[00:00.000 --> 00:01.040]  Thank you very much.
[00:02.360 --> 00:10.540]  Actually, I think I'm the only speaker today and Roland is sitting somewhere there and having a good time listening to me once again.
[00:11.200 --> 00:15.920]  Okay, my name is Johannes Grenzfurthner, but forget about that.
[00:16.840 --> 00:24.640]  I'm part of monochrom, a collective from Vienna, Austria, a long way over the Atlantic.
[00:24.640 --> 00:36.300]  And basically we are on a small tour through North America and maybe that picture says a lot of North America.
[00:36.420 --> 00:37.960]  We took it two days ago in Philadelphia.
[00:38.400 --> 00:40.340]  We are the people under construction.
[00:43.640 --> 00:51.280]  And monochrom basically thought about a nice title for today's talk or talk gala or whatever we call it.
[00:51.280 --> 00:55.840]  And first we thought maybe we'd call it No Power for Theory and or Practice.
[00:56.200 --> 00:57.940]  And then we thought, no, that's not a good title.
[00:58.260 --> 01:01.260]  Maybe we should call it There's Something Rotten in the State of Argentina.
[01:02.780 --> 01:10.200]  Maybe there's a lot of rotten in the state of Argentina if we talk about new liberal politics nowadays, but not a good title for today.
[01:10.200 --> 01:13.520]  Okay, so maybe I never promised you a Roswell report.
[01:14.560 --> 01:15.880]  Maybe that's a good title.
[01:15.980 --> 01:16.160]  No.
[01:16.980 --> 01:18.580]  Maybe entropy in the UK.
[01:18.980 --> 01:24.240]  But we are in the wrong, like, country.
[01:24.540 --> 01:24.680]  Okay.
[01:25.200 --> 01:26.380]  Maybe that's good.
[01:26.720 --> 01:27.960]  New German dark wafers.
[01:28.120 --> 01:29.060]  We're gonna find you.
[01:31.160 --> 01:32.860]  Any German dark wafers here?
[01:33.660 --> 01:34.880]  Well, I thought that.
[01:35.740 --> 01:39.340]  So, or maybe, Jesus loves you more than you will know.
[01:39.640 --> 01:40.680]  Woo, woo, woo.
[01:42.500 --> 01:43.740]  Maybe a bad title too.
[01:44.000 --> 01:49.560]  But actually, our good Roland Grazo sitting back there is constantly waiting for the second coming.
[01:49.680 --> 01:52.400]  So maybe if he sees Jesus, he could actually shout out loud.
[01:52.600 --> 01:52.700]  Okay?
[01:53.140 --> 01:59.240]  So, but then we thought maybe the best title would be, We are great together, the liberal society and its enemies.
[01:59.500 --> 02:04.020]  And I think that's maybe a good statement about the United States of America.
[02:04.020 --> 02:04.560]  Okay.
[02:04.800 --> 02:06.640]  First of all, what do we do?
[02:06.800 --> 02:12.680]  We are a collective of scientists, artists, people dealing with technology, whatever.
[02:13.800 --> 02:15.380]  And monochrom is our name.
[02:15.600 --> 02:18.640]  And we thought we are at a hackers convention here.
[02:18.800 --> 02:23.240]  We thought maybe we present ourselves with a nice, like, cyber art picture.
[02:23.480 --> 02:25.500]  And we thought maybe about this one.
[02:25.500 --> 02:28.960]  I think it gets the feeling a little bit better what we are doing.
[02:28.960 --> 02:38.040]  And I'd like to tell you a couple of anecdotes, so as long as I have time, about projects we did in the last couple of years.
[02:38.340 --> 02:44.440]  And I'd like to start with a project with the title Georg Paul Thoman.
[02:45.540 --> 02:56.360]  Because, I mean, basically, I think we are invited here to hope, because we do a lot of projects in the sector of, let's call it culture jamming, or I would call it context hacking, okay?
[02:56.780 --> 03:10.260]  So, a couple of years ago, in the year 2001, we have been invited by a curator from Slovenia to participate in a really, really big art event in Sao Paulo.
[03:10.400 --> 03:12.120]  It was called the Biennial of Sao Paulo.
[03:12.300 --> 03:22.240]  And the Biennial of Sao Paulo, for you who don't know anything about, like, big art superstructures, the Biennial in Sao Paulo is like the third biggest art event in the world.
[03:22.400 --> 03:28.400]  There's the documentary in Kassel, there's the Venice Biennial in Venice, and then there's the Biennial in Sao Paulo in the Thousand Hemisphere.
[03:28.660 --> 03:40.520]  And basically, we were invited as monochrom, as a group, we were really highly surprised about that, to represent the Republic of Austria at this big art event.
[03:40.820 --> 03:48.360]  And then we thought about it, I mean, representing Austria, actually, we didn't want to do that at all.
[03:49.220 --> 03:54.600]  Basically, because there was a big political shift in the year 2000 in Austria.
[03:54.820 --> 04:00.940]  So, the Conservative Party teamed up in a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party.
[04:00.940 --> 04:06.660]  So, it was a really, really messy, extremely conservative government, and it's still working nowadays.
[04:06.980 --> 04:16.300]  And so, it said, we don't want to represent this country with this, like, let's call it government, somewhere in the world.
[04:16.580 --> 04:20.580]  But, we had the idea to, maybe we could do something about that.
[04:21.140 --> 04:25.320]  And then we had the idea, not going there ourselves, but sending somebody else there.
[04:25.440 --> 04:28.760]  So, we could actually, we have been chosen to do the task.
[04:29.000 --> 04:31.840]  So, we said, okay, we want that Georg Paul Thoman goes there.
[04:32.520 --> 04:37.080]  And Georg Paul Thoman was 57 years by that date.
[04:37.080 --> 04:40.180]  He was, like, a big Austrian avant-garde artist.
[04:40.280 --> 04:41.540]  He did a lot of work.
[04:41.740 --> 04:44.080]  He even worked together with Survival Research Labs.
[04:44.240 --> 04:46.960]  And he wrote the first German cyberpunk short story.
[04:47.420 --> 04:49.900]  And a lot of stuff in Viennese actionism.
[04:50.240 --> 04:51.940]  And pretty, pretty famous guy.
[04:52.440 --> 04:57.300]  And many people were really like, yeah, Georg Paul Thoman goes to the Biennial for Austria.
[04:57.340 --> 04:58.520]  That's excellent.
[04:58.740 --> 05:01.540]  And many newspapers wrote about it and stuff like that.
[05:03.060 --> 05:05.440]  But, basically, Georg Paul Thoman doesn't exist.
[05:05.440 --> 05:07.380]  So, we made him up.
[05:07.560 --> 05:09.900]  He's an art avatar, let's call him, okay?
[05:10.560 --> 05:13.900]  So, most of the time, we wrote his biography.
[05:13.900 --> 05:20.500]  And it grew about 500 pages of biography and about all the things Georg Paul Thoman did.
[05:20.800 --> 05:32.340]  That's really interesting, because we could cram all the information about the last 40 years of pop culture and the last 40 years of art history and societal history.
[05:32.340 --> 05:39.740]  We could cram all of this together in this, like, condensed version and call it Georg Paul Thoman and what Georg Paul Thoman did.
[05:39.980 --> 05:42.760]  Actually, there's Günther Friesinger and he has the book.
[05:42.900 --> 05:44.220]  Yeah, give it, give it to the people.
[05:45.600 --> 05:46.040]  Okay.
[05:46.500 --> 05:47.400]  I show it.
[05:47.500 --> 05:50.440]  It's a really, really thick book.
[05:50.580 --> 05:54.780]  And, actually, nobody realized that Georg Paul Thoman didn't exist.
[05:55.040 --> 05:56.440]  Nobody researched about it.
[05:56.460 --> 05:58.520]  So, we went to the Biennial in Sao Paulo.
[05:58.520 --> 06:01.280]  And the interesting part, and that's everywhere in the world.
[06:01.540 --> 06:03.260]  Is it, like, in big companies?
[06:03.420 --> 06:04.660]  Is it in art structures?
[06:04.820 --> 06:05.100]  Wherever.
[06:05.380 --> 06:07.140]  There is a clear hierarchy.
[06:07.380 --> 06:08.760]  So, it's all about hierarchies.
[06:08.880 --> 06:13.380]  Even if the hierarchies are really flat, but a flat hierarchy still is a hierarchy.
[06:14.840 --> 06:16.620]  And so, we came there.
[06:16.700 --> 06:22.140]  And the problem was, for ourselves, and that was good, that we weren't the artists there.
[06:22.140 --> 06:25.520]  We just were the technical support team of Georg Paul Thoman.
[06:25.520 --> 06:31.940]  So, we nailed, and we did, and we hang up his stupid paintings, and all the stuff.
[06:33.520 --> 06:34.520]  That's him, actually.
[06:36.880 --> 06:39.560]  And, that's a wonderful artwork he did.
[06:39.720 --> 06:44.700]  It's called, Material Study with Scanned Photo of Self in a Beer Mood and Photoshop Crystalization Filter.
[06:47.740 --> 06:48.220]  Okay.
[06:48.460 --> 06:49.620]  So, we were there.
[06:49.760 --> 06:53.020]  We were the technical support team, and we were, like, the bottom of the hierarchy.
