As the official artists' collective representing Vienna at the São
Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group — Johannes
Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry — invented an
artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a
very elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas
Ballhausen, brings that same sense of the cutting-edge and the
carnivalesque to this collection exploring erotica, science fiction,
and technology. A bracing mix of literary forms, the book shows why
the fantasy genre is especially suited to the investigation of the
transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here questions of
science, research, and technologization are examined, along with the
complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss
of control). Provocative and penetrating, Do Androids Sleep with
Electric Sheep? reveals a wealth of depictions of the future and
shows the many ways in which they also address the present.
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