Aram Bartholl – Blog

“Speculative Privacy: Practical and impractical things you can do to your phone” is a lecture-workshop-performance format I presented at the Datapolitics conference track during the annual International Summer festival, Kampnagel, Hamburg on August 20th.

First the audience got stickers on their smart phone cameras at the entrance (in true Berghain manner) and then was instructed to do a few tests and look up settings on their devices during the talk. In the second half of the presentation everyone was invited to the stage to test different tools and materials on their phones while we kept discussing todays privacy questions. Some of the ‘mini workshops’ are useful others don’t really make sense but offer a strong therapeutic moment to ‘grill’ your mobile phone in a non destructive way.  You always wanted to flush your phone in the toilet or bury it in cement? This is your chance! Have it vacuumed in a plastic bag and dip it in paint or through it in other actions!

All slides of the talk and related links here! : http://datenform.de/talks/kampnagel/

Aram Bartholl, 2016

…more pictures on flickr!!

How to cement in your phone in a non-destructive way!

Aram Bartholl: Speculative Privacy
Aram Bartholl ist Konzept- und Medienkünstler. Im Mittelpunkt seines Interesses steht die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung unseres Alltags. In seinen oft humorvollen Arbeiten überführt er Items aus der Netzwelt ins Analoge, um bspw. die Allgegenwärtigkeit von Internetunternehmen wie Google sichtbar zu machen. In seinem performativen Workshop TRANSPARENCY zeigt er welche digitalen Spuren bei der Benutzung von Smartphones entstehen und welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, diese zu verwischen.

Thanks to the Kampnagel team for making all this possible!

http://www.kampnagel.de/de/programm/datapolitics/
20. August 2016, 18:00 – 19:30 (Halle P1)
Kampnagel, Hamburg

pictures! https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157658278862521

ALUHUT WORKSHOP  (tin foil hat workshop)

at Chaos Communication Camp 2015 http://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page

Make your own aluminum hat (much better than tin foil!!) to protect yourself  from any waves and all surveillance!! It is very very safe! :)) Just drop by!

https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Projects:ALUHUT_workshop
https://frab.camp.berlin.ccc.de/en/ber15/public/events/72

Time:
DAY 2, Friday 14.8.2015, 14:00 – 18:00 h

Place:
C-base village, next to BER.

I am releasing the Point & Click workshop documentation step by step. Here is another piece. The pictures!

Chat Roulette Adventure Game from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

‘Chat Roulette Adventure’ is a first result of the ‘Point & Click‘ workshop I gave last week at KHM – Acadamy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. In a four-day workshop we ran a hand full of experiments on how to encounter Public Space in computer game adventure style. Most of the interventions took place outside  in the City of Cologne. At night we adapted part of the show for the ‘public space’ of  Chat Roulette …

Update: Pics from the whole workshop week!

Thx to all participants and thx Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig for the invitation!
Stay tuned for more documentation!

The Point and Click workshop I gave at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne – KHM this week was great fun! Stay tuned for more documentation!

Thx to all participants and thx Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig for the invitation!

The one-day workshop I gave yesterday at Play08 17.-20.9.08 Potsdam, DE was great fun. The group in my workshop reflected on computer game experience in relation to day to day life. After my presentation the participants were invited to get involved in some paper work. ;-)

Thx for the invitation!
Thx to Philip Preuss for support!

Stay tuned for the Lab08 presentation/exhibtion on Saturday. Lab08 shows existing work and is developing a group piece during the four days of play08.

More pics on flickr.

Lab08 team:

Jonas Hielscher (Köln)
http://www.pixelsix.net

Karin Lingnau (Köln)
http://www.karinlingnau.com/

Leif Rumbke (Hamburg)
http://www.rumbke.de/

Thomas Hawranke (Köln)
http://www.susigames.de

Richard Gutleber (Karlsruhe)
http://www.susigames.de

Marek Plichta (Potsdam)
http://marek.monoid.net

I have been asked to join this workshop “Modding, Reversing and Intervening
in Today’s Gaming Worlds” at Laboral. 02.07.07 – 27.07.07
Unfortunately I will be in holidays for the Second Life part end of june. Sounds like a good program.
link