Aram Bartholl – Blog

I love this one! Linda was part of the Second City workshop space at Ars Electronica 2008 with the project Export to World (together with Sascha). I like this fashion/3D papercraft fusion development a lot. Nice one Linda!

Digital t-shirt project by MASHALLAH.DESIGN and LINDA KOSTOWSKI.

See you tonight at A MAZE!

A MAZE.JUMP ‘N RUN 03 –
WED. 10.12.2008 –
KIM A MAZE.
Brunnenstr.10, Berlin

A MAZE. … celebrating the convergence of computer games and art

A MAZE. is an exhibition and a conference on the subject of the convergence of computer games and art. It creates potential behind the ambivalent medium. Computer games is the basis of reflection, construction and discussion of new interactive content. A MAZE. offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and
encourages the creative and active shaping of the medium beyond established games concepts.

(A quite disturbing shopping window found in Berlin Mitte. You could really feel how that poor little girl was crying for help. And how she was trying to escape from that frozen X-mas horror like, Lego life size diorama set. Scary…)

All pictures of the “Sociial” performance 5.12.2008 at Weserburg Bremen on flickr. Movie documentation etc coming soon ….

Weserburg Bremen has some nice waterfalls. (No, it s not an Olaf Eliasson project ;-)

On next friday I’ll be showing my new performance piece “Sociial” at Weserburg Art Museum Bremen, DE. There will be a a new microbutton t-shirt, wii action and Kosmar will ‘explain’ 100 Web2.0 services in 20 minutes.

17th Video Art Award Bremen

Aram Bartholl “Sociial” – Performance during the opening
Maximilian Moll “Keep the fire burning”
Stephane Leonard “The Bridge’s Song”

6.12.2008 – 4.1.2009
Opening 5.12.2008 7pm

Speakers:
Ingo Clauss / Curator of the Weserburg
Klaus W. Becker / Film-Office Bremen
Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath / Director of Kunstahalle Bremen
Anouncement of the Video Art Award winner of 2008
Guided tour through the exhibition by the Curator Marikke Heinz-Hoek on 7.12. 11:30 am.

The Videokunst Förderpreis Bremen has advanced to become an important art prize. It is not awarded to completed works, but to concepts that the prize money makes possible to be brought to fruition. This is extremely important in the area of video art, as works of video art are frequently elaborate productions that cannot be realized without financial support in the first place. Within the scope of the competition, high-quality works on video have been being produced on a regular basis since 1992. Due to the Filmbüro Bremen’s keen commitment, this success story can continue be written this year as well. The works by last year’s recipients of the prize—Aram Bartholl, Maximilian Moll, Stephane Leonard—are now being presented for the first time at a four-week exhibition
The exhibition will open with Aram Bartholl’s performance Sociial, which features the games console Wii that Nintendo introduced to the market two years ago. One of the device’s special features is a novel interface between player and computer. Players are required to exert their full physical effort. Sensors register their movements and communicate them directly to the computer game. The in part ridiculous movements are accompanied by a lecture that is no less grotesque—in an endless litany, it presents the countless merits of online services. Facebook, Myspace, studiVZ, and all the other “social networks” are lastingly changing our everyday lives. Yet how social can software be? And what impact do digital developments have on the way we coexist? Against this backdrop, the insane contortions the computer game exacts appear to be thoroughly dubious operations.
Fire is the constitutive element in Maximilian Moll’s video installation Keep the fire burning. The artist uses several projections to set fire to the exhibition space, playing with the various qualities and meanings of fire. Whether forest fire or campfire, candlelight or blaze, humankind’s relationship with fire has always been ambivalent. Fire represents warmth and light, yet it can also escalate into a destructive force. A space-consuming dramaturgy has developed out of this field of tension. However, the digitally generated, in part apparently abstract images do not follow simple narrative patterns. They create a multi-layered resonating space in which personal memories are stimulated and connect up to the images of fire to produce a special form of aesthetic experience.
Stephane Leonard works as an artist, musician, composer, and filmmaker. In his multi-part video installation The Bridge’s Song, these areas team up in a singular way. One sees New York’s Queensboro Bridge. The impressive dimensions of the bridge, its enormous pillars are transferred into the exhibition space by means of a large-format projection. It is flanked by further projections that show the urban environment, the thunderous road traffic, skyscrapers, but also a view from a gondola slowly passing by the bridge. In an interplay with the sound level, the images of the city develop striking intensity. A complex audiovisual composition evolves from the background noises of the metropolis, the rhythm of the road traffic, in which even a bridge can release its very own sound: The Bridge’s Song.

Ingo Clauß

The Videokunst Förderpreis awarded by the Filmbüro Bremen is made possible by the Senator of Art, the Bremische Landesmedienanstalt, Radio Bremen, and the artists association GEDOK. The names of the new award winners will be announced on the evening of the opening, December 5, at 7:00 p.m.

Tobi-x will be launching the artzilla browser addon art platform soon.

artzilla.org launch party // browser hacks exhibition // 13.12.08 at
http://wormweb.nl/ Rotterdam, NL

The Worm crew will open it’s doors at 21.00, the whole thing will be in the cosy worm bar, there will be laptops on podiums standing around, people can mess with the exhibited add-ons, enjoy the best dutch beer ever, get into conversation and enjoy some solid DJ tunes. We’ll spit the talks from 10 to 11, and see where the night goes or where the DJs take us. Special guests are Florian Cramer and Hans Bernhard.

I am pleased to anounce that I receieved the TANDA Fame Grant November 08. Hehe, I like the diploma paper style. thx Jerry!

There has been a great new Firefox addon released. Pirates of the Amazon! Nice one;-)
Congrats to Long John S.!

Pirates of the Amazon Screencast from pirates_of_the_amazon on Vimeo.