Johannes Grenzfurthner

Johannes Grenzfurthner (Austrian German: [joˈhanɛs ˈɡrɛntsfʊrtnɐ]; born 1975 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company. Most of his artworks are labeled monochrom. Grenzfurthner is an outspoken researcher in subversive and underground culture, for example the field of sexuality and technology, and one of the founders of "techno-hedonism". He established the concept of "context hacking". Boing Boing magazine referred to Grenzfurthner as leitnerd, a wordplay with the German term Leitkultur that ironically hints at Grenzfurthner's role in nerdart culture. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly describes him as a "constant" in the hacker world and situates his work as a key part of a subversive "ecosystem" of creativity. As a filmmaker, he is regarded as a key representative of the Austrian New Wave. His films operate at the intersection of genre filmmaking, extreme cinema, and essayistic documentary, frequently addressing questions of technology, ideology, and subculture.