Current Events

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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Transmediale Exhibition: you’re doing amazing sweetie

31. January – 14. April 2024
Group Show, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

Exploring the horror of content, the 37th edition of transmediale you’re doing amazing sweetie questions how logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. The festival takes place from January 31 to February 4, 2024 at silent green Kulturquartier, Akademie der Künste, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival’s main exhibition will be on view at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

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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

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.

Recent Events

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.

Killyourphone workshop

24. February 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: January 2010

“hello? …. hello? … are you still there?”

January 6, 2010

Silver Cell is one of my oldest projects but still cutting edge technology 😉
I recently picked up the production again and made a quick video documentation.

Silver Cell from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

Limited multiple: edition of 50
Dimensions: 16 x 8 cm
Material: silver-plated polyamid fabric, 3 layers, cord, cordstopper
More pictures and text on project page.

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The Product Bay

January 6, 2010


Hey theproductbay.org !
I need the data for this front seat lever, Volkswagen Golf II (1990) . I want to print it to replace the missing lever on the other side. No such 3D file on 3DWarehouse or Thingiverse.   Do I have to draw it myself now?
@bre , we need more, bigger and faster makerbots!
Could someone please tell the automotive industry it is about time to go Open Source? Otherwise they’ll face the same fate as music and movie industry.
(… ahh, nice! VW missed to run some security patches on their databases.
It’ll be all online soon! haha …)

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decadic

January 5, 2010

( trying to get used to this number … , found on Borsigstr, Berlin)

Magenta

January 4, 2010


Funny hack of a german ‘Telekom’ phone booth sign by TeamTecom.
In China this would be the standard light animation for a global player company.
Documentation and ‘how to’ picture series

“Here be dragons”

January 4, 2010

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26C3 ist the acronym for the 26th CCC =  26th Chaos Communication Congress which took place in Berlin from 27th-30th of December in 2009. This anual hacker conference (next year 27c3) is organized by the Berlin based Chaos Computer Club which ‘is one of the biggest and most influential hacker organizations.’ (cited from WP=Wikipedia)
To get a quick overview on latest developments in hacking, internet security and cryptography check for 26c3 related news or blog posts
Most important presentations are shortlisted incl PDF, video and audio links on infosecevents.net.
To take a closer look at this year topics check the presentation slides or video recordings of the talks. Browse the full program here. Besides a summary of the presentation you’ll find links to the audio or video recordings at the bottom of each page.
A popular presentation format at the CCC are the lightening talks. In a fast sequence of 4 minute presentations everyone is invited to present their work/topic. The order of each 4 minute presention for each day lightening talk can be found here. Video recordings of these talks can be found in the full video link list below. You are the only one who read the whole blog post. Most people just go for the links.
Links:
Selection of important talks incl. links
Full list of talks incl slides, links, video links
Lightenings talks list of order
Full link list for all video recordings
Optional: torrent links for all video recordings (faster)

How to shit money!

January 3, 2010

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(haha … , pic by Geert Mul )

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“Guaranteed Impractical Jewellery”

January 2, 2010

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Yeh, love this one!
by Sakrowski, nice!
Garantiert unpraktischer Schmuck
originally performed in 1987 by Sakrowski

This photo was taken in May 1990 at the former Dimitroff strasse (now Eberswalder strasse) overground U-Bahn (subway) station in (East) Berlin, former GDR – German Democratic Republic (DDR, East Germany).
Photographer: Thomas Gudd in collaboration with Sakrowski — a handmade positiv