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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
“Map” City Centre Series , Szczecin, Poland 2009 from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.
It took me a while but finally I managed to edit the Map documentation from Szczecin, Poland.
Map – City Centre Series
5,50 x 3,40 x 0,15 m
pine wood, paint
2009
inSPIRACJE Festival 19.3.-25.3.2009
Map installation March – June 2009
Szczecin, Poland
( found this nice sculpture today on Invalidenstr, Berlin. It reminded me of a TV set from a while ago. Any ideas for a name to start flickr group? ;- )
I’ ll participate in a radio panel discussion tonight. “Myth and media hype of Web2.0” Info Radio RBB.
Feel free to join at the Film and TV museum, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 7:30 pm.
Beim kommenden Zukunftsgespräch soll es um das Web 2.0 gehen.
Welche Anwendungen gibt es und wer nutzt sie? Wie werden Informationen verbreitet und wahrgenommen? Wie hat es das Verhalten der (aktiven und passiven) Nutzer verändert? Kann man damit Geld verdienen? Wie sehen Arbeits- und Lebenswelten im Zeichen von Web 2.0 aus? Und was kann und soll Web 3.0?
Für das Podium sind angefragt:
Regine Haschka-Helmer, Consultant interactive media
Aram Bartholl, Medienkünstler und -aktivist
Markus Beckedahl, newthinking communications
Sven Assmann, interface Berlin
Moderation: Harald Asel, Inforadio
Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion und Aufzeichnung einer Radiosendung. Im Museum für Film und Fernsehen. Beginn: 19:30 Uhr. Eintritt frei. In Zusammenarbeit mit Inforadio des rbb.
This video addresses all curators and production managers who are interested in showing Aram Bartholl’s art piece “First Person Shooter” in a public exhibition but who are at the same time concerned about health and security issues. Yes, it is possible to show this piece with all it’s features and DIY part in a public place! Some simple rules and classic tools will prevent that exhibition visitors run amok or commit suicide in the show.
First released on fffff.at
Hilarious!!! Did you encourge them Ariel!?!! haha …
found by Ariel
A grandpa is tagging a train with his wife lipstick, on his way to visit his grandchildren somewhere in Poland.
A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a a search on the portrayed person’s name at Google…
full text and more pictures on Google Portrait series project page.
4 Google self-portraits commissioned by Microwave Festival, Hong Kong , 2009
‘Aram Bartholl’, search german
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper, edding 850
‘Aram Bartholl’, search english
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper, edding 750
‘Aram Bartholl’, search chinese
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper stamp, stamp ink
‘Aram Bartholl’, search korean
75 x 75 cm, transparent paperpastel chalk
I am showing 4 new self-portraits of the ‘Google portrait series‘ commissioned by Microwave at the project room exhibition, Microwave festival, Hong Kong. Visitors are invited to draw their own Google self-portrait in a drop-in workshop during the festival.
“Nature Transformer”
Microwave festival,
Hong Kong
13.11.-11.12.2009
Participating Artists:
Aram Bartholl / Germany
Petko Dourmana / Bulgaria
Tiffany Holmes / USA
Colin Ives / Canada
Natalie Jeremijenko / USA
Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata, Takehisa Mashimo / Japan
Kult / Singapore
Joao Vasco / Hong Kong
Victoria Vesna / USA
lose/lose from zach gage on Vimeo.
Haha very nice! Love it! …
via @philipsteffan
Lose/Lose
by Zach Gage
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted……
Check Ariel’s new VVANK project! A DIY fridge vending machine for your shared studio! The beauty of simplicity! Nice!
Hey Ariel, F.A.T. could use that machine to cover some costs during Transmediale 2010 selling drinks … haha
take a look at the The Drop Shadow Talks page Johannes setup for the talk series. It is much nicer than my copy-paste post here …
The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened background into three-dimensionality—and thus significance.
With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its flat medium.
Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
This semester the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.
BTK’s campus is located at Bernburger Straße 24-25, very close to Potsdamer Platz.
U-Bahn: U2 to station Potsdamer Platz or to Mendelsson-Bartholdy-Park.
S-Bahn: S1, S2 or S25 to station Anhalter Bahnhof or to Potsdamer Platz.
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule at Google Maps.
All talks will take place in room J/K on the second floor.
Admission is free.