Search For Nothing

Search For Nothing – https://www.google.com/search?q=+&
Aram Bartholl
2014
By occupying nearly a third of our waking hours, screens are profoundly reshaping the contours of our relationships with others. In response, numerous journalistic and academic discourses echo concerns about the digital migration of our social lives: the idea frequently arises that the socio-technical systems at work in this migration are making us more resistant to diversity.
Our intention is to nuance this concern by acknowledging a foundational aspect of the internetâits original design to facilitate the virtuous and unprecedented emergence of communities of specific interests, often far more specialized than what our traditional offline social circles can accommodate. This utopia inevitably carries a tension between, on the one hand, the benefits of more efficient and far-reaching sociability, and on the other, the widely discussed risks of a social life limited to alters who are most similar to ourselves.
Curated by AurĂ©lie ClĂ©mente-Ruiz, director of the MusĂ©e de l’Homme in Paris, and Camille Roth, a researcher at CNRS in social sciences.
With: Nicolas Bailleul, Aram Bartholl, LĂ©a Belloousovitch, NeĂŻl Beloufa, Sophie Calle, Paola Ciarska, Laurent Grasso, Juliette Green, Ben Grosser, ĂzgĂŒr Kar, BĂ©atrice Lartigue, Lauren Lee MacCarthy, Katherine Longly, Randa Maroufi, Magalie Mobetie, Martine Neddam, Philippe Parreno, Françoise PĂ©trovitch, Valentina Peri, Marilou Poncin, Jeanne Suspuglas
A look at how our online practices leave traces and affect our rights. Based on the Digital Rights Charter (2021), the exhibition explores seven key areas using humor and everyday examples. Framed within the Digital Rights Observatory and curated by FundaciĂłn TelefĂłnica and Domestic Data Streamers, the exhibition invites reflection and debate on the safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology.
Framed within the initiative of the Digital Rights Observatory and curated by FundaciĂłn TelefĂłnica and the artistic collective Domestic Data Streamers, which presents six installations, the exhibition features works by contemporary artists such as United Visual Artists, Eva & Franco Mattes, Paolo Cirio, NoemĂ Iglesias Barrios, Theresa Reiwer, Hasan Elahi, and Aram Bartholl, among others. These works engage the viewer, help them understand, and encourage reflection on our actions as digital beings. A much-needed exhibition that fosters debate around digital rights and responsibilities, as well as the safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology. Because today is a good day to talk about Digital Rights.
GOGBOT 2025
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18-21 september @ ENSCHEDE
festival for art music technology
Join us on Saturday, September 13, 2025, 13â20h at Engeldamm 64, 10179 Berlin (Kreuzberg).
Solidarity Fundraiser for the
Gaza Biennale â- Berlin Pavilion
Works by 100+ Berlin artists
Each work âŹ50
Over 120 Berlin-based artists have already donated works on paper in solidarity with colleagues in Palestine. The fundraiser will make the Berlin Pavilion possible: It will support the participating artists in Gaza by paying them artist fees, reproducing works that cannot leave Gaza under the siege, and expanding the ecosystem of the Biennale that allows the public to engage with their work.
If you are a Berlin-based artist and would like to contribute works on paper to the fundraiser, please email fundraising@gazabiennaleberlin.com for more information.
Join us live-in-studio with season two of the Radio Spaetkauf x EuropÀische Akademie Berlin podcast collaboration. This year we focus on CULTURE. Each episode features fresh voices and perspectives representing a wide array of backgrounds, expertise and disciplines. Host Daniel Stern is joined by researchers, academics, independent artists, journalists and community leaders with unique insights into our evolving cultural interactions.
September 13th:Â Museums are more than just buildings that house objects. They are sites of memory, meaning, and power â spaces where stories are told, preserved, and sometimes contested. But who decides whatâs worth keeping? And how do museums evolve in response to the cultures and technologies of their time?
As boundaries blur between archive and activism, exhibition and experience, we ask: What is a museum today? And what should it be? Together we explore the shifting roles of museums in shaping public understanding, identity, and imagination.
Guests include:
Michael Soltau â Synthesizer Museum Berlin
Aram Bartholl â Media and concept artist
Lilja-Ruben Vowe â PhD in cultural history, curator and inclusive mediator
Dr. Wenke Wegner â Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
Host: Dan Stern
The festival brings artistic short films into public space â presented in a mobile, seemingly
improvised exhibition object: a transport cart with pneumatic tires, stacked with various boxes,
crates and bags, all secured with colorful tension straps. Through peepholes in these containers,
passersby can watch the films on hidden tablets or smartphones.
The route leads through five locations in the district (Goslaer Platz, MierendorïŹplatz,
Ăsterreichpark, Schustehruspark, Lietzenseepark). At each stop, the âmini-museumâ stays for
about one hour. The project is accompanied throughout the day by the two artists and curators
Marian Luft and Moritz Frei, who will be present to assist and engage with the audience.
Curated by Marian Luft & Moritz Frei
With:
IvĂĄn Argote, Sophia SĂŒĂmilch, Björn Melhus, Hansol Kim, Barıà ĂavuĆoÄlu, Lorna Mills, Andrew Birk, Peng Li

Search For Nothing – https://www.google.com/search?q=+&
Aram Bartholl
2014
I’m currently guest teaching a semester at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. (Thx to Olia for the invitation!) „For Your Eyes Only“ is the title of the class. We are looking into the hype about wearables like Oculus Rift, Google Glass and smart watches and all these new gadgets. What makes sense, what’s retro lost, how can we combine, what can we make better etc…? Yesterday the students were testing (fake) Oculus rift VR glasses in downtown Stuttgart. What would it be like people wearing those in public space? Today 90% of passengers in public transport are looking at their phones. Why not wearing a full VR (virtual reality) helmet?? đ Surprisingly many people recognized the dummies as Oculus gear. Will we walk around like this in a few years?? đ
All about the new VR hype on http://www.roadtovr.com/

[full post at fffff.at]
Awesome Gcar game experience by Linus Suter !

Google Streetview Germany went life yesterday and the whole country goes nuts about it, (not enough blur, too much blur, unblur FB groups etc.) haha …. OMG. After I posted my ‚15 Seconds of Fame Streetview self portraits series‚ yesterday press picked it up and I was featured in two newspapers today. Berliner Morgenpost got it quite right (because they called and I told them the story that I jumped out the cafe and ran actually dancing behind the Google car đ

Tagesspiegel (below) got it wrong. They describe me as being mad at the G-car. That s not true!!! I would never do that!!! I used to drive that car too!! đ But Tagesspiegel is professional journalism, so they called and will get it right tomorrow with a new piece on me and my work. Looking fwd to that! đ Stay tuned for a scan. (No need to by paper đ
Tagesspiegel 19.11.2010, Frontpage and article. Thx to @timpritlove for the pic
(Damn, I just realize that I broke that pair of shades I am wearing in the pic haha …;-)


Yes!! The ‚official‘ Google Streetview car was seen at the ‚Freedom not fear‘ demonstration Berlin last Saturday! Great that Google joined the Demonstration „…against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses – Stop Surveillance Mania!„
bubble-streetview.de powered by F.A.T. Lab đ

Haha …this is so good!!! Let’s see how much more desperate they‚ll get.
Check also the Google Street View Car how to of fffff.at
Pic by woozie2010

Sascha Pohflepp posted a beautiful series of Google search proposals …
this was my favorite one.
Nice one Sascha!

I am waiting for the day when Google will ask us to ’streetview‘ our own houses and apartments. „Look, Tobi has a new kitchen table. Ah, here is his bathroom.“
Check the Google streetview bike on searchengineland!