Aram Bartholl – Blog

Presentation and open for experimentation night. Installation by Visomat and telematique
Sat | 15.12.| 9 P.M at M12 Berlin

“Halbzeug describes a range of styrofoam modules whose functional design defines them as everyday objects. In the realm of art, styrofoam often serves as a preliminary material for sculptures and large-scale objects. While Halbzeug references this context, its practical bias and situational use moves it beyond any arts-related connotations. Halbzeug takes traditional handicraft and transposes it to the present to express the idea of the ornament with a very contemporary material.”

This piece reminds me of Pablo Valbuenas Augmented Sculpture wich has been shown at Ars Electronica this year. It’s a very interesting development of getting rid of the stupid rectangle we looking at all day. ;-)

Exactly one year ago on 7.12.06 Tobias stepped randomly into Jan’s Gallery/Livingroom on Hannoverschestr.3, Berlin (today NewBerlin headquarter). Although they met for the very first time the idea of NewBerlin was born after 1 hour. Today they are running 3 sims with a RL-team of 5 employees constantly developing NewBerlin.

From business to freakshow everything is possible. You meet the most diverse kind of people at RL NewBerlin events. Thx for the nice party on friday, boys!

www.berlininsl.de

Jan is sunbading in his (minimum) 8 screen Second Life cockpit. I like the way they do business but still living the cyberpunk attitude.

Three years of Tesla. It’s a pitty it’ll be closed end of the year.

Found this paper calendar at the cafe across the street today. In screen-calendar style the user marks events of one or more days with white tape by hand. Since all the appointment information is written down on the strip of white tape you can easily move it around. Perfect! We can learn a lot from the online world for offline products.

Could somebody please make this poster sync with my Google calendar? ;-)

www.populaere-produkte.de

While I was searching for Zevs
Kärcher-style “Propper Graffiti” (which I like a lot) I found the “Nixfitti” project by a Berlin writer group: Richard Schwarz, Rainer Macher, Spitboy, Relax and Roger.
As a part of a RedBull Streetart campaign they decided to become the ‘good’ guys. They acted as perfectly organized anti graffit company, simply painting graffiti. Nice! I love these abstract, fresh paint “I-was-a-graffiti”-rectangles.

Architects are just so smart. But in fact I am not quite sure if this anti graffiti facade really works. Maybe they clean it every day. Some dripping krink could be very interesting … ;-)

The very successful Shrinking Cities exhibition is still touring worldwide (where are they right now?). Recently they had a call for Second Life. Since the press anounced that Second Life shrinks Shrinking Cities took the opportunity to set up a competition on shrinking Second Life, sure they just had to :-). Florian Schmidt, a good friend won the first price with his proposal “SEMANTIC TECTONIC”. I am curious for his ideas on how to safe the virtual world ;-)

Btw, yesterday Christian Scholz aka Mr.Topf aka Tao Takashi held a very interesting talk on the new Second Life grid architecture development at ComMeta convention center. Everybody will be able to set up a grid when the time has come…
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Marius Watz offers an interesting workshop during Clubtransmediale in Jan 08 on generative art involving digital fabrication. Nice! I’ll definately take a look, I love the fablab stuff …

Generator.x in collaboration with Club Transmediale and [DAM] presents Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the screen, a workshop and exhibition about digital fabrication and generative systems.

Digital fabrication (also known as “fabbing”) represents the next step in the digital revolution. After years of virtualization, with machines and atoms being replaced by bits and software, we are coming full circle. Digital technologies like rapid prototyping, laser cutting and CNC milling now produce atoms from bits, eliminating many of the limitations of industrial production processes. Once prohibitively expensive, such technologies are becoming increasingly accessible, pointing to a future where mass customization and manufacturing-on-demand may be real alternatives to mass production…

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