Aram Bartholl – Blog

The project “WoW” is a workshop and a performance. I did this piece with a group of 14 people at the ‘The Game is up’ festival at Vooruit (unfortunately no english version of theirs website) in Gent, Belgium in feburary this year.

“We are presenting a festival ‘the game is up! – about breaking rules and changing codes. we are inviting artists with very different backgrounds: theatermakers, performars, musicians and media-arts to present them in a 10day festival with performances, talks and an exhibition.”

Vooruit is a really big Arts Centre in a beautifull old building originally based in music, theater and performance but opend up to media art some years ago. The curators Eva de Groote and Tom Bonte doing a great job and they have a very friendly, proffessional and well organized team. I had a very good time there and I am very happy about the outcome of the project. Thanks to Greg Young who filmed the action and did the editing.

For everybody who haven’t seen the documentation yet find some pictures on flickr and a quicktime – or youtube movie below.

Re:publica is a conference on Web2.0, Open Source and Social Media taking place in Berlin 11-13.4.2007.
“Social Networks, Blogs, Podcasts, Videocasts, Online- und Offline-Communities and -Services – all these aspects will be topic of the conference as well as backgound information, philosophy, law issues on social (R)evolution in the Net…it is about culture…workshop, lectures and economics…”

The whole conference is mainly held in german. I have a talk about my projects on the second day thursday 12.04.2007 18:30 h
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I found this sad cat today at Koppenplatz, Berlin Mitte. I think the KR-Style is not on purpose but very nice.

Niklas Roy and Jonah Brucker Cohen are both good friends of mine. We just all met at the Laboral Museum opening in Gijon, Spain a week ago. Jonah did an interesting interview with Niklas which has been published on Gizmodo some days ago. Link

Niklas does great work. We got to know each other at the 21c3 hacker conference 2004 where he showed Pong Mechanic and I showed Paper Pixels. In our artistic aproach we have a lot in common and we also had a lot of fun in the past. When it comes to electronics Niklas is always a great help. He is really good in mechanics and electronics.

Pixelator is a nice project using my TV-Filter idea to transform public advertisment displays into street art. It is an honor that people are inspired by my work. Thx for mentioning my TV-Filter, Jason! Pixelator looks great in public space!

“Pixelator is an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.

Since 2003, the MTA has made available for exhibition purposes 80 LED screens located at subway entrances across New York City. Unfortunately, the high cost of exhibiting (an estimated $274,000 per month per screen) prevents most artists from having access to these facilities. While the MTA’s effort to create more opportunities for video art exhibition in public spaces is to be commended, selected works remain wholly fixated on commercial goods and media conglomerate events, a short-sighted curatorial choice that regrettably ignores the full potential of these promising exhibition spaces.

In an attempt to broaden the scope of MTA’s video art series, Pixelator takes video pieces currently on display and diffuses them into a pleasant array of 45 blinking, color-changing squares. Since the project is an anonymous collaboration, the resulting video is almost entirely unplanned and unanticipated, with the original artists helping to create new works of art without any knowledge of their participation.

(Translation: Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art.)”

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Pixelator from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

These are some selected articles on the Transmediale 07, Media Art festival, Berlin where I did show “Random Screen” 31.1-4.2.2007.

– Magazin D of the italien news paper La Republica, article on artists in general, I was told ( I don’t speak italian) published 24.3.2007 PDF

– Article on Transmediale, mentioning “Random Screen” german newspaper Tageszeitung TAZ

– Article on Transmediale, mentioning “Random Screen” german newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Check out a new movie documenting my project “Random Screen” at the Transmediale Berlin this year in feburary. I was lucky. The piece was placed right in the center of the exhibition entrance and you could already see it from the staircase. The audio in the background is Herwig Weisers “Death before Disco”, one of my favorite pieces at the Transmediale this year. Find quicktime movie in better quality here and some more pictures on flickr.

As you can see blow I started this blog a year ago but I haven’t used it at all. During my time as a reblogger for Eyebeam in the last two weeks I finally understood what it means to provide a feed to the public and how important this is. Besides of this it is a lot of fun to blog. Ok, it is about time to really start this blog here and let you know about my latest projects, exhibitions, events, friends, related stuff and thoughts. The found pictures of every day life which I regulary blog on flickr will be in here too. Thanks to Eyebeam for inviting me as a reblogger! There are many things to post/talk about and I am curious if I really manage to keep this blog going.

Berlin to see the exhibition about pain today. The Painstation of Fur is part of the show. At the entrance of the museum I found this very nice still life. I suppose most people (espacially in germany) do know the story of the graffiti banana.

The picture shows an ancient petrified Google Map pin. ;-) Michael, who found it says he is passing this place in Kreuzberg Berlin everyday but normally cars use to park on that spot. Of course this story refers to my project “Map” . On Google Maps itself this very nice piece is not facing the right direction to the north and a shadow is covering it partially. As mentioned before some cars are parking on it but the size of the pin is about right. It could be a very early specimen. Look at it in Google Map yourself.
Gmap petrified
Thanks for the pic Michael!