Current Events

Home Smart Home

8. March – 21. April 2024
Solo Show, Kunstverein Rotenburg, Rotenburg

For the exhibition “Home Smart Home,” Aram Bartholl equips the tower of the Kunstverein Rotenburg with a variety of home surveillance cameras. In addition to hidden cameras, known as “Nanny Cams,” Bartholl also experiments with 360° “Lightbulb” cameras equipped with lights and speakers. The market for surveillance cameras in the private sphere has grown tremendously in recent years. The desire for control over one’s own private space is reflected in this development and is part of the digitally driven society marked by a loss of trust.

The Art Tower, 4 Floors – 122 Steps – 24 m.
Originally slated for demolition in the mid-90s to make way for parking space for the “Ronolulu” leisure pool, the disused fire brigade water tower was on the chopping block. However, Peter Möhl, the former managing director of the municipal utilities and thus the owner of the tower, envisioned a meaningful repurposing. Together with the vice chairman of the Art Association, architect Jürgen Lohmann, the idea was born to convert the tower into a gallery.

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Transmediale Exhibition: you’re doing amazing sweetie

31. January – 14. April 2024
Group Show, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

Exploring the horror of content, the 37th edition of transmediale you’re doing amazing sweetie questions how logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. The festival takes place from January 31 to February 4, 2024 at silent green Kulturquartier, Akademie der Künste, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival’s main exhibition will be on view at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

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Decoding the Black Box

27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

Die Ausstellung Decoding the Black Box bringt Künstlerinnen und Künstler zusammen, die Licht in diesen dunklen Raum und die Prozesse werfen, die sich in ihm ereignen. Sie legen dabei nicht nur die Funktionsweisen digitaler Technologien wie beispielsweise von künstlicher Intelligenz offen, sondern visualisieren zugleich die Auswirkungen, die sie auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Realität und unser In-der-Welt-Sein haben. Während sie die ökonomischen und machtpolitischen Strukturen der digitalen Technologien und insbesondere des Internets transparent machen, zeigen sie Gegenentwürfe für eine dezentralisierte, humanere und demokratischere Nutzung ebendieser auf.

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Upcoming Events

Urban Art Biennale

26. April – 10. November 2024
Biennial, Völklinger Hüttte, Saarbrücken

Killyourphone workshop

13. April 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Recent Events

Stitch Incoming!!

25. March 2024
Curatorial, Speed Show at Web Cafe, Athens

Monday 25th of March, 7:00 PM at Web Cafe, Eptanisou 40, 113 61 , Kypseli – Athens

with:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić , Ingrid Hideki, Joanna Bacas, Kyriaki Goni, Maria Mavropoulou, Marina Gioti, Marsunev, Nadja Buttendorf, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos

Speed Show lands in Greece, the country of souvlaki, the sun (yes we can claim that they originated a celestial body), ouzo, feta, an enormous financial debt. Currently, Greece is also trending for all the wrong reasons namely, gentrification, queerphobia, state crimes and more dystopic incidents.
As 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves amidst a whirlwind of confusion, bombarded with a cacophony of online horrors to consume, an attention span further abbreviated by TikTok’s algorithm and the barrage of incoming stitches.

Stitches Incoming serve as a conduit for creators to engage and converse, traversing from one topic to the next. They have evolved into a new social fabric, weaving connections within an ever-shifting digital and physical landscape while also serving as a testament to personal and collective traumas, both past and present.

What unites the participating digital artists? Perhaps everything and nothing simultaneously… Departing from the traditional Speed Show setup, where artworks are carefully stacked inside internet cafe computers, and drawing inspiration from the structure of TikTok stitches, each piece seems to propel the conversation forward, or perhaps uses the next as a springboard for its own narrative.

Stitch this and stitch that, we have everything you ever wanted (maybe) ! Are we stuck in an infinite loop of sh*tposting, valuable content, the highlight of social issues, personal and interpersonal experiences?
Maybe! Come and find out…

More info on Speed Shows at https://speedshow.net/stitch-incoming/

Killyourphone workshop

23. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

9. March 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Killyourphone workshop

24. February 2024
Workshop, Transmediale exhibition hosted by Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

14:00 – 16:00

Killyourphone is an open workshop format. Participants are invited to make their own signal blocking phone pouch. In the pouch the phone can’t send or receive any signals. It is dead! This workshop was run for the first time at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg end of 2013.

Blog Archive for Month: May 2007

HfK Art School Bremen

May 12, 2007




The Art School Bremen HfK-Bremen.de moved into an old refurbished warehouse building in the harbour of Bremen four years ago. Harbour activitiy in Bremen decreased in the last decades and now the city is developing new office and housing areas there. It is a beautiful building with old wooden floors and nice studios. Athough Bremen is my home town I haven’t been there before. The lecture i gave there was fun. I love the silk screen posters they made for announcing the talk. Thanks Alex!

More pics on flickr.

Pic of theday: Random Screen Color!

May 9, 2007


Michael took this picture of this wonderful color changing pixel clock. Very nice combination of analogue and digital. But it says LED, no tea candles in there, thats for sure.
Thx Michael!

