Aram Bartholl – Blog

Ars Electronica announced golden nica winners for 2008! In the category INTERACTIVE ART Julius von Bismarck got a golden nica for the Image Fulgurator. This piece is just awesome. Congrats Julius! Good job, jury!

The Image Fulgurator is a kind of inverted photo camera physically manipulating other peoples pictures in realtime. The exact moment someone takes a picture the Fulgurator does a flash projection onto the photographed object. A sensor detects other camera flashes and synchronizes the flash projection to them. In case of the movie below tourists end up having weird text messages in their pictures. A Checkpoint Charlie sign has an additional message on it but you can’t see it in real. This is a good picture explaining the setup.

Wow! I really like this piece a lot. Just imagine what you could do with this technology. (That’s why he is going for patent.)

The Deutsche Post has a new high security “lock” preventing customers from cash machine scam. This green plastic piece in front of the cash machine slot has a holographic lock on it. Wow! that makes me feel really safe.
Hmm … wait a moment. How do I know that Deutsche Post has placed it there?

Hey! How about some cash machine street art pieces? ;-)

Yes, I like simple wood constructions.

at
Antje Wachs

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Tomáš Svoboda

I like the perfect symmetry of this work. Almost another clerical streetart piece.
;-)

New adbusting piece by The-Wa on just.blogsport.de. Poor ebay campaign. Good job!

via rebel:art

no comment. ;-)
(found on Adalberstrasse, Berlin)

Another locative public note I found this morning. Someone asks his/her neighbours for a w-lan connection. Thats excactly what I advice people who are asking me for which internet provider to choose. Ask your neighbours! There is so much wifi out there …

And I am convinced that paper based local blackboards are still the best way for local community communication.

“You don’t need it” –> Web 2.0 ;-)

(Ok, you could add up a high res webcam showing the board on the web for the people who would never leave the keyboard.)

A nice clerical variation of Pixelator. TV-Filter is also mentioned within a series of related pixel pieces on antiadvertisingagency.com

Posterchild takes Round 4 on the ongoing alteration of the HD screens installed over subway entrances in New York. Building on the Pixelator, Posterchild goes a more devout route with a stained glass effect. “Hold Fast Sell Out” was built with 1/2 inch melamine, screwed together and coated with diffusion material – rather impressive construction.

Streetart exhibition in Barcelona.

17 June 2008
20:00
see flyer

www.vaquerosdebarcelona.org

would love to join …

A typical lost/found message in public space. I like these kind of local-public letters. The way how it was attached to the sign made me stop. Taking a closer look the text seems pretty awkward. “… please return my bag to the lost property office without the glas of tomatos…”

Or is it maybe streetart? ;-)

(found on Schlegelstrasse, Berlin)