Map at Good Time Public Art Festival’ Taipei, Taiwan, will be up for 3 months till November 2010. It came out very well! Great job! Thanks to the building crew and thx to Joanna from VERY for pics and organization. Thanks to Chang-Chih CHEN for the great pictures!

I am about to give an artist presentation at ISEA 2010 ( 1pm today).

But most important the ISEA wifi key on the left. I love them loooooong and printed.

I am showing 0,16 at the ISEA2010 RUHR exhibition. Opening upcoming Thursday 19th at 7 PM.  See you there!

20.8. – 5.9.2010
ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition
ISEA 2010, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dortmund U, Germany
with: Siegrun Appelt (at), Eve Arpo & Riin Rõõs (ee), Lucas Bambozzi (br), Aram Bartholl (de), BCL (at/jp), Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski (de), Daniel Bisig (ch) & Tatsuo Unemi (jp), Juliana Borinski (br/de), Martin John Callanan (uk), Işil Eğrikavuk (tk), Verena Friedrich (de), Terike Haapoja (fi), Aernoudt Jacobs (be), Márton András Juhász & Gergely Kovács & Melinda Matúz & Barbara Sterk (hu), Yunchul Kim (kr), Thomas Köner (de), Mariana Manhães (br), Soichiro Mihara (jp) & Kazuki Saita (jp), Krists Pudzens (lv), Christopher Salter (qc/ca), Bill Seaman (us), Saso Sedlacek (si), Mark Shepard (us), Charles Stankievech (qc/ca), Vladimir Todorovic (rs/sg), Bruno Vianna (br), Ei Wada (jp), Herwig Weiser (at), Norah Zuniga Shaw (us).

SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to? in Vienna last Thursday was ubercool ;-) Kaukas Handy Shop is a great place, check it out if you happen to visit Vienna. Thanks to everyone for showing up, thx to all artists and thx to Superbertram for support!

Check the full documentation on fffff.at

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops
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17.9.10-10.1.11
ShadowDance
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
curated by Judith van Meeuwen
with: Vito Acconci (US), Charles Atlas (US), Dirck van Baburen (NL), Aram Bartholl (DE) (0,16), Christian Boltanski (FR), Jim Campbell (US), David Claerbout (BE) , Haim Elmoznino (IL), Ellis Gallagher (US), Hanna von Goeler DE), Samuel van Hoogstraten (NL), Mella Jaarsma (NL), William Kentridge (ZA), Ralph Kistler (DE), Germaine Kruip (NL), Couzijn van Leeuwen (NL), Gabriel Lester (NL), Zilla Leutenegger (CH), Mark Lewis (UK), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX), Munch & Furukawa (DE & JP) , Serge Onnen (FR), Lotte Reiniger (DE), Viviane Sassen (NL), Tomas Schats (NL), Hyo-Jung Seo (KR), Teresa Serrano (MX), Conrad Shawcross (UK), Sam Taylor-Wood (UK), The One Minutes (NL), Dimitri Vangrunderbeek (BE), Kara Walker (US), Andy Warhol (US), Diet Wiegman (NL)

4.9.-5.10.2010
Group show Riga – Bremen
Art Space Riga, Riga, Latvia
curated by Inga Steimane
with:Thomas Behling, Claudia Christoffel, Anja Fußbach, Herwig Gillerke, Claus Haensel, Marikke Heinz-Hoek, Erika Plamann, Ina Raschke, Barbara Rosengarth, Tilman Rothermel, Nico Timm, Mia Unverzagt und Wolfgang Zach, Aram Bartholl, Achim Bertenburg, Achim Bitter, Susanne Bollenhagen, Stefan Demming, Harald Falkenhagen, Sebastian Gräfe, Christian Haake, Christian Helwing, Claudia Kapp, Horst Müller, Heiner Preißing, Jürgen Schmiedekampf

2.9.-11.9.2010
TELE-INTERNET
Digital Communities space at Ars Electronica 2010, Linz, Austria
curated by Aram Bartholl
with: Artzilla, CCC, CBA Radio, Constant Dullaart, F.A.T. lab, JODI, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Metalab, monochrom, Moddr, Johannes P Osterhoff, Bre Pettis, Pirate-bus, Tim Pritlove, Niklas Roy, Telecomix, Uni Brennt, Olaf Val and many more

27.8.-7.11.2010
Space Invaders
NIMK Netherlands Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
curated by Petra Heck (Nimk) and Heather Corcoran (FACT)
with: Jeremy Bailey, Aram Bartholl, Mark Essen, Cao Fei, Anita Fontaine & Mike Pelletier, Riley Harmon, JODI, Michael Johansson, Ben Jones, Yuichiro Katsumoto, Walter Langelaar, Ludic Society, Julian Oliver, Ubermorgen.com

20.8.-12.10.2010
Public Art Festival Taipei
VERY conception, Public Art Festival Taipei, Taiwan
with: Anti-VJ, Improve Everywhere, Aram Bartholl (Map), Process,… among others,

23.8.2010
ISEA 2010 Conference
ISEA 2010 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dortmund U
Artist presentation – Aram Bartholl

