Current Events

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: September 2009

Wallride

September 30, 2009

urban-traces
(Streetart? found at Norbahnhof, Berlin,DE)

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“Fuck You Cookie”

September 29, 2009

fuck-cookies
“Fuck You Cookie” Performance
Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
16.01.2009
by Philipp Teister and Kim Asendorf.
You want a cookie too? Check this!

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FAT at Transmediale 2010

September 27, 2009

transmediale
I am pleased to announce that our group Free Art and Technology Lab aka F.A.T. Lab is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010. It ll be fun and good action at #TM10. Stay tuned

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Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile

September 27, 2009

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

by Eric Spiegelman
via jamie

Tape That!

September 26, 2009

taped-doors
(found at Atoms & Bits, Berlin,DE)

ups !??! OHHH NOOOOO !!!!!

September 24, 2009

multiplug-switch
(Power strips with a switch are just the best invention mankind ever made !!! , found in Oslo, NO)

Map – Satellite mode

September 24, 2009


via Torsten Meyer

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Find 3 errors in this picture

September 22, 2009

speechbubble-berlin-ad
( More physical speech bubbles … the ‘be Berlin’ city ad campaign runs already for a while, found this morning at SXF, Berlin)

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Workshop and Talk at AHO Oslo

September 22, 2009

aho-watz
Tomorrow  I will give a workshop and lecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Lecture

  • Dato: 23.09.2009
  • Tid: 15:00 – 16:30
  • Sted: Store Auditorium, AHO
  • Adresse: Maridalsveien 29, Oslo

(pic by Marius Watz, thx for getting me involved Marius!)

In a desperate moment on a monday night

September 21, 2009

How to connect a german Type F “Schuko” power plug (any power plug) to a suisse CEE 7/16 power socket (any power socket) at Zurich airport (any place) on a monday night (at any time).

We are living in the era of dead batteries (and it ll become worse with new cars). Always the same: either i foget the charger or I have the wrong (or none) adapters on me …
First released on F.A.T.