Forgot your password? currently on show at „The Glass Room“ NYC by Tacticaltech
THE GLASS ROOM: LOOKING INTO YOUR ONLINE LIFE is a pop-up shop with a twist: – a space for reflection, experimentation and play on how our we live our lives online. The Glass Room – 201 Mulberry Street New York, NY – November 29 to December 14, 2016 – https://tacticaltech.org/projects/glass-room
Press:

• http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/old_blog/fake-pop-up-exposes-the-information-age
• https://nytimes.com/2016/12/27/magazine/finding-inspiration-for-art-in-the-betrayal-of-privacy.html
• http://www.voanews.com/a/glass-room-exhibit-privacy-in-digital-age/3676113.html

8k
12 x 3 meter print, car, audio collage
Aram Bartholl
2016
Commissioned by NEON festival Dundee.
8k, Aram Bartholl’s newly commissioned installation for NEoN, features a panoramic view of Sin City from Grand Theft Auto 5. The scene is a screenshot presented as a twelve-metre long print. A car parked in front of the billboard beckons visitors to take a seat and enjoy the view of the vast digital cityscape while listening to an audio collage of YouTubers playing the game.
Grand Theft Auto is an open-world, action-adventure video game series published by Rockstar Games. The title of the series makes reference to legal terminology for motor vehicle theft in the USA. The series has its origins in Dundee where it was first developed by Rockstar North (formerly DMA Designs) in 1997. The third chronological title, Grand Theft Auto III, released in 2001, was widely acclaimed for bringing the series to a 3D setting and offering a more immersive experience. The series has garnered controversy for its adult nature and violent themes.
The vast, open world of GTA 5 offers total free interaction for the player, like a huge playground with no moral boundaries. As a result, players tend to test the limits of what is possible in the game. YouTube hosts a massive collection of GTA 5 videos in which players frequently, hysterically, ‘go nuts.’ The ‘City of Sin’ in GTA 5 serves as a metaphorical excess flow valve, a projection plane and a mirror of today’s society, which has become increasingly regulated and controlled.
NEoN (North East of North)







all pictures on flickr

@arambartholl dead drop on Elementary 🙂 pic.twitter.com/BslUrpBKrv

— Theodore Watson (@theowatson) https://twitter.com/theowatson/status/793612879928885248 November 2, 2016

Thanks to Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Theo Watson for pointing out the appearance of a Dead Drop in the TV show ‚Elementary‚. Cool! 🙂

The Last Captcha
b/w print on paper, 250 x 64 cm
Facebook captchas only show when you are about to delete your acount. Captcha codes have been part of our web experience for more than 15 years now. Since recent advances in machine learning it became clear captchas are not suitable anymore to prove that the user is human (and not a bot or dog). Google and others showed they can beat the human brain reading the scrambled characters better than we can. It is the end of an era. I still love them.
Aram Bartholl
2016
related project: ‚Are you human?‚
 

http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Der-Norden/Uebersicht/Ein-Stein-mitten-im-Wald-in-der-Lueneburger-Heide-ist-ein-WLAN-Hotspot
 


http://www.mopo.de/news/panorama/bizarres-kunstprojekt-dieser-felsbrocken-gibt-ueber-wlan-ueberlebens-tipps-24841340
 
After a recent visit by a DPA reporter at Springhornhof museum, Neuenkirchen a series of articles about „Keepalive“ came out in Germany.
More:

• http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/lueneburg_heide_unterelbe/Keepalive-ein-Stein-gibt-Tipps-zum-Ueberleben,keepalive112.html
• https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Projekt-Keepalive-Ein-funkender-Findling-gibt-Survival-Tipps-3339696.html
• https://futurezone.at/digital-life/stein-mit-wlan-gibt-ueberlebens-tipps-wenn-man-ihn-anzuendet/224.395.136
• http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/leben-und-erleben/unterhaltung/buntes/szene_gesellschaft/Ein-Stein-mit-WLAN-gibt-Survival-Tipps;art607,3125313
• ….

Greenscreen Arnsberg
performance in public,
Aram Bartholl
2016
Greenscreen Arnsberg is a performance in public space which took place during the show „Remind me later“ at Kunstverein Arnsberg in July 2016. The idea is to ‚catch‘ random pedestrian in public with a portable green-screen. The by-passers become unwittingly actors  of an imaginary movie set. The green-screen background represents unlimited layers of augmentation in a post social everyday life.

…. continue reading at ->

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/old_blog/usb-manicure-data-nail-art-fingertips

The USB Manicure Puts Data at Your Fingertips – Andrew Salomone — Oct 1 2016  –>

Going shopping today reminded me of the tumblr WTF 3D!!  about senseless 3D marketing speak I m doing since a while. Some new additions came in today, check it out!