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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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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

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: January 2008

“The Vikings at Helgeland”

January 19, 2008


Schauspielhaus Hamburg shows “The Vikings at Helgeland” by Henrik Ibsen in a mix of stage play and Second Life play, streaming video in and outside Second Life at the same time. Visitors can enjoy the piece at the theater as well as in Second Life. I haven’t seen it yet but there is one feature I really like. In general in the theater as well as in Second Life the audience has its individual view/ camera position. Different to the fixed view in real life theater the user in Second Life can move his view/ camera position independetly from the avatar. But while watching the Ibsen piece in Second Life a script is controlling the camera position of the audience. This is interesing. All viewers in Second Life have the same view on the set in a more likely cinematic way. A movie camera position shows close ups, totals etc. according to the situation. Play and Cinema are merging.

Imagine, in 10 years we won’t go to the movies to see “Lord of the Rings” but we will see in Second Life (or similar) as a play in real time from preset (and also free choosen) camera positions. This thought opens up for a wide range possibilities. 🙂

upcoming shows:

24.01.2008, 8 pm (11 am PST)
25.01.2008, 8 pm (11 am PST)
26.01.2008, 8 pm (11 am PST)
07.02.2008, 8 pm (11 am PST)
10.02.2008, 8 pm (11 am PST)

Island in Second Life SLurl:
Helgeland (176, 130, 31), Hamburg North Beach

Blog of the play:
www.nordische-heerfahrt.blogspot.com/

More infos on the piece at Schauspielhaus Hamburg website:
www.schauspielhaus.de

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Upcoming: “Chat” at Club Transmediale

January 18, 2008


I’ll show “Chat” at Club Transmediale next week on three nights:

– Opening of Club Transmediale, Friday 25.01.08
– After the opening of Transmediale, Tuesday 29.01.08
– and on Friday 01.02.08

Come and join!

directions:
MARIA AM OSTBAHNHOF – CTM main venue
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33/34
10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain

Public transport:
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Ostbahnhof
U8 > Jannowitzbrücke
Bus 100, 340, 257
Night-Bus N8

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“Hektor”

January 16, 2008


Nice project by Uli Franke and Jürg Lehni.

A drawing machine just controled by two motors and a toothed belt. Besides this Edding marker painting at 24c3 they also did a lot of pieces with spray cans.

Check their website for pics and movies at
www.hektor.ch

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Call: Join “Urban Media Salon” during Transmediale

January 11, 2008


The Urban Media Salon which I am part of opens its doors during Transmediale Berlin. Have you already booked a flight? Wanna join?

Urban Media Salon is a monthly meeting of a tight, expert network of Berliners. Selected guests are invited to discuss the interactions between the space of city and current media phenomena. Exclusive to the transmediale.08, Urban Media Salon is offering a special network event. Get involved in an evening full of uncertainties that will bring you together with 7 other guests of transmediale over dinner in a private apartment. After accepting the binding invitation, the organizers will contact you and decide which of the 7 covert locations would be right for you.

Interested parties please registrate through the Salon Website until January, 29, 2008.
http://culturebase.org/home/urbanmediasalon/

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Artist in Residence in World of Warcraft

January 9, 2008


This is great! A residency in World of Warcraft. Just think about it …

Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR): World of Warcraft Residence :: Call for Proposals :: Deadline: January 15, 2008 :: Jurors: Eddo Stern, James Morgan, Amy Wilson, and Jay Van Buran

via Networked Performance

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Give me an “A” !

January 9, 2008


Open call · “Second Inclusiva-net Meeting: Digital Networks and Physical Space” (Deadline 30 January)

Sounds like an interesting event.

Nice pic, I like all the “A”s.
🙂

via Networked Performance

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Urban media

January 8, 2008


“Plaza de las letras” is a beautfiful light installation by Pablo Valbuena involving existing city landscape in a virtual play.

Check out the movie!

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Chat neon?

January 7, 2008


Not a speech bubble but a nice old iluminated portable neon sign. 🙂

via Make

thx fot the link Martin!

Every day Lifetube

January 7, 2008


When we were kids we had a card board TV frame like this Youtube frame and we were playing the news and other stuff.
In the era of Youtube every single moment of every day life becomes a Youtube clip in our minds…
via janchipchase
thx for the link Peter!

“Modelling Infectious Diseases in Virtual Realities”

January 4, 2008

This talk about the “corrupted blood” plague of World of Warcraft was held by floX at 24c3. The WoW disease was programmed my Blizzard itself but went out of control and took over the whole virtual world. floX did a very precise and interesting analysis of the the plague comparing it to real life diseases. In the end he is proposing to introduce virtual diseases as a regular part of MMORPGs. I like that idea and I am wondering how to connect to real life in the end too? 😉 see also –> Snowcrash
More details and resources on the talk at 24c3 schedule

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