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EXPOSITION EXPRESS numéro 5 ‘Internet Libre’  jeudi dernier était hyper pète-cul!!! Merci à tout le mondes! Merci aux artistes pour leur participation et merci a Anne Roquigny et Marie Lechner pour l’ invitation et la collaboration! Paris, Je <3 ! (et je reviendrai en mai pour une présentation à la Gaîté Lyrique)

EXPOSITION EXPRESS numéro 5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris
7:00-11:00 PM, January 13th 2011

F.A.T. Lab After:
Le dune café http://www.ledune.fr
18 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris

Commissariat artistique et production :
Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny

Artistes invités :
Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann). programme complèt cf. ci-dessous

SPEED SHOW vol.5:’Open Internet’ – Paris from aram bartholl on Vimeo.

Open Internet

2010 a montré l’impact de la culture Internet libre à grande échelle. Les gouvernements et les lobbies industriels s’évertuent plus que jamais à mettre en place de nouvelles réglementations et outils pour contrôler le net. L’Internet doit rester ouvert et neutre! Assurez-vous que votre vie (en ligne) ou que votre activité professionnelle ne dépende pas d’une seule grande entreprise ou de restrictions gouvernementales. Il est important de toujours remettre en question les structures du net et d’échapper au conformisme social qui empêche tout recul. L’art sur internet et les sous cultures du réseau jouent un rôle de vigie, questionnant au quotidien les failles du web et les industries numériques transnationales.

Nous sommes très heureux, pour le SPEED SHOW vol.5 ‘Open Internet’ – Paris,  de présenter une sélection d’artistes internationaux et d’exposer des pièces récentes, dont certaines créées spécialement pour “Open Internet “. Les oeuvres interrogent l’impact de la culture pop du réseau, de l’open source, des pratiques amateurs et des engagements radicaux pour l’Internet ouvert.

Aram Bartholl 2011

SPEED SHOW manifeste

Repérez un cybercafé, louez tous les ordinateurs dont il dispose et organisez une exposition pour la soirée. Toutes les oeuvres des artistes participants doivent être en ligne (pas nécessairement publiques) et montrées dans un navigateur équipé des plug-ins standards. S’il s’agit d’une performance ou d’oeuvres en direct, elles doivent utiliser exclusivement des programmes préinