1. Johannes Grenzfurthner's motivation was to react to the emerging conservativism in cyber-cultures of the early 1990s, and to combine his political background in the Austrian punk and antifa movement with discussion of new technologies and the cultures they create.
Johannes Grenzfurthner calls this "looking for the best weapon of mass distribution of an idea".
Johannes Grenzfurthner is hosting Roboexotica, the international Festival for Cocktail-Robotics which invites researchers and artists to build machines that serve or mix cocktails.
Johannes Grenzfurthner is head of Hedonistika, a festival for artistic food tech and robotic indulgement.
Johannes Grenzfurthner is member of the Austrian Director's Guild and the Association of Austrian Documentary Filmmakers.
Johannes Grenzfurthner published the much debated pamphlet "Hacking the Spaces", that dealt with exclusionist tendencies in the hackerspaces movement.
Johannes Grenzfurthner extended his critique through lectures at the 2012 and 2014 Hackers on Planet Earth conferences in New York City.
Johannes Grenzfurthner has had supporting and lead parts in several theater plays.
Johannes Grenzfurthner portrays one of the two lead characters in his own film Je Suis Auto.
Johannes Grenzfurthner voice acted director Fritz Lang in Karina Longworth's Vanity Fair podcast Love Is a Crime.
Johannes Grenzfurthner was one of the core team members in the development process of netznetz, a new kind of community-based funding system for net culture and net art together with the culture department of the city government of Vienna.
Together with Florian Hufsky, Leo Findeisen and Juxi Leitner, Johannes Grenzfurthner co-organized the first international conference of the pirate parties.
Johannes Grenzfurthner created an artistic online ad campaign for Cheetos.
Johannes Grenzfurthner uses his personal history and upbringing as a source for his work.
Johannes Grenzfurthner's name was one of 200 activists, politicians, and artists from Germany, Switzerland and Austria that were published on an ultra-right doxing list distributed on a variety of online platforms in December 2018 and January 2019.
Johannes Grenzfurthner openly addressed this on online platforms and in lectures.