Aram Bartholl – Blog

I like this pic on the Futuresonic webpage art section a lot. It reminds me of something ….hmm… I don’t exactly remember. ;-)

But anyway, come and see! I’ll show three projects: “Chat”, “WoW” and brand new commissioned project “Friends”. It s going to be fun.

See you in Manchester in two weeks!

“Social Networking Unplugged” Futuresonic 2008,
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas. Manchester www.futuresonic.com
1.5. – 5.5.2008

5 days and nights of live music, art premieres, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring a world-class programme of over 300 artists in 30 venues and spaces across the city centre. Futuresonic is an international festival of Art, Music and Ideas now in its 12th year occupying the orbits of both digital culture and music.

Tim Pritlove proposed a thought bubble version of the “chat” project to me during 24c3. It could look like this piece but would you have a conversation between two thought bubbles?
But I like the cloud.

via vvork.com

thanks for the link LaserMartin!

I had a very good time in Madrid. The “Chat” performance went very well, we had a lot of fun on the street and in a bar. It is a great honor to find myself in between all these great game art classics of the “Try again” exhibition at La Casa del Encendida.

Article in “El Pais” newspaper (for all who speak spanish).

All pics on flickr.

During the opening of the game art exhibition “Try again” at La Casa del Encendida I will show “Chat” tomorrow night 8pm 10.4.2008, Madrid, ES. I wish I had a list of all invloved artist but more details will follow soon.
See you in Madrid tomorrow!

“Curated by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, the event is designed as a global project including the exhibition itself, a video programme, a variety of performances and concerts, and a series of films, all of which aim to showcase the work of approximately 30 creators (visual artists, film directors and musicians) who use video games as a primary material to demonstrate how it is just as natural to modify games as play with them. The exhibition will comprise installations, mono-channel videos and interactive video games, which will enable viewers to gain an insight into a selection of these works based on the concepts of simulation, violence and risk. All themes that form part of the essence of this genre, here they are examined in relation to different theories and from the varying perspectives of the participating artists.”

I am showing “Chat” and giving a talk tonight at the design conference “Inspired Lisbon F.A.Q – Future asked questions” at beautiful Palácio Valadares in sunny Lisboa. :-)

By the way, I am not a designer which they claim in the program. (or maybe, am I? hehe)

More “Chat“. Pics during CTM on flickr.

thx for the pics Ariel!
(his flickr is great!)

High res movie here.

Thanks to Club Transmediale CTM for the invitation!
Curator team: Oliver, Jan, Remco, Marc
Production manager: Dahlia

Thanks to my support team:
Frank, Andre, Tobias and Whitelabel writer Kosmar and Frank

Next and last Chat performance
during CTM on Friday 1.2.08, 22:00 – 2:00 at Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin.

Anreas Broeckmann habla espanol!

[“Chat” at CTM]

I’ll show “Chat” at Club Transmediale next week on three nights:

– Opening of Club Transmediale, Friday 25.01.08
– After the opening of Transmediale, Tuesday 29.01.08
– and on Friday 01.02.08

Come and join!

directions:
MARIA AM OSTBAHNHOF – CTM main venue
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33/34
10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain

Public transport:
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Ostbahnhof
U8 > Jannowitzbrücke
Bus 100, 340, 257
Night-Bus N8