[06:53.080 --> 06:53.660]  You can imagine.
[06:53.660 --> 06:55.500]  There's, like, the Administration Board.
[06:55.640 --> 06:56.980]  There's the top Curators.
[06:57.220 --> 06:57.890]  There's the curators.
[06:58.320 --> 06:59.000]  the top Artists.
[06:59.120 --> 06:59.620]  Artists.
[07:00.360 --> 07:01.120]  More Artists.
[07:01.260 --> 07:01.900]  More Artists.
[07:03.120 --> 07:04.300]  Technical support team.
[07:04.720 --> 07:07.980]  And even below the technical support teams are the art guides.
[07:08.260 --> 07:10.780]  So, the people showing people around and explaining them.
[07:10.940 --> 07:14.660]  So, it was a really important task, even, like, in modern art and contemporary art.
[07:14.840 --> 07:16.960]  But that's really the bottom line of the hierarchy.
[07:17.240 --> 07:19.860]  So, we were sitting there, and nobody talked to us.
[07:19.960 --> 07:20.460]  They're calling,
[07:24.340 --> 07:28.760]  And we just said to them, yeah, he's sitting in his hotel room and watching the porn channel, so we don't...
[07:28.760 --> 07:31.400]  I mean, we are just a technical support team, you know?
[07:32.520 --> 07:36.400]  But we had an interesting idea because we wanted to flip the hierarchies a little bit.
[07:37.040 --> 07:46.900]  We had the idea to tell the people in the other technical support teams and the people from the art guides to basically tell them the whole story.
[07:46.900 --> 07:51.780]  So we didn't tell them you are not allowed to talk about the fake and to talk about the project.
[07:51.940 --> 07:57.060]  So it's up to you, it's your free will, you can tell whomever you like, whatever you like.
[07:57.340 --> 08:04.200]  And that was really interesting because all over this like big, big art event, the bubbles of rumours started.
[08:04.480 --> 08:06.360]  Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble.
[08:06.900 --> 08:08.200]  Yeah, he's here.
[08:08.300 --> 08:08.460]  What?
[08:08.560 --> 08:09.600]  He's watching the porn channel?
[08:09.740 --> 08:10.040]  Oh no.
[08:11.400 --> 08:13.660]  It was a real, real big mess.
[08:13.660 --> 08:20.540]  An interesting anecdote was that we wanted to get our art catalogues with the picture of Georg Paul Thoman and stuff like that.
[08:20.660 --> 08:23.900]  So we went to the clerk to get the catalogues.
[08:23.960 --> 08:25.940]  And the clerk said, actually, are you Georg Paul Thoman?
[08:26.060 --> 08:27.480]  And I said, no, I'm not Georg Paul Thoman.
[08:27.700 --> 08:29.020]  Georg Paul Thoman is a fake.
[08:29.160 --> 08:30.100]  And he said, what?
[08:30.660 --> 08:31.520]  He's a fake?
[08:31.740 --> 08:32.760]  Fake artist here?
[08:32.900 --> 08:33.780]  No, no, no.
[08:33.880 --> 08:35.300]  You don't get any catalogues.
[08:35.480 --> 08:37.300]  So we didn't get any catalogues.
[08:37.440 --> 08:38.080]  Okay, fine.
[08:40.320 --> 08:44.580]  But the rumours turned, the bubble bursted.
[08:44.940 --> 08:48.400]  And there was an interesting thing because basically we are leftists.
[08:48.520 --> 08:51.240]  We are leftist political group actually, art group.
[08:51.800 --> 08:54.500]  So we think a lot about solidarity.
[08:56.780 --> 09:05.080]  How can there be a new form of solidarity in a global societal and capitalist system that is totally against solidarity?
[09:06.240 --> 09:09.520]  So we think a lot about stuff like that.
[09:09.680 --> 09:24.720]  And there was an interesting incident at this biennial that next to our art cube, you know, like the commodity value of an artist, there's a small white cube and a small white cube and a small white cube and a small white cube and there's people sitting in there.
[09:24.840 --> 09:28.060]  And they are working like Coca-Cola cans.
[09:29.920 --> 09:37.500]  And next to our white cube was the white cube of the official representative of Taiwan, Chen Chi-Chang.
[09:37.660 --> 09:40.400]  Basically he is from New York where he is now living in New York.
[09:41.000 --> 09:43.040]  And Chen Chi-Chang had a strange problem.
[09:43.200 --> 09:51.300]  Just two or three days before the opening of the event, the big event, somebody had removed his country's name tag.
[09:51.520 --> 09:54.640]  So there were like adhesive letters on the outside of each white cube.
[09:54.640 --> 09:59.340]  And on the Austrian white cube there was Georg Paul Thurman, Austria.
[09:59.660 --> 10:02.340]  And on his white cube there was Chen Chi-Chang, Taiwan.
[10:02.840 --> 10:09.200]  And the Taiwan was removed and replaced by Taipei Museum of Fine Arts.
[10:09.360 --> 10:11.260]  So the museum that represented him there.
[10:12.780 --> 10:21.520]  So he was really upset about that because he did a really critical piece of art, political piece of art about mental asylums in Taiwan.
[10:21.520 --> 10:25.420]  And they are like really strange and inhuman and stuff like that.
[10:26.220 --> 10:30.640]  So he really wanted to represent Taiwan and criticize Taiwan by that way.
[10:30.880 --> 10:35.220]  So he was upset and he talked to people in the government, in the administration.
[10:36.000 --> 10:37.940]  And nobody could tell him anything.
[10:38.200 --> 10:42.360]  And so he wrote an open letter and he was really pissed and actually wanted to leave the biennial.
[10:42.360 --> 10:48.160]  And then we found out about, like he sent out an open letter to all the other artists and we saw it.
[10:48.300 --> 10:50.240]  And then we went to him and asked him what happened.
[10:50.460 --> 10:55.640]  And we did a little bit of research and then we found out that China made a lot of troubles.
[10:56.120 --> 11:00.160]  Because China doesn't accept Taiwan as a single country, one China policy.
[11:00.160 --> 11:05.780]  So China basically said, okay, we are leaving or Taiwan is leaving.
[11:06.020 --> 11:09.800]  And then the administration said, okay, we don't want to China or Taiwan leave.
[11:09.900 --> 11:17.120]  So we just remove Taiwan and still can stay without the name tag actually.
[11:17.700 --> 11:27.260]  So we thought, okay, there's like this big diplomatic battle behind the scenes between like China and Taiwan and the administration.
[11:27.260 --> 11:35.200]  And so we had the idea to somehow support Chen Zichang or to a form of solidarity campaign.
[11:35.940 --> 11:40.700]  And we, basically that was Thoman's exhibition.
[11:41.160 --> 11:48.320]  So Georg Paul Thoman, Austria, removed, we removed the tea from Austria and donated it to Taiwan.
[11:49.020 --> 11:53.340]  And then we, Austria, wonderful.
[11:54.160 --> 11:58.980]  And you see T-A-I, the I was from Puerto Rico.
[12:00.740 --> 12:01.620]  And Canada.
[12:02.240 --> 12:04.520]  And I said, hey, come on Canadians, you have three A's.
[12:04.740 --> 12:07.700]  You can, you can give me, you can give me an A, come on.
[12:09.040 --> 12:15.000]  And we got the A and finally we managed to make like Taiwan on the outside of the cube.
[12:15.400 --> 12:17.820]  The W is a little bit, it was a little problematic.
[12:17.820 --> 12:23.120]  We couldn't get a W, but we were like, really like, we are artists, we are creative.
[12:23.460 --> 12:27.120]  So like an O can turn a W sometimes.
[12:27.820 --> 12:33.440]  So Chen Zichang was highly like, he was really like, he really liked it.
[12:33.500 --> 12:34.600]  So he stayed at the Biennial.
[12:34.820 --> 12:41.980]  And many, many Taiwanese and even American newspapers came and did pictures and interviewed Chen Zichang.
[12:41.980 --> 12:49.640]  And just like, I think three or four days later, there was a couple of headlines in Taiwanese and even Chinese newspapers.
[12:49.900 --> 12:54.180]  And there was a really great headline in the Taipei Times.
[12:54.420 --> 12:58.260]  It was Austrian artist Georg Paul Thoman saves Taiwan.
[13:01.120 --> 13:04.220]  So I think that's as radical as postmodernism can get.
[13:04.220 --> 13:07.420]  So a non-existing artist saves a non-existing country.
[13:09.620 --> 13:18.360]  Yeah, there are a lot of anecdotes about the life and times of Georg Paul Thoman or like art probe or art history probe, let's call it.
[13:18.780 --> 13:22.620]  And, but we killed him last year in 2005, I want to believe.
[13:23.020 --> 13:27.000]  He's buried in a small, small village in Tyrol in Austria.
[13:27.240 --> 13:31.280]  And we organized all of it and like in a park and there's the tombstone.
[13:31.280 --> 13:34.840]  It's actually the only tombstone in the world with an engraved URL on it.
[13:36.060 --> 13:37.880]  Monochrom.at slash tombman.
[13:40.340 --> 13:42.200]  And it was really fine.
[13:42.480 --> 13:47.420]  He actually died on the 21st of July, you know, moon landing and stuff.
[13:47.580 --> 13:55.280]  And, but we did it together with a couple of interesting folks in this small village.
