Are you human? –  stamp interaction & floor drawing
ink, stamp 24 x 6 cm, chalk drawing, 18 x 4 meter
Aram Bartholl, 2015
at NODE biennial festival – Forum for Digital Arts.
From April 27th – May 3rd 2015, Naxoshalle, Frankfurt.
Exhibition curated by Jeanne Vogt & Alexandra Waligorski





pictures by NODE forum







Thx!! :))

pic by re:publica/Jan Zappner

picture by Gonvalo Forte (Thx for uploading this to the piratebox.cc I had running on stage :)))

Talk: Online, Offline and all-over the city
Thursday, May 7, 2015 – 13:45 to 14:15
https://re-publica.de/ conference, Berlin
„Art projects with and about the Internet, computers and society! Aram Bartholl will present an overview of his past , often site-specific works and projects including USB ‚DeadDrops‘ (they caused a lot of alarm lately) , IRL ‚Map‘ marker or ‚KILLYOURPHONE.COM‘ mobile phone blocking pouches. “
Slides & LINKS! -> http://datenform.de/rp15/

‘Home Entertainment’ Aram Bartholl. 2012, 31 mins. video DVD.
DVD Dead Drop vol.4 at the Museum of Moving Image, NYC
December 7, 2012–January 31, 2013
„The reign of the DVD is over, and with it the era of the extra. Before home entertainment was streamed from the cloud, movies came on DVDs that contained more than just the featured attraction. Studios added bonus content like behind-the-scenes documentaries and audio commentaries to make DVDs more desirable to consumers.
But DVDs also came with undesirable extras that were universally frustrating to captive audiences waiting for their movie to begin: unskippable content. Trailers for upcoming movies, promotional spots, and other unwanted clips all found their way immovably in front of featured attractions.
Home Entertainment is a collection of media found on DVDs from around the world that you always wanted to skip, but couldn’t: international copyright warnings, home entertainment publisher logos, studio and distributor bumpers, anti-piracy propaganda, and more. This time, however, all the clips are chaptered, so you can finally skip them.“
If you manage to watch the whole thing in one go without skipping i buy you a beer! 😉

Art In The Age Of…
Planetary Computation
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam, Netherlands
22 May – 16 August 2015
Opening: 21 May 2015, 5pm
With: Aram Bartholl, Rossella Biscotti, Nina Canell, John Gerrard,
Femke Herregraven, Antonia Hirsch, David Jablonowski,
Navine G. Khan-Dossos, John Menick, Owen Mundy, Trevor Paglen,
Lucy Raven, Stephan Tillmans, Julia Weist
How would you draw a picture of the Internet; through the machines
and ‘their’ language that broadcast and store ‘our’ messages, or
through the affect and power relations that those messages and
their movement produce?
Art In The Age Of … Planetary Computation investigates
how quantification, telecommunications, and our ever-expanding
information apparati not only inform contemporary artistic
production, but also how contemporary art can hold a mirror up
to these processes and formations. The participating artists explore
the fissure between literal infrastructure—code, machines, wires,
and other like-vocabularies—and the subjective socio-political
interactions fostered by using these devices. Guided not only by
that which can be seen on the computer screen, and the various
other black mirrors we stare into day in and day out, this exhibition
also looks to what happens behind these screens. Moving from
objects to subjects, we ask, how do these positions impact daily life,
or said in another way: what does it mean to be ‘screened’?
Art In The Age Of … Planetary Computation is the second iteration
of Art In The Age Of …, a three-part presentation series running
throughout 2015, that investigates future vectors of art production in
the 21st century.

#NEULAND
March 28 – June 28, 2015
Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
with:
Aram Bartholl, JODI and Evan Roth

