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 Tag: ars electronica

2nd City Carpet

September 19, 2007


This piece of carpet in front of my studio (classic berlin style) reminded me of a great loss. For 2nd City – Ars Electronica I planned a really big carpet covering whole Marienstrasse in Linz. Unfortunately city authorities didn’t allow us to realize this important element of 2nd City. Just imagine this carpet covering the street completely. Next time! 🙂

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“Chat”, full documentation.

September 18, 2007


Chat documentation completed!

The Chat project is a mobile performance installation that can be played by two people at a time. Just like in World of Warcraft or Second Life, the two participants communicate with each other in the form of brief text messages input via keyboard. Immediately after they’ve been entered, the written communiqués appear in comic-strip-like dialogue balloons projected above the speaker’s head.

read on, more pics and movie on projects site.

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2nd City on Linden Labs Blog

September 18, 2007


Robin Harper blogged some pics of 2nd City – Ars Electronica on the Linden Labs blog. I would like to share two fotos showing here phoning from RL into SL in Peter Harlanders phone booth at 2nd City.

Thanks for your visit and talk at 2nd City – Ars Eletronica, Robin!

We make money … WoW!

September 16, 2007


Good friend Mirjam just skyped me this nice picture. Sorry, I had to blog this. I did’t noticed Regine walked her Blog in WoW-Style at 2ndCity – Ars Electronica. Hehe, not bad!

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“L$” NewBerlin in trouble.

September 12, 2007

We had a lot of fun at 2nd City. Jan is a must have entertainer for SL related events. 🙂

Blumenberg “Jedi” vs. Yuichiro “Amagatana”

September 12, 2007


Spontanious fight at 2nd City Ars Electronica on Monday 10.9.2007. Finally Yuichiro had an opponent.
Wow, Ars Electronica 2007 is over. I am finally back in Berlin working on upcoming stuff and Ars documentation. More movies and pics to come as soon as I sorted and edited all the material. I really had a good time at Ars. It was a lot of work and unfortunately I had very little time to talk to everybody, sorry. Next year I’ll be a plain visitor 🙂

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Second Life related lecture program during Ars Electronica 07

August 28, 2007

Beside the hundreds of panels and lectures during Ars Electronica here all Second Life related talks:
Main Panel Sa. 7 pm at Kunstuniversität Linz / K2 (Audimax)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Second Life
about the impact of Second Life onto future developments of digital communities.
Paricipants:
Robin Harper (Vice-president of Lindenlab, Community Development, US),
Aram Bartoll (Artist, DE),
Drew Harry (Sociable Media Group, MIT Medialab, US),
Andreas Lange (Scientist, DE)
Eva & Franco Mattes (Artist, IT/US) a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
Talks and guided tours in Second Life
at Second City Shop Marienstrasse 4:
Do. 6.9.07 – Architecture
2 pm “New Berlin” Jan Northoff & Tobias Neiseke”
4 pm Production of Architecture” Tor Lindstrand
Fr. 7.9.07 – Metaverse
2 pm “History of Metaverse” Andreas Lange
4 pm “World of Warcraft” Joichi Ito
Sa. 8.9.07 – Art
5 pm “Synthetic performances” Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
Su. 9.9.07 – Business
2 pm “Marketing in Second Life: A Sightseeing Tour” Peter Harlander
Mo. 10.9.07 – Culture
2 pm “Nekos, Furrys and more” Jürgen Höbarth
4 pm Orkan Telhan, Dietmar Offenhuber
Panel discussion at Mobiles Ö1 Atelier / Hauptplatz

Fr 7.9. 6 pm
“Public Space – Virtual Space”, How does digital media / virtual worlds affect public city space and architecture?
Mirjam Struppek (Urban Media Researcher, DE)
Tor Lindstrand (Production of Architecture, SE)
Jan Northoff (Co-founder of NewBerlin in Second Life, DE)
Aram Bartholl (Artist, DE)
su 9.9 15 pm
“Second Life as a Mirror of Society” What can we learn from social phenonemon in Metaverses for Society in Real Life?
Daphne Dragona (Independent New Media Arts Curator, GR)
UlrichGötz (Game Design Zurich University of Arts, DE)
Stephan Dösinger (Concept Architect, DE)
Aram Bartholl (Artist, DE)

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Roter Krebs

August 24, 2007


Looking forward to see you at Roter Krebs during Ars. The most important place during the festival 😉

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Monotheism

August 22, 2007


This is my new monotheistic note book sticker which doesn’t accept any other stickers next to it. 😉

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“Tree” at Ars Electronica

August 21, 2007


I posted already serveral times about the Tree project. Finally this project will be produced by Ars Electronica 07 for 2nd City Marienstrasse. And it’s going to be not just one Second Life tree but a small forest 🙂 , 4-5 trees (less than in the image) will rezz on a empty space in Marienstrasse.