[13:55.280 --> 14:08.640]  And like a couple of months later, the people who helped us organize the burial, the funeral, they called us and they told us on the phone that the tombstone had to be removed.
[14:08.860 --> 14:11.640]  And I asked them, but it was all like setted with the mayor.
[14:11.900 --> 14:14.240]  And so why is the tombstone gone now?
[14:14.240 --> 14:26.220]  And they said basically like next to this park where the tombstone is, there is like, there's a hospital for, for, for people with nervous illnesses and like mental illnesses.
[14:26.660 --> 14:34.720]  So, and many, many of those patients from this hospital went to Georg Paul Thoman, prayed for him, laid down flowers.
[14:34.720 --> 14:35.540]  You can see them there.
[14:36.820 --> 14:41.160]  And were highly upset about the dead Georg Paul Thoman there.
[14:41.360 --> 14:46.720]  So, the head of the hospital said, the non-existing dead artist has to be removed.
[14:47.980 --> 14:54.760]  So, he was removed and now finally he could stop to non-exist somehow.
[14:55.100 --> 14:56.940]  So, I don't know where the tombstone now is.
[14:57.060 --> 15:03.220]  I think it's laying around somewhere in this tiny little town of Hall in Tyrol, if you should go there sometime.
[15:03.220 --> 15:03.860]  Okay.
[15:04.100 --> 15:09.160]  That was the first story of my talk about Georg Paul Thoman.
[15:09.420 --> 15:11.080]  You actually have to tell me when I have to stop.
[15:11.240 --> 15:12.860]  I don't have a clue about time.
[15:15.960 --> 15:23.760]  And maybe, yeah, maybe I should stop talking and show you a short film, a short film we did a couple of years ago.
[15:23.880 --> 15:24.820]  It's called Me.
[15:25.380 --> 15:33.310]  And I think it should start in German with English subtitles.
[15:33.590 --> 15:33.710]  Sorry.
[15:33.710 --> 15:37.510]  I had for about five years an accident.
[15:38.790 --> 15:42.310]  My wife and I, we wanted to renovate our house.
[15:42.470 --> 15:45.590]  And I have a good friend of mine invited me to help us.
[15:45.590 --> 15:46.510]  And we wanted to help us.
[15:46.550 --> 15:57.050]  And so, we wanted to do that on a Sunday night, the house facade, also the old Verputs, to run out and cut off.
[15:57.290 --> 16:00.670]  And here is a relatively big piece of my heart on the top.
[16:01.550 --> 16:04.590]  Since then I have a severe neurologic defect.
[16:06.790 --> 16:11.510]  And that's the last one.
[16:13.730 --> 16:20.430]  And that's the one of my friends, who told me, I should be careful.
[16:21.810 --> 16:25.910]  And this one I see from now, from time to time.
[16:26.230 --> 16:27.390]  And that's just this one.
[16:28.190 --> 16:43.990]  In fact, I broke up the contact with my friend and I had no longer attracted to my friend, because I had a nervousness, with his stature in my face, and having a constant contact with him.
[16:44.230 --> 16:48.190]  I have a nervousness, because I had no longer been able to get through.
[16:49.430 --> 16:52.610]  And I was psychologically a bit too unstable.
[16:53.810 --> 17:06.030]  I visited various nerve clinics and went to the search of doctors who helped me with my problems.
[17:09.330 --> 17:11.590]  It had nothing to do with everything.
[17:11.850 --> 17:17.310]  I found out how I can change the situation.
[17:17.310 --> 17:20.110]  I can change it a little bit.
[17:20.670 --> 17:31.110]  And when I hit the head against the chest, then changes the color of the image.
[17:34.880 --> 17:41.320]  And sometimes it works again, then changes the color of the image again.
[17:44.880 --> 17:51.820]  And when I have great luck and really strong, And if it hits the mark, then the contrast changes.
[17:57.720 --> 17:59.140]  But that was it in general.
[18:01.900 --> 18:08.240]  Yeah, that was like a small tribute to the guy who invented Photoshop and Oliver Sacks.
[18:09.820 --> 18:15.000]  Okay, I'd like to go to the next project.
[18:15.400 --> 18:18.420]  Actually, we are doing a project a week, so it's just a couple of them.
[18:19.200 --> 18:22.360]  It's called Türme von Hanoi, the Towers of Hanoi.
[18:22.540 --> 18:23.780]  Never change a running system.
[18:24.640 --> 18:27.060]  And I have to play two people now.
[18:27.380 --> 18:33.360]  So, this voice will be the voice of Johannes Ullmeier, and this voice will be the voice of the bank clerk.
[18:34.060 --> 18:34.300]  Okay?
[18:35.000 --> 18:38.820]  So, try to put him... like, try to... whatever.
[18:39.100 --> 18:48.340]  I'm a little bit like... I had lunch before, and I think the Americans worked out to cram sugar and fat into one molecule.
[18:48.420 --> 18:50.380]  And they call it Cinnabon, okay?
[18:50.640 --> 18:53.720]  And I'm really... I can't think.
[18:53.940 --> 18:54.440]  I can't think.
[18:54.480 --> 18:55.600]  I shouldn't have lunch before that.
[18:56.460 --> 18:58.000]  Or maybe you don't eat it at lunch.
[18:58.140 --> 18:58.480]  I don't know.
[18:59.240 --> 18:59.680]  Whatever.
[19:00.020 --> 19:00.160]  Okay.
[19:00.400 --> 19:02.560]  This is Johannes Ullmeier, and now he enters a bank.
[19:02.880 --> 19:05.420]  And it's the bank to success.
[19:07.320 --> 19:08.440]  And that's the bank clerk.
[19:09.100 --> 19:11.100]  And he wants to exchange money.
[19:11.100 --> 19:12.640]  And, yeah.
[19:13.040 --> 19:13.120]  Okay.
[19:13.340 --> 19:13.700]  Hello.
[19:14.060 --> 19:17.180]  I'd like to exchange 50 euros to dollars.
[19:19.020 --> 19:19.740]  Okay.
[19:19.740 --> 19:21.500]  Here is your receipt.
[19:22.320 --> 19:24.360]  And the dollars.
[19:25.160 --> 19:25.580]  Ah, yeah.
[19:25.700 --> 19:26.500]  Thank you very much.
[19:27.000 --> 19:30.120]  And now I'd like to exchange these to euros.
[19:31.040 --> 19:32.940]  We can cancel that.
[19:33.980 --> 19:34.700]  No.
[19:35.480 --> 19:37.500]  But you'll take a loss on that.
[19:37.880 --> 19:40.280]  Well, that's the nature of things.
[19:42.160 --> 19:42.880]  Okay.
[19:43.460 --> 19:45.520]  It's 44 euros.
[19:46.620 --> 19:48.200]  Ah, and the leftovers.
[19:48.380 --> 19:49.280]  Thank you very much.
[19:52.100 --> 19:55.180]  So, this is 35 dollars.
[19:55.500 --> 19:55.740]  Fine.
[19:55.960 --> 19:58.460]  I'll exchange those to euros then.
[19:58.860 --> 19:59.160]  Aha.
[20:00.200 --> 20:00.880]  So, yeah.
[20:01.680 --> 20:03.120]  35 for you.
[20:03.280 --> 20:03.360]  Yeah.
[20:03.440 --> 20:04.800]  And I'll exchange those to dollars.
[20:05.780 --> 20:07.720]  Have you get some change left?
[20:07.900 --> 20:08.920]  I need 87 cents.
[20:09.100 --> 20:09.200]  Yeah.
[20:09.300 --> 20:09.580]  Okay.
[20:10.200 --> 20:10.800]  Okay.
[20:10.800 --> 20:12.740]  You get 27 dollars.
[20:13.400 --> 20:15.780]  Well, can I exchange them for euros, please?
[20:17.360 --> 20:18.820]  23 euro 59.
[20:19.120 --> 20:19.200]  Yeah.
[20:19.300 --> 20:20.060]  That's fine with me.
[20:20.400 --> 20:20.480]  Okay.
[20:20.800 --> 20:21.080]  All right.
[20:21.220 --> 20:22.860]  Let's exchange that to dollars, please.
[20:23.100 --> 20:23.740]  What will it be?
[20:24.140 --> 20:25.620]  I need 23.50.
[20:26.480 --> 20:27.200]  Ah, yeah.
[20:27.440 --> 20:28.300]  That was 19.
[20:28.360 --> 20:28.840]  Okay.
[20:29.060 --> 20:30.000]  Can I get euros for this?
[20:30.140 --> 20:30.240]  Yeah.
[20:30.340 --> 20:31.060]  Dollars, please.
[20:31.380 --> 20:32.600]  Ah, 11 dollars.
[20:33.600 --> 20:33.980]  I see.
[20:34.320 --> 20:34.600]  Of euros.
[20:35.200 --> 20:35.440]  Thanks.
[20:37.160 --> 20:38.620]  Now I'll have a look.
[20:38.980 --> 20:39.460]  Yeah.
[20:39.800 --> 20:40.640]  Two dollars, please.
[20:40.880 --> 20:40.980]  Yeah.
[20:42.560 --> 20:44.800]  We'll be done in no time now.
[20:46.340 --> 20:46.940]  Yeah.
[20:47.060 --> 20:48.280]  I'll have those exchanged.
[20:48.860 --> 20:48.960]  Yeah.
[20:49.320 --> 20:49.720]  Thank you.
[20:50.680 --> 20:52.140]  Ah, 40 cents.
[20:52.280 --> 20:53.680]  Can I exchange 40 cents?
[20:54.020 --> 20:54.540]  No.
[20:55.580 --> 20:56.180]  Okay.
[20:56.580 --> 20:57.720]  I'll bid you thanks then.
[20:58.380 --> 20:59.320]  You're welcome.
[21:09.950 --> 21:21.230]  Now we have seen how that portion of the constant capital, which consists of the instruments of labor, or transfers to the production only a fraction of its value, but the remainder of that value continues to reside in those instruments.
[21:21.430 --> 21:22.530]  Karl Marx.
[21:22.750 --> 21:23.530]  Question mark.
[21:23.830 --> 21:24.310]  Okay.
[21:24.930 --> 21:25.670]  Question mark.
[21:25.770 --> 21:26.150]  No, no, no.
[21:26.830 --> 21:27.630]  Question mark.
[21:28.930 --> 21:34.450]  There are 20 trillion dollars on the planet in cash.
[21:34.630 --> 21:41.730]  And so there's no gold in banks, no, like, no money on bank accounts, just the cash, 20 trillion dollars.
[21:42.470 --> 21:50.670]  How often, how many iterations does it take to exchange 20 trillion dollars, to euros, to dollars, to euros, to dollars, to euros, until they're gone?
[21:51.730 --> 21:52.490]  How often?
[21:52.490 --> 21:59.730]  So, and I would say, the person in the room who gets the closest bit, wins Georg Paul Thomas' biography.
[22:02.130 --> 22:02.910]  Try it.
[22:03.110 --> 22:03.510]  50.
[22:03.750 --> 22:04.290]  50.
[22:06.330 --> 22:06.930]  Yeah.
[22:07.470 --> 22:08.490]  500,000.
[22:08.490 --> 22:09.410]  Ooh.
[22:11.030 --> 22:13.490]  I mean, if you're interested, I'm just, you know...
[22:16.390 --> 22:18.390]  I mean, you can scribble it down.
[22:19.890 --> 22:20.350]  More.
[22:20.550 --> 22:21.270]  500,000.
[22:21.430 --> 22:21.730]  50.
[22:22.090 --> 22:22.810]  60 million.
[22:22.930 --> 22:23.650]  60 million.
[22:23.810 --> 22:23.930]  Wow.
[22:24.550 --> 22:25.150]  49.
[22:25.490 --> 22:26.090]  49.
[22:26.450 --> 22:26.790]  Ooh.
[22:27.690 --> 22:29.230]  It should be an infinite number.
[22:29.290 --> 22:30.550]  An infinite number.
[22:30.550 --> 22:31.350]  It's getting better.
[22:31.770 --> 22:32.150]  Okay.
[22:32.590 --> 22:33.190]  More.
[22:33.930 --> 22:35.390]  Can I get one, please, Bob?
[22:37.470 --> 22:38.190]  10 billion.
[22:38.970 --> 22:39.690]  10 billion.
[22:39.930 --> 22:40.050]  Wow.
[22:41.730 --> 22:42.210]  Come on.
[22:42.350 --> 22:43.010]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on.
[22:43.150 --> 22:44.150]  Just shout it out, whatever.
[22:44.410 --> 22:44.670]  2,000.
[22:44.830 --> 22:45.470]  2,000.
[22:45.850 --> 22:50.870]  How long does it take to do the exchanges, and you accrue interest on the money that you have?
[22:53.870 --> 22:59.070]  So you want to know, like, how many, like, percentage we did, or something like that.
[22:59.210 --> 23:00.070]  It's all written in there.
[23:00.210 --> 23:02.250]  I think it's 3.63...
[23:02.250 --> 23:05.810]  Well, we did actually the same exchange as in the bank in Austria.
[23:06.130 --> 23:06.370]  So that's...
[23:07.870 --> 23:08.730]  I think...
[23:08.730 --> 23:09.550]  Yeah, come on, come on.
[23:09.670 --> 23:11.330]  We'll just be breaking more dollars.
[23:13.810 --> 23:14.290]  Well...
[23:17.790 --> 23:19.870]  Okay, but I think we'll stop now.
[23:20.030 --> 23:21.930]  And I tell you, I tell you the answer.
[23:22.250 --> 23:27.110]  It's 849 times, and 18 cents will remain.
[23:28.330 --> 23:31.270]  Actually, I think it should be, like, 19 cents.
[23:31.590 --> 23:36.110]  We did the iterations in an Excel, in a Microsoft Excel table.
[23:36.470 --> 23:38.290]  And there's one cent missing.
[23:38.510 --> 23:40.490]  You know, like, there's one cent always going to Bill Gates.
[23:41.530 --> 23:42.010]  So...
[23:43.470 --> 23:44.670]  It's 849 times.
[23:44.750 --> 23:45.890]  Who was the closest?
[23:46.430 --> 23:48.110]  I think 500 was close.
[23:49.010 --> 23:49.910]  Oh, no, no, there was...
[23:51.570 --> 23:53.530]  No, no, there was...
[23:53.530 --> 23:53.630]  50.
[23:53.750 --> 23:54.950]  There was 50 and 500.
[23:55.230 --> 23:55.470]  Who...
[23:55.470 --> 23:56.010]  Who...
[23:56.010 --> 23:56.650]  Who said 500?
[23:57.130 --> 23:59.570]  No, there was 2,000 and there was 49.
[23:59.570 --> 24:00.750]  I said 500,000.
[24:00.970 --> 24:01.810]  Ah, 500,000.
[24:01.990 --> 24:02.310]  Oh, sorry.
[24:02.830 --> 24:04.050]  It's 49, so...
[24:04.050 --> 24:04.610]  50.
[24:04.810 --> 24:05.530]  Somebody said 50.
[24:05.630 --> 24:06.170]  Who said 50?
[24:07.370 --> 24:07.630]  Yes.
[24:08.730 --> 24:10.430]  But 49 is...
[24:10.430 --> 24:11.390]  It's closer to...
[24:11.390 --> 24:12.470]  49 is closer to 800.
[24:12.470 --> 24:12.810]  He's...
[24:12.810 --> 24:14.230]  He or she is...
[24:14.230 --> 24:14.430]  Yes.
[24:15.590 --> 24:17.310]  I would say...
[24:17.310 --> 24:18.770]  This is a free country.
[24:18.970 --> 24:21.290]  Whoever said 50 gets it, okay?
[24:22.130 --> 24:23.790]  I'll put it here, I would say.
[24:24.370 --> 24:24.550]  Okay.
[24:25.570 --> 24:27.370]  Roland, how's the time?
[24:28.270 --> 24:28.630]  Half time.
[24:28.630 --> 24:29.090]  Half time.
[24:29.190 --> 24:29.390]  Wonderful.
[24:30.010 --> 24:30.230]  Okay.
[24:30.650 --> 24:31.810]  Then I would say, yeah.
[24:31.990 --> 24:33.550]  Is mankind to blame?
[24:33.690 --> 24:34.350]  Of course.
[24:34.730 --> 24:37.090]  And I would say, don't get asleep.
[24:39.550 --> 24:40.490]  I'm an artist.
[24:40.490 --> 24:41.890]  I can do whatever I like.
[24:43.910 --> 24:46.110]  But I won't get any funding for it.
[24:46.950 --> 24:47.470]  So...
[24:48.090 --> 24:48.610]  Okie dokie.
[24:49.630 --> 24:55.650]  I would say, there is a topic that might interest you a little bit more than exchanges, or...
[24:55.650 --> 24:56.090]  I don't know.
[24:56.870 --> 24:57.230]  It's...
[24:57.230 --> 24:58.870]  Let's call it retro gaming.
[24:59.370 --> 25:04.630]  Because we started a project a couple of years ago, and it's called Soviet on Patrikostorf.
[25:04.850 --> 25:06.830]  We wrote an adventure game.
[25:07.990 --> 25:12.490]  And this adventure, I think we published it like...
[25:12.490 --> 25:15.750]  It's, of course, Creative Commons license, and you can...
[25:15.750 --> 25:15.930]  You know.
[25:16.410 --> 25:19.610]  We put it on the Internet in December...
[25:20.010 --> 25:21.750]  Now, in September 2005.
[25:21.750 --> 25:23.490]  We worked about one and a half years on it.
[25:23.670 --> 25:30.410]  And basically, it's a computer game that's based on a project we did a couple of years before that.
[25:30.410 --> 25:30.790]  And...
[25:30.790 --> 25:31.590]  Because we are...
[25:31.590 --> 25:40.750]  Because we are from Europe, and we are highly interested in, like, the post-World War II history of Europe, and what's happened.
[25:40.970 --> 25:41.990]  Basically, we are like...
[25:42.610 --> 25:48.090]  We come from, like, the post-modern wing of philosophy, I would call it.
[25:48.090 --> 25:50.350]  So, we basically don't believe in history.
[25:50.530 --> 25:51.230]  There is no history.
[25:51.350 --> 25:53.690]  There are only, like, fragmented forms of history.
[25:53.890 --> 25:59.690]  So, how can there be something like a history of Europe, or a history of Austria, or a history of whatever, okay?
