Aram Bartholl – Blog

Inspired by Travor Paglens latest pictures of Inteligence HQs released on The Intercept I took the liberty to make some slight photoshop modifications to a picture of the new BND HQ in Berlin. :)) The hoax tweet with the modified picture raised quickly a lot of attention, questions and doubts. Also the fake NYT url i added in the spirit of Fake URL trolling helped to get some fast retweets. :)) “Never hit RT before you ve seen the www!”

• the tweet with all the replies and RTs https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434295582698401793
• original picture here http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2013/08/11/germanys-bnd-cooperated-with-nsa-as-merkel-denied-knowledge/
• ‘compare it’ tweet i made https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434373494965403649
• blog specialised on hoaxes reporting about the case http://wafflesatnoon.com/germany-swastika-building/
• blog post about swatiskas in architecture floor plans http://weburbanist.com/2013/01/13/crossed-up-9-twisted-swastika-shaped-buildings/

https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434295582698401793

https://twitter.com/tomben2512/status/434334766155202560

The picture was doubted by many users. Some of them took the effort to point out the fake. ..

https://twitter.com/Palladin6/status/434414165176750080

…while others users were wondering  about the broken NYT link (which never existed) :))

and Niko’s reply links to:

:))

With this awesome Twitter Adventure Jonah won the Twitter-bitly duell. (stats) Love it!

Great project by James Bridle! Love it!
And similar to what I handed in at Rhizome this year “Public Timeline” (but didn’t made it.)

via @jamiew, thx man!

The Tweet Bubble Series is the result of my 3 months residency at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media this spring.

Check the all the Twitter to RL speech bubbles versions on the project page.

Thanks to V2 lab! And special thanks to my project team Piem Wirtz and Simon de Bakker.

More pics on flickr.