Aram Bartholl – Blog

A new piece by Pablo Valbuena. This is a new and much better dimension to the media facade discussion. Very nice! Good job Pablo, see you around.

Check the video!

One of my current favorite pieces by Marcus Wittmers shown at Gitte Weise Gallery (show just ended). Yes, it’s real! A stone M4A1 carved/sculptured from an old tombstone.

Marcus Wittmers
Waffenruhe / Ceasefire (M4A1) 2007
Belgian Granite
92 x 94 x 14 cm
(picture copyright by the artist)

… In Waffenruhe (Ceasefire) a series the artist has been working on since the year 2000), the ideas appear with great clarity due to the use of gravestones carved open to reveal almost hyper-realistic images of handguns of types used all over the world today. With this clearly executed shifting of context (the stones are salvaged from waste piles in Berlin’s cemeteries), the artist gives access to various levels of intellectual interpretation of the work.On one hand, the sculptures are surprising, as somehow, these menacing pistols on the rough surface of the stone look seductive with their skilful and precise reproduction. To achieve this effect, the Berlin artist uses Belgian granite, a material which reproduces the colour and texture of the weapons strikingly realistically. On the other hand, the pleasure of the moment is also filled with its dark side – fleetingness, death, finality. The graves and pistols reveal this unsettling dimension, and in turn because of the title Ceasefire, are given what one would almost like to describe as a physical and poetic serenity, hope-inspiring closure: may the weapons be laid to rest.…

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Gitte Weise Gallery
Tucholskystrasse 47
10117 Berlin
Germany

(Looks like a custom mixed blue, like evans BadA55. Found on Borsigstr. Berlin)

Found the trends book 2009 from the art school Central Saint Martins London in my mail today. Nice collection of art and design pieces (incl. my Chat, WoW and FPS projects).
Thx!

Mark Jenkins in collaboration with Greenpeace. Nice one!

(Nice balcony! Would love to have one of these for my window. Found on Friedrichstr./Spree, Berlin)

I took a walk on Times Square NYC but I couldn’t move my head and the cars and people seamed a bit flat ( hey @googleearth, where is the first person view – mouse look control option?).
Then I took a ride by car on Time Square again but got of course stuck in time-traffic jam. Everybody was frozen like in an “Improve Everywhere” performance. I wonder what the combination of those two with some game like controls and a pinch of photosynth could be … ?
(Not talking about real time locative microblogging streams and all that GPS devices out there …)

A very niece piece by Dan and Sophie a.k.a. plan-b (who I got to know during Futuresonic.com Manchester) will show a reconfigured version of “A message to you” during Preview Berlin.

2 p.m. 30th october
Hangar 2, Tempelhof airport
Berlin

We have tried to keep every text message (SMS) that we have sent each other since Autumn 2006 and decided to use this material to shout to each other across the opposing seating banks of the stadium […]
We read out 481 unedited messages, starting with messages sent exactly a year before the day on which we performed.

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(An interface for planners’ reality hits public space. A measuring point at Gartenstr./Bernauerstr., Berlin)

Evan Roth and myself in collaboration with Tobi, Michael, and Jamie are showing a new piece at Videotage, Hong Kong consisting of an installation (titled: “Web 2.0”) and a Fire Fox Plugin (titled: “China Channel“)

Videotage Hong Kong
Exhibition: October Contemporary 2008 – SECOND LIFE
Opening: Oct 4 (Sat), 7-11pm
Exhibition Period: Oct 6 (Mon) to Nov 4 (Tue)

Pictures, documentation and text on Evans blog. Project page coming soon.