Animated Richard Meier
A new piece by Pablo Valbuena. This is a new and much better dimension to the media facade discussion. Very nice! Good job Pablo, see you around.
Check the video!
Coinciding with its 9th anniversary, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is delighted to announce the launch of its new digital programme Illuminated: Moving Image Perspectives, which will take place over the course of a year, and elaborates on the gallery’s expertise in moving image and reaffirms its ongoing commitment to this field.
On a weekly basis, Illuminated will offer unique insights into a new media artist using film, video animation, as well as their latest technological explorations, including blockchain and advanced technologies such as AI. This project aims to showcase and contextualise diverse digital art practices, while introducing international artists and their distinctive approaches to the gallery’s audience.
The online streams will be augmented by physical presentations of digital artworks in a private home setting at the gallery founder’s loft in Shoreditch. These installations will be accompanied by regular, invitation-only dinners and carefully curated exclusive viewings for art professionals, fostering deeper connections between artists, collectors, journalists, and museum curators.
What is the Ruhr area? An exciting metropolitan region centred around the major cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg? Or a collection of scattered towns and villages from Alpen to Xanten? Or both? Does it consist of tranquil river landscapes along the Ruhr, Emscher and Lippe or is it hopelessly damaged by the scars of heavy industry? Ruhrpott, example of transformation, poverty zone – how can art open up, change and enrich this diverse region?
Urbane Künste Ruhr wants to find out and is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr region. Because this is an ambitious endeavour and Urbane Künste Ruhr has set itself the goal of getting to know local players, forming bonds and establishing sustainable networks, this is a three-year project.
Kick-off Grand Snail Tour in Xanten
Urbane Künste Ruhr is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr area. The kick-off event will take place on 26.9. in Xanten.
As the race to create an artificial general intelligence (AGI) accelerates, questions of surveillance are more important than ever. Is it human or machine? And how can people equip themselves with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate technological futures?
Instruments of Surveillance grounds an age-old and contentious topic in the human and the everyday. From government spooks, data-extraction and activism through to generative AI, this exhibition unravels the interface between human and machine, inviting audiences to unpack the technologies that people use to surveil and their role in it.
Interact with a robotic commission by Louis-Philippe Demers. See an original WWII Enigma Machine, along with wiretaps and prototypes from the Australian Federal Police. Engage with commissions by Leah Heiss and Emma Luke, Kate Crawford, Aram Bartholl and Weniki Hensch among others.
This exhibition is curated by Jemimah Widdicombe (NCM) in collaboration with Dr. Tyne Sumner, current ARC DECRA fellow at the Australian National University.
Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the exhibition space. The idea behind the show is that the audience gets to peep through the hole of the artist’s phones immersing into their artworks. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 In a collective and liberating moment we asked all artists and visitors to share their daily phone screen time during the opening. WE ARE ALL GETTING EXPOSED LOL 🎀
Catalog release of the exhibition ‘Parcel ready for pickup!’ at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (15.7.2023 – 25.2.2024)
On Friday 29 November 2024, we are organising an inspiring afternoon for creative makers and tech enthusiasts together with TURF. During Current Characters IV: Wired Wonders , attendees and speakers will discuss the possibilities and ethical challenges of technology in art and design.
The new event TURF highlights electronic music, art, culture and tech. On Friday 29 November during Characters IV: Wired Wonders , three idiosyncratic makers Aram Bartholl (DE), SMACK(NL) and Roos Groothuizen (NL) present their work and share their views on the role of technology in art and autonomous design. They are known for their critical and social engagement. Wired Wonders promises to be a fascinating mix of inspiration and reflection, challenging attendees to think about the impact of technological innovations on the creative process.
Breda-based collective SMACK highlights the ethical dimensions of digital culture, critically visualising the seductions of technology and algorithms; Aram Bartholl explores the boundary between the digital and physical worlds, with critical installations that make technology tangible in the public domain; and Roos Groothuizen is known for her work on digital freedom and privacy, using technology as an activist tool to create awareness about surveillance and control.
Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the exhibition space. The idea behind the show is that the audience gets to peep through the hole of the artist’s phones to immerse into the artworks. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 In a collective and liberating moment, we also ask the artists to share their weekly screen time prior to the opening. WE ARE ALL GETTING EXPOSED LOL 🎀
participating artists:
Andreas Angelidakis, Margarita Athanasiou, Cory Arcangel, James Bridle, Constant Dullaart, Chioma Ebinama, Evoulix, Fruitgillette, Agape Harmani, Hristos Hantzis, Kathrin Hunze, 1g.00_0 (Dirk Paesmans), Karl Heinz Jeron, Anna Kalozoumi, Kakia Konstantinaki, Markella Ksilogiannopoulou, Leefwerk, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lucile Littot, Miltos Manetas, Maria Mavropoulou, Anastasis-Panagis Meletis, Tokisato Mitsuru, Eva Papamargariti, Angelo Plessas, Captain Stavros, Kosts Stafylakis, Mandy Stergiou, Alexandros Touramanis, Connor Willumsen
curated by:
Aram Bartholl, Socrates Stamatatos & Theo Triantafyllidis
curatorial statement:
Our algorithmic life has been reduced to isolation and hostility the last few years. Alone in our echo chamber we are brain rotting endlessly, while each specific algorithm is surveilling our every move and gatekeeping the process of our actions. To quote the famous philosopher and poet, Britney Spears:
“What am I to do with my life?
