TEDxVienna-Johannes Grenzfurthner-On how to subvert subversion

Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder 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 gave talks at SXSWi, O'Reilly ETech, FooCamp, Maker Faire, HOPE, Chaos Communication Congress, Google (Tech Talks), ROFLCon, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Influencers or the Neoteny Camp Singapore.?He and his project have been featured in New York Times, Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, Reuters, Slashdot, Boing Boing, LA Times, NPR, ZDF, Gizmodo, Wired, Süddeutsche Zeitung, CNet or the Toronto Star. Recurring topics in Johannes' artistic and textual work are contemporary art, activism, performance, humor, philosophy, postmodernism, media theory, cultural studies, sex tech, popular culture studies, science fiction, and the debate about copyright.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxVienna, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxVienna event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

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[leafwatch]

Excellent work; pulling the plug on the art establishment and its favored courtiers.

[1noen1]

"They wanted to provoke a reaction." -- Also known as a troll.

[grenzfurthner]

@HK379: That will take some more time... but we are working on something big concerning the Soviets...

[HK379]

@grenzfurthner

When is "sector 3 " comming out .. :) I can not wait .

[grenzfurthner]

@HK379: Nikita Persotek Chrusov... to be precise.

[HK379]

Where is Nikita Kruchov ... ? this guy sucks ....

[abarro2]

amazing

[LIGHTRONIX]

I watched the whole video and it didn't make any sense to me.

[mrpostal]

@WGRZCWP this is why I love the Internet. It's brilliant at analysing things. also, overanalysing.

If you're running an event of any sort, the last thing you would be doing or even have time for is planting little artist traps hoping that a bunch of austrian smartarses to spot it and 'subvert' it. most of the time you'd just be trying to make picky people happy, so they don't complain (and judging by the pickiness of one entrant above), so you can get a shitload of money for doing it next year.