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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Decoding the Black Box
27. January – 2. June 2024
Group Show, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
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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: June 2012
Megacool 4.0
Jan Poppenhagen, Keven, 2007, 100 x 100 cm, Dibond mit Acryl-Beschichtung, Privatbesitz
Megacool 4.0
Youth & Art
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
15. Juni – 7. October 2012
The exhibition at Künstlerhaus k/haus highlights the life worlds and creative productions of various youth cultures as reflected in international contemporary art.
“MEGACOOL 4.0 – Youth and Art” presents photographs, interactive installations, video art, paintings, street art and sculptures made by visual artists (incl. Erwin Olaf (Vermeer award laureate 2011), Charlie White, Rinneke Dijkstra and Slinkachu) from across Europe, Russia, China and the USA. The exhibition is supplemented by objects and everyday items from Jugendkulturarchiv Frankfurt and a focus on young art from Vienna (incl. an installation developed by wienxtra-medienzentrum in collaboration with youngsters).
“MEGACOOL 4.0” presents fundamentally different types of youths: normal ones, assimilated hipsters, altar servers, drag kings, fat ones, thin ones, twins, celebrities, goths, hiphops, metalheads, ravers, cosplayers, avatars, aggressive girls. From installations such as “Mindless living” by LA Raeven and “Pitbull” by Martin Brand, Cao Fei’s “Cosplayer”, Andreas Gursky’s “Mayday I”, Michael Schmellings Serie “Atlanta HipHop” to Nan Goldin’s “Jimmy Paulette after the Parade”. The exhibits takes visitors on a visual foray through young people’s picturescapes and theme areas such as online cultures, light / dark, body and gender performances as well as their choreographies, fashion, games, sport and party. In addition to the fundamental questions in young people’s identity search, the creative minds of a generation are invited to take centre stage, those who use Web 2.0 platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, flickr, deviantart or animexx as a source of inspiration for aesthetic-creative experiments, explore creative freedom and produce new forms of art. “MEGACOOL 4.0” shows fundamentally different takes on “youth”, their movements, their poses, their objects and their fashion.
KünstlerInnen/Artists
AES + F, Andreas Amrhein, Nadine Arbeiter, Petra Arnold, Aram Bartholl, Christian Bazant-Hegemark, Sabine von Bassewitz, Lars Borges, Martin Brand, Kimberly Clark, Robbie Cooper, Denis Darzacq, Diana Deu, Rineke Dijkstra, Dennis Dirksen , Ruud van Empel, Cao Fei, Franziska Fiolka, Matthias Fritsch, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Nan Goldin , Andreas Gursky, Cosima Hanebeck, Marlene Hausegger, Anna-Lena Heidrich, Olaf Heine, Max Holicki, Anna Jermolaewa, Dejan Kaludjerović, Sebastian Keitel, JK Keller, Angelika Loderer, Mark Leckey, Jocelyn Lee, Ulrike Lienbacher, Birte Svea Metzdorf, Matthias Meyer, James Mollison, Mareike Müller, Erwin Olaf, Ann-Sophie Paul, Hana Pesut, Jan Poppenhagen, Marion Poussier, Wendelin Pressl, Daniel Puhe, Jussi Puikkonen, L.A. Raeven, Birgit Richard, Römer + Römer, Rebecca Sampson, Michael Schmelling, Oliver Sieber, Carolin Simon, Katja Gunkel, Philipp Ries und Julia Thiemann, Sauli Sirviö, Slinkachu, Cornelia Sollfrank, Klara Petra Szabo, Alexander Tilgner, Albrecht Tübke, Ari Versluis, Ellie Uyttenbroek, Nadine Wagner, Andreas Weinand, Charlie White, Daniel Zerbst
Vanity Surf Performance
Magnotta SpeedShow from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.
(shot and edited(!) on a phone)
http://speedshow.net/magnotta-speedshow/
Magnotta Speedshow – A vanity surf performance at
Internetcafe Helin, Karl-Marx-Straße 156, Berlin g-maps
8-10 pm, Tuesday 12th of June, 2012
Killing is bad, mailing bodyparts is worse, vanity surfing (while getting caught) is cool!
One week after Magnotta got caught we present a vanity surf performance at the exact same Internetcafe in Berlin where Magnotta was arrested while vanity surfing! Be invited to join and vanity surf yourself!
“Internet cafes are not just vaguely unglamorous places for ethnic minorities and communications challenged, they do have a genuinely bad reputation.” [Olia Lialina – ‘Still There‘] Where else a social network killer can be caught? Of course in the Internet cafe!
by Constant Dullaart, CuratingYoutube, Olia Lialina & Aram Bartholl
SKATE AND SHARE OR DIE!!
How To Treflip (with a Piratebox onboard) from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.
