Aram Bartholl – Blog

hey all!
I am hanging some prints at my favorite coffee place in berlin mitte upcoming Wednesday. Feel free to drop by and have a beer/coffee with me. :-)

“15 Seconds Of Fame”
Aram Bartholl solo show
at cafe MÖRDER
Borsigstr.1
10115 Berlin
(G-maps http://bit.ly/hvWGLh )

2.12.2010 – 10.1.2011
Opening Wednesday 1.12.2010, 16:00 h

I can’t believe this! Germany entered the scene on the digital globe today! Congrats! Google Streetview is finally life! Although it seems Google had some trouble keeping the good quality. Many images are blurred or even black, strange – how come? ;-) ….. Oh! whats that?!? Look what I found!!! F.A.T. patrol is on Steetview OMG! yes true, I heard they tagged the car with a GPS last February … what?!? They even hijacked it?!?! (http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/ – don t miss the video) …

Update:

OMG! It seems that Google for one day even considered to run Streetview in Germany as a paid premium service … it would make sense! They spend so much extra money on ‘post production’ ;-)

The Streetview page was blocked and the text says something like ‘Due to the high effort in picture editing Google Germany has decided to run  Google Streetview as a paid premium service….”  The page was up for only one day and for some strange reason they list themselves now as a phising attack ?!? see yourself http://goo.gl/Nk9Ca . Probably trying to blame someone else ;-)

[Great speed coding job Dragan! Speed project by Dragan Espenschied and Aram Bartholl on a beautiful Friday morning last week! ]

( Temporary sculpture in public by anonymous, found last week on Gerichtstr. Berlin)

Sorry Jonah Brucker-Cohen I had to do it. ;-) This will be become the standard weekend party T-shirt! Love your T-shirt series. (Was fun catching up! )

Google Streetview Germany went life yesterday and the whole country goes nuts about it, (not enough blur, too much blur, unblur FB groups etc.) haha …. OMG. After I posted my ‘15 Seconds of Fame Streetview self portraits series‘ yesterday press picked it up and I was featured in two newspapers today. Berliner Morgenpost got it quite right (because they called and I told them the story that I jumped out the cafe and ran actually dancing behind the Google car :-)

Tagesspiegel (below) got it wrong. They describe me as being mad at the G-car.  That s not true!!! I would never do that!!! I used to drive that car too!! ;-) But Tagesspiegel is professional journalism, so they called and will get it right tomorrow with a new piece on me and my work. Looking fwd to that! :-) Stay tuned for a scan. (No need to by paper ;-)

Tagesspiegel 19.11.2010, Frontpage and article. Thx to @timpritlove for the pic
(Damn, I just realize that I broke that pair of shades I am wearing in the pic haha …;-)

Look at that desperate guy running behind the Google Streetview car in Berlin
(that s me :-) hehe … congrats Germany! (original tweet from 10-13-2009)

On the same day in Fall 2009 F.A.T. lab came up with the idea to build the fake Google car for Transmediale :-) http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/ http://vimeo.com/9455140

TAZ, 5.11.2010

Financial Times DE, 18.11.2010

(found on Hussitenstr. Berlin)

Dead Drops 'How to' – NYC from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

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(found public sulpture by anonymous (?) at Nordbahnhof, Berlin)