20.8. – 5.9.2010
ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition
ISEA 2010, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dortmund U, Germany
with: Siegrun Appelt (at), Eve Arpo & Riin Rõõs (ee), Lucas Bambozzi (br), Aram Bartholl (de), BCL (at/jp), Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski (de), Daniel Bisig (ch) & Tatsuo Unemi (jp), Juliana Borinski (br/de), Martin John Callanan (uk), Işil Eğrikavuk (tk), Verena Friedrich (de), Terike Haapoja (fi), Aernoudt Jacobs (be), Márton András Juhász & Gergely Kovács & Melinda Matúz & Barbara Sterk (hu), Yunchul Kim (kr), Thomas Köner (de), Mariana Manhães (br), Soichiro Mihara (jp) & Kazuki Saita (jp), Krists Pudzens (lv), Christopher Salter (qc/ca), Bill Seaman (us), Saso Sedlacek (si), Mark Shepard (us), Charles Stankievech (qc/ca), Vladimir Todorovic (rs/sg), Bruno Vianna (br), Ei Wada (jp), Herwig Weiser (at), Norah Zuniga Shaw (us).

8.7.2010
SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?
Kaukas Handy Shop, Vienna, Austria
curated by Aram Bartholl
with: Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian, JODI, Greg Leuch, JK Keller, Michael Marcovici, Will Moffat & Peter Burns, monochrom, Evan Roth, Sakrowski, Gordan Savicic, Michael Schieben, Georg Schütz, Chris Sugrue, Philipp Teister & Kim Asendorf, UBERMORGEN.COM, Jamie Wilkinson.

Locate Me
22.5. – 8.8.10
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
curated by Florina Limberg & Daniela Walz
with: Aram Bartholl (Silver Cell, Map), Gaspar Battha, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Julius von Bismarck, Yasmine Chatila, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Robert Heel, Dirk Holzberg, Annja Krautgasser, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Desiree Palmen, Pony Pedro (Mark Thomann, Sebastian Wagner, Franziska Werner), Willi Sengewald/TheGreenEyl, Eva Alexandra Stueben, tat ort (berlinger & Fiel), The Product (Patrick Kochlick & Dennis Paul), Alexa Wright/Alf Linney, Jens Wunderling

[first released on FAT http://fffff.at/speed-show-vol-2-in-vienna]

SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?

One night group show.  The second show of an ongoing series: SPEED SHOW
Opening!
Thursday, 8th of July 2010, 19:00 – 22:00 h
Äussere Mariahilferstr. 178, Vienna (G-maps)

Participating artists: (more info and links after the show here)

- Margarete Jahrmann & Renate Christian
- JODI
- JK Keller
- Greg Leuch
- Michael Marcovici
- Will Moffat & Peter Burns
- monochrom
- Evan Roth
- Sakrowski
- Gordan Savicic
- Michael Schieben
- Georg Schütz
- Chris Sugrue
- Philipp Teister & Kim Asendorf
- UBERMORGEN.COM
- Jamie Wilkinson

curated by Aram Bartholl 2010

Curatorial Statement:
SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?

The 2^nd edition of the SPEED SHOW presents again a wide selection of pop.net.art pieces and addresses various developments of performance related but still screen based art works. Most interaction and communication on the web bears it’s very own performance character. One could say Facebook is a huge mass performance piece. net.art in it’s classic form could be considered a performance by interactivity as well. In recent years artists from different fields work increasingly in a mix of performances and digital interventions. In some cases the screen itself, the beholder of the pixel is subject to fluctuations. In other works the performance is acted out by a hysterical mass or just by the code.

Austrian art especially from the 60/70ies is very well known for their provocative performances and inexorable public interventions. With a regional focus on Vienna based artists mixed with international coders and net renegades the SPEED SHOW vol.2:who the fuck do you think you are talking to? presents a wide range of works from political activist, body interaction and net-performance related art.

‘Show Me What You Got!’

Aram Bartholl 2010

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Credits: Thx to Georg Schütz for Vienna support!

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18 September – 9 January 2011

ShadowDance

‘ShadowDance’ is a group exhibition featuring work by more than thirty visual artists, all operating on the international art scene and all fascinated by the effect of shadow. The exhibits will vary in terms of content and form. The common denominator will be the use of shadow – and more particularly moving shadows – as a crucial means of visual expression. The artists use shadow as a metaphor for a range of (sometimes heavy-weight) themes: time – alter ego – evil – death. But the shadow phenomenon also inspires more light-hearted work involving the creation of illusions and shadow ‘play’.

with:

Vito Acconci (US), Charles Atlas (US), Dirck van Baburen (NL), Aram Bartholl (DE), Christian Boltanski (FR), Jim Campbell (US), David Claerbout (BE) , Haim Elmoznino (IL), Ellis Gallagher (US), Hanna von Goeler DE), Samuel van Hoogstraten (NL), Mella Jaarsma (NL), William Kentridge (ZA), Ralph Kistler (DE), Germaine Kruip (NL), Couzijn van Leeuwen (NL), Gabriel Lester (NL), Zilla Leutenegger (CH), Mark Lewis (UK), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX), Munch & Furukawa (DE & JP) , Serge Onnen (FR), Lotte Reiniger (DE), Viviane Sassen (NL), Tomas Schats (NL), Hyo-Jung Seo (KR), Teresa Serrano (MX), Conrad Shawcross (UK), Sam Taylor-Wood (UK), The One Minutes (NL), Dimitri Vangrunderbeek (BE), Kara Walker (US), Andy Warhol (US), Diet Wiegman (NL)

at

Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort The Netherlands ,KAdE

Call for street art city intervention: “What can I (you) do with a fire hose?” I found it in the trash the other day. Post your idea in the comments. You can have it!

