Johannes Grenzfurthner is an award-winning artist, writer, 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, and is a lecturer on culture jamming at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.Grenzfurthner is head of the “Arse Elektronika” sex and tech festival in San Francisco and the “Hedonistika” food tech festival in Montréal and Tel Aviv, and host of “Roboexotica” (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) in Vienna.He directed the dark sci-fi comedy “Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” and his other projects have been featured in The New York Times, Reuters , Playboy, New Scientist, Wired and more.
Johannes’ artistic and textual work are contemporary art, activism, performance, humor, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, sex tech, popular culture studies, subversion, science fiction and the debate about copyright and intellectual property.