Johannes Grenzfurthner is a multifaceted creative individual, encompassing the roles of filmmaker, writer, artist, and performer. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally recognized art and theory group, and the founder of movie production company monochrom Propulsion Systems.
As a filmmaker, Johannes explores themes of subversion, technology, nerd culture, politics, and the challenges of life in 21st century capitalism through his documentary features, such as "Traceroute" (2016) and "Glossary of Broken Dreams" (2018),as well as his horror films, including "Masking Threshold" (2021) and "Razzennest" (2022).
He is a prominent researcher in the field of sexuality and technology, and one of the founders of the concept of 'techno-hedonism'. Johannes is the head of several prominent festivals, including "Arse Elektronika" (sex and tech festival) in San Francisco, "Hedonistika" (food tech festival) in Montréal and Tel Aviv, and "Roboexotica" (Festival for Cocktail-Robotics) in Vienna.
Johannes has given talks at numerous prestigious events, including Fantastic Fest, SXSWi, O'Reilly ETech, FooCamp, Maker Faire, HOPE, Chaos Communication Congress, Google (Tech Talks),ROFLCon, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Influencers, Mozilla Drumbeat Barcelona, Neoteny Camp Singapore, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
His work and projects have been featured in prominent media outlets such as The New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Liberation, Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, Reuters, Slashdot, Playboy, Boing Boing, New Scientist, The Edge, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, ZDF, Gizmodo, io9, Wired, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, and CNet, among others.
Johannes' artistic and textual work spans various disciplines, including 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.
