The World in My Hand explores the smartphone as both object and aesthetic inspiration for artistic creation. It comments on public debates surrounding the many uses of smartphones: from always-on media consumption to digital detox, from swiping and matching to ghosting and blocking, from language atrophy to information overload, from resource depletion to status symbol.
The curators, Dr Jörg Garbrecht and Katharina Wenkler, have chosen a narrative approach to the exhibition. In eight chapters, they summarize various aspects and debates surrounding the smartphone, ranging from the launch date of our daily digital companion to its characteristic touchscreen and the contractions of time and space it enables. Deeply personal moments – such as Ai Weiwei’s selfie at the moment of his arrest or Sergey Melnitchenko’s photograph of his son during a blackout in Kyiv – appear alongside themes of perception and presentation of the self, as realized in the glass sculpture Stability by Julija Pociūtė. Other subjects include: looking for love online, as in Ariane Forkel’s Casanova’s Kabinett or John Yuyi’s Tinder Match; the complexities and pitfalls of digital communication, for example in the works of James Akers or Alejandra Seeber; and the smartphone as a means of staying in touch during pandemic lockdown isolation, for instance in the work of George McLeod. Edward Burtynsky’s photograph of lithium mines in the Atacama Desert calls attention to the topic of raw materials for electronic devices.
With works by:
Tornike Abuladze, James Akers, Ai Weiwei, Kate Baker, Aram Bartholl, Tillie Burden, Edward Burtynsky, Yvon Chabrowski, Julia Chamberlain, Rachel Daeng Ngalle, Erwin Eisch, Ariane Forkel, Shige Fujishiro, Valentin Goppel, David Horvitz, Artem Humilevskyi, Gudrun Kemsa, Zsuzsanna Kóródi, Brigitte Kowanz, George McLeod, Sergey Melnitchenko, Jonas Noël Niedermann, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson mit Zeller & Moye, Julija Pociūtė, Rebecca Ruchti, Karin Sander, Jeffrey Sarmiento, Alejandra Seeber, JanHein van Stiphout, Jolita Vaitkute, Sascha Weidner, John Yuyi, Jeff Zimmer
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.
One of many TV reports on Second Life. A team from RBB TV station here in Berlin did ask me about my opinion on the development of the last year and featured my project „WoW“ with a short walk in Berlin Mitte.
RBB Stilbruch, Cultural journal, editor Anna Bilger, March 2007
I am still working on the design and form of my upcoming project „Tree“. This is the current design which I like much more than the first one. Now I have to find a way to keep the lightness and transparency.
„Tree
Installation in Public Space, on schedule autum 2007
The project „Tree“ is an object imported from the 3D online world “Second Life”. The unfinished “virtual” tree becomes part of everyday life in public space….“ read on
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
A friend of mine, Jürgen BNC from plattform-bohnenstrasse.info met this women in Berlin on the weekend. Rita has a very nice project running called Magic Arrrow.
pic is taken from ritas website www.magic-arrow.de
The blogger conference re:publica was a big success and even made it in the major german news show tagesthemen. I met a lot of people and saw many interesting lectures. Especially Julian Klücklichs lecture on MMOs, dystopia and utopia was very good. Except the typical technical problems my lecture on thursday went very well. The picture shows the Google Map pin which I build for Plazes a while ago at republica.
The campus issue Sommersemester 2007 of the Berlin city magazin Tip features my upcoming project „Tree“ in this article (german). Thanks to Jacek Slaski the author.
Just imagine, how many watches on the world are fake? I don’t know, but there must be really many. Now everybody has the opportunity to get a real fake watch. It is a very good name for this really beautiful project and product of Linda Kostowski.
realfakewatches.com
I think it is very symbolic for the time we live in that more and more actually small and tiny electronic devices becoming part of the city scape. Our buildings slowly transform into gadgets.
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.
