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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
New piece I made for the group show “Odyssey” at Möhnesee. http://odyssey.to/
AV / DV
intervention & object
rubber, metal, 40x5x2cm, video 1:49 min
AV /DV is a customized 40 cm pressure hose – AV Auto valve / DV Dunlop valve adapter – to balance pressure between a car and bicycle tire. First tested and shown at Remind me later solo show at Kunstverein Arnsberg.
Aram Bartholl, ‘Aluthut Workshop (tinfoil hat workshop)’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Remind me later’ 2016. Exhibition view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Remind me later’ 2016. Exhibition view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Remind me later’ 2016. Exhibition view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘5 min, 1h, tonight, tomorrow…(Remind me later)’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Aluthut Workshop (tinfoil hat workshop)’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Aluthut Workshop (tinfoil hat workshop)’ & Shooting Your Film With Quality’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Shooting Your Film With Quality’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘AV/DV’ 2016. Performance in public, video still. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘AV/DV’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘AV/DV’ 2016. Performance in public. Vdeo 1:49. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘The Internet’ 2015 & ‘Shake it!’ 2015. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein
Aram Bartholl, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein
Aram Bartholl, ‘Atlas Shrugged’ 2016. Display view. Courtesy Kunstverein
Aram Bartholl, ‘Greenscreen Arnsberg’ 2016. Performance in public, video still. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Greenscreen Arnsberg’ 2016. Performance in public, video still. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Greenscreen Arnsberg’ 2016. Performance in public. Video 3:47. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Phone Zone’ 2016. Display view, installation in public. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Phone Zone’ 2016. Display view, installation in public. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Touch screen to begin’ 2016. Display view, installation in public. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Aram Bartholl, ‘Touch screen to begin’ 2016. Display view, installation in public. Courtesy Kunstverein Arnsberg
Thanks to the whole team of the Kunstverein Arnsberg!! It was a crazy good week putting this together with a lot of help of many people, thank you everyone! THX to Vlado Velkov making all this possible! :))
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Pressrelease:
ARAM BARTHOLL
Remind Me Later
8.07. – 28.09.2016
Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V.
Königstraße 24
59821 Arnsberg
www.kunstverein–arnsberg.de
Perhaps you are reading this text on your mobile device?.
Do you have your phone under control or does it have a grip on you in its grip?
The consequences of technological developments on our social lives and relationships is a central theme in the work of Aram Bartholl.
In the current exhibition, Bartholl looks into the digital everyday live. ‘Remind me later’ is a very well known term for us instantly recognisable to us as users. As a form of reflex and self-defence against the constant stream of new automatic updates, we immediately the click tap othe ‘Remind me later’ button has become a habitual immediate reaction.
Digitalisation can undoubtedly connect us, but can also produce alienation. Meet with friends? Spend time outdoors in nature? Remind me later. Often, the mobile phone is more captivating of attention than the person sitting opposite. The limitless possibilities of communication have more to offer than real life? Really?
Aram Bartholl investigates the social side effects of digitalisation, and examines their influence on our analogue lives. In doing so, his work often incorporates outdoor space and blends perceptions of the real and the virtual. His work in Arnsberg continues in this vein, with humour and great sensitivity.
Aram Bartholl was born in Bremen in 1972 and lives in Berlin. He is guest professor at the Kunstakademie in Kassel and at UCLA in Los Angeles.
All pictures -> flickr.com/photos/bartholl/albums/72157670961661206/with/28305068065/
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