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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: December 2009

Straight Ahead

December 9, 2009

straight
(dedicated to Ariel, found on Anna-Louisa-Karschstr, Berlin)

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How to make more than 1000,- € in only 5 minutes!

December 9, 2009


Deutsche Bank runs since a while this stupid fake money campaign.  I always wanted to do this …

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DIY HUD

December 8, 2009

Stumbled upon this because engadgeted.net was reminded of my First Person Shooter glasses, haha …
Nice low tech speed project!

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'primitive projections' ONE NIGHT

December 3, 2009

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I am showing a new piece from my analogue screens series upcoming sunday. Serge Onnen is turning his nice s-bahn-bogen studio into a one night off-space event on projections and light installations. Drop by, bring your friends and feel free to foward the invitation!
Cya there!
‘primitive projections’
ONE NIGHT at Studio BKVB (aka Büro Friedrich) , Sunday 6.12.2009, 18:00 – 23:00 h
with:
ZORAN TERZIC
ARAM BARTHOLL
CHARLOTTE BONJOUR
SERGE ONNEN
DAVID POLZIN
CATARINA SIMOES
ARIEL SCHLESINGER
Holzmarktstr. 15-18 (behind ARAL under S-Bahn)
10179 Berlin
tel: +49 30 24085993

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Billboard Buildings

December 2, 2009

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This is how Potsdamer Platz Berlin looks like after 20 years of construction.  But wait a minute! Something is wrong here. Zoom in! Already noticed?
The whole building on the right side is just a huge scaffolding construction covered with large prints. It s a fake, a simulated building, or better a Real Life 3D rendering?
It has been around at Potsdamer Platz during all the constructions for years. I always thought a construction site was going on inside but today I realized it is  a complete fake.
There are so many layers worth discussing here that I don’t know where to start. I wish someone will use this picture for his/her PhD on a topic like “The evolution of billboard advertisement over the last century in relation to capitalist production of space in the era of post national urban eclecticism.” Go for it! Haha…
In a brief summary:
– The wasted chance of completely new build centre of the City of Berlin. Architecture in Berlin is a very said story. I am not going into details otherwise I ll be depressed all day.  (But to give you an idea. This is the front facade of the Frank Gehry DZ Bank in the centre of Berlin. No joke!  Translate this to other architects …OMG!)
– The discussion of facade and texture and its relation to the body/ core building in architecture. In fact the printed facade is a very consequent next step from what you see on the left. Why bricks and stone? In the era of Internetz we just need pixels!
– The victory of XXXXL billboard advertisement or how to make more money by renting the facade to advertisement than renting the actual building. I am sure that the industry will have an answer to this pretty soon. How about a fixed installed semi transparent full facade print for all houses. ( People don t need to look out of their windows any more, we have screens for that, haha)
– Double fake. A fake billboard on a fake building. The actual iPod ad you see here (on both sides) is not a separate print on top of the other print. It is all one single surface with a nice drop shadow to make the ad float. I am pretty sure they have a percentage deal with city authorities on how much percentage of the fake building may be an ad. The other 60% part should look like city planners of Berlin wished. And it’s a beautiful irony that the whole artificiality of Potsdamer Platz condenses into this ‘building’ with its printed jewelry shops.
– The production of architecture and it s relation to its 3D computer renderings. There is a saying among architects that you could read from a facade of a building which CAD software was used to draw, construct and 3D render it. This is not always true. But for sure there is an impact of more and more realistic 3D renderings on buildings in the planning process. Houses with their ‘digital look’ turn out to fit more in a computer 3D environment than into the actual city.
– Urban Planning in the era of digital age;  Humans, Buildings and the technology driven society;  Consumer electronics – the skyscrapers of the post modern society; Pixel by pixel – the evolution of the city in the digital age ; haha … feel free to take this further into a nice fundametal, well researched essay!
Also take a look at the nice photo series of Aleksander Prugar on this topic!
And please post reading recommendations on these topics in the comments! ( I don’t google any more … haha)

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