[First released on F.A.T.]

1. Curate a show, make a call or  invite your friends to show their works.
2. Announce the show all over the internetz!
3. Go to your local Internet shop and rent all machines they have.
4. Exhibit for one night screen based pop.net.art in your city!

Go for it! It’s an open format! Let’s meet up in your local shop!
SPEED SHOW manifest here

The first SPEED SHOW vol.1 : TELE-INTERNET last Friday was a great success!

We had many more (and even ‘important’!) visitors than expected. The shop owners were totally surprised but loved it (and made the deal of the year :-). Since I didn’t post any links in advance I have the pleasure to publish now the four sheets of printed program(!) including statement for each piece and links below. Check the announcement  including SPEED SHOW manifest and curatorial statement here.

Pics by Kuc, thx! All pictures on fflickr

SPEED SHOW vol.1: TELE-INTERNET
Friday 11th of June 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin

Participating artists:

MOAR!!! MAKE PAPER DANCE GIF GLITCHEEESSS (for J.Mack, J. Satrom & N. Briz)
Material: HTML, embedded screen capture video,720×486 px,
Jon Cates (US) 2010
MOAR!!! MAKE PAPER DANCE GIF GLITCHEEESSS is the reaction to a Twitter conversation with three friends on a single day. Jon Cates who is well know for his digital punk / raw bytes – style remixed a webpage which was already a reply to a first post by another friend.  In the multitude of layers of the content from his friends animated gifs turn into actual video, color pixel into xerox dirty b/w and the audio results in abstract noise.

Nervous News
Material: HTML, iframe
Constant Dullaart (NL)
2010
Nervous News is a new unreleased piece from Constant Dullaart’s series of website modifications of major famous websites on the Internet like Google or BBC News. By loading the BBC page through an iframe with its very own quality the page itself appears to become a person with emotional an condition . The moving iframe was already applied in the work “The Internet says no“ or “The Internet says yes“ (user reply) a.o.

Education of the Noobz
Material: HTML, mp3,ogg, flac, paypal
Dragan Espenschied (DE)
2010
Contemporary Home Computer Music by Dragan Espenschied
Dragan Espenschied is well known for his radical and consequent 8-bit music compositions for many years. His new music site Noobz represents a highly differentiated mix of plain HTML, amateur page style, custom music player interfaces and sophisticated code hidden in the upper layers.

Thumbing
Material: Youtube video comments
JODI (NL/BE)
2010
Thumbing is an ongoing Youtube intervention. The option to video comment on a Youtube video is used by the artists group JODI as a tool for performance. By holding up the thumb very close to the webcam for a 2-3 second moment the video-site monopoly gets infiltrated by an endless series of useless ‘pokes’. The performance itself is split into thousands short clips on random Youtube videos. The blurred and flesh colored video bits evoke again  harsh reactions from the actual audience on Youtube.

Kopyfamo
Material: HTML, user content, php, fflickr,
Geraldine Juarez (MX)
2009
The project Kopyfamo by Geraldine Juarez offers a web interface to upload images to which then watermarks of well known press agency are added. The initial idea of the watermark to protect and devalue the image by inserting a brand logo is inversed by Juarez’s approach. A lot of water marked pictures of VIPs and famous pop stars can be found at AFP, Getty and Reuters. The watermark in the picture grants importance to the portrait person. By adding a watermark to his/her own picture the user gains instant celebrity status in Juarez’s interactive piece.

Web****** (unreleased piece)
Material: Firefox addon, java script
Tobias Leingruber (DE)
2010
Tobias Leingruber is well known for the Artzilla-platform (artzilla.org) where he collects and curates artistic Firefox browser addons. Webmarker is his own latest unreleased FF addon creation which turns every web page into a canvas for steet-art like tagging . “Mark the web and anyone can see it!! The Webmarker Firefox Add-on allows you to draw or take notes on any webpage. Activate “Street Mode” and find the drawings of others while browsing the web. The Webmarker FF Add-on is fully integrated into 000000book.com, a service for GML based projects.”

Midnight
Material: HTML, java, animated gifs
Olia Lialina (RU) Dragan Espenschied (DE)
2006
The classic zoom and pan interface from Google maps is turned into a firework of amateur gif animations. The symbolic loaded cross on a black background turns from its calm pixel state into a wild animation of little smileys, flowers and hearts on every single touch by the mouse. The hidden beauty of a world Internet monopoly company’s slide interface. Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are unbeatable experts for the amateur culture of the web since many years. (‘Digital Folklore’ reader recommended)

Suicidemachine
Material: Embedded screencapture, 720p, 8h of unfriending
Moddr [Walter Langelaar (NL), Gordan Savicic (AT), Danja Vasiliev (RU)]
2009-2010
With a very precise super timing Moddr started the webservice Suicide Machine in fall 2009. Facebook has fallen very deep since then and a wide discussion on social networks and privacy is going on currently in the mainstream media. The mix of highly professional appearance and sarcastic video credentials makes the project a sophisticated unmissable statement in the era of privacy violating and direct marketing driven social network monopolies.