While Sjoerd (THX!!) was killing the pool we still could share files through the battery powered wifi Piratebox attached on his board!! No board sides please!!… 😉
This was one of a series of experiments we, David Darts and I, did during a 3 day Offline Filesharing Workshop at Baltanlabs Eindhoven, Netherlands last week. The box below was donated to the skatepart ‘Area 51‘. Go there and check it out! Had a great time!! Thx to Baltan, MU and David!! More docu to come…
Basel Solo Projects
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 [DAM] Berlin|Cologne präsentiert auf der Solo Project Basel neue Arbeiten von: Aram Bartholl, D Gerne senden wir Ihnen eine Einladungskarte zu.
Bitte senden Sie uns eine Email mit der Angabe,
für wie viele Personen Sie Eintrittskarten benötigen. Öffnungszeiten:
Mittwoch 13.6.12 von 12 – 20 Uhr Donnerstag 14.6.12 von 10 – 19 Uhr Freitag 15.6.12 von 10 – 19 Uhr Samstag 16.6.12 von 10 – 19 Uhr Sonntag 17.6.12 von 10 – 17 Uhr Wir freuen uns, Sie in Basel wiederzusehen.
Wolf Lieser
[DAM] Berlin|Cologne
Messekontakt: +49 160 99166383
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new works by the artist:
Aram Bartholl, D We are happy to send you an invitation,
please let us know by email how many tickets you need. Opening hours: Wednesday 13th: 12 – 8pm Thursday 14th: 10 am – 7 pm Friday 15th: 10 am – 7pm Saturday 16th: 10 am – 7 pm Sunday 17th: 10 am – 5 pm We look forward to seeing you in Basel.
Wolf Lieser [DAM] Berlin|Cologne
contact at the art fair: +49 160 99166383
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Galerie [DAM]Berlin Neue Jakobstr. 6/7 10179 Berlin +49 30 280 98 135 www.dam.org
Galerie [DAM]Berlin Neue Jakobstr. 6/7 10179 Berlin +49 30 280 98 135 www.dam.org
Small Small Gallery
“Untitled-1”
neon sign, 37” x 13”
Aram Bartholl
2012
I forgot to post pictures of Hennesy Youngmans show at Family Business which already took place in April. I love the artist list 🙂 The place was crammed with art and I was happy to show a new piece. 🙂
http://www.familybusinessgallery.com/hennessey-youngman-open-call/
ITSA SMALL, SMALL WORLD
@ FAMILY BUSINESS
520 W. 21ST ST.
NY, NY
ARTWORK DROP OFF:
FRI MARCH 30TH – SUN APRIL 1ST
10AM-7PM
OPENING RECEPTION
TUESDAY APRIL 3RD
CLOSING
APRIL 16TH.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/hennessy-youngman/itsa-small-small-world-artist-list
Makda Abraham Katerina Adair Christine Wilcox Ackerman Pablo Mustafa Albilal Bravlio Amado Nana An Chris Anderson Carolyn Angel Victor Angelo Hackworth Ashley Monique Atherton Aaron Auslender Eva Avenue Becky Bailey Scarlett Baily Dan Bainbridge Rush Baker Malado Baldwin Diana Barash Michael Barraco Aram Bartholl Victoria Batey Kurt Beers Louise Bennett Tom Bennett Jules Berman Simone Berni Davide Bertocchi Grant Billingsley Andrew Birk Jillian Blackwell Alexandra Blaiotta Alex Blaiotta & Yanging Lin Morgan Blair Colleen Bleekand Mark Bloch Laura Blulier & Miles Pflanz Alana Bograd Andrew Bolasso Andrea C. Bonin Frank Born Sam Bornstein Milton Bradley Paige Bradley Jackie S. Branson Noah Breuer Andrew Brischler Mitzuko Brooks Able Brown Jeff Brown Kat Broydo Justin Brunelle Lorenzo Bueno Jon Burgerman Peter Burke Craig Butterworth & Seth Hunter Bubi Canal Jack Carhart Worm Carnevale T Milo Carney Chris Carr E. Bates Carter, III Julia Caston Maurizio Cattelan Ben Cavers Taeyoon Choi Kim Christmas Karen Cintron CJNYE David Clark Stephanie Clark Douglas Cloninger Chris Cobb Yvette Cohen Margaret Coleman & Heather Elizabeth Garland Carl Corden Adelfino Corino Evita Cortez Miles de Courcy Corydon Cowansage Sterling Crispin Benjamin Critton Huey Crowley Nicholas Cuera Devin Cuthbertson Nichelle Dailey Carol Dameron Miah Davis Magda Dejose Debora Delmar Antonio Depietro Mern DeRoller Andy Deutsch Deepika Dhiman Linda DiGusta Robert Dimin Motoko Dobashz Phoebe Doran Brenden Dowhaniuk Jackie Du Brian Dupont Erika Duque Michael Dour Melissa Eder Rachel Ehrgood Thomas Eno Morgan Erew Gordon Eriksen Betty Esperanza Ayana Evans Susy