Laufende Termine

Urban Art Biennale

26. April – 10. November 2024
Biennial, Völklinger Hüttte, Saarbrücken

The World In My Hand

18. April – 31. October 2024
Gruppenausstellung, Alexanser Tutsek-Stiftung, München

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

Bilder

Decoding the Black Box

27. January – 2. June 2024
Gruppenausstellung, 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.

Bilder

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Kommende Termine

Flussbad Berlin

11. – 30. September 2024
Gruppenausstellung, Roter Saal, Berlin

Vergangene Termine

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 Archiv für Monat: Juni 2007

Merkel and Blair with Speech Bubble

Juni 7, 2007


My project Speech Bubble seems to be quite popular among all these advertising and event companies. That was fast. Two weeks ago I did the Speech Bubble performance at the Plazes party and last weekend Merkel and Blair posed with quite similar speech bubbles during a press conference. The corner points in the wrong direction but the size and proportion are very well copied. Good job! Unfortunately they were not smart enough to have them float above the head. Does somebody know the lead design agency of VENRO (financed by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)?

Thx to ka_pony for the link.

Pic of the day: WoW

Juni 7, 2007


Since my project WoW I more aware of this expression. I missed to take a pic of that Microsoft WoW compaign some months ago. Is the term WoW more popular since World of Warcraft became so popular?

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Connecting first and second life

Juni 5, 2007


Via Joshua Kauffman I found this very interesting talk of Matt Biddulph
about Second Life, rapid prototyping and Arduino boards. His movie about creating objects in Second Life by script is astonishing. Yes i agree, the combination of affordable prototyping printers in the future, growing 3D environments and the popular DIY low tech hack culture will create unforeseen possibilties. It’s going to be fun …

Pic of the day: Drawing

Juni 5, 2007


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.

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Call for participation at Laboral workshop

Juni 4, 2007


I have been asked to join this workshop „Modding, Reversing and Intervening
in Today’s Gaming Worlds“ at Laboral. 02.07.07 – 27.07.07
Unfortunately I will be in holidays for the Second Life part end of june. Sounds like a good program.
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„Interventions“ Lier, BE – pics and movie

Juni 4, 2007



„Interventions“ at Voorkamer Lier, BE a week ago was great fun. Christian Hasucha „The Island“ was already running for 2 weeks at the Grote Markt Lier. Anybody in the city good rent the island for free and enjoy the view into the city hall and on the market place for some hours. This piece poses the questions of view and beeing viewed. On Saturday 26.05.2007 Frank Bölter with „The German Revenge“ and myself with „WoW“ has been invited to do workshops and perform in public space. The simplicity of Franks ship and bomb wich he buildt together with a group of organized homeless people was really impressive. The symbolic bomb was dropped from the island on the market place. In the evening Helmut Dick held a lecture about his work in public space. Good stuff!More pics on flickr
High res quicktime movie
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Generative Art

Juni 2, 2007


During Reboot 9 I got to know Marius Watz who is well known for his generative art. Maybe somebody noticed the beautifully designed program and visuals during Club Transmediale this year. Marius made the crowd gaze during his dinner talk on the first evening at reboot. The rapid prototyping model (metall) of one of his studies is of course the step into „reality“ I am most interested in. Marius, thx for the good time we had at Reboot!

Reboot 9.0

Juni 2, 2007


I just came back from the Reboot conference in Copenhagen. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal invited me to show my projects among the web 2.0 ( a term wich is not allowed to say any more) high society 😉
It was a lot of fun. I had many interesting conversations and learned quite something about the latest web developments. My favorite talk was the interview of David Winer the creator of rss, podcasting and many other web inventions yesterday afternoon. On the question if he was doing all this to make a better world he said „No, I am doing this just for fun.“ A very honest answer. I liked his attitude a lot.