Animated Richard Meier
A new piece by Pablo Valbuena. This is a new and much better dimension to the media facade discussion. Very nice! Good job Pablo, see you around.
Check the video!
Laufende Termine
The World In My Hand
18. April – 31. October 2024
Gruppenausstellung, Alexanser Tutsek-Stiftung, München
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.
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: Oktober 2008
„Waffenruhe / Ceasefire“
One of my current favorite pieces by Marcus Wittmers shown at Gitte Weise Gallery (show just ended). Yes, it’s real! A stone M4A1 carved/sculptured from an old tombstone.
Marcus Wittmers
Waffenruhe / Ceasefire (M4A1) 2007
Belgian Granite
92 x 94 x 14 cm
(picture copyright by the artist)
… In Waffenruhe (Ceasefire) a series the artist has been working on since the year 2000), the ideas appear with great clarity due to the use of gravestones carved open to reveal almost hyper-realistic images of handguns of types used all over the world today. With this clearly executed shifting of context (the stones are salvaged from waste piles in Berlin’s cemeteries), the artist gives access to various levels of intellectual interpretation of the work.On one hand, the sculptures are surprising, as somehow, these menacing pistols on the rough surface of the stone look seductive with their skilful and precise reproduction. To achieve this effect, the Berlin artist uses Belgian granite, a material which reproduces the colour and texture of the weapons strikingly realistically. On the other hand, the pleasure of the moment is also filled with its dark side – fleetingness, death, finality. The graves and pistols reveal this unsettling dimension, and in turn because of the title Ceasefire, are given what one would almost like to describe as a physical and poetic serenity, hope-inspiring closure: may the weapons be laid to rest.…
read on / full exhibition description
More pics
Gitte Weise Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany
Urban Action Paintings I
(Looks like a custom mixed blue, like evans BadA55. Found on Borsigstr. Berlin)
TRENDS
Found the trends book 2009 from the art school Central Saint Martins London in my mail today. Nice collection of art and design pieces (incl. my Chat, WoW and FPS projects).
Thx!
Extrude
(Nice balcony! Would love to have one of these for my window. Found on Friedrichstr./Spree, Berlin)
Flat and Frozen
I took a walk on Times Square NYC but I couldn’t move my head and the cars and people seamed a bit flat ( hey @googleearth, where is the first person view – mouse look control option?).
Then I took a ride by car on Time Square again but got of course stuck in time-traffic jam. Everybody was frozen like in an „Improve Everywhere“ performance. I wonder what the combination of those two with some game like controls and a pinch of photosynth could be … ?
(Not talking about real time locative microblogging streams and all that GPS devices out there …)
„A message to you“ at Preview
A very niece piece by Dan and Sophie a.k.a. plan-b (who I got to know during Futuresonic.com Manchester) will show a reconfigured version of „A message to you“ during Preview Berlin.
2 p.m. 30th october
Hangar 2, Tempelhof airport
Berlin
We have tried to keep every text message (SMS) that we have sent each other since Autumn 2006 and decided to use this material to shout to each other across the opposing seating banks of the stadium […]
We read out 481 unedited messages, starting with messages sent exactly a year before the day on which we performed.
read more link
Augmented Reality II
(An interface for planners‘ reality hits public space. A measuring point at Gartenstr./Bernauerstr., Berlin)
Web2.0 – China Channel
Evan Roth and myself in collaboration with Tobi, Michael, and Jamie are showing a new piece at Videotage, Hong Kong consisting of an installation (titled: „Web 2.0“) and a Fire Fox Plugin (titled: „China Channel„)
Videotage Hong Kong
Exhibition: October Contemporary 2008 – SECOND LIFE
Opening: Oct 4 (Sat), 7-11pm
Exhibition Period: Oct 6 (Mon) to Nov 4 (Tue)
Pictures, documentation and text on Evans blog. Project page coming soon.