[26:00.630 --> 26:13.430]  So, we said we want to play with the history of Europe and implant a small, tiny little country called Soviet Unterzigerstorf into the country of Austria.
[26:13.430 --> 26:18.790]  It's only, like, 15 square miles big, it's really small, and it lacks in everything.
[26:18.970 --> 26:22.870]  It lacks in people, in knowledge, in whatever, but it still exists.
[26:23.150 --> 26:32.190]  It has a Schengen auto border, of course, and it survived the decline of the Soviet Union, and it's the last remaining Soviet country on the planet.
[26:32.630 --> 26:42.430]  And in 2001, ten years after the fall of the Soviet Union, we organized, with a bus, a big shuttle bus, we organized a vacation in Soviet Unterzigerstorf.
[26:43.230 --> 26:48.710]  So, many people could go to Soviet Unterzigerstorf, and there, basically...
[26:48.710 --> 26:58.770]  Actually, it was a pretty funny idea to do it, but we dealt with topics like historiography, what can we do, what can we tell about history.
[27:00.230 --> 27:21.310]  On the first view, it just looks like a mock-up of the Soviet Union, but basically, actually, it's more a mock-up of neoliberal society nowadays, and most of the information we crammed into the computer game is basically more about nowadays than about some collapsed form of communism that actually never was a communism.
[27:21.950 --> 27:22.510]  OK.
[27:23.070 --> 27:30.750]  So, I mean, if you're interested, I can show you a couple of... Should I play a little bit for you, or are you more interested in just downloading it?
[27:32.070 --> 27:33.450]  Shall I... Shall I show... OK.
[27:33.630 --> 27:34.590]  I'll show you a little bit about it.
[27:35.310 --> 27:38.790]  And now I have to admit, it's a f*cking Windows machine.
[27:40.250 --> 27:42.150]  Becky, don't say that about my laptop.
[27:42.810 --> 27:43.730]  It's her laptop.
[27:44.010 --> 27:45.230]  At least it's her, it's not mine.
[27:47.610 --> 27:48.590]  No, no, no.
[27:48.970 --> 27:49.970]  I'm so afraid.
[27:50.710 --> 27:53.270]  It's a Siemens machine with Windows on it.
[27:53.390 --> 27:54.510]  Oh, how bad can it get?
[27:56.390 --> 27:56.790]  So...
[27:56.790 --> 27:57.670]  You can use it if you don't...
[27:59.130 --> 28:00.890]  Oh, hui, hui.
[28:01.630 --> 28:02.950]  You should tell them there's a Linux version.
[28:04.190 --> 28:07.030]  Of course, there's a Linux version and an Apple version for that, of course.
[28:08.110 --> 28:08.510]  OK.
[28:08.730 --> 28:10.190]  Let's start a new game.
[28:12.030 --> 28:12.750]  Can you see?
[28:12.810 --> 28:14.950]  It's like in Russian with English subtitles.
[28:15.230 --> 28:16.110]  I hope you can read it.
[28:18.190 --> 28:19.350]  Or shall I read it to you?
[28:20.310 --> 28:21.350]  Can you read it?
[28:21.510 --> 28:22.290]  Can you read it?
[28:25.410 --> 28:30.690]  And basically, he tells the story about this country, OK?
[28:31.190 --> 28:31.790]  Whatever.
[28:32.710 --> 28:33.770]  Oh, holy heart.
[28:36.370 --> 28:37.750]  It's basically the thing I already told you.
[28:37.750 --> 28:38.150]  And it's okay.
[28:38.150 --> 28:47.450]  The Republic doesn't support any diplomatic relations with the so-called Austrian Republic, nor to the European Union.
[28:48.370 --> 28:53.190]  Except for small agriculture, in general, the fuel consumption of gas and energy.
[28:54.110 --> 28:57.710]  The plans for the last five years have forced the agricultural economy.
[29:09.610 --> 29:10.730]  That's important.
[29:15.490 --> 29:16.750]  I skip all that.
[29:16.970 --> 29:17.450]  Let's play.
[29:17.770 --> 29:17.850]  Okay.
[29:38.160 --> 29:39.760]  What is this?
[29:39.760 --> 29:39.980]  What is this?
[29:39.980 --> 29:49.260]  The last door of the name of the Black October, on which there are already traces of the economic collapse, is destroyed above any measure.
[29:52.010 --> 29:53.150]  What is this?
[29:54.190 --> 29:55.430]  There wasn't this yesterday.
[29:57.270 --> 30:00.110]  So, actually, we chose...
[30:00.110 --> 30:06.470]  We thought to transfer this theater performance we did with this real, like, invasion of Soviet and the Zurgelsdorf.
[30:06.670 --> 30:08.390]  We thought we would try to...
[30:08.390 --> 30:11.890]  We should, like, convert it to a computer game, to export it all over the world.
[30:12.110 --> 30:16.870]  And basically we thought we should do some kind of, like, a retro gaming format.
[30:17.110 --> 30:18.870]  So it's, of course, it's an adventure game.
[30:19.170 --> 30:23.710]  So only, like, 1% of all computer games nowadays produce are adventure games.
[30:23.810 --> 30:27.990]  So the adventure game is kind of really, like, that form of computer gaming.
[30:28.170 --> 30:38.530]  So we thought it's interesting to take this, like, that format of state communism, and take this nearly dead format of adventure gaming, and combine it together.
[30:39.030 --> 30:47.150]  So, there is Party Secretary Gomulka, and he can look around, for example, he can have a look at the trash.
[30:51.510 --> 30:54.850]  Or he can have a look at, what is that?
[30:54.950 --> 30:56.130]  A piece of clothes.
[31:07.190 --> 31:07.630]  Ah.
[31:08.830 --> 31:11.110]  So, of course, you can take all the stuff.
[31:11.350 --> 31:13.190]  So I'll take the piece of clothes.
[31:15.830 --> 31:16.270]  Okay,
[31:20.390 --> 31:22.210]  and now we can look in the inventory, of course.
[31:22.210 --> 31:24.270]  And there you see the piece of wiping clothes.
[31:24.450 --> 31:25.310]  And the passport.
[31:25.570 --> 31:25.630]  Ah.
[31:25.850 --> 31:27.250]  Let's have a look at how you look like.
[31:32.110 --> 31:33.010]  That's how you look like.
[31:35.510 --> 31:35.870]  Okay.
[31:36.250 --> 31:38.090]  But basically, I mean, there's lots of trash.
[31:38.490 --> 31:41.290]  And, yeah, you come through your shift, and there's lots of trash.
[31:41.510 --> 31:45.330]  So what you can do, of course, you can pick up all the trash, but you can do that at home yourself.
[31:45.870 --> 31:47.210]  So let's go to the next place.
[31:47.530 --> 31:48.390]  Oh, what's that?
[31:48.390 --> 31:51.430]  Oh, Slayer.
[31:52.070 --> 31:53.150]  What is this?
[31:54.290 --> 31:55.370]  Who allowed this?
[32:00.000 --> 32:00.900]  Where is the driver?
[32:01.920 --> 32:06.080]  There's Slayer written on the wall, in Soviet and at Silverstorf, and there's no night guard.
[32:06.260 --> 32:08.520]  So it gets really, like, serious, I would say.
[32:23.640 --> 32:24.660]  So let's open it.
[32:24.720 --> 32:27.500]  I would say, it's best to contact the Supreme Soviet.
[32:27.780 --> 32:28.540]  I mean, that's...
[32:28.540 --> 32:29.540]  I think that's necessary.
[32:29.960 --> 32:31.780]  And I would say, what can I call...
[32:31.780 --> 32:32.060]  Ah!
[32:32.220 --> 32:33.980]  I'll ask him, what is a Slayer?
[32:33.980 --> 32:38.700]  Tell me, please, what is Slayer?
[32:39.460 --> 32:40.180]  Slayer.
[32:40.740 --> 32:42.300]  American group.
[32:42.880 --> 32:43.240]  Ah!
[32:43.240 --> 32:43.740]  Thrash Metal.
[32:45.000 --> 32:51.710]  Founded in Huntington Park, California, in California, last year.
[32:52.230 --> 32:52.470]  Ah!
[32:52.750 --> 32:53.450]  The members of the group.
[32:53.950 --> 32:57.540]  Eric King.
[32:57.720 --> 32:58.280]  Whatever.
[32:58.820 --> 32:59.360]  Hang up.
[32:59.920 --> 33:01.080]  And I think I'll...
[33:01.080 --> 33:03.040]  translate the message to the people.
[33:03.320 --> 33:04.320]  And I think...
[33:05.520 --> 33:06.660]  Maybe this one.
[33:11.980 --> 33:13.420]  It's a clear thing.
[33:14.580 --> 33:16.880]  It's clear, it's clear, it's clear, it's clear, than you should have to consider.
[33:20.840 --> 33:21.280]  So...
[33:21.280 --> 33:23.500]  Okay, let's hang up, let's go back.
[33:23.720 --> 33:25.640]  I would say...
[33:26.100 --> 33:26.540]  I...
[33:28.000 --> 33:28.440]  walk...
[33:29.020 --> 33:29.520]  Change thing...
[33:29.520 --> 33:30.880]  No, too late, too late.
[33:31.680 --> 33:39.920]  They have, like, we contact a negative land because you can actually choose the sound that is playing and we contact a negative land and there's Christianity stupid in it.