Fakebook
Material: HTML
Johannes P Osterhoff (DE)
2010
“People find me in Facebook too easily and many start to use Facebook instead of e-mail. As I do not like this at all and as I do not want to enter the gated community of Facebook everyday, [….] Old acquaintance seem to query my name in Google, find the entry of Facebook and contact me there without checking my website or using the contact possibilities of good ol’ e-mail. So I created a very simple web-page which also shows up in Google search results and looks very similar to the result of Facebook there. I called it Fakebook.”

Animated Gif Mashup – Dance Sequence #001
Material: HTML, php, java and loooong URLs
Evan Roth
2010
A Customizable gif mashup engine. Pop meets gif meets rap. Evan Roth works represent a highly sophisticated mix of net, open source and pop culture. In his often very minimalistic web based pieces he picks up elements from all these sides. Besides the elaborate visual mix plus music the Dance Sequence #001 unfolds its full beauty in the very long URL which is caused by the simplistic concept of arranging independent animated gifs in a single line of browser adress.

superfreedraw
Material: HTML, Java
Ralph Schulz aka rgb3000 (DE)
2010
Super free draw is a strikingly minimalistic and at the same time socially elaborate collaborative drawing platform. All user can  draw on the endless big digital canvas anonymoulsly with a one pixel wide black pen. It is not possible to erase what you have drawn and your creation is not protected for being altered or misused by other users. In a moment of great relief Super Free Draw detaches social web rules and creates a radical almost physical experience of collaboration.

You’re Not My Father
Material: HTML, embedded video 720×480 px
Paul Slocom (US)
2008-2010
“This video project is composed of a sequence of recreations of a 10 second scene from the television show, Full House, overlaid with a set of sound loops from the scene’s original music. The crews who re-shot the scene were recruited through Internet message boards and Craigslist, and each of the original 10 crews were paid $150, using a commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for Networked Music Review. The project included participants from Austin, Cincinnati, Chicago, Dallas, Denton, London, and San Francisco….”

[UPDATE: Check also the documentation here]
First released on F.A.T. 8th of June 2010 http://fffff.at/speed-show/

The SPEED SHOW exhibition format:
Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All art works of the participating artists need to be on-line (not necessarily public) and are shown in a typical browser with standard plug-ins. Performance and life pieces may also use pre-installed communication programs (instant messaging, VOIP, video chat etc). Custom software (except browser add-ons) or off-line files are not permitted. Any creative physical modification to Internet cafe itself is not allowed. The show is public and takes place during normal opening hours of the Internet cafe/shop. All visitors are welcome to join the opening, enjoy the art (and to check their email.)

SPEED SHOW manifest by Aram Bartholl 2010

SPEED SHOW vol.1: TELE-INTERNET
One night group show and the start of an ongoing series of SPEED SHOWS.
Opening!
Friday 11th of June 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin (G-maps)

Following artists will show new or recent works:
- Jon Cates (US)
- Constant Dullaart (NL)
- Dragan Espenschied (DE)
- JODI (NL/BE)
- Geraldine Juarez (MX)
- Tobias Leingruber (DE)
- Olia Lialina (RU)
- Moddr (NL/AT/RU)
- Johannes P Osterhoff (DE)
- Evan Roth (US)
- Ralph Schulz (DE)
- Paul Slocom (US)

Curated by Aram Bartholl

Curatorial Statement:
net.art is dead? Long live pop.net.art!

The Internet browser a key element to the success of the web in the beginning of the 90’s has grown mature in the last two decades. Technical development, open standards and open software made the browser a very powerful tool. It seems soon it will take over the operating system and there will be nothing left than apps in the cloud.

It’s about time to revisit net.art in an era of 500 million Facebook user. net.art never really found it’s way out of the media art bubble. The browser was the promising canvas in the early ’90s and is today more then ever capable to do what ever you like. Within the last let’s say 5 years the Internet arrived and became totally mainstream. The social web unfolded it’s power and became part of everyday life of hundreds of millions users. Their massive real time information flow began to have a huge impact on mainstream media and political structures.

The potential size of an audience for on-line art work has grown infinitely large. Technical barriers, limited access, little bandwith or lack of skills are not an issue any more. In an era of Internet memes and 20+ million Youtube views on one video in a day artists need to reconsider the web from a different perspective. A new generation of creative minds picked up the field of net.art and expanded it to the next stage: pop.net.art (coined by Aram Bartholl 2010) emerged under the influence of social web monopolies, highly flexible open software, amateur meme cult and pop culture. A wide range of coders, designers and artists including the pop.net.art experts from F.A.T. Lab experiment in this genre with great success. ‘Classic’ net.art is appropriated and gets remixed with web activism, DIY philosyphy, sharing culture, easy to use browser ad-dons and open source beliebers on a state of the art technical level.

The first SPEED-SHOW vol.1 represents a wide selection from well known net.artists to a young generation of web savy coders and Internet renegades. From youtube interventions and social web critique to pixel celebration and gif.pop 12 artists (or artist groups) will show recent and new works.

net.art never died! It just moved to your local Internet-shop! Come and join the party!

