TedxVienna - Johannes Grenzfurthner - Sierra Zulu

http://www.tedxvienna.at/
http://www.facebook.com/tedxvienna

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.
http://www.monochrom.at/
http://www.sierra-zulu.com/

About TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

http://www.tedxvienna.at/
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• TedxVienna
• TED
• monochrom
• sierra zulu
• johannes grenzfurthner
• arash t. riahi
• mark mothersbaugh
• aaron muszalski
• golden girls film produktion
• Soviet Unterzoegersdorf
• austria
• english
• drama
• film
• performance
• entertainment
• 2011

[oldahe]

Wasnt it all about "Ideas worth spreading?" This really sounds like nothing more than a sales pitch...

[oldahe]

meh



[funkycoder1]

wow this sounds way larger than I anticipated, let's hope it can retain the Monochrom-ness (and the Yes Men cameo better be good, you won't match them in the CGI department, that's for sure)

[peterpan6]

@grenzfurthner What you just said now makes much more sense to me. I think somehow the pitch is misleading because its on TED and it seams you're talking about some radial new way to approach cinema. But what you are really trying to do is tell what your movie is about and how that story and the way of telling is relevant in this day and age. Maybe you needed to frame your needs for a pitch with TED's needs for a lecture? In any case I hope your film get made.

[butternichtrama]

excellent talk! hope you can make the film!

[grenzfurthner]

@peterpan6: Oh, thanks for completely misunderstanding me. We are trying to create a classic narrative movie, but playing with the abstract stories of information society. It's not about form, it's about content.

Of course we can need money, but the main goal is to find people who share our approach.

[peterpan6]

isnt this just a pitch for a cinema film with no/little budget? Why on earth is this on TED? And if Johannes thinks cinema is defined by explosions and kissing we should expect a low budget Michael bay film.

[grenzfurthner]

@Boltgrinder: Excellent! Fight the military-entertainment complex!

[Boltgrinder]

Probably the most sedate talk by Johannes I've ever seen.