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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: April 2008

Computer Game Arrows

April 28, 2008


Another car commerical implementing computer game elements.
Seems they pic up on each other 1 2. Check out the arrows. A variation of Speed.
thx for the link Jonah!

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agoasi

April 24, 2008

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Call for USB art!

April 23, 2008


Call for participation. Miriam Winkels and LaForge started a nice competition for USB stick case mods. Please post your results in the USB-ish flickr group and also take a look at the nice USB can opener. 🙂

I am still waiting for USB-art exhibitions (or am I missing something, please correct me.)

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Calendar update.

April 23, 2008

My upcoming Events
25.7.-30.7.08
Presentation at ISEA 2008 Conference, Singapore, SG
22.07.- 24.08.08
“WoW” at “Hack the City” Digital Playgorund at TMCA, CO.KR
26.06.08
“Chat” at “Try again” Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, ES
23.05. – 21.06.08
“Are you social?” at “Public Privacy” Nimk, Amsterdam, NL
22.05.08
Talk at Art School Kassel “Digitale Attitüde”, Kassel, DE
1.-5.5.08
“WoW”, “Chat” and “Friends” at Futuresonic, Manchester, UK
past events …

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“Friends” stamps

April 23, 2008


Stamps for “Friends” workshop at Futuresonic arrived. 🙂
(more than 30)
Join the Friends network at
Futuresonic 2008!
Get to know cool new friends and hook up. Find out which online social networks they belong to. Extend your list of friends and let new people discover you. Get ready and take offline networking to the next level!
Join the Friends workshop to create your own paper profile page in the ground breaking big Friends network book. And take away your personal Friends booklet, to carry on collecting new friends around the city. Create your handmade profile picture and leave your mark with special stamps and ink on all your friends’ booklets. A wide range of tools and materials are provided. Show off your Web 2.0 identity in paper mode!
Instructions:
1. Sample your personal Friends booklet from high end manufactured paper sheets to start your unforgettable collection of new friends!
2. Use your hands! Cut a stamp with your web profile picture. This personal tool plays a central role in all Friends communication. Leave your traces in real life!
3. Connect! Coin your basic profile data by using Dymo label tape. All your friends can get an easy carbon copy of your basic contact info!
4. What Social Web services are you on? Stamp and customize your personal Web 2.0 info. Create a collection of Web 2.0 stamps to distribute and inform all your friends about your online activities.
5. Contribute to the big, public and constantly growing Friends book. All users of the Friends network have a profile page here! Take a look at who is already part of it! Create your personal profile page and share your digital life!
6. Find new friends! Place friend requests on user profile pages and exchange info directly via carbon copy and Web2.0 stamps. Collect and share your online identity in your Friends booklet.
7. “Yes, I am using Friends and it is great!” Create your personal button badge to find other Friends users and extend your network during Futuresonic 2008.
8. Customize and wear Friends tattoos. Wear Web2.0 on your skin! Inhale Social Web!

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Soccer Ball

April 22, 2008


Hmm … something is wrong about this soccer ball. 😉

Jetlag im Ausland

April 22, 2008


Boris is a good old friend from Bremen who studied composition in the Netherlands. Serge and Boris were running a nice guitar/computer-duo for serveral years. Lately they began to work with sound installtaions/performances involving all kinds of materials. Upcoming “concert” sounds very interesting.
See you on thursday!

Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun
http://www.99ct.org

jet lag
for toy steam boilers, film reel boxes and plastic tubes [2007]

the development of jet lag has been inspired by an early 20th century sewage works facility driven by a large steam engine. this facility is situated in prague and has been turned into a museum (ekotechnické museum) after the abadonment of service.

the jet lag objects are constructed of the following elements: film reel boxes as the main containers. boilers extracted from toy steam boats. plastic tubes extend the boilers outlets to provoke a higher resistance and slightly destabilise the functioning of the engine. tealight bins are serving as containers for liquid fuel which powers the boilers. > jetlag (mp3)

jet lag
for steam boilers, plastic tubes and film reel boxes
thu 24.04.2008
3 sets: 20h / 21h / 22h (on time)

at
ausland
lychener straße 60
10437 berlin
www.ausland-berlin.de
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“Friends” tattoos!!!

April 21, 2008


“Friends” tattoos arrived today.
Don’t miss the “Friends” workshop at Futuresonic 2008.
It’s going to be fun! 🙂

[Actually the “flag/tail” is supposed to show the screenname for each service.]

Update: Full story, more pics and instructions on project page.

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Join “WoW” at Futuresonic 2008!

April 20, 2008


Join the “WoW” workshop/performance at Futuresonic 2008!

On Friday 2.5.08 during Futuresonic festival I will run the “WoW” workshop which results in a public group performance. If you are interested feel free to register here for the workshop. Places are limited. Free admission. Spread the word!

(picture, VORUIT Gent 2007)

Workshop schedule:

  1. In a papercraft session each participant will cut his real full name from cardboard and mount it on a transparent plastic strip.
  2. Break (fish&chips or coffee).
  3. In a group performance the participants will carry each others names on a fork construction throughout the festival main venue.
  4. Following and presenting person will swap places after desired time.

Friday 2 May.
Workshop: 2pm – 5pm.
Performance from 5:45 pm
Contact Theatre, Oxford Street
Free

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FUTURESONIC 2008

April 18, 2008


I like this pic on the Futuresonic webpage art section a lot. It reminds me of something ….hmm… I don’t exactly remember. 😉

But anyway, come and see! I’ll show three projects: “Chat”, “WoW” and brand new commissioned project “Friends”. It s going to be fun.

See you in Manchester in two weeks!

“Social Networking Unplugged” Futuresonic 2008,
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas. Manchester www.futuresonic.com
1.5. – 5.5.2008

5 days and nights of live music, art premieres, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring a world-class programme of over 300 artists in 30 venues and spaces across the city centre. Futuresonic is an international festival of Art, Music and Ideas now in its 12th year occupying the orbits of both digital culture and music.

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