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MAKE IT FIT

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Group Show: MAKE IT FIT 

http://make-it-fit.net

New works by the students and members of the class ‘New Media’, visiting Prof. Aram Bartholl, Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Participating artists:
Nicole Brauer, Echo Canluo, Christopher Casper, Hannes Drescher, Lou Hardt, Saskia Kaffenberger, Hannah Kretzschmar, Jonas Leichsenring, Jasper Meiners, Isabel Paehr, EIEE, Fritz Laszlo Weber, Zhifeng Zhang, Aram Bartholl.

04.02.2017 – 05.02.2017, Opening Feb 4th, 7pm
http://panke.gallery , Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin —>> RSVP fb-event

Opening: 4th February 7:00 pm

07:00 pm – 12:00 am: Exhibition FREE ENTRANCE!,
09:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Video Screening FREE ENTRANCE!,
10:00 pm – open end: AfterParty, Live Acts, DJs FREE ENTRANCE!
01:00 pm – 04:00 pm 05.02.2017: Exhibition FREE ENTRANCE!

MAKE IT FIT

Kunsthochschule Kassel – The New Media class is proud to present new works at panke.gallery, Berlin. The pieces range from installation, performance, screen-based and interactive works to video and film. ‘Make it fit’ refers to the restrictive cabin baggage rules of budget airlines, including their painfully meticulous control mechanisms. A lifestyle-conscious, hyper-mobile generation rattling trolleys along pavements has become the hallmark of gentrified neighborhoods in travel-hyped European capitals.

Kassel’s New Media students are using the classic travel suitcase as a constraint and metaphorical context for art production to meet the challenge of setting up a group show in Berlin in less than one day. Each work must fit into a suitcase to be transported, and setup time has to be either instant or not more than two hours. Hyper-mobile art also facilitates instant pop-up micro shows and performances in trains, in stations, and in other public spaces.

Curatorial processes often see artists selected on the basis of friendship networks or name dropping rather than actual works. How far can an artwork be ‘bent’ to make it fit an art show? An art market open secret is that paintings and sculpture that are small enough to fit in an ‘Upper Westside’ elevator have a better chance of being sold. Does it fit?

Klasse Neue Medien, Visuelle Kommunikation, Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2017

PROGRAM

Video Screening:

Insert your nipple here,
InternetRestroom Trailers,
LAST CHANCE JUNCTION,
Passt doch,
making waves unmastered,
29°01′53″N 111°41′56″E

AfterParty:

GRUPPE FORMAL (live),
Mo Chan & SEABA$$_T_ύN,
DJ Thunder Touch

LINKS
http://make-it-fit.net
http://newmediakassel.com/
http://kunsthochschulekassel.de/

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All pictures on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157678572549491

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January 24th, 2017 at 5:14 pm

Off

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2017

Smartphone, cable, switch, zip ties
11 x 13 x 2 cm

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January 20th, 2017 at 4:43 pm

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January 15th, 2017 at 9:16 pm

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Workshop: “Geheim-Camera”, a 1885 spy cam

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A project by Nadja Buttendorf & Aram Bartholl 2016

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Exhibition and Workshop:
C.P. Stirns Geheim-Camera. A spy cam from 1885!

27.12. – 30.12.2016
Workshop on Day2, 28th of Dec

at 33C3 the anual  Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Projects:Geheimkamera

We were intrigued by this very early photo spy camera exhibited at the ‚Deutsches Historisches Museum‘ Berlin. It has been used to spy on the Social Democrats back in 1890 they say. In a time where photography was a cutting edge new technology only professional photographers were able to take pictures with big tripods and large photo cameras. The spy cam was the next step and allowed amateurs to take real snaphots in public. Almost like a piece of jewelry the photographer would wear it as a necklace hidden under the jacket.

Fortunately the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin had the same piece in its collection and was so kind to loan it to us for an exhibition at the #33C3. Please drop by and join our workshop on Day2 Dec 28 to build your own Geheim-Camera replica from cardboard, aluminum sheets and your own phone! It’s a piece of history, magic jewelry and art!

A project by Nadja Buttendorf & Aram Bartholl 2016

Credits to Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
for the loan of the original  C.P. Stirns Geheim-Camera to be shown at the congress!