flickr set
 

In the past two months there has been again a lot of international press about DeadDrops. The DeadDrops project is running since November 2010, for four and a half years now. After the initial press buzz in 2010/11 the project kept spreading online with occasional press like after the Snowden releases etc. But just since the beginning of 2015 there was a lot of press all over again. It is really hard to tell how such a press wave is starting on a project which is already running for such a while but I assume after almost 5 years there is a new generation of Internet users and press people who haven’t heard about DeadDrops yet. Through some big blogs in the US it reached the south american news, spreaded there and also made it back to Europe.  I ve listed a selection of press links at the end of this post. Please also see the nice DeadDrops youtube playlist somebody made.
In Germany the recent reports about DeadDrops had a special twist. End of February the yellow press style news paper Kölner Express had a piece about a bomb making plan PDF which was supposedly found on a DeadDrop in Cologne. The local and national press picked up quickly the story and my phone kept ringing for two weeks. It is astonishing how in 2015 you still have to explain to people that it is of course not a problem to find such a PDF with illegal tutorials on the Internet. Or yes! there could be a virus on the USB drive, like there could be a virus in this blog post. But in an era of constant fear about terror the suspicious USB drive in wall was a perfect story for them. I was only waiting for the ISIS connection. But again this was a good opportunity to explain that there is no use in censoring or prohibiting encryption or anonymous communication technologies because there is illegal activities. Like back in the days the ruling class tried to banish the brand new dangerous technology ‚book printing‘ which radicalized all the young people. Especially journalists should be aware how important independent, encrypted, private communication is. In fact DeadDrops is not a very efficient communication technology but a good symbol on independent, open digital communication. So while the NSA has trojans installed on all our hard drives or access to millions of sim card keys we worry about a 20 year old anarchist cook book PDF on a flash drive in a wall in cologne.  What a crazy world! :))
The actual great story about the Cologne DeadDrop is that this specific DeadDrop, which I made myself as part of a duo show with JODI at DAM Cologne in 2011, was still existing and working in 2015!! Until the police ripped it out and broke it to then hand it in at the at the LKA cyber security department to get it fixed. Of course the highlight is how the two police men are kneeling in front of the yellow banana (the gallery „certificate“) trying to understand what’s going on. In fact later the Kriminalpolizei called DAM gallery to have them explain what exactly this USB stick is about and what the DeadDrops project is etc. On the same day I made this popular tweet about the whole story.
Of course I am very happy about all the attention for DeadDrops. It is very interesting to witness how the perspective on such a project has changed over the past five years, especially since 2013. I am glad to see how this project is still going on and how it has inspired so many people over the years. Thanks to all the deaddroppers out there!! You are awesome!!
Aram Bartholl, March 2015


LINKS:

• http://www.express.de/koeln/eingemauert-in-einer-fassade-bomben-bauplan-auf-oeffentlichem-usb-stick-in-der-koelner-suedstadt,2856,29952848.html
• http://www.express.de/koeln/geheime-bomben-bauanleitung-stick-aus-der-suedstadt–ein-fall-fuer-die-cyber-profis-vom-lka-,2856,29972140.html
• http://www.express.de/koeln/in-wand-zementiert-lka-spezialisten-analysieren-bomben-stick-aus-der-suedstadt,2856,29962112.html?regio=2858

Full Interview at Sueddeutsche.de:

• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/eingemauerte-usb-sticks-diese-technologie-kann-man-nicht-zuschrauben-1.2373749

 

Guardian:

• http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/mar/08/dead-drops-what-to-do-if-you-see-a-usb-stick-sticking-out-of-a-wall

More press links:

German:

• http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/koeln/Daten-fuer-immer-verloren-article1575822.html
• http://www.ksta.de/koeln/polizeieinsatz-an-der-koelner-volksgartenstrasse-eingemauerter-usb-stick-ist-eine-kunstaktion,15187530,29962316.html
• http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/koeln/offenbar-bombenbau-anleitung-auf-usb-stick-entdeckt-aid-1.4900331
• http://www.swr3.de/info/nachrichten/Polizei-prueft-Bomben-USB-Stick/-/id=47428/did=3120472/vx8ipn/
• http://www.taz.de/!155350/
• http://motherboard.vice.com/de/read/wie-aus-einer-kunstaktion-ein-toter-briefkasten-fuer-bombenbauer-und-drogenkoeche-wurde-444
• http://www.welt.de/regionales/nrw/article137783878/USB-Stick-mit-Bombenbauplan-in-Wand-ein

 
POPULAR TWEET

the moment when the #KRIMINALPOLIZEI calls your gallery to get explained your ART! #DEADDROPS http://t.co/eUEHxlCXP2 pic.twitter.com/2FmryheOtw
— Aram Bartholl (@arambartholl) 24. Februar 2015

https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/570195342253277185

 