[33:39.920 --> 33:40.760]  It's wonderful.
[33:41.380 --> 33:43.920]  There's the nuclear compost area.
[33:44.280 --> 33:47.480]  So that's the 8-bit agrarian memory drive.
[33:47.800 --> 33:49.260]  But you first have to start it.
[33:49.620 --> 33:54.100]  It takes a long time to find the stuff to start the 8-bit agrarian memory drive.
[33:54.720 --> 33:56.620]  Ah, strange trash.
[33:57.080 --> 33:58.640]  Let's take the strange trash.
[34:14.350 --> 34:14.870]  What's that?
[34:25.950 --> 34:26.270]  Whatever.
[34:26.630 --> 34:27.570]  Ah, and there's a label.
[34:27.710 --> 34:28.330]  Let's have a look at the label.
[34:29.050 --> 34:30.050]  And now we get it.
[34:30.050 --> 34:30.050]  What's that?
[34:31.170 --> 34:33.070]  Well, that's what I thought.
[34:33.650 --> 34:38.370]  Hooligans from the neighboring Ubersugger's Dwarf.
[34:38.370 --> 34:38.650]  No.
[34:39.610 --> 34:40.190]  So...
[34:40.190 --> 34:45.430]  I would say, maybe we'll go to one more place here, because that's interesting for you.
[34:45.530 --> 34:47.430]  And then I'll stop and go to the next project.
[34:47.910 --> 34:49.250]  Because, you see...
[34:54.770 --> 34:56.530]  They killed all the chicken!
[34:56.530 --> 34:57.210]  It's a problem.
[34:58.210 --> 34:58.410]  Beef of difficulty!
[34:58.410 --> 34:59.530]  The economic crisis!
[35:01.130 --> 35:03.130]  It'll plague me.
[35:04.070 --> 35:05.530]  The bones are burning me.
[35:05.530 --> 35:08.170]  One-only Würth has left.
[35:08.930 --> 35:09.750]  This is an tuna breath.
[35:09.750 --> 35:12.930]  From her foods to our strength and planet!
[35:14.070 --> 35:15.900]  Come here, parliamentary men!
[35:23.740 --> 35:25.160]  Cute little chicken!
[35:25.520 --> 35:26.400]  I think, I'll kill it!
[35:29.800 --> 35:36.660]  I think... I'll go somewhere there.
[35:36.910 --> 35:41.160]  I think there's some kind of a monument there, but let's skip it.
[35:41.450 --> 35:42.820]  And go to the autoskirts.
[35:43.820 --> 35:45.200]  It's the mine area.
[35:53.160 --> 35:53.680]  Whatever.
[36:05.050 --> 36:06.530]  So, what did you do?
[36:06.790 --> 36:07.270]  No, I'm dead.
[36:07.510 --> 36:09.050]  This was the last chicken.
[36:10.110 --> 36:12.730]  The support of the national economy was destroyed.
[36:13.930 --> 36:15.190]  Now it will happen.
[36:22.120 --> 36:22.960]  Yeah, yeah.
[36:23.940 --> 36:26.700]  So, I would say you have a long time to play.
[36:26.900 --> 36:32.520]  It's monochrom.at slash suz, like in zebra dash game.
[36:32.800 --> 36:34.020]  So you can download it for yourself.
[36:34.180 --> 36:37.260]  I can tell you the place where you can find it afterwards.
[36:37.700 --> 36:39.080]  How many more minutes?
[36:40.780 --> 36:41.300]  Fifteen.
[36:42.000 --> 36:42.820]  Oh, that's fine.
[36:43.120 --> 36:43.240]  Okay.
[36:43.700 --> 36:48.640]  Then I would say I go to a project that's called Ars Electronica.
[36:50.860 --> 36:52.140]  We are from Austria.
[36:52.360 --> 36:54.880]  You know, everybody's talking about Ars Electronica.
[36:55.120 --> 36:59.100]  And we thought, actually, it's an invitation to you to help us with that.
[36:59.100 --> 37:16.080]  Because we think that there's one really, like, really important part of technological, like, progress that was never, like, really focused on in an art exhibition or in a scientific conference or a computer conference.
[37:16.080 --> 37:21.420]  And that is, like, pornography and technological innovation.
[37:22.160 --> 37:27.320]  So, pornography is one of the most driving forces of technological innovation.
[37:27.760 --> 37:30.380]  And we want to actually do a conference about that.
[37:30.580 --> 37:32.900]  So, if you're interested, it's not a joke.
[37:33.100 --> 37:35.680]  We really want to do it sometime next year, maybe in two years.
[37:35.860 --> 37:38.560]  It takes a lot of research to do this stuff.
[37:38.560 --> 37:49.660]  Basically, I mean, there were, like, between 1840 and 1997, it's just 1997.
[37:49.660 --> 37:52.360]  It, like, doubled after that.
[37:52.500 --> 38:01.600]  But just between 1840 and 1997, 800 sex toy items were patented at the American patent office.
[38:01.940 --> 38:08.000]  And there is, for example, the first Polaroid camera was called Swinger.
[38:08.000 --> 38:11.000]  And it was called Swinger for a certain reason, okay?
[38:12.000 --> 38:17.580]  There, you might know the story about the VHS tape.
[38:17.800 --> 38:24.320]  Because, like, the Video 2000 tape and the Betamax tape both were, like, superior in their technology.
[38:24.320 --> 38:28.200]  They had really clear, like, it was really good.
[38:28.380 --> 38:33.480]  But VHS made it on the market because of the license fees.
[38:33.480 --> 38:40.200]  Because VHS, the VHS consortium, didn't ask for any license fees for VHS tapes.
[38:40.440 --> 38:43.680]  So the porn market set on VHS.
[38:44.020 --> 38:49.400]  And that's why VHS became, like, the videotape format of the 1980s and 1990s.
[38:49.620 --> 38:51.860]  Not Video 2000 and not Betamax.
[38:52.040 --> 38:53.600]  But they were, like, better.
[38:53.600 --> 38:59.080]  So there are a lot of interesting stories about technology and pornography.
[38:59.580 --> 39:03.980]  I mean, I think in 1890, there was one person in London.
[39:04.960 --> 39:06.780]  His house was raided.
[39:06.940 --> 39:13.920]  And he had 300,000 pornographic pictures in his house in 1890 or something like that.
[39:13.920 --> 39:21.660]  So the first, there was, like, a big underground market of pornography photographs in the late 19th century.
[39:22.060 --> 39:23.800]  And we'd like to focus on that.
[39:23.880 --> 39:26.860]  And especially, I mean, I'm sitting here among fellow nerds.
[39:26.920 --> 39:42.720]  You might have recognized that in the last 10 years, like, most of, like, chat systems and really, really, like, interesting technological advances in Internet technology were driven by pornography companies and stuff like that.
[39:42.720 --> 39:52.980]  So, basically, Ars Electronica, not a bad joke, but if you have any interesting stories or if you want to do a talk at our conference or whatever, actually, we don't know where to do it because we don't get any funding for it in Austria.
[39:54.160 --> 39:55.700]  So, I don't know where we're doing it.
[39:55.700 --> 39:57.520]  Maybe in Amsterdam or something like that.
[39:57.740 --> 40:00.320]  Or in San Francisco, it might be a good, interesting idea.
[40:00.660 --> 40:03.040]  So, I see, warning, 10 minutes.
[40:03.240 --> 40:07.340]  Okay, so if you're interested, please stay here, contact us, send us an email.
[40:07.340 --> 40:12.740]  We are highly interested in doing this conference and exhibition.
[40:13.180 --> 40:14.160]  Okie dokie.
[40:14.500 --> 40:18.980]  We have 10 more minutes, maybe two more projects.
[40:19.320 --> 40:21.600]  This project is called Brand Marker.
[40:21.780 --> 40:35.140]  And Brand Marker is a project we started in 2003 because we thought there is like logos, brand logos, corporate logos, are like one-way communication.
[40:35.140 --> 40:41.960]  You have to recognize them, you have to see them, you have to decipher them, but you don't have to reproduce them.
[40:42.080 --> 40:48.100]  So, we asked people in Austria to draw logos, corporate logos from memory.
[40:48.880 --> 40:53.900]  So, if somebody would go to you and ask you, I mean, it's easy now because you see it.
[40:54.100 --> 41:01.280]  But if somebody goes up to you and says, yeah, please draw me the Apple logo from your mind.
[41:01.480 --> 41:12.300]  It's not quite as easy, but basically, we don't want to make fun about those people because most of them didn't really do a good job in drawing the logos.
[41:12.300 --> 41:17.760]  But it's actually, it's about like short-circuiting, like your reception.
[41:18.000 --> 41:18.880]  Let's call it like that.
[41:19.040 --> 41:24.420]  And I'd like to show you a couple of the tries the people did.
[41:25.480 --> 41:28.140]  It's starting, it's starting, it's Firefox.
[41:30.180 --> 41:31.540]  Come on, you Firefox.
[41:32.200 --> 41:33.140]  Where are you?
[41:33.400 --> 41:35.440]  Oh no, the Firefox collapsed.
[41:37.220 --> 41:38.420]  Ah, there it is.
[41:38.660 --> 41:38.880]  Okay.
[41:40.020 --> 41:43.020]  In brand speak, it's called share of minds.
