Arse Elektronika

Arse Elektronika is an annual conference organized by the Austrian arts and philosophy collective monochrom, focused on sex and technology.

The name Arse Elektronika is a pun on Ars Electronica, the name of an arts and technology organization based in Austria.

[4] Speakers at past conferences have included Violet Blue, Mark Dery, Richard Kadrey, Annalee Newitz, Carol Queen, Susie Bright and Rudy Rucker, with demonstrations by Kyle Machulis of the blog Slashdong; Heather Kelley; Allen Stein of Thrillhammer; and other engineers of the pornographic website Fucking Machines.

[24][25] In April 2010, the first Arse Elektronika exhibition "Techno(sexual) Bodies" was presented at Videotage in the city of Hong Kong; it was curated by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Isaac Leung.

[26][27] In March 2019, monochrom presented (as part of an Arse Elektronika special at NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf) a sex robot called Nekropneum Fuckenbrust Neckhammer 40k.