Evans & Brian Galderisi William Evertson Emma Exley Solange Fabiao Sean Fader Nicholas Farhi Casey Farnum James Feld Zoe Field Vincent Alexander Finazzo FLATCHESTEDMAMA Sasha Flimlin Jared Flores Cacy Forgenie Jean-Paul Forsans Jerome Forsans Stephan Fowlkes Bridget Franz Matthew Freeman Emilie Frohlich & Lauren Canelli Natania Frydman John Furer Nick Fusaro MP Fusco Edwin Galarza Borinquen Gallo Nio Gallo Patrick Zachary Snake Garner Robin Gaynes-Bachman David Brandon Geeting Jon Geiger Lauren Gesswein Charlotte Ghiorse Eric Ginsburg Daniel J. Glendening Felicia Glidden Aimee Goldsmith Brenda Goldstein Carlos Gonzalez Jefe Gottesfeld David Grainger J.T. Gray Matthew Greco Flora Greenberg Liz Greene Nick Greenwald Joseph Griffith Katya Grokhovsky Mac Grollman Yikui Gu Tiffany Guinn Joseph Gurka Claire Haik Fanlis Hajamadi Jon Handel Lilly Handley Julia Sandberg Hansson & Nick Sadler Pooper Harkins & Justin H. Long Ryan Harmon James Harrison Jess Hartley Rebecca Haskins Ebony Haynes Maya Hayuk Thyra Heder Balarama Heller Dana Helwick Tom Hembree William Hempel Victoria Hempstead Harold Hernandez M. Benjamin Herndon Rick Herron Justine Hill Keiran Brennan Hinton Judith Hoffman George Horner Kevin Horton Mary Houlihan Gabriel Huallanea Brian Hubble Paul Hunter-Speagle Alanna Hutt Alejandro Ibarra Gina Im Chieko Inayama Daria Irincheeva Bryn Jackson Terrance D. James Rachel K. Jantzi Gellochio Jeloakio Diana Jensen Priscilla Jeong Porsperger Jerome Aka Jewellery Sara Jimenez J.C. Jogerst Paul John Randy J. 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Martin Jamie Martinez Christof Mascher Federico Massa Michelle Matson Fia Matsson David Mawdsley Rachel L. McCar Marlene McCarty Zoe McCloskey Melissa B. McCloud David McDonough Lauren McGoyh Aria McManus Peter Gynd Medley Joseph Meloy Nichole Michand Leni Michl Adam Milner Janie Milstein Marilyn Minter Dato Mio Azikiwe Mohammed Parviz Mohassel Lucia Mooney-Martin Darcy Moore Dave La Morte Christopher Moss L. Mosquera Hannah Motley David Mramor Holly Murkerson Laura Murray Edie Nadelhaft Zach Nader Tiffany Navarro Tommaso Nelli Jefferson Nelson Daniel Newman Lara Nickel Petra Nimtz Steve Nishimoto Jodie Niss Sheila Noorollah Madeline Nunez Evan O’Reilly Dionis Ortiz Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu Elizabeth Otten Cody Oyama Chris Page Joshua Paige Judith Panetta Tyson Parks Cathleen Parra Gioni David Parra & Gasperini Simona E. 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Suzy Evans Nicole Aiello James Feraciour Fabienne Stephan Debora Delmar Thomas Wharton Russ Nodo Vincent Lardieri Agni Zotis Jordan Baker-Caldwell Brandon Frank Sines Cecilie Kronborg Kevin Marin Colleen Deery Bernard Klevickas Emily Ruiz-Folmar Peter Schenck Eric Mistretta Sean Joseph Patrick Carney Jane Thorn Adam Lister MAN BARTLETT Ayn S. Choi Haynes Riley Thomas Moor Simon Collet Rory Smith Andrew Deutsch Rimas Simaitis Adam Tyson Jeff Otto O’Brien Terry Ward Tommy Coleman Susan Shulman Ria Vanden Eynde
Color Study
(by unknown (kids), found at Gerichtstr.23, Berlin)
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copy&paste from http://www.berlinartlink.com/2012/06/02/time-and-openness/
thx Max!!
Time and Openness
Article by Max Schreier, photos by Chloé Richard in Berlin; Saturday, June 2, 2012
Aram Bartholl is a tech artist who makes objects by capturing electronic moments, developing them into classical forms, and using the most analog processes to create digital forms. His work falls into the avant garde not by its innovative methods, but rather by its means of handling the often difficult-to-tame medium of the Web. When I visited Bartholl in his studio he humbly downplayed how innovative his work is, choosing instead to discuss the more abstract ideas that inform his process. For Bartholl the duality of analog and digital is a false exclusivity; his art is digital in its concepts but analog in its presentation, an execution that sets him apart from many of his peers in the tech art world.