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Exhibition: My Own Private Reality

May 9, 2007


There is an interesting Exhibition upcoming at the “Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art” in Oldenburg, DE
“My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s” .
May 12th – July 1st 2007,
Opening 11th 19 h. ,
Unfortunately I can not attend the opening. I have to come back to Berlin on friday, but I’ll try to join the press meeting in the morning.

‘…The show, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook, is “a playful look at the hype surrounding what is called Web 2.0 – the proliferation of publicly accessible websites which allow communities of users to create and share content (writing, photos, videos, music, etc.) – something that previously was only done by professionals, self-taught enthusiasts, or organisations with staff members with technical and software know-how. With blogs, wikis, and centralised file-sharing sites, first-time users can now be as productive as the well-paid experts. How artists play in the online spaces between those populated by unpopular amateurs and well-known professionals is at the heart of this exhibition.” Pretty cool idea and hopefully some of my future projects will be included in the 2.0 version of this show as well! Check out all the work – some really nice work by Cory Arcangel, Nick Crowe, Exonemo, Ute Hörner / Mathias Antlfinger, Humanbeans, Miranda July / Harrell Fletcher, Olia Lialina / Dragan Espenschied, Les Liens Invisibles, Jillian Mcdonald, Marisa Olson, Tanja Ostojic, Annina Rüst, Thomson & Craighead, ubermorgen.com / Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico, and Angie Waller’s pretty funny “My Frienemies”…’

via Jonah Brucker Cohen’s blog coin-operated.com
He is showing “BumpList: An Email Community For the Determined”. Nice project, Jonah!

5×4 m (13×16 ft) Website

May 7, 2007


Ingo Schmid, student of the HfK Bremen is building by hand a real world website size 5×4 m (13×16 ft) for his thesis work. I am curious what’s going to happen on there. Hopefully he will explain it to me end of the week.
A website becomes a real stage again…

presentation will be on
16.05.07, 20:00 h
Bückingstr. Schuppen 18D
Bremen

thewebisnutenough.com

Pic of the day: Kernel Panic

May 7, 2007


Alex just did send me an image of the poster of my talk at HfK Bremen on thursday. I love it! It really took me some time to figure out that this was not photoshop. They tricked me with my own weapons. 🙂

( He said it was a last minute design, name of the file “kernel panic” )

“Link” lecture series
10.5.2007
17:30 Uhr
Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Am Speicher XI 8
28217 Bremen

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Update: 3rd version of new project “Tree”

May 7, 2007


While planning on the new project “Tree” the form of it is constantly changing. It is quite a process to find technical solutions which are feasable and to still have a statisfying visual result. I am curious how this project will look like in the end. Work in progress …

1st Version of Tree
2nd Version of Tree

The installation in public space is planned for September/October 2007 Berlin, funded by the department of culture, City of Berlin.

More details and the concept of the project at the project page on datenform.de

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Hanging out at New Berlin

May 4, 2007



The people from Second Life “New Berlin” had a RL/SL event some time ago. One of them hang out at Alexanderplatz with his laptop at same time online in SL in “New Berlin” at the same spot …

Treffen der Welten… Am Donnerstag den 19. April ist Jan Northoff alias January Lightfoot von 12 bis 14 Uhr auf dem Alexanderplatz in sowohl Berlin als auch new BERLIN inSecond Life anzutreffen. Durch die virtuelle Doppelung der Realität verschmelzen Avatar und reale Person. Andere Berliner Avatare und Laptopbesitzer sind herzlich eingeladen, an dem Happening teilzunehmen. Kommen Sie doch einfach real oder virtuell auf einen Chat vorbei. Ein W-Lan ist eingerichtet. Für das virtuelle leibliche Wohl ist gesorgt: es gibt frisch gescriptete newBERLINERcurryWURST…

I passed Alexanderplatz today and wondered if this guy is still hanging out there.
Is this Lastchancer Nomura aka Tobias Neisecke hanging out at New/Old Berlin?
I’m not sure …

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Documentation: Paper Pixels at Ars and at TENT

May 3, 2007

I am still working on some documentation of exhibitions, even from last year. Find some pictures and better quality quicktimes on the project page Paper Pixels at Ars Electronica 06 and at TENT Rotterdam.

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Pic of the day: Media Artist?

May 3, 2007


Today I saw this women on Bernauerstrasse carrying a lot of rare technology stuff. Stop! Let’s ask. “Are you a media artist doing some cutting egde fancy mobile art project?” You can hardly see it, but additional to this futuristic antena she carries a big bagpack with another antenna on top. What’s going on? No artist in Berlin could afford an equipment like this, or did Blasttheroy move to Berlin lately?
No, she is not an artist but she is doing her work: Some high accurate GPS mesurement for a new construction site. What I learned from here: There are four additional stationary GPS antenas in Berlin to get a very precise GPS signal, accuracy 1-2 cm, not bad!

update: In the background on the pavement you can see part of a stone strip which marks city wide the former Berlin Wall. Yes, exactly THERE has been the Wall.

FlickrBlockers

May 2, 2007


Ok, last post for today. It seems I am getting slowly addicted in blogging. I will try to tune in for 1-2 posts a day but I just have to blog this.
FlickrBlockers! Another nice project very close to the Magic Arrow and of course in a way related to my work. Good stuff!
via Sascha’s SuperFeed