How am I supposed to know what’s right?
I can’t help the way I feel
But my life has been so overprotected
I tell ’em what I like, what I want, and what I don’t
But every time I do, I stand corrected
Things that I’ve been told, I can’t believe
What I hear about the world, I realize I’m overprotected.”
Meanwhile, everyone seems to be obsessed with their screen time. Some are trying to downsize it, some are accepting their ‘terminally online’ identity, some perceive it as a competition, and some—as always, simply don’t care. Enough with the heavy! We invited thirty artists to present digital works through their own personal devices, extending an intimate invitation for audiences to peer through the artist’s screen—a portal into their unique, brainrot-filled worlds. From personal and collective imagery to camp, critical takes on surveillance, viral memes, and wholesome escapism—artworks from every corner of the digital psyche are on display. This one night exhibition is about connecting, sharing in the joy of deep-frying our brains, rather than in isolation. And we think THAT’S HOT!
KILLYOURPHONE.COM 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 time we are adding a cute twist 🥰 your phone is going down with style 💖
Join @arambartholl & @socratesstamatatos on 16.11.2024 from 12:00-17:00 at our beloved @super_duper_wow 🎀
A new piece by Pablo Valbuena. This is a new and much better dimension to the media facade discussion. Very nice! Good job Pablo, see you around.
Check the video!
One of my current favorite pieces by Marcus Wittmers shown at Gitte Weise Gallery (show just ended). Yes, it’s real! A stone M4A1 carved/sculptured from an old tombstone.
Marcus Wittmers
Waffenruhe / Ceasefire (M4A1) 2007
Belgian Granite
92 x 94 x 14 cm
(picture copyright by the artist)
… In Waffenruhe (Ceasefire) a series the artist has been working on since the year 2000), the ideas appear with great clarity due to the use of gravestones carved open to reveal almost hyper-realistic images of handguns of types used all over the world today. With this clearly executed shifting of context (the stones are salvaged from waste piles in Berlin’s cemeteries), the artist gives access to various levels of intellectual interpretation of the work.On one hand, the sculptures are surprising, as somehow, these menacing pistols on the rough surface of the stone look seductive with their skilful and precise reproduction. To achieve this effect, the Berlin artist uses Belgian granite, a material which reproduces the colour and texture of the weapons strikingly realistically. On the other hand, the pleasure of the moment is also filled with its dark side – fleetingness, death, finality. The graves and pistols reveal this unsettling dimension, and in turn because of the title Ceasefire, are given what one would almost like to describe as a physical and poetic serenity, hope-inspiring closure: may the weapons be laid to rest.…
read on / full exhibition description
More pics
Gitte Weise Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany
(Looks like a custom mixed blue, like evans BadA55. Found on Borsigstr. Berlin)
Found the trends book 2009 from the art school Central Saint Martins London in my mail today. Nice collection of art and design pieces (incl. my Chat, WoW and FPS projects).
Thx!
I took a walk on Times Square NYC but I couldn’t move my head and the cars and people seamed a bit flat ( hey @googleearth, where is the first person view – mouse look control option?).
Then I took a ride by car on Time Square again but got of course stuck in time-traffic jam. Everybody was frozen like in an “Improve Everywhere” performance. I wonder what the combination of those two with some game like controls and a pinch of photosynth could be … ?
(Not talking about real time locative microblogging streams and all that GPS devices out there …)
A very niece piece by Dan and Sophie a.k.a. plan-b (who I got to know during Futuresonic.com Manchester) will show a reconfigured version of “A message to you” during Preview Berlin.
2 p.m. 30th october
Hangar 2, Tempelhof airport
Berlin
We have tried to keep every text message (SMS) that we have sent each other since Autumn 2006 and decided to use this material to shout to each other across the opposing seating banks of the stadium […]
We read out 481 unedited messages, starting with messages sent exactly a year before the day on which we performed.
read more link
Evan Roth and myself in collaboration with Tobi, Michael, and Jamie are showing a new piece at Videotage, Hong Kong consisting of an installation (titled: “Web 2.0”) and a Fire Fox Plugin (titled: “China Channel“)
Videotage Hong Kong
Exhibition: October Contemporary 2008 – SECOND LIFE
Opening: Oct 4 (Sat), 7-11pm
Exhibition Period: Oct 6 (Mon) to Nov 4 (Tue)
Pictures, documentation and text on Evans blog. Project page coming soon.