Aram Bartholl – Blog

(found on Kastanienallee, Berlin)

A very nice Virtual -> Real transformation I couldn’t have done better ;-)
Flying penis’ are nothing very unusual in Second Life. A so called greefing attack on Anshe Chung during an Interview at CNET in Second Life last year draw quite some attention. Last week somebody reenacted this “performance” during a speech of Garry Kasparov in Real Life! This is just hilarious. And another prove on how the net data space influences every day life in physical space. The “artist” must have know about Second Life greefing attacks, I bet.

Thanks for the link Sascha !

(found on Torstrasse, Berlin)

Since I did the mobile phone pouch “Silver Cell” in 2004 a faradayic tent was on my list of possible projects but it never happend. Via the upcoming “my [public] space” exhibition at nimk I found the piece “Disconnected” by Susan Härtig. Nice tent! Finally somebody did it.
The people from Kryptophone.de
(who were interested in “Silver Cell “) told me back then that faradayic tents are very common in secret service and other tempest computing scenarios. You can also find them as a plain product.
But in fact I am like Susan Härtig more interested in the disconnectedness than the surveillance topic.

For the exhibition “Hack the City” at Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul South Corea end of July I will run the “WoW” workshop and performance in hangul letter system. On the left a screenshot from south corean version of World of Warcraft. Nice!

Netherlands Media Art Institute formerly known as Montevideo in Amsterdam will show the “Are you social?” T-shirt in the upcoming exhibition “My [public] space”.

My [public] space
:: May 24 –- June 21, 2008
:: Opening May 23, 5:00 p.m.
:: Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam
with Aram Bartholl, Hasan Elahi, Martijn Engelbregt, Kota Ezawa, Dora García, Susan Härtig, Jill Magid, Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG, Eduardo Navas, Guy Ben-Ner, Marisa Olson.

The exhibition ‘My [public] space’ is a follow-up to the exhibition ‘Territorial Phantom’. In the previous exhibition the occupation of and claims to space by corporations, organizations or countries was central. My [public] space goes more deeply into the blurring of private and public information and spaces.

The copious use of digital, network and mobile technologies has had an enormous influence on our concept of public and private space, and calls up new questions about the conditions for these environments. Public space is not longer something that we can leave or exclude. Through wireless technologies – chat, mail, GSM – the public is everywhere: in our homes, our beds and even our bodies. What is private any more? What consequences does this muddying of the public and exposure to the public gaze have? Public space has become a ‘hybrid’: an entanglement of the public and private spheres…

read on at nimk.nl

I still have some badges left over from the “Follow me!” intervention at the re:publica conference a month ago. Is your Twitter avatar among these buttons? Yes? Then drop by and pic it up.

Full “Follow me!” documentation with pics, movie and english text is online.

My upcoming events:

25.7.-30.7.08
Presentation at ISEA 2008 Conference, Singapore, SG

22.07.- 24.08.08
“WoW” at “Hack the City” at TMCA, Seoul, CO.KR

04. – 06.07.08
Workshop participation “Performing Spaces” Bröllin, DE

26.06.08
“Chat” at “Try again” Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, ES

04.06.08
Talk at Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, DE

29.05.08
Talk at Art School Kassel “Digitale Attitüde”, Kassel, DE

23.05. – 21.06.08
“Are you social?” at “Public Privacy” Nimk, Amsterdam, NL

15.5.08
“Chat” at next08 conference, Hamburg, DE

Chat at Futuresonic a week ago was great fun. We started at the Acadamy before the Wire concert (pic) and then had fun in public space on Oxford road. Best anecdote happend in the end at Contact Theater. Someone with an open Skype video channel on his laptop had his online contact chatting to one of the speech bubbles via webcam. Hehe. So in the end Chat went back online.

… “OMG, Nooo, doooon’t do it. It’s too dangerous. The on- offline cycle will be closed. A black web-time hole will suck in all matter … aahhhhrg !!! “
;-)

Thanks for the nice pic, Jerry!

(btw, next Chat performance at www.next08.com german web conference in Hamburg on 15.5.2008)

Just a very big ad campaign but also another way on how computer games conquer public space.