Archive for May, 2007
HfK Art School Bremen
Pic of theday: Random Screen Color!
Michael took this picture of this wonderful color changing pixel clock. Very nice combination of analogue and digital. But it says LED, no tea candles in there, thats for sure.
Thx Michael!
Exhibition: My Own Private Reality
There is an interesting Exhibition upcoming at the “Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art” in Oldenburg, DE
“My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s” .
May 12th – July 1st 2007,
Opening 11th 19 h. ,
Unfortunately I can not attend the opening. I have to come back to Berlin on friday, but I’ll try to join the press meeting in the morning.
‘…The show, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook, is “a playful look at the hype surrounding what is called Web 2.0 – the proliferation of publicly accessible websites which allow communities of users to create and share content (writing, photos, videos, music, etc.) – something that previously was only done by professionals, self-taught enthusiasts, or organisations with staff members with technical and software know-how. With blogs, wikis, and centralised file-sharing sites, first-time users can now be as productive as the well-paid experts. How artists play in the online spaces between those populated by unpopular amateurs and well-known professionals is at the heart of this exhibition.” Pretty cool idea and hopefully some of my future projects will be included in the 2.0 version of this show as well! Check out all the work – some really nice work by Cory Arcangel, Nick Crowe, Exonemo, Ute Hörner / Mathias Antlfinger, Humanbeans, Miranda July / Harrell Fletcher, Olia Lialina / Dragan Espenschied, Les Liens Invisibles, Jillian Mcdonald, Marisa Olson, Tanja Ostojic, Annina Rüst, Thomson & Craighead, ubermorgen.com / Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico, and Angie Waller’s pretty funny “My Frienemies”…’
via Jonah Brucker Cohen’s blog coin-operated.com
He is showing “BumpList: An Email Community For the Determined”. Nice project, Jonah!
5×4 m (13×16 ft) Website
Ingo Schmid, student of the HfK Bremen is building by hand a real world website size 5×4 m (13×16 ft) for his thesis work. I am curious what’s going to happen on there. Hopefully he will explain it to me end of the week.
A website becomes a real stage again…
presentation will be on
16.05.07, 20:00 h
Bückingstr. Schuppen 18D
Bremen
Pic of the day: Kernel Panic
Alex just did send me an image of the poster of my talk at HfK Bremen on thursday. I love it! It really took me some time to figure out that this was not photoshop. They tricked me with my own weapons. :)
( He said it was a last minute design, name of the file “kernel panic” )
“Link” lecture series
10.5.2007
17:30 Uhr
Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Am Speicher XI 8
28217 Bremen
Update: 3rd version of new project "Tree"
1st Version of Tree
2nd Version of Tree
The installation in public space is planned for September/October 2007 Berlin, funded by the department of culture, City of Berlin.
More details and the concept of the project at the project page on datenform.de
Hanging out at New Berlin
The people from Second Life “New Berlin” had a RL/SL event some time ago. One of them hang out at Alexanderplatz with his laptop at same time online in SL in “New Berlin” at the same spot …
Treffen der Welten… Am Donnerstag den 19. April ist Jan Northoff alias January Lightfoot von 12 bis 14 Uhr auf dem Alexanderplatz in sowohl Berlin als auch new BERLIN inSecond Life anzutreffen. Durch die virtuelle Doppelung der Realität verschmelzen Avatar und reale Person. Andere Berliner Avatare und Laptopbesitzer sind herzlich eingeladen, an dem Happening teilzunehmen. Kommen Sie doch einfach real oder virtuell auf einen Chat vorbei. Ein W-Lan ist eingerichtet. Für das virtuelle leibliche Wohl ist gesorgt: es gibt frisch gescriptete newBERLINERcurryWURST…
I passed Alexanderplatz today and wondered if this guy is still hanging out there.
Is this Lastchancer Nomura aka Tobias Neisecke hanging out at New/Old Berlin?
I’m not sure …
Documentation: Paper Pixels at Ars and at TENT
I am still working on some documentation of exhibitions, even from last year. Find some pictures and better quality quicktimes on the project page Paper Pixels at Ars Electronica 06 and at TENT Rotterdam.
Pic of the day: Media Artist?
Today I saw this women on Bernauerstrasse carrying a lot of rare technology stuff. Stop! Let’s ask. “Are you a media artist doing some cutting egde fancy mobile art project?” You can hardly see it, but additional to this futuristic antena she carries a big bagpack with another antenna on top. What’s going on? No artist in Berlin could afford an equipment like this, or did Blasttheroy move to Berlin lately?
No, she is not an artist but she is doing her work: Some high accurate GPS mesurement for a new construction site. What I learned from here: There are four additional stationary GPS antenas in Berlin to get a very precise GPS signal, accuracy 1-2 cm, not bad!
update: In the background on the pavement you can see part of a stone strip which marks city wide the former Berlin Wall. Yes, exactly THERE has been the Wall.
FlickrBlockers
Ok, last post for today. It seems I am getting slowly addicted in blogging. I will try to tune in for 1-2 posts a day but I just have to blog this.
FlickrBlockers! Another nice project very close to the Magic Arrow and of course in a way related to my work. Good stuff!