberPipe!! 😀

    Great too see you on GETV.

    Here’s a presentation the MonoChrome guys had in CyberPipe:
    http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/IZVEN_monochrom/play.html

  8. Matija "hook" Å uklje said,

    on September 9th, 2006 at 7:11 am

    Ye gods! Sorry for the typos …it was a very tough sleepless week (it still is actually)

  9. Laughing Squid » Roboexotica 2006 said,

    on November 25th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

    […] Check out the Geek Entertainment TV interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner where he talks about monochrom and Roboexotica. photo credit: Jacob Appelbaum tags: monochrom (T) , V. Vale (T) , robots (T) , Jacob Appelbaum (T) , Violet Blue (T) , Kal Spelletich (T) , David Calkins (T) , Simone Davalos (T) , Eddie Codel (T) , Karen Marcelo (T) , Johannes Grenzfurthner (T) , Vienna (T) , Jonathan Moore (T) , Roboexotica (T) , Museumsquartier (T) , cocktail robot (T) , SHIFZ (T) , Bureau of Philosophy (T) , Roboexotica 2006 (T) Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]