Bartholl moved to Berlin in 1995 to earn a degree in the architecture department of the UdK. After his initial two years of study he found himself more excited by the T1 connection in the computer lab than the plotters in the architecture studios. Unlike many of the programmers who were discussing the newfound wealth of information and visual possibilities of writing code to develop art, Bartholl was primarily interested in the front end of the Internet; the user experience with, and the presentation of, the aesthetic of the web. Instead of designing websites and becoming a student of online presentation, Bartholl started to observe the visual trends of the web and to interpret these tropes into handmade art works.
The openness of the Internet is integral to the physicality as well as the philosophy of Bartholl’s work. He posts detailed instructions for the recreation of his works online, and some of his works are the instructional videos themselves. While many of Aram’s works question where the inherent value of an artworks lies, that is not the primary intention of his creations. Posting the intricacies of the work to the Internet is “obvious” to Bartholl; the fact that his work exists in three dimensions and in space, does not preclude it from also having the interactive and open elements that are intrinsic to the web. Just as an artwork posted on YouTube is viewed thousands of times, a physical work of Bartholl’s also has the same accessibility. It is this well-established openness along with the content that sets him apart as such a unique web artist.
The ubiquitous conversation of how the Internet decreases our attention spans and thoughtfulness is universally accepted and derided, while at the same time we all participate in this perceived decline. Bartholl sees this haste as opportunity, creating Speed Projects — time restricted art events, self-monitored and self-approved — that are assigned their artistic merit by their completion and often uploading to the web. Bartholl calls these small works “freeing”, as he also considers the brevity of online media. Often he will work months on a work that is only appreciated for a second on the web before it is clicked through, and steadily decreases in viral significance because it is no longer new. The response is Speed Projects, some of which pick up Internet steam and find themselves trending on various forms of social and real media, and others that fall away as quickly as they were made.
Aram Bartholl is showing his work Online Gallery Playset at the group show, 404 Not Found, opening on Friday, June 8 at Berlin project space, Sur la Montagne.
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Bartholl moved to Berlin in 1995 to earn a degree in the architecture department of the UdK. After his initial two years of study he found himself more excited by the T1 connection in the computer lab than the plotters in the architecture studios. Unlike many of the programmers who were discussing the newfound wealth of information and visual possibilities of writing code to develop art, Bartholl was primarily interested in the front end of the Internet; the user experience with, and the presentation of, the aesthetic of the web. Instead of designing websites and becoming a student of online presentation, Bartholl started to observe the visual trends of the web and to interpret these tropes into handmade art works.
The openness of the Internet is integral to the physicality as well as the philosophy of Bartholl’s work. He posts detailed instructions for the recreation of his works online, and some of his works are the instructional videos themselves. While many of Aram’s works question where the inherent value of an artworks lies, that is not the primary intention of his creations. Posting the intricacies of the work to the Internet is “obvious” to Bartholl; the fact that his work exists in three dimensions and in space, does not preclude it from also having the interactive and open elements that are intrinsic to the web. Just as an artwork posted on YouTube is viewed thousands of times, a physical work of Bartholl’s also has the same accessibility. It is this well-established openness along with the content that sets him apart as such a unique web artist.
The ubiquitous conversation of how the Internet decreases our attention spans and thoughtfulness is universally accepted and derided, while at the same time we all participate in this perceived decline. Bartholl sees this haste as opportunity, creating Speed Projects — time restricted art events, self-monitored and self-approved — that are assigned their artistic merit by their completion and often uploading to the web. Bartholl calls these small works “freeing”, as he also considers the brevity of online media. Often he will work months on a work that is only appreciated for a second on the web before it is clicked through, and steadily decreases in viral significance because it is no longer new. The response is Speed Projects, some of which pick up Internet steam and find themselves trending on various forms of social and real media, and others that fall away as quickly as they were made.
Aram Bartholl is showing his work Online Gallery Playset at the group show, 404 Not Found, opening on Friday, June 8 at Berlin project space, Sur la Montagne.
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Additional Information
See more of Aram Bartholl’s work:
datenform.de
SUR LA MONTAGNE
“404 NOT FOUND” – GROUP SHOW
Exhibition: Jun. 9, 2012; 12-5pm
Opening Recption: Friday, Jun. 8; 7-11pm
Torstrasse 170 (click here for map)
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Max Schreier was born in 1985 in New York City. He is an independent curator and the Associate Director at DUVE Berlin.
Chloé Richard is a Berlin-based French photographer and a regular Berlin Art Link collaborator. Her portrait work is internationally published. www.chloerichard.com
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… having fun with Constant Dullaart’s new work 🙂
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Constant Dullaart
2012
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