[41:43.320 --> 41:45.300]  If you don't really recognize a brand.
[41:45.920 --> 41:48.040]  So, what logo would you like to see?
[41:48.180 --> 41:50.540]  I mean, there are a couple of European logos there.
[41:50.700 --> 41:53.380]  Because they are highly popular in Europe.
[41:53.680 --> 41:55.600]  So, but most of the others you should actually know.
[41:55.780 --> 41:56.420]  What should I try?
[41:56.640 --> 41:57.040]  Adidas.
[41:57.320 --> 41:57.740]  Adidas?
[41:57.960 --> 41:58.960]  Okay, let's try it.
[42:00.740 --> 42:01.060]  Ah.
[42:16.000 --> 42:16.100]  It's the leaf.
[42:16.100 --> 42:16.980]  Maybe it's the...
[42:16.980 --> 42:17.600]  I don't know.
[42:17.800 --> 42:18.720]  It's so...
[42:19.260 --> 42:19.500]  No.
[42:19.720 --> 42:20.520]  Wrong direction.
[42:22.220 --> 42:24.760]  But, I mean, Apple is really interesting.
[42:24.780 --> 42:26.620]  Because many people have Apple computers.
[42:27.660 --> 42:28.100]  But...
[42:28.100 --> 42:29.160]  It's so slow.
[42:29.160 --> 42:29.920]  Oh my God.
[42:32.360 --> 42:32.900]  Ah, yeah.
[42:33.220 --> 42:33.660]  There it is.
[42:36.540 --> 42:38.780]  The interesting part is they mix up left and right.
[42:38.780 --> 42:43.560]  And I talked to a biologist who is interested in evolutionary studies of the eye.
[42:43.740 --> 42:50.640]  And he told us if a big cat approaches you in the savannah, it doesn't matter if it comes from left or right, you just run.
[42:51.040 --> 42:51.160]  Okay?
[42:51.580 --> 42:58.360]  So, the structure of the eye isn't really into like recognizing or like left and right...
[42:59.300 --> 43:02.300]  You can really flip it horizontal and it doesn't matter.
[43:02.500 --> 43:07.620]  So, that's the reason why many people like flip up left and right in their memory.
[43:08.860 --> 43:11.000]  But, you can see...
[43:11.000 --> 43:12.060]  I mean...
[43:14.960 --> 43:16.400]  The old one, yeah.
[43:16.880 --> 43:17.180]  Bleh.
[43:17.500 --> 43:18.500]  Oh, nerd.
[43:20.680 --> 43:22.460]  Just think different is good too.
[43:22.740 --> 43:23.240]  Apple.
[43:25.820 --> 43:26.340]  A.
[43:28.420 --> 43:29.380]  And that's good.
[43:29.580 --> 43:31.620]  And this guy actually asked him afterwards.
[43:31.780 --> 43:32.680]  So, what did you think?
[43:32.820 --> 43:33.720]  Why the stripes?
[43:34.120 --> 43:36.440]  And why this like cutting in the middle of the stripes?
[43:36.440 --> 43:37.360]  And he said, oh, no.
[43:37.560 --> 43:37.860]  I may...
[43:37.860 --> 43:39.720]  I confused like Apple and IBM.
[43:43.280 --> 43:43.920]  Hmm.
[43:45.280 --> 43:45.840]  Maybe...
[43:45.840 --> 43:46.660]  Maybe I should...
[43:46.660 --> 43:47.200]  I mean...
[43:47.200 --> 43:48.620]  Toyota is really...
[43:48.620 --> 43:49.460]  I mean...
[43:49.920 --> 43:50.240]  Yeah.
[43:53.580 --> 43:55.720]  That looks like Veiland Yutani.
[43:55.920 --> 43:56.720]  I mean...
[43:58.340 --> 43:59.740]  And there's a lot of...
[43:59.740 --> 44:00.260]  You see...
[44:00.260 --> 44:01.560]  I mean...
[44:01.560 --> 44:02.280]  Whatever is that.
[44:02.420 --> 44:03.020]  It's like a mushroom.
[44:04.260 --> 44:05.860]  And, of course, the tea.
[44:07.720 --> 44:08.240]  And...
[44:08.240 --> 44:08.800]  Maybe...
[44:08.800 --> 44:10.240]  Maybe Coca-Cola is the last one.
[44:10.360 --> 44:10.400]  Yeah.
[44:11.860 --> 44:12.380]  They...
[44:12.380 --> 44:12.900]  Enjoy.
[44:13.340 --> 44:13.740]  They're...
[44:13.740 --> 44:15.880]  They're actually getting it quite well.
[44:16.760 --> 44:18.240]  Some write it with a K.
[44:20.100 --> 44:20.620]  And...
[44:20.620 --> 44:22.140]  This one is good, actually.
[44:22.580 --> 44:23.960]  It was a guy asked him.
[44:24.260 --> 44:24.700]  So...
[44:24.700 --> 44:25.480]  You...
[44:25.480 --> 44:25.600]  You...
[44:25.600 --> 44:26.840]  You've drawn like...
[44:26.840 --> 44:27.860]  The Pepsi logo.
[44:28.060 --> 44:28.300]  So...
[44:28.300 --> 44:31.580]  Was this like some kind of like a political statement or something like that?
[44:31.880 --> 44:33.120]  And he said, no.
[44:33.280 --> 44:34.380]  I thought that's Coca-Cola.
[44:34.640 --> 44:35.340]  And I said, no, no.
[44:35.400 --> 44:36.080]  It's not Coca-Cola.
[44:36.240 --> 44:36.820]  It's Pepsi.
[44:37.060 --> 44:37.180]  Yeah.
[44:37.240 --> 44:37.560]  You know...
[44:37.560 --> 44:38.060]  Rival.
[44:38.640 --> 44:38.900]  Yeah.
[44:38.900 --> 44:40.300]  And he said, oh, no.
[44:40.580 --> 44:40.940]  F*ck.
[44:41.200 --> 44:44.000]  I don't know the most important logo in the world.
[44:45.520 --> 44:46.940]  And I told him, no, no.
[44:47.320 --> 44:47.700]  Don't...
[44:47.700 --> 44:48.100]  I mean...
[44:48.100 --> 44:50.560]  It's not the most important logo in the world.
[44:51.200 --> 44:52.420]  Don't forget the cross.
[44:52.840 --> 44:53.420]  But...
[44:55.700 --> 44:56.860]  But it's...
[44:56.860 --> 44:57.360]  Okay.
[44:58.260 --> 44:58.840]  But...
[44:58.840 --> 45:00.460]  I mean...
[45:00.460 --> 45:01.300]  The can.
[45:03.280 --> 45:04.200]  The can.
[45:04.400 --> 45:06.780]  And this one is really like this...
[45:06.780 --> 45:08.100]  It's dynamic.
[45:08.100 --> 45:09.120]  I mean...
[45:09.120 --> 45:11.360]  Like the people start to do like creative work.
[45:11.520 --> 45:12.100]  They start to draw.
[45:12.280 --> 45:12.520]  I mean...
[45:12.520 --> 45:12.920]  It's the first...
[45:12.920 --> 45:15.060]  And maybe some of the sperms here.
[45:15.300 --> 45:15.780]  You'll see...
[45:15.780 --> 45:17.020]  I mean...
[45:17.020 --> 45:17.400]  Look at that.
[45:17.720 --> 45:19.320]  I mean...
[45:19.880 --> 45:20.400]  Mmm...
[45:21.560 --> 45:22.080]  Whatever.
[45:22.360 --> 45:24.240]  And once again, left and right flips.
[45:24.380 --> 45:26.260]  A lot of left and right flips.
[45:26.820 --> 45:27.280]  Okay.
[45:27.660 --> 45:28.340]  That's for Brandmarker.
[45:28.680 --> 45:30.000]  You can have a look at our homepage.
[45:30.900 --> 45:31.420]  And...
[45:31.420 --> 45:32.240]  Now...
[45:32.240 --> 45:34.340]  It's time to infect you.
[45:36.160 --> 45:37.200]  We started...
[45:37.200 --> 45:39.000]  The 14th of July.
[45:39.360 --> 45:41.700]  The 14th of July is the birthday.
[45:41.920 --> 45:44.380]  The founding day of the nation of Zambia.
[45:45.960 --> 45:48.140]  And you don't know what's the nation of Zambia.
[45:48.280 --> 45:48.960]  I can tell you.
[45:49.100 --> 45:51.300]  Because I have some application forms here.
[45:53.020 --> 45:55.520]  The nation of Zambia.
[45:56.040 --> 45:59.140]  You can become a member of the nation of Zambia.
[45:59.140 --> 46:00.140]  You get...
[46:00.140 --> 46:00.800]  You get...
[46:00.800 --> 46:01.160]  A paper.
[46:02.200 --> 46:02.700]  And...
[46:02.700 --> 46:03.700]  If you agree.
[46:03.980 --> 46:06.100]  And you want to become a member of Zambia.
[46:06.540 --> 46:07.880]  First of all, you have to think.
[46:08.180 --> 46:09.100]  Are you...
[46:09.100 --> 46:10.640]  Citizens of the United States.
[46:10.780 --> 46:11.280]  Or...
[46:11.280 --> 46:13.100]  The constitutional monarchy of Canada.
