Aram Bartholl – Blog

Are you human?
(ongoing series 2009 – 2013)
550 x 130, 10mm steel
2013

Shown at ‘Hello World!! solo show at Kasseler Kunstverein, Sept 2013

CAPTCHA codes are small images we encounter on the internet almost every day. To prove to the server that we are human we have to decode the distorted random letter-number word. CAPTCHA is the acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” and was developed in 2000. While at the Turing test humans were to decide if they chat with a program or another human. Today the computer is asking us if we were human. At the same time often it is quite difficult to decode these bend letters and numbers but spammers write specialized software which still is capable to do so. Are you human?

It is also interesting that CAPTCHA codes are generated by a script in the very moment a website is requested. In fact each code is unique but forgotten in digital nirvana very quickly. Once used (or failed) it will never appear as alike again. While many other files on the Internet are being copied and multiplied CAPTCHA codes stay in an ephemeral blind spot. They seem light, sometimes like a micro poem but they ask us the very existential question in an era of digital life.

This code was found on yahoo.com in spring 2013.

Hello world!
Aram Bartholl
August 30 – October 13, 2013
Kasseler Kunstverein

Dust Excpert 2 – Counterstrike Dust map life size gate situation made from card board.

All pictures:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157635451826120/

press:

• http://www.aqnb.com/2013/09/05/an-interview-with-aram-bartholl/
• http://taz.de/Medienkunst-Ausstellung-in-Kassel/!123085/
• http://www.hna.de/lokales/kassel/riesige-google-markierung-fridericianum-hier-zentrum-3080051.html
• http://www.kunstbeeld.nl/nl/nieuws/21138/aram-bartholl-fridericianum.html
• http://www.dw.de/out-of-the-internet-and-into-the-gallery/a-17085144   (german)

pictures by Nils Klinger

THX everyone! The show came out really cool! Perfect setup and beautiful hardcore Netart!! :)) More about the OFFLINE ART exhibition format can be found here and an opening speech by Olia Lialina for the first edition is here.

OFFLINE ART: Hardcore

Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
August 30  – October 13 2013

curated by Aram Bartholl

‘Hardcore’ features a selected group of artists representing a wide range of radical approaches contrasting the mainstream idea of the digital image and web culture. Referring to subcultures in music during the 80s & 90s todays hardcore attitude can be found in various media and genres on the Internet. In the glossy controlled era of Facebook, Apple, and Google hardcore artists challenge conventions with radical points of view and hard core works.

production: Klara Pietrzak
code: Matthias Strubel
credits: xpo gallery

All pictures on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157635466755374/

with:

CONSTANT DULLAART
TOS (2013)
video

DEANNA HAVAS
Found Abstract Renders (2012)
Digital Image, .PNG

EI JANE JANET LIN in collaboration with MIAO JIAXIN
Collaborations #3 (2010)
video

EVA AND FRANCO MATTES aka 0100101110101101.org
Emily’s Video, extract (2012)
video

EVAN ROTH
http://kamasutra-on-dimgray.com (2013)
website

JODI
???? Representing  6′  Rainer Brendel  (2013)
website

JON CATES
(k)NEW.ERR▷ (2013)
HTML

LORNA MILLS
PUNCH (2013)
found animated gif collage

JEREMIAH JOHNSON
Enduring Potential (2013)
Website

PENELOPE UMBRICO
TV from Craigslist (2008- ongoing)
digital files of various sizes

ROSA MENKMAN
Beyond Resolution (2013)
website

SAKROWSKI aka. CuratingYouTube
CM-Version 2013 (2013)
video 18 min

UBERMORGEN
YouTube Comments (2013)
PNG, MKV

VUK ĆOSIĆ
Documenta DONE (1997)
website

The OFFLINE ART exhibition format:

Browser-based digital art works are broadcast locally from wifi routers which are not connected to the Internet. Each art work is assigned a single wifi router which is accessible through any device, like smart-phones, tablets or laptops. To access the different art works, the visitor has to connect to each network individually. The name of the network reflects the name of the artist. No matter what URL is opened, only the specific artwork appears in the browser. A small web server holding the art piece is installed on a USB flash drive which is connected to the router. Like frames holding the art, the routers are hung in the exhibition space which is otherwise empty. The art i tself becomes visible only on the visitor’s private screen.The pieces are locally widely accessible but disconnected from the Internet

Aram Bartholl 2013

Georges et Archibald Verney-Carron
vous prient de bien vouloir assister
le 10 septembre 2013 à partir de 11 h
au vernissage de l’exposition
In medIas Res
Rodrigo arteaga (Chili)
aram Bartholl (allemagne)
Patricia Camet (Pérou)
Gloria Friedmann (France)
eva Jospin (France)
Benjamin mecz (France)
Genêt mayor (suisse)
simon nicaise (France)
Curateur : Alexis Jakubowicz
Du mardi au vendredi de 14 h à 19 h et sur rendez-vous
Le samedi de 14 h 30 à 19 h
45, quai Rambaud – 69002 Lyon
Tram T1 Montrochet – Bus S1 Confluence – La Sucrière
www.galerie-verney-carron.com

‘Per Tweet ins Museum’

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass Künstler die ersten Arbeiten für das Internet entwickelt haben. Diese sogenannte Netzkunst aber blieb der Kunstszene bis heute fremd und fand kaum je Eingang in Institutionen. Das allerdings könnte sich in den kommenden Jahren ändern.

Tilman Baumgärtel

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst_architektur/per-tweet-ins-museum-1.18145506#

An interview I gave about my solo show ‘Hello World!’, and the group show ‘OFFLINE ART‘ I curated, both at Kasseler Kunstverein on aqnb.com by Jean Kay. THX!!

Full interview http://www.aqnb.com/2013/09/05/an-interview-with-aram-bartholl/

Article in taz.de about my solo show ‘Hello World!’ in Kasseler Kunstverein and quotes from a conversation we had before. THX!!

Ein Flackern in der Cyberwirklichkeit
Die Kolonialisierung des Alltags durch das Internet: Aram Bartholl untersucht, wie Daten unsere Wahrnehmung der Welt beeinflussen.
by Tilman Baumgärtel

Zoom in or read online!  http://taz.de/Medienkunst-Ausstellung-in-Kassel/!123085/

Fridericianum Drop part of Hello World!