Aram Bartholl 2010

I gave an artist talk at Kunstraum Kreuzberg last thursday 3rd of June. Yehh, I know it’s a bit late to announce it now but maybe you wanna jump in your personal time machine and join ;-) haha ….

The show is still up and running till August.

22.5. – 8.8.10
Locate Me

Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Curated by  Florina Limberg und Daniela Walz

with: Aram Bartholl (Silver Cell, Map), Gaspar Battha, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Julius von Bismarck, Yasmine Chatila, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Robert Heel, Dirk Holzberg, Annja Krautgasser, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Desiree Palmen, Pony Pedro (Mark Thomann, Sebastian Wagner, Franziska Werner), Willi Sengewald/TheGreenEyl, Eva Alexandra Stueben, tat ort (berlinger & Fiel), The Product (Patrick Kochlick & Dennis Paul), Alexa Wright/Alf Linney, Jens Wunderling

Bild wird geladen

Zum Abbrechen irgendwo klicken

The Google Portraits Series is currently on display at Art Amsterdam 26.-30. of May represented by Multiple Gallery XX (via Walter thx!)

I ll be showing Map and Silver Cell at this upcoming group show next week in Berlin. I am curious, looks like a pretty good mix of different art disciplines ….

Opening: Friday, 21 Mai 2010, ab 19 Uhr
22.5. – 8.8.10
Locate Me

Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Curated by  Florina Limberg und Daniela Walz

with: Aram Bartholl (Silver Cell, Map), Gaspar Battha, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Julius von Bismarck, Yasmine Chatila, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Robert Heel, Dirk Holzberg, Annja Krautgasser, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Desiree Palmen, Pony Pedro (Mark Thomann, Sebastian Wagner, Franziska Werner), Willi Sengewald/TheGreenEyl, Eva Alexandra Stueben, tat ort (berlinger & Fiel), The Product (Patrick Kochlick & Dennis Paul), Alexa Wright/Alf Linney, Jens Wunderling

“Are you human?”

during the

Graphic Design Festival Breda “Decoding”
8th – 30th of May, 2010, Netherlands.
Thx to Dennis and the team!

I had a very good time and it was fun hanging out with Zach and the OF workshop crowd! CU around guys!

I am showing “Are you human?” at GDBF.

Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) is a biannual festival on graphic design. The festival goes into present developments on this subject and a large part of it takes place in the public space.

GDFB

8th – 30th of May, Breda, Netherlands

Thanks to Jonas and Lasse the Point & Click documentation reader (german)  is in print right now and also available in PDF format here.

The Point & Click workshop will be presented at the Next Level conference Cologne 20.-21.4.2010

Plz find all prior P&C related posts here

In the text below which is part of the reader I am describing  my typical way of conducting a workshop with all its related questions on public space, privacy and online ’sphere’.
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Hands-On-Workshop und Irritation im öffentlichen Raum
Schere, Stift und Papier in der Ära der Digital Natives

Es ist immer wieder spannend mit einer Gruppe mehrere Tage intensiv an einem Thema zu arbeiten und die verschiedenen Stadien von Diskussion und Aktion zusammen zu erleben. Das Format des Workshops ist an sich keine neue Erfindung. Gruppenarbeit und Partizipation in Prozessen ziehen sich in verschiedenen Kontexten schon länger durch die Jahrzehnte, bergen aber in der vernetzten Welt von Computer und Internet eine neue Qualität. Die wachsende Anzahl sozialer Berührungen, die wir tagtäglich online per Social-Datenkanal – ob E-mail, Chat oder Facebook/Twitter – erleben, steht einem eher konstantem Feld echter Begegnungen im alltäglichem Leben da Draußen gegenüber. Umso spannender ist es, sich mit einer Gruppe von Studenten (Neudeutsch auch „Digital Natives“) für ein paar Tage an einen Tisch zu setzen und im direkten Kontakt über das Verhältnis Online-Offline nachzudenken.

Ungeachtet des Themas und der Länge eines Workshops starten wir mit einer Vorstellungsrunde über persönliche Nutzungsgewohnheiten im Internet und Vorlieben am Computer. Auch wenn sich die Teilnehmer aus ihrem Uni-/Schulalltag relativ gut kennen, kommen sie beim Austausch über Onlinegewohnheiten manchmal ins Staunen. Ein stiller Kommilitone erweist sich als Forumsbetreiber mit 10.000 Usern und ist Musiker in einer virtuellen Band. Im Gegensatz dazu sind wir überrascht, wenn wir einen langjährigen Internetkontakt im realen Leben zu Gesicht bekommen. Jemand der Online sehr laut, ist stellt sich plötzlich als ganz zurückhaltende Person heraus. Das Verhältnis der On- und Offline-Identitäten und die verschiedenen Überschneidungen der Freundenetzwerke, sowohl hier als auch dort, bieten einigen Stoff für Diskussion.

Neben der thematischen Diskussion ist es spannend, in spontanen Aktionen zum Thema möglichst früh in den öffentlichen Raum zu gehen um dort zu experimentieren. Was ist der öffentliche Raum und wie verhalten wir uns dort? Welche Mittel und Orte eignen sich für eine spätere „Aufführung?“ Es ist wichtig den Stadtraum losgelöst vom Alltag, aus einer neuen Perspektive und unter Berücksichtigung eines Themas zu beobachten. Die gemachten Erfahrungen lassen sich gut in die Ideenentwicklung einarbeiten und helfen, die Möglichkeiten für eine spätere Aufführung einzuschätzen.

Zentral ist immer wieder die Frage, wie der öffentlichem Stadtraum im Verhältnis zum öffentlichen Raum im Netz, mit seiner rasanten Entwicklung, steht. Wo gibt es welche Regeln? Wie verhalten sich die Nutzer wo? Der Stadtraum unterliegt je nach Land und Kultur ganz bestimmten gesellschaftlichen und sozialen Konventionen, welche sich, wenn überhaupt, nur langsam über Jahrzehnte ändern. Das Nutzerverhalten im Internet hat sich in den letzten Jahren dagegen rapide verändert. Bezogen auf die Privatsphäre war es im Internet Anfang 2000 zum Beispiel nicht üblich, mit seinem vollen Familiennamen zu erscheinen. Spätestens seit Facebook ist der Nick-Name aber dem echtem Namen gewichen. Die Partyfotos kamen dann kurz danach. Jemand Unbekanntes im Supermarkt nach seinem Namen zu Fragen ist eher unüblich, wenn auch nicht unmöglich. Die Anonymität der Großstadt erscheint uns als selbstverständliche Qualität. Diese wird aber in naher Zukunft wahrscheinlich von Social Networks und Targeted Marketing unterwandert werden. Die Frage, wie sich der veränderte Umgang mit Privatsphäre langfristig auf die Begegnung im öffentlichen Stadtraum auswirkt, bleibt interessant.

Das zusammen Arbeiten, Ideen Entwickeln und Umsetzen lässt die Gruppe über den Zeitraum von wenigen Tagen schnell zusammenwachsen. Neben der Diskussion ist die praktische Arbeit mit klassischen Materialien und Werkzeugen wie Papier, Schere, Kleber, Holz, Nägeln, Hammer etc. sehr wichtig. Den Teilnehmern fällt oft auf, dass es schon eine Weile her ist, dass sie das letzte Mal etwas aus Pappe gebastelt oder mit der Schere ausgeschnitten haben. Das Meiste wird heutzutage per Tastatur, Maus und Touchinterface erledigt. Die Arbeit mit den Händen und das spontane Entwickeln aus dem Tun heraus, sind ein zentraler Bestandteil dieser Workshops. Über den digitalen Raum zu diskutieren um dann mit Hammer und Nagel etwas zu bauen ist eine großartige Kombination, um unser tägliches Leben im digitalen Zeitalter aus einer anderen Perspektive zu betrachten.

Am Ende eines Workshops findet meist eine Intervention oder Performance im öffentlichen Raum statt. Mal werden die Konzepte in kleinen Einheiten an verschiedenen Orten umgesetzt, ein anderes Mal als ganze Gruppe mit schauspielerischen Ambitionen auf einem zentralem Platz aufgeführt. Es ist interessant zu beobachten, wie unterschiedlich in verschiedenen Kulturkreisen „das Publikum“ – die Menschen in der Stadt – auf eine Intervention reagieren. Ein Eingriff, der in China z.B. großes Aufsehen erregt, ruft in einer deutschen Fußgängerzone eventuell nur Achselzucken hervor. Sich zu überwinden die Konventionen des öffentlichen Raumes zu brechen wird oft mit interessanten Gesprächen mit den Zuschauern belohnt. Anstatt in einem Blog oder auf Twitter über das digitale Zeitalter zu chatten, wird hier die Diskussion über Computerspiele, Facebook und Apple direkt auf der Straße geführt.

Aram Bartholl 2010

I am currently out of the office and will return on Tuesday the 6th of April.
Should you need immediate assistance please get in touch with @fffffat.
Thank you,
Aram Bartholl

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

‘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!

upcoming / current ( or just over )

17.9.10-10.1.11
ShadowDance
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
shortlist: Vito Acconci (US), Charles Atlas (US), Dirck van Baburen (NL), Aram Bartholl (DE) (0,16), Christian Boltanski (FR), Jim Campbell (US), David Claerbout (BE) , Haim Elmoznino (IL), Ellis Gallagher (US), Hanna von Goeler DE), Mella Jaarsma (NL), William Kentridge (ZA), Germaine Kruip (NL), Couzijn van Leeuwen (NL), Gabriel Lester (NL), Zilla Leutenegger (CH), Mark Lewis (UK), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX), Munch & Furukawa (DE & JP) , Serge Onnen (FR), Lotte Reiniger (DE), Viviane Sassen (NL), Tomas Schats (NL), Hyo-Jung Seo (KR), Teresa Serrano (MX), Conrad Shawcross (UK), Sam Taylor-Wood (UK), The One Minutes (NL), Dimitri Vangrunderbeek (BE), Kara Walker (US), Diet Wiegman (NL)

22.5. – 8.8.2010
Locate Me
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
with: Aram Bartholl (Map, Silver Cell), Gaspar Battha, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Julius von Bismarck, Yasmine Chatila, Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Robert Heel, Dirk Holzberg, Annja Krautgasser, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Desiree Palmen, Pony Pedro (Mark Thomann, Sebastian Wagner, Franziska Werner), Willi Sengewald/TheGreenEyl, Eva Alexandra Stueben, tat ort (berlinger & Fiel), The Product (Patrick Kochlick & Dennis Paul), Alexa Wright/Alf Linney, Jens Wunderling

15.-18.4.10
Prix Ars Electronica, Category: Digital Communities jury board
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
with: Beatrice Achaleke (AT), Aram Bartholl (DE), Isaac Mao (CN)
Tiago Peixoto (BR), David Sasaki (US)

8.-11.3.10
Point and Click workshop
Academy of Media Arts, KHM, Cologne, Germany
Eine performative Intervention im öffentlichem Raum mit dem Künstler Aram Bartholl, organisiert von Jonas Hansen und Lasse Scherffig. Die Ergebnisse des Workshops werden auf der Ausstellung zur Computerspiel-Konferenz “Next Level” vom 20. bis 21. April 2010 in Köln gezeigt.

27.02 – 14.03.10
You Turn Me On And On And On
Ebassy Gallery Edinburgh, UK
with: Aram Bartholl (4A), Simon Biggs, Benjamin Dembrowski, Michael Demers, Olle Essvik, Claire Evans, Martin Kohout, Margot Krasojevic, The Ludic Society, Kelly Mark, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aaron Oldenburg, Marisa Olson, Katie Paterson, Antoine Schmitt, Nathan Shafer, Jason Sloan, Simon Yuill, Gregoire Zabe

19.-22.2.2010
Gamezone Desingel 2010
Desingel, Antwerpen, Belgium
with: Crew: W (double u), Phil Worthington: Shadow Monsters, Gordan Savicic: Insert Coin & Chakramat, Lammer & Savicic: Biopong, Gottfried Haider: Hidden in plain sight, Joan Leandre: In the name of kernel, JODI : Compositeclub2.0++, Aram Bartholl: First Person Shooter, Aram Bartholl: de_dust, Philip Lammer: Armagetron

22.10.09-8.5.2010
Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Utah, USA
with: Kjellgren Alkire, Valerie Atkisson, Aram Bartholl (1H, First Person Shooter), Dawoud Bey, Rebecca Campbell, Ben Coonley, Doug DuBois, Hasan Elahi, Endocrom, Feng Mengbo, Harrell Fletcher, Douglas Gordon, Mary Henderson, Oliver Herring, Amy Jorgensen, Mark Khaisman, Jeff Larsen, Nikki S. Lee, Michael McGlothlen, Mike McGlothlen, Julie Moos, Takashi Murakami, Julian Opie, Lydia Panas, Rachel Papo, Przemyslaw Pokrycki, Nate Ronniger, Lincoln Schatz, Michael Scoggins, Andrew Sexton, Amy Sillman, Beat Streuli

… past events

Dear Aram Bartholl,

We are writing to invite you to participate in a group exhibition, entitled You Turn Me On and On and On, at EMBASSY Gallery in Edinburgh. The exhibition will run from 26 February to 14 March 2010. Rather than finished works, the exhibition will feature plans for and descriptions of works that are infinite.

The creation of limitless or endless work is a preoccupation for many artists working with computer technology. The intent of this exhibition is to examine how the idea of an infinite artwork might be interpreted by artists working across a variety of media, both digital and analogue. The brief is intentionally broad; we are curious to see what emerges.

We are fans of your work and believe that your approach to art practice suits the nature of the exhibition. If you would like to participate, please send us a plan for an artwork that is infinite. The plan/description can be textual and/or image-based. We ask that all submissions are sent by email and can be printed in black and white on A4 paper.

We very much hope that you will participate in this project. We apologize for the short notice, but require that all submissions be received no later than 20 February 2010. If you require more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch by email or by phone (Angela Beck: +44 (0) 751 ………..).

We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,

EMBASSY Committee

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hi angela,

sorry for the delay.
ok, my setup is be very simple:

“4A”

i envision a nice big table in the show with a big pile of A4 sheets sitting in the middle ( 6 packs a 500 sheets ) and a couple chairs around.  tools:  scissors, knife, rulers, pencils, glue sticks, stapler, clips … (typical office equipment)

visitors are invited to sit down and to create something/anything with a sheet of A4 and leave in the end on the table (if they want to). probably it would be good to build some objects and to draw some sheets in advance so people get an idea they are invited to do so too. (paper plane, letters/notes, kids drawing, crumpled-up …)
i envision the table to be more and more  covered with paper objects/sheets over the period of the show. traces of work and snippets on the floor are good.  it should look nice but don’t clean it up too much please.

if you have questions or comments feel free to call!
good luck for the show

ARAM

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“You Turn Me On And On And On”

Curated by Angela Beck

EMBASSY
2 Roxburgh Pl,
Edinburgh, UK

Opening 26.02.10 7-9pm
27.02.10 – 14.03.10
Thurs – Sun 12 – 6pm

This exhibition features propositions towards infinite art. Rather than completed works, the artists asked to create plans for and descriptions of works that would be, in some sense, infinite. The creation of limitless or endless work is a preoccupation for many artists working with computer technology. The intent of this exhibition is to examine how the idea of an infinite artwork might be interpreted by artists working across a variety of media, both digital and analogue.