[46:13.380 --> 46:13.700]  Okay.
[46:13.920 --> 46:15.180]  So if you're a Canadian.
[46:15.400 --> 46:16.120]  Or a U.S. citizen.
[46:16.520 --> 46:17.290]  You can become...
[46:18.300 --> 46:19.300]  Become a...
[46:19.300 --> 46:20.440]  Member of the nation of Zambia.
[46:20.720 --> 46:22.120]  If you're an illegal alien.
[46:22.260 --> 46:22.820]  And stuff like that.
[46:22.840 --> 46:23.400]  It doesn't work.
[46:23.400 --> 46:24.160]  Okay.
[46:24.400 --> 46:25.600]  You have to be a citizen.
[46:25.860 --> 46:26.220]  So.
[46:26.380 --> 46:27.520]  You get a copy.
[46:27.880 --> 46:28.220]  From me.
[46:28.400 --> 46:28.740]  For example.
[46:29.180 --> 46:29.760]  And you agree.
[46:30.020 --> 46:30.860]  You want to be a zombie.
[46:31.100 --> 46:32.520]  And a nation of Zambia.
[46:32.780 --> 46:35.300]  An official representative of the nation of Zambia.
[46:35.480 --> 46:35.600]  So.
[46:35.740 --> 46:36.880]  You go to our homepage.
[46:37.540 --> 46:39.300]  You enter the zombie code.
[46:39.560 --> 46:40.240]  And then.
[46:40.400 --> 46:41.820]  You have a map application.
[46:42.080 --> 46:43.620]  And you can map the place.
[46:44.040 --> 46:45.340]  Where you have been infected.
[46:45.900 --> 46:48.580]  So we have like an epidemic spreading map.
[46:48.740 --> 46:50.160]  Of the United States and Canada.
[46:50.400 --> 46:51.120]  And we can have a look.
[46:51.320 --> 46:52.720]  Where the zombies pop up.
[46:53.260 --> 46:54.940]  And there are actually quite...
[46:54.940 --> 46:57.000]  Some zombies popped up the last days.
[46:57.200 --> 46:59.000]  In San Francisco and Los Angeles.
[46:59.620 --> 46:59.860]  But.
[47:00.000 --> 47:01.320]  We spread the filth.
[47:01.520 --> 47:03.180]  On the eastern coast.
[47:03.580 --> 47:03.930]  More like.
[47:04.560 --> 47:06.120]  There are lots of zombies in Toronto.
[47:06.660 --> 47:07.800]  There's even one in Ithaca.
[47:09.680 --> 47:10.140]  So.
[47:10.240 --> 47:12.980]  If you want to become a member of the nation of Zambia.
[47:13.440 --> 47:14.320]  And you want to leave.
[47:14.660 --> 47:16.220]  The United States of America.
[47:16.380 --> 47:18.360]  Or you can just become a sleeper if you like.
[47:18.540 --> 47:19.640]  So you don't have to infect people.
[47:19.880 --> 47:21.340]  You just can stay as citizens.
[47:21.560 --> 47:22.600]  But don't infect people.
[47:22.600 --> 47:22.820]  So.
[47:23.140 --> 47:24.020]  Come to us.
[47:24.940 --> 47:25.420]  Register.
[47:25.900 --> 47:26.560]  On the home page.
[47:27.560 --> 47:27.760]  Spread.
[47:28.500 --> 47:29.460]  The disease.
[47:29.720 --> 47:30.660]  Welcome to our world.
[47:31.060 --> 47:31.500]  Zombie.
[47:31.720 --> 47:32.280]  Or not to be.
[47:32.400 --> 47:33.140]  This is no question.
[47:33.640 --> 47:33.760]  So.
[47:35.580 --> 47:36.060]  And.
[47:36.340 --> 47:37.380]  If I have another.
[47:37.880 --> 47:38.620]  Five more minutes.
[47:38.740 --> 47:39.560]  Do we have five more minutes?
[47:40.140 --> 47:40.420]  Yeah.
[47:40.860 --> 47:41.220]  Well.
[47:41.540 --> 47:43.020]  Then I'd like to sing a song with you.
[47:45.880 --> 47:46.240]  No.
[47:46.620 --> 47:47.660]  I'd like to sing a song with you.
[47:47.760 --> 47:48.100]  And it's called.
[47:48.220 --> 47:48.980]  Let's network it out.
[47:50.140 --> 47:51.980]  Because we're big networkers here.
[47:52.400 --> 47:53.240]  We join together.
[47:53.460 --> 47:55.780]  I think I'd like to take all of your hands.
[47:56.100 --> 47:57.420]  And put it out.
[47:57.620 --> 47:58.140]  And stretch it out.
[47:58.280 --> 47:59.180]  And take other hands.
[47:59.180 --> 48:02.860]  And we'd like to sing it.
[48:03.140 --> 48:04.320]  It's a country song actually.
[48:04.560 --> 48:05.540]  We're in the United States of America.
[48:05.740 --> 48:05.900]  I mean.
[48:07.700 --> 48:08.140]  Roland.
[48:08.360 --> 48:09.040]  Is everything ready?
[48:10.080 --> 48:10.600]  Okay.
[48:12.200 --> 48:12.720]  So.
[48:12.980 --> 48:13.500]  Okay.
[48:13.740 --> 48:14.000]  Yes.
[48:14.160 --> 48:14.360]  Yes.
[48:14.500 --> 48:14.660]  Yes.
[48:14.660 --> 48:14.800]  Yes.
[48:14.800 --> 48:15.360]  I can see it.
[48:15.500 --> 48:15.620]  Okay.
[48:16.160 --> 48:16.780]  Then I would say.
[48:18.200 --> 48:19.000]  You'll get.
[48:19.140 --> 48:19.880]  You'll get the feeling.
[48:20.060 --> 48:20.140]  Okay.
[48:22.480 --> 48:23.000]  Start.
[48:31.850 --> 48:35.730]  Meeting people all across the universe.
[48:39.460 --> 48:41.140]  Give them a smile.
[48:41.560 --> 48:42.640]  Give them a try.
[48:45.100 --> 48:52.040]  Go for a ride on blue planet Earth.
[48:52.580 --> 48:57.700]  You can be high in the sky.
[48:58.240 --> 48:59.740]  I can't sing, but whatever.
[49:00.640 --> 49:03.800]  Let's network it out.
[49:04.000 --> 49:07.340]  Let's network it out.
[49:08.140 --> 49:12.500]  You can network it out.
[49:13.980 --> 49:15.280]  You can network it out.
[49:15.280 --> 49:15.740]  I want to cry.
[49:15.880 --> 49:18.460]  Let's network it out.
[49:18.780 --> 49:22.000]  Let's network it out.
[49:22.760 --> 49:27.460]  You can network it out.
[49:30.840 --> 49:33.400]  Give peace a chance.
[49:34.520 --> 49:35.740]  Give peace a dance.
[49:37.960 --> 49:40.180]  Asking yourself.
[49:40.840 --> 49:42.400]  How are you?
[49:45.360 --> 49:52.000]  Let's have a party, post-communist party.
[49:52.880 --> 49:56.940]  Let's all be good, nice and true.
[49:57.560 --> 49:59.660]  You're skeptical behind there.
[49:59.780 --> 50:00.060]  I know it.
[50:00.240 --> 50:02.920]  Let's network it out.
[50:03.260 --> 50:06.460]  Let's network it out.
[50:07.620 --> 50:11.560]  You can network it out.
[50:11.560 --> 50:13.840]  It's kind of repetitive, you know, it's a song.
[50:14.520 --> 50:17.680]  Let's network it out.
[50:18.060 --> 50:21.240]  Let's network it out.
[50:22.000 --> 50:26.120]  You can network it out.
[50:26.340 --> 50:27.940]  You can jump around if you like.
[50:30.200 --> 50:32.780]  Let's reach for the future.
[50:33.280 --> 50:36.160]  I know this sounds kitsch.
[50:36.160 --> 50:37.960]  Let's dance.
[50:38.440 --> 50:39.860]  Let's dance.
[50:40.560 --> 50:41.680]  Let's dance.
[50:42.720 --> 50:43.240]  Yes.
[50:44.080 --> 50:47.080]  Let's give to the poor.
[50:47.860 --> 50:50.560]  Let's take from the rich.
[50:50.780 --> 50:52.000]  Richard Stallman is next door.
[50:52.240 --> 50:52.840]  Let's dance.
[50:53.660 --> 50:54.680]  Let's friends.
[50:55.280 --> 50:56.480]  Let's friends.
[50:56.480 --> 51:00.040]  And now we have some, like, carriage return errors in there.
[51:00.100 --> 51:00.620]  But forget it.
[51:01.100 --> 51:02.080]  Let's network it out.
[51:02.740 --> 51:05.920]  Let's network it out.
[51:06.600 --> 51:10.040]  You can network it out.
[51:10.040 --> 51:10.740]  I have to stop.
[51:10.920 --> 51:11.540]  And now I go.
[51:13.360 --> 51:16.500]  Let's network it out.
[51:17.060 --> 51:19.810]  Let's network it out.
[51:19.810 --> 51:21.050]  Let's network it out.
[51:21.050 --> 51:21.570]  Whatever.
[51:22.750 --> 51:24.370]  You can network it out.
[51:24.610 --> 51:24.630]  Let's network it out.