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops

 
29.8.2015
Keep Alive
Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, Germany
with Leuphana, curated by Andreas Broeckmann
16.6.-21.6. 2015
PBKAC IMHO
LISTE – Art Fair Basel with HeK , House of Electronic Arts Basel
with: Aram Bartholl, Constant Dullaart, Raquel Meyers, Evan Roth
30.5.-1.8.2015
AESTHETICA
50 Years of Computer Generated Art
DAM Gallery Berlin
with: Aram Bartholl, DE, Horst Bartnig, DE, Peter Beyls, BE, Vuk Cosic, SL, Hans Dehlinger, DE, Patrick Lichty, USA, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, MEX-CAN, Manfred Mohr, DE, Vera Molnar, F, Frieder Nake, DE, Georg Nees, DE, Casey Reas, USA, Sommerer & Mignonneau, A – F, Roman Verostko, USA, Mark Wilson, USA and more….
28.5.-30.8.2015
Poetics and Politics of Data
HeK , House of Electronic Arts Basel
23.5.-31.5.2015
Human Futures: Shared Memories and Visions
Quartier des spectacles & MUTEK, Montreal
22.5. – 23.8.2015
Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
with: Bartholl, Aram; Biscotti, Rossella; Canell, Nina; Gerrard, John; Herregraven, Femke; Hirsch, Antonia; Khan-Dossos, Navine G.; Mundy, Owen; Paglen, Trevor; Raven, Lucy
18.5.-30.5.2015
F.A.T. GOLD
at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
by F.A.T. lab, curated by Lindsay Howard
9.5.-7.6.2015
#watch22
Bonifaziusturm A, Mainz, Essenheimer Kunstverein
5.5.-7.5.2015
finding europe
re:publica conference, Station Berlin
30.4.-10.5.2015
Kongress der Möglichkeiten
HATE, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien
27.4.-3.5.2015
NODE15
Forum For Digital Arts, Frankkfurt
24.4.-5.7.2015
Hamster und Hipster: Zur Konsumästhetik des Mobiltelefons
Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt
24.4.-5.7.2015
Offline Art: Are you still there?
Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt
curated by Aram Bartholl
with: Alma Alloro, Anthony Antonellis, LaTurbo Avedon, James Bridle, Constant Dullaart, Claudia Mate, Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Niko Princen, Sebastian Schmieg, UBERMORGEN, Addie Wagenknecht
22.4.-1.6.2015
ANALOG DIGITAL: INTERFERENZ
Motorenhalle. Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
17.4.-19.4.2015
playin’siegen
Urban Games Festival, Universität Siegen
7.4.2015
KILLYOURPHONE.COM
workshop at Parsons School Paris
8.4.2015
FMAC à l’école
FMAC, primary school 19°, Paris
28.3.-28.6.2015
#NEULAND
at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
with: Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth
20.2.-10.4.2015
Point Of View
solo show at Babycastles, New York City

 
Past shows / talks / workshops …

The Youtube user #USBdeaddrop made an effort to collect all videos dealing with DeadDrops in one or the other way. The result is this beautiful playlist of news reports, tutorials, documentations and more. There are whole lot of clips I haven t even seen before. So cool!! Thx!!

#NEULAND Digitale Kunst
Arbeiten von Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth

28. März 2015 bis 28. Juni 2015

Das kunsthaus kaufbeuren zeigt erstmals Gegenwartskunst aus dem digitalen Bereich und präsentiert Arbeiten von Aram Bartholl, JODI und Evan Roth. Die Künstler visualisieren unsere digitale Identität, die durch Browserverlauf und Suchhistorie beim täglichen surfen durch das Netz entsteht. Sie versuchen sich vorzustellen, wie sich ein Computer mit einem Eigenleben verhalten würde. Sie hinterfragen kritisch aber durchaus auch humoristisch in Videoarbeiten, Objekten und Browserkunst alle Aspekte unseres technologisierten Alltags und enthüllen seine besondere Ästhetik. Tauchen Sie ein in die erstaunliche Vielfalt der Digitalen Kunst!
www.kunsthaus-kaufbeuren.de/