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Make your own retro spy cam at 33C3! Day 2, Dec 28, Foyer entrance

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December 23rd, 2016 at 9:17 pm

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The Glass Room

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Forgot your password? currently on show at “The Glass Room” NYC by Tacticaltech

THE GLASS ROOM: LOOKING INTO YOUR ONLINE LIFE is a pop-up shop with a twist: – a space for reflection, experimentation and play on how our we live our lives online. The Glass Room – 201 Mulberry Street New York, NY – November 29 to December 14, 2016 – https://tacticaltech.org/projects/glass-room

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December 6th, 2016 at 11:15 pm

8k

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12 x 3 meter print, car, audio collage
Aram Bartholl
2016

Commissioned by NEON festival Dundee.
8k, Aram Bartholl’s newly commissioned installation for NEoN, features a panoramic view of Sin City from Grand Theft Auto 5. The scene is a screenshot presented as a twelve-metre long print. A car parked in front of the billboard beckons visitors to take a seat and enjoy the view of the vast digital cityscape while listening to an audio collage of YouTubers playing the game.

Grand Theft Auto is an open-world, action-adventure video game series published by Rockstar Games. The title of the series makes reference to legal terminology for motor vehicle theft in the USA. The series has its origins in Dundee where it was first developed by Rockstar North (formerly DMA Designs) in 1997. The third chronological title, Grand Theft Auto III, released in 2001, was widely acclaimed for bringing the series to a 3D setting and offering a more immersive experience. The series has garnered controversy for its adult nature and violent themes.

The vast, open world of GTA 5 offers total free interaction for the player, like a huge playground with no moral boundaries. As a result, players tend to test the limits of what is possible in the game. YouTube hosts a massive collection of GTA 5 videos in which players frequently, hysterically, ‘go nuts.’ The ‘City of Sin’ in GTA 5 serves as a metaphorical excess flow valve, a projection plane and a mirror of today’s society, which has become increasingly regulated and controlled.

NEoN (North East of North)

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all pictures on flickr

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November 24th, 2016 at 7:36 pm

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Dead Drops appear on Elementary

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@arambartholl dead drop on Elementary :) pic.twitter.com/BslUrpBKrv

— Theodore Watson (@theowatson) https://twitter.com/theowatson/status/793612879928885248 November 2, 2016

Thanks to Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Theo Watson for pointing out the appearance of a Dead Drop in the TV show ‘Elementary‘. Cool! :)

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November 3rd, 2016 at 1:46 pm

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The Last Captcha

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The Last Captcha
b/w print on paper, 250 x 64 cm

Facebook captchas only show when you are about to delete your acount. Captcha codes have been part of our web experience for more than 15 years now. Since recent advances in machine learning it became clear captchas are not suitable anymore to prove that the user is human (and not a bot or dog). Google and others showed they can beat the human brain reading the scrambled characters better than we can. It is the end of an era. I still love them.

Aram Bartholl
2016

related project: ‘Are you human?

 

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October 23rd, 2016 at 5:20 pm

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Skulpturprojekte at Kunstverein Arnsberg

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Vortrag

Montag, 17. Oktober 2016, 19 Uhr

Anlässlich der Ausstellung von Aram Bartholl, möchten wir Sie zum Vortrag von Britta Peters einladen, Kuratorin von Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017.

Seit ihrer ersten Ausgabe 1977 haben sich die Skulptur Projekte Münster zu einer der weltweit wichtigsten Ausstellung von Kunst im öffentlichen Raum entwickelt. Ihr großzügiger Turnus von zehn Jahren macht die Skulptur Projekte nicht nur zu einem besonderen Ereignis, sondern auch zu einem Ort, an dem jenseits von Moden und Trends nach der Zeitgenossenschaft öffentlicher Kunst gefragt wird. Im Sommer 2017 sind zum fünften Mal internationale Künstlerinnen und Künstler eingeladen, an einem selbstgewählten Ort innerhalb der Stadt Münster ein Projekt zu realisieren. Ein gutes halbes Jahr vor der Eröffnung am 10. Juni 2017 gibt Kuratorin Britta Peters einen kurzen Einblick in den Stand der Planungen, um anschließend, anknüpfend an die aktuelle Ausstellung von Aram Bartholl, die Frage zu diskutieren, ob und wie die zunehmende Digitalisierung unseres Alltags
herkömmliche Vorstellungen von öffentlichem Raum verändert.

Britta Peters (*1967) arbeitet als Kunstkritikerin und freie Kuratorin. 2008-2011 leitete sie den Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. 2012 kuratierte sie die Ausstellung „Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen“ im Frankfurter Kunstverein. 2014 gefolgt von dem Ausstellungsprojekt „Krankheit als Metapher. Das Irre im Garten der Arten“ an verschiedenen Orten in Hamburg.

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October 17th, 2016 at 11:29 pm

Keepalive in german press

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October 17th, 2016 at 1:54 pm

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