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Urban Art Biennale

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

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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Recent Events

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.

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.

Blog Archive for Month: December 2007

“Chat” at 24C3

December 30, 2007


Chat performance yesterday at 24C3 went very well and was a lot of fun. Tim made up a short story on the psychology of a chat bubble.

more pics on flickr

udate: thx to daniel, duracell, szahra, martel among others for support!!!

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24C3

December 29, 2007


Back in Berlin I had my first day at 24C3 today. It’s fun like every year!

“Chat” at 24C3

December 23, 2007

I am planning to show the latest Chat version at 24C3 Chaos Communication Congess Berlin ( 27-30.12.07 ) on sat. 29.12 from 5 pm till open end.

Merry X-mas to everybody! See you next year!

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let's MAKE something …

December 20, 2007


Hey Bre, it was fun having you around at my workshop yesterday.

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“Typing of the death”

December 18, 2007


Inspired by the “Chat” pics below
somebody did send Jonah this link. An edutainment game called “Typing of the death” released for dreamcast in 2000. Instead of shoting zombies players have to type the right letters to kill them. lol

Maybe I should modify “Chat” for doing that too. 😉

Thx for the link Jonah!

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“Chat” vers.2.0 preview

December 14, 2007


I am working on a new version of the mobile installation/performance “Chat” (premiered during Ars Electronica 07). This version will be shown during Clubtransmediale in Jan/Feb 2008. Stay tuned!

more pics on flickr

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A blessed email

December 14, 2007

The bosses of a large advertisment company in german did send their employees a blessed X-mas email. (No, I don’t work for them but I like the idea.)

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“We love technology!”

December 14, 2007


yes?

Video Art Award – Bremen

December 12, 2007


I am pleased to anounce that I won a first price for a concept I proposed to the 17th video art award Bremen. Planned by Filmbuero Bremen e.V and curated by Marikke Heinz-Hoek. The opening of the exhibition of last year winners took place on 9.12.07.

More details comming soon.

Pic by Marius Watz

Udate:
#17 video award Bremen

Jury:
Astrid Nippoldt
Christian Katti
Sönke Magnus Müller

Awarded concepts:

– Aram Bartholl “Sociial”
– Maximilaian Moll “Keep the fire burning”
– Stephane Leonard “New York Street Ensemble”

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More speech bubbles

December 11, 2007


While I was performing “Chat” at Marienstrasse, 2nd City, Ars Electronica 2007 the G.R.L. guys were joking, making sure the got the biggest chat bubble. Imagine me standing with my “Chat” speech bubble next to the wall in this pic. It’s always a lot of fun having James and Evan around.

Today Tobi (aka Mr.Timemachine-Firefox-retro-plugin) who was part of my 2nd City shop team send me this link.

Somehow the project TXTual Healing by Paul Notzold appears to be a nice combination of GRL lasertagging and public speechbubbles. Check it out!

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