Aram Bartholl – Blog

upcoming / current ( or just over )

17.9.10-10.1.11
ShadowDance
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
shortlist: Vito Acconci, Haluk Akakce, Charles Atlas, Aram Bartholl (0,16), Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Paul Chan , David Claerbout, Olafur Eliasson, Haim Elmoznino, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Mona Hatoum, Mella Jaarsma, William Kentridge, Ralph Kistler, Germaine Kruip, Gabriel Lester, Zilla Leutenegger, Mark Lewis, Wolfgang Münch – Kiyoshi Furukawa, Serge Onnen, Hyo-Jung Seo, Teresa Serrano, Sam Taylor Wood, The One Minutes, Conrad Shawcross, Diet Wiegman, Kara Walker

22.5. – 11.7.10
Locate Me
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
with: Aram Bartholl (Siver Cell, Map), Anja Krautgasser, Dirk Holzberg, Lea Asja Pagenkemper, Jens Wunderling, Julius von Bismarck, Pony Pedro, Robert Heel, Sebastian Stumpf, TheGreenEyl

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

My Current & upcoming events
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15.-18.4.2010
Jury “Digital Communities” Ars Electronica

8.-11.3.2010
“Point and click” workshop at KHM, Cologne, Germany

11.-21.2.2010
“0,16″ at Directorslounge @Meinblau, Berlin, Germany

2.-7.2.2010
F.A.T. lab at Transmediale “Futurity now!”, Berlin, Germany

9.1.2010
Talk at ‘Jean Luc’ think tank at HAU2, Berlin, Germany

17.12.2009-19.1.2010
“First Person Shooter” at FACT “Space Invaders”, Liverpool, UK

22.10.2009-8.5.2010
“First Person Shooter”, “1H” at BYU MOA, USA

26C3 ist the acronym for the 26th CCC =  26th Chaos Communication Congress which took place in Berlin from 27th-30th of December in 2009. This anual hacker conference (next year 27c3) is organized by the Berlin based Chaos Computer Club which ‘is one of the biggest and most influential hacker organizations.’ (cited from WP=Wikipedia)

To get a quick overview on latest developments in hacking, internet security and cryptography check for 26c3 related news or blog posts

Most important presentations are shortlisted incl PDF, video and audio links on infosecevents.net.

To take a closer look at this year topics check the presentation slides or video recordings of the talks. Browse the full program here. Besides a summary of the presentation you’ll find links to the audio or video recordings at the bottom of each page.

A popular presentation format at the CCC are the lightening talks. In a fast sequence of 4 minute presentations everyone is invited to present their work/topic. The order of each 4 minute presention for each day lightening talk can be found here. Video recordings of these talks can be found in the full video link list below. You are the only one who read the whole blog post. Most people just go for the links.

Links:

- Selection of important talks incl. links
- Full list of talks incl slides, links, video links
- Lightenings talks list of order
- Full link list for all video recordings
- Optional: torrent links for all video recordings (faster)