Pic of the day: Drawing
Nice drawing by Rod McLaren who posted a summary and sketches of some talks of the reboot 9.0 conference last week. I ike the one line unfinished drawing style a lot. God portrait, my typical hair curl/wave and FPS.
Current Events
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.
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 Tag: fps
Press: Another TV interview on Second Life
You may have noticed that I am working down a pile of press stuff. I hope it is not anoying to watch all these Second Life reports but this time I am showing the “First Person Shooter” glasses. The editor wanted me to take the counter part in the interview. The report is mainly about the Corecon Center run by Katja Schwab. The TV team ( three guys) from RBB had a lot of fun exploring the sex areas in Second Life. RBB “bizz” 26.2.07 ( german) , editor Jörg Oberwittler.
Laboral art center opening: Gameworld, Labcyberspace, Feedback
Laboral is a new art center in Gijon, Spain dedicated to media culture. Before arriving there nobody really knew how big this place was. The goverment of the province Asturias put a lot of money into this project and I am curious how it’ll develop in the next years. I have been invited to the game art show “Gameworld” one of three huge exhibitions which opened all on the same day 30.3.2007. The other two shows are called “Labcyberspace” which is the outcome of a competitionl and “Feedback”. All show are running till 1.7.2007.
I am showing “First Person Shooter”, the DIY glasses and the “WoW” video. As a small WoW performance I did walk my name during the opening . I met a lot of new people and had a really good time. The opening was huge. My favorite project was the “Sheepmarket” by Aaron Koblin in the Labcyberspace show. 10.000 sheep drawn by amazon users, printed on paper are hanging on the wall. Fantasic!
See my flickr pics of all three shows.
More documentations on
– Gameworld: gamestudies.at (german), selectparks.net ,tales-of-tales.com
– Labcyberspace: neural.it
More Infos:
LABORAL – Centre for Art and Creative Industries
Official Opening: 30.03.2007
Opening Programme
FEEDBACK
30.03.07 – 30.06.07
Exhibition curated by: Christiane Paul & Jemima Rellie
Curatorial Advisor: Charlie Gere
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture
GAMEWORLD
30.03.07 – 30.09.07
Exhibition curated by: Carl Goodman
Associate Curator: Daphne Dragona
Curatorial Advisor: Helen Stuckey
Exhibition Design: Leeser Architecture
EXTENSIONS – ANCHORS
30.03.07 – 30.09.07
in two different phases
Exhibition curated by: Francisco Crabiffosse
LABCYBERSPACES
30.03.07 – 30.06.07
International Open Call.
Jury: Alex Adriaansens, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Christiane Paul & Gerfried Stocker
Exhibition Design: Quero-Kawamura-Ganjavian
THE E-IMAGE ERA
30.03.07 – 01.04.07
Series of panels directed by: José Luis Brea
Other Programmes
LEV FESTIVAL (LABORATORIO DE ELECTRÓNICA VISUAL)
23.03.07 – 24.03.07
Organised by Datatrón
LED THROWIES
31.03.07 – 01.04.07
In collaboration with Eyebeam R&D Openlab
and the Graffiti Research Lab from New York
OPENCITY exhibition NYC documentation
Eyebeam and the Graffiti Research Lab invited me to be part of the exhibition OPEN CITY which took place at Eyebeam in NYC from end of Feburary till mid of April 2007. The subtitle ‘tools for public action’ describes very well the graffiti background of the show which opened up to a broader field of actions in public space. All artists and artist groups did show different kinds documentations and tools of their work. Among some project documentations I had two workshop tables: one where visitors could build their own pair of “First Person Shooter” glasses and a second which served for a “WoW” workshop.
Check out my pictures and all open city tagged pictures of the exhibition on flickr.
Find some more documentation of the exhibition at GRL
Thanks to Evan who edited and posted the “WoW” movie documentation of him and me getting a coffee at Frank’s on 9th avenue.
Thanks to the whole Eyebeam team and to GRL:Evan and James for having me at this great show.