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NOME is pleased to announce are we there yet?, a group exhibition that critically examines issues of police brutality, mass incarceration, discrimination, immigration, and state surveillance. The show draws its title from a work by Kameelah Janan Rasheed, whose aphoristic text-based practice often grapples with complex societal questions. As with many of her works, are we there yet? carries multiple meanings, symbolizing both a push for equality and the darker undercurrents of state violence. The exhibition invokes Rasheed’s question to probe the spread of authoritarianism in contemporary society.
Artists: Camae Ayewa, Sadie Barnette, Aram Bartholl, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, James Bridle, Paolo Cirio, Cian Dayrit, Priscilla Dobler Dzul, Navine G. Dossos, Igor Grubić, Kite, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Voluspa Jarpa, Ahmet Öğüt, Dread Scott, Myriam Zarhloul
ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is pleased to present Greetings From Germany! (2024), a single-channel video by German artist Aram Bartholl, a poignant critique of police activities on the streets of Berlin, underscoring the potential of art to confront and illuminate complex truths. This presentation is part of Illuminated: Moving Image Perspectives, the gallery digital programme, which will take place over the course of a year, and offer unique insights into new media artists using film, video animation, as well as their latest technological explorations, including blockchain and advanced technologies such as AI.
Aram Bartholl’s, video Greetings from Germany! (2024), uses the technology of AI as a space of opportunities to explore disturbing policies around modern urban policing. The ironic title belies a serious underlying message about police activity on the streets of Berlin — a reminder that art can be a powerful tool to consider truth more fully.
For this work Bartholl chose a single image from a recording of an anti-war demonstration in Berlin where police were involved. Using this single frame, Greetings from Germany! presents six alternative realities generated by different AI video systems. The unfolding events are unsettling, playing with notions of certainty. It is difficult to know precisely what is happening as figures morph into one another. Lines are blurred between police, demonstrators and bystanders and precisely what is happening – one figure appears to dance. As the video is shot from the point of view of the audience, (reminiscent of smartphone streaming), the work gives the impression of the viewer being a witness to events unfolding. This creates a sense of immediacy, yet questions of veracity soon arise. The use of a variety of video generators shows how each of these commercial AI models give a slightly different angle to the ambiguous narrative. Shockingly, however, in the final shot, the ambiguity disappears as the viewer is confronted by a distressing clip of found footage of the incident.
This work is about holding a mirror to society, making visible aspects of public policy that might be easily overlooked or disregarded. By using one of the major tools of contemporary society – AI, Bartholl here encourages the viewer to look again, reconsider definitions of what constitutes the real, and catalyse conversations around critical issues.
What is the Ruhr area? An exciting metropolitan region centred around the major cities of Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg? Or a collection of scattered towns and villages from Alpen to Xanten? Or both? Does it consist of tranquil river landscapes along the Ruhr, Emscher and Lippe or is it hopelessly damaged by the scars of heavy industry? Ruhrpott, example of transformation, poverty zone – how can art open up, change and enrich this diverse region?
Urbane Künste Ruhr wants to find out and is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr region. Because this is an ambitious endeavour and Urbane Künste Ruhr has set itself the goal of getting to know local players, forming bonds and establishing sustainable networks, this is a three-year project.
Kick-off Grand Snail Tour in Xanten
Urbane Künste Ruhr is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr area. The kick-off event will take place on 26.9. in Xanten.
As the race to create an artificial general intelligence (AGI) accelerates, questions of surveillance are more important than ever. Is it human or machine? And how can people equip themselves with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate technological futures?
Instruments of Surveillance grounds an age-old and contentious topic in the human and the everyday. From government spooks, data-extraction and activism through to generative AI, this exhibition unravels the interface between human and machine, inviting audiences to unpack the technologies that people use to surveil and their role in it.
Interact with a robotic commission by Louis-Philippe Demers. See an original WWII Enigma Machine, along with wiretaps and prototypes from the Australian Federal Police. Engage with commissions by Leah Heiss and Emma Luke, Kate Crawford, Aram Bartholl and Weniki Hensch among others.
This exhibition is curated by Jemimah Widdicombe (NCM) in collaboration with Dr. Tyne Sumner, current ARC DECRA fellow at the Australian National University.
Die Jahrestagung 2025 des SFB Intervenierende Künste findet statt am:
Freitag, 9. Mai 2025, 18 bis 22 Uhr und
Samstag, 10. Mai 2025, 10 bis 20 Uhr
Sie wird organisiert von der Arbeitsgruppe „Digitaler Aktivismus“ in Kooperation mit dem HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Programm und weitere Informationen folgen.
