Aram Bartholl – Blog

“Two coffee with sugar and milk, please …. hmm, I think it is not quick enough yet.”

Allthough I haven’t seen all the presentations at the Designmai Symposium the “RepRap” project presented by Adrian Bowyer has blown me away. The vision of the self replicating replicator becomes reality!

The informal “Unconference” I was invited to talk today was nice and cosy. We had an interesting group of people discucssing.

Speakers at the Symposium:
DESIGNMAI SYMPOSIUM – TOOLS, TALENTS AND TURNOVERS

*Assa Ashuach* | Product-/Furniture Designer (www.assaashuach.com), London

*Adrian Bowyer* | Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering and Design, University of Bath
(www.bath.ac.uk/~ensab), Bath

*Michael Braungart* | Professor of Water Engineering and Environmental
Technology, University Lüneburg; CEO EPEA International Environmental
Research (www.epea.com); Co-Founder MBDC McDonough Braungart Design
Chemistry (www.mbdc.com); Founder of Hamburg Environmental Institute
(www.hamburger-umweltinst.org)

*Regine Debatty* | New Media Art Consultant for festivals and art
commissions; Blogger (www.we-make-money-not-art.com), Berlin

*Holm Friebe* | CEO Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur
(www.zentrale-intelligenz-agentur.de), Berlin
*Stefan Heidenreich* | Media Theoretician (www.stefanheidenreich.de),
Berlin

*Helena Hyvönen *| Dean of University of Art and Design (www.uiah.fi),
Helsinki **

*Björn Richter* | Stratasys GmbH (www.stratasys.com), Frankfurt**

*Ned Rossiter* | Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Ulster;
Digital Cultures, University of Western Sydney (online)
*Joachim Sauter* | Professor of Digital Media, Universität der Künste,
Berlin; Media Art and Design, University of California, L.A.; Artistic
Director ART+COM AG www.artcom.de), Berlin

*Ursula Tischner* | Designer; CEO econcept – agency for sustainable
design (www.econcept.org), Cologne

*Reto Wettach* | Professor of Physical Interaction Design,
Fachhochschule Potsdam; Director Interaction Design Lab
(www.idl.fh-potsdam.de)

Stefan Heidenreich invited me today to talk at the second part of the Designmai Symposium “TOOLS, TALENTS AND TURNOVERS”, the “Unconference” tomorrow. I’ll show some projects and talk about the upcoming performance “Speach Bubble” at the plazes.com new HQ opening party next week.

Symposium-Conference 12.05, 10 – 18:30h
Symposium-Unconference 13.05, 11 – 15:00h, my talk ~ 14:00 h
DESIGNMAI Forum,
Spandauer Str. 2,
10178 Berlin

Some more pictures of my north west Germany trip. I had luck and could join the press tour of the exhibition “My Own Private Reality” guided by the curating team Sabine Himmelsbach ( Director of Edith-Russ-Haus) and Sarah Cook on friday morning. The show is a good mixture of on- and offline pieces pointing out social structures, participation and early web2.0 development of the internet. It’s the first time I have been at Edith-Russ-Haus. Very nice exhibition space, good show!

More pics of the guided tour on flickr

Blog of the show
“My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s” .

Flickr group of “My Own Private Reality” Show

Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art” Oldenburg, DE