Artists

Aram Bartholl, Simon Biggs, Benjamin Dembrowski, Michael Demers, Olle Essvik, Claire Evans, Martin Kohout, Margot Krasojevic, The Ludic Society, Kelly Mark, Eva and Franco Mattes, Aaron Oldenburg, Marisa Olson, Katie Paterson, Antoine Schmitt, Nathan Shafer, Jason Sloan, Simon Yuill, Grégoire Zabé

Very interesting talk by Eben Moglen!
via@Monki

Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” on Friday, February 5, 2010.

Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They’ll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can’t wait to let them. They’ll store your stuff, they’ll organize your photos, they’ll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the “Cloud.”

How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. Eben Moglen, a Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University and the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, warned you about privacy and the cloud before. At a public meeting of the Internet Society of New York on February 5, Moglen asked you to consider how much worse things have become since then and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0.

Full docu on fffff.at.

I enjoyed this exhibition by Tag a lot (partner event of CTM10). It’s worth to take a look at and still open till 27th of Feb…

Wednesday 10.02 – Saturday 27.02 – 12:00h – 17:00h
Address: Spandauerstrasse 2, 10178 Berlin
Fee: €3,-

Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise

Our brains are esemplastic. They are perfectly evolved for pattern recognition, designed to shape disconnected elements, like the incomplete or ambiguous information we get from our senses, into the seamless whole of our experience. What we see, hear, touch and feel is folded into an amalgam of data, emotions and cultural baggage. And in the contemporary world, this esemplastic power is pushed to the limit in the sea of information that we are floating in: data-visualizations, scientific studies and computer analyses become increasingly abstract and disconnected from our normal experiences. Are we losing our sense of meaning as we fail to join the billions of dots? What compromises are we making when we try to settle on a particular interpretation?

The works in Esemplasticism – the truth is a compromise are mostly low-tech, using everyday objects and media. Employing sound, objects and synchronicity; relatively ‘old’ technologies like field recordings, music, video, and projection, each piece lifts the curtain on the perceptual tactics that our esemplastic/apophonic/pattern recognising brains employ to negotiate the world; with wit and irony, they have much to say about verisimilitude as each exposes a different fracture between our expectations, our perceptions and our compromises about the objective ‘truth’ that exists ‘out there’.

Artists: Edwin Deen, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Lucinda Dayhew, Anke Eckardt, HC Gilje, Terrence Haggerty, Yolande Harris, Alexis O’hara, Pascal Petzinger, Mike Rijnierse, Willem Marijs, Bram Vreven, Katarina Zdjelar, Valentin Heun, Sagarika Sundaram, Gijs Burgmeijer.

Transmediale is about to it s doors. The opening is all public.  Join the FAT lab party tonight and check ou the latest Fuck Google projects on fffff.at

Transmediale opening 5pm
HKW, Berlin

All 12 FAT members arrived last weekend in Berlin and were picked up at the airport by the FAT mobile. Stay tuned for tons of new projects to be released upcoming week on the FAT! Drop by next week and check out FAT action at TM10! Be up to date via @fffffat Twitter!

I am so glad that all of you fffffaties made it to Berlin!

F.A.T. lab is nominated for the Transmediale Award 2010

Transmediale 2010 “Futurity now!”
February 2nd – 7th,  2010
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

26.1. – 31.1. 2010
Linienstraße 127, Berlin-Mitte
Eröffnung jeden Abend 18.00 bis 22.00 Uhr

Dienstag, 26.1. Fotografie
Mittwoch, 27.1. Video/Film
Donnerstag, 28.1. Zeichnung
Freitag, 29.1. Skulptur/Installation
Samstag, 30.1. Malerei
Sonntag, 31.1. Performance/Sound

www.sixdaysofnewmedia.com

Ulf Aminde, David Barbarino, Frank Bartsch, Tjorg Beer, Susane Bergstedt, Niels Betori Diehl, Ina Bierstedt, Ivan Boskovic, Baldur Burwitz, Bettina Carl, Filipa César, Mariechen Danz, Juliane Duda, Claus Elzholz, Antje Engelmann, Azin Feizabadi, Dietmar Fleischer, Pili Garcia Ayensa, Gilbert Geister, Friederike Hamann, Katharina Hamann, Sandra Hetzel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Moritz Hirsch, Nina Hoffmann, Judith Hopf, Christian Jankowski, Klaus Jörres, Halina Kliem, Ilja Kloppenburg, Bettina Krieg, Johannes Kullen, Alicja Kwade, Cyrill Lachauer, Daniel Lergon, Marisa Maza, Felix Meyer, Angelika Middendorf, Nik Nowak, Jaime Ortiz, Marc Pätzold, Marco Poloni, Adina Popescu, Hannu Prinz, Barbara Prokop, Sabine Reinfeld, Simone Schardt, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Bodo Schlack, Romana Schmalisch, Martina Schmücker, Sarah Schönfeld, Maya Schweizer, Akiyasu Shimizu, Orson Sieverding, Pola Sieverding, Dirk Sorge, Andrea Stahl, Moritz Stumm, Dagmar Tränkle, Ulrich Urban, Vlado Velkov, Johannes Vogl, Ulrich Vogl, Jorinde Voigt, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Maor Weisburd, Johannes Weiss, Norbert Witzgall, Christine Woditschka, Jakob Zoche