Zeit & Ort
09.05.2025 – 10.05.2025
HAU 2, Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin
This Saturday (11AM-5PM) we welcome Ides Of March, a grass-roots initiative organised by local citizens seeking to raise awareness around the topic of police brutality, in collaboration with KOP Berlin, a campaign for victims of racist police violence.
On March 15th, 1997, the first observation of the international day against police brutality took place in Montreal, Canada, initiated by the Collective Opposed of Police Brutality as a response to extremely violent and racist behaviours perpetrated by authorities. We take this opportunity to explore the topic of police brutality on a local and global level, as well as interlinked practices of racial profiling. With the backdrop of weekly, if not daily, reports of police violence against protestors in Berlin, the topic is more relevant than ever. The event comprises an installation curated by Ides Of March with guest contributors including Aram Bartholl, which is open throughout the event, plus a panel talk from 2:30-3:30PM and free toolkits. The panel talk is titled Beyond The Shields: The Contemporary Function Of Police Brutality In Our Society and will take place in English. The speakers are Ignacio Rosaslanda (Unpublished), Gonca Sağlam (KOP Berlin), reporter Julian Daum and moderator Rahim Chattaika.
FACTS, FAKES AND FEARS
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Die Auftaktausstellung zum Jahresprogramm von EIGENHEIM Weimar 2025
Ort: EIGENHEIM Weimar, Gärtnerhaus im Weimarhallenpark, Asbachstraße 1, 99423 Weimar
Eröffnung: 21.02.2025 um 19 Uhr
Dauer: 22.02. – 29.03.2025
teilnehmende Künstler*innen: Gökçen Dilek Acay, Benedikt Braun, Cosima Göpfert, Frankfurter Hauptschule, Alison Jackson, Tea Mäkipää, Tommy Neuwirth, Sarah Oh-Mock, Julian Palacz, Michal Schmidt, Julia Scorna, Marcus Sternbauer, Anke Stiller, Addie Wagenknecht, Moritz Wehrmann, Lars Wild, The Yes Man, 庄睿哲 Ruizhe Zhuang
After the success of the Athenian version of Total Screen Time, and after ‘Brainrot’ was voted last year’s word of the year, we are back in Berlin! No,no we are so,so back! Meanwhile, everyone seems to be obsessed with their screen time. Some are trying to downsize it, some are accepting their ‘terminally online’ identity, some perceive it as a competition, and some—as always, simply don’t care.
Enough with the heavy! We invited thirty artists to present digital works through their own personal devices, extending an intimate invitation for audiences to peer through the artist’s screen—a portal into their unique, brainrot-filled worlds. From personal and collective imagery to camp, critical takes on surveillance, viral memes, and wholesome escapism—artworks from every corner of the digital psyche are on display. This one night exhibition is about connecting, sharing in the joy of deep-frying our brains, rather than in isolation. And we think THAT’S HOT!
Curated by:
Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos
Participating artists:
!Mediengruppe Bitnik with Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić, Afroditi Panagiotakou & Manolis Manousakis, Aleksandra Domanović, Clusterduck, Constant Dullaart, Cory Arcangel, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Darsha Hewitt, Dirk Paesmans, Esben Holk, Evan Roth, Igor Štromajer, Ingrid Hideki, Ipek Burçak, Jan Berger, Joan Heemskerk, Joana Moll, Joanna Bacas, Jonas Lund, Katerina Baxevani, Kathrin Hunze, Marsunev, Miltos Kontogiannis, Nadja Buttendorf, Nestor Siré, Niko Princen, Nora Al-Badri, Olaf Val, Ria Schöneberger, Theo Trianfyllidis
Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the exhibition space. The idea behind the show is that the audience gets to peep through the hole of the artist’s phones immersing into their artworks. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 In a collective and liberating moment we asked all artists and visitors to share their daily phone screen time during the opening. WE ARE ALL GETTING EXPOSED LOL 🎀
Catalog release of the exhibition ‘Parcel ready for pickup!’ at Kunsthalle Osnabrück (15.7.2023 – 25.2.2024)
I can recommend the speed hack for Carrera Go slotrace. Since 2007 Carrera added thermo resistors to the super high tech complex power control electronics to prevent the cars from overheating. Get rid of them! You’ll have much more fun!
Full instruction in german on http://www.go143.de .
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 …)
( trying to get used to this number … , found on Borsigstr, Berlin)
(haha … , pic by Geert Mul )
(my favorite dutch word of the year, found in Amsterdam last weekend. Bruce Sterlings talk was uitstekend! He scared the hell out of the museums people … )
(Thx to Dirk for pointing out the beautiful ornaments we have on our studio building. Yes, that’s original early 20th century. Found on Gerichtstr. Berlin, Wedding)
(dedicated to Ariel, found on Anna-Louisa-Karschstr, Berlin)
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)
( 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? ;- )
