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

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)

Of course it is much better to see Bruce Sterling perform but luckyly Morgan Currie published a full transcription of his speech from the symposium in Amsterdam last weekend. I was blown away ….

Bruce Sterling on Gothic high tech and favela chic

The next decade we’re entering into the teens. It’s a decade inhabited by digital natives, rather than digital revolutionaries, though this is something that has already happened. It’s already behind us, after 1989,when we switched from analogue to digital, from actual to virtual, from scientific to user-centric, local to global, multinationals to financial moguls.

Most of my life has been spent talking about this change. This next decade is in the hands of people who don’t care about that. They don’t know what a typewriter ribbons was. They don’t remember older ways of doing things abolished by these revolutions. Digital natives are growing up in a depression, when banks make people poor, and healthcare makes people sick. Digital natives never have to be told to digitize anything. The hardware is all around. Their immediate response is to grab for a mobile or a laptop.

The driving forces of the digital revolution continue and intensify, but there is no previous order left to rebel against. We don’t get a digital new world order. Digital culture is too fluid and inherently destabilizing, there are too many small pieces to join, and it’s always in beta form. The digital is a tool, but not a tool that interest groups can use to advance their own interests. We don’t get prosperity or governance from it. It’s not a force for good or ill but a phenomenon like electrification, the railroad, or other transformative infrastructures. Railroad natives were bored to death by people who explained railroads as if they were impressive. They’re just there once they’re there.

…. read on !!!!

And another group show on almost the same date as Liverpool with First Person Shooter. Thx to Damiano Colacito (great works!) for the invitation! Would love to join!

“Sight”

museo laboratorio
18.12.2009 – 23.01.2010
vernissage 18.12.09 7:00 pm

Museolaboratorio ex manifattura tabacchi
Vico Lupinato 1, 65013
Città Sant’Angelo (PE), Italy
Tel. +39 (0)85 960555
Direttore Enzo De Leonibus
info@museolaboratorio.org

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First Person Shooter will be part of the upcoming game art show “Space Invaders”at FACT Liverpool UK.

Exploring the blurred boundaries between video-game space and real space

FACT launches a season of gaming with Space Invaders, a group exhibition that brings art and gaming cultures together. From retro text-based role-playing games, to the detailed city maps found in the latest Grand Theft Auto, Space Invaders draws on these sources of artistic inspiration and explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between video-game spaces and real spaces.

Friday 18 December 2009 – Sunday 21 February 2010
FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool

with
Blast Theory, Aram Bartholl, Bill Viola, Cao Fei, Ludic Society, Riley Harmon, Jeremy Bailey, Ubermorgen.com, Julian Oliver, Yuichiro Katsumoto, Anita Fontaine and Michael Pelletier, Mark Essen, …

Upcoming saturday I’ll present my work at this symposium. If you happend to be in Amsterdam drop by chek it out …

A symposium about quality in an age of visual overload

While museums are developing strategies to digitalise their collections, online cultural production is growing steadily, with hundreds of thousands of new images posted each day. A lot of potentially interesting work is being produced online, which never reaches the physical world. The distribution of this high quality work is increasingly decentralised, leaving museums, foundations and professional magazines at a loss on how to redefine their role as gatekeepers. On the other hand, the time spent daily behind the computer on internet networking is pushing the demand for a physical experience of our fleeting culture. Designers, artists, mediators and policy makers need to redefine their position, because new technologies define to a large extent today’s possibilities and means of presentation and archiving. The search is for new quality criteria, new frames of references, and alternative methods for enabling connections between the virtual and the physical space of today’s culture.

Venue: Paradiso, Weteringschans 6, Amsterdam

Entrance: €25, €10 (students)
Pre-sale : AUB Ticketshop Amsterdam, Ticket Service Nederland
Reservations: symposium@graphicdesignmuseum.com
Language: English

Program Saturday December 19th 2009

10.00    Doors open
10.25    Mieke Gerritzen: Welcome
10.30    Bruce Sterling: Envisioning tomorrow’s digital culture
11.15    Julia Noordegraaf: Performing archival material online
11.35    Sarah Cook: Curatorial strategies for online artistic production

11.50    Coffee break

12.05    Rick Poynor: Design criticism in the blogosphere
12.35    Sophie Krier: me you and everyone we know is a curator
12.45    Metahaven: Visual identity in the age of digital standards

13.00    Lunch break

14.00    Andrew Keen: Digital Vertigo: selecting talent in the age of social media
14.45    Aram Bartholl: Online visual culture in physical space
15.00    Dagan Cohen (Upload Cinema): Bringing web films to the big screen
15.15    Willem Velthoven (Mediamatic): Please try a new search to see less results

15.30    Coffee break

15.45    Henk Oosterling: Introduction
16.00    Debate on the changing position of policy makers and institutions with representatives
of Dutch funds and museums

16.30    Drinks

Moderator: Koert van Mensvoort (artist/scientist)
Visual Interventions: Sander van der Pavert (LuckyTV)

Organization: Graphic Design Museum
Concept: Sophie Krier, Mieke Gerritzen
Design: Metahaven

I am pleased to publish the documentation of my latest work which premiered last week during a one night event at Serge’s studio. ‘primitive projections’ ONE NIGHT, Studio BKVB, Berlin, November 2009.

“0,16”
Dimensions: 35 x 100 x 280 cm
Materials: chipboard 10mm, corrugated board 2mm , transparent paper, ETC Source Four zoom 25-50° 750W, tripod, dimmer

Full project documentation on datenform.de

Thanks to Serge Onnen for organizing the event!
Thanks to all who showd up!
It was a great night!

I am showing a new piece from my analogue screens series upcoming sunday. Serge Onnen is turning his nice s-bahn-bogen studio into a one night off-space event on projections and light installations. Drop by, bring your friends and feel free to foward the invitation!

Cya there!

‘primitive projections’
ONE NIGHT at Studio BKVB (aka Büro Friedrich) , Sunday 6.12.2009, 18:00 – 23:00 h

with:

ZORAN TERZIC
ARAM BARTHOLL
CHARLOTTE BONJOUR
SERGE ONNEN
DAVID POLZIN
CATARINA SIMOES
ARIEL SCHLESINGER

Holzmarktstr. 15-18 (behind ARAL under S-Bahn)
10179 Berlin
tel: +49 30 24085993

It took me a while but finally I managed to edit the Map documentation from Szczecin, Poland.

Map – City Centre Series
5,50 x 3,40 x 0,15 m
pine wood, paint
2009

inSPIRACJE Festival 19.3.-25.3.2009
Map installation March – June 2009
Szczecin, Poland

I’ ll participate in a radio panel discussion tonight.  “Myth and media hype of Web2.0″ Info Radio RBB.
Feel free to join at the Film and TV museum, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 7:30 pm.

Beim kommenden Zukunftsgespräch soll es um das Web 2.0 gehen.
Welche Anwendungen gibt es und wer nutzt sie? Wie werden Informationen verbreitet und wahrgenommen? Wie hat es das Verhalten der (aktiven und passiven) Nutzer verändert? Kann man damit Geld verdienen? Wie sehen Arbeits- und Lebenswelten im Zeichen von Web 2.0 aus? Und was kann und soll Web 3.0?

Für das Podium sind angefragt:
Regine Haschka-Helmer, Consultant interactive media
Aram Bartholl, Medienkünstler und -aktivist
Markus Beckedahl, newthinking communications
Sven Assmann, interface Berlin
Moderation: Harald Asel, Inforadio

Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion und Aufzeichnung einer Radiosendung. Im Museum für Film und Fernsehen. Beginn: 19:30 Uhr. Eintritt frei. In Zusammenarbeit mit Inforadio des rbb.

This video addresses all curators and production managers who are interested in showing Aram Bartholl’s art piece “First Person Shooter” in a public exhibition but who are at the same time concerned about health and security issues. Yes, it is possible to show this piece with all it’s features and DIY part in a public place! Some simple rules and classic tools will prevent that exhibition visitors run amok or commit suicide in the show.

First released on fffff.at

A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a a search on the portrayed person’s name at Google…

full text and more pictures on Google Portrait series project page.

4 Google self-portraits commissioned by Microwave Festival, Hong Kong , 2009

‘Aram Bartholl’, search german
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper, edding 850

‘Aram Bartholl’, search english
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper, edding 750

‘Aram Bartholl’, search chinese
75 x 75 cm, transparent paper stamp, stamp ink

‘Aram Bartholl’, search korean
75 x 75 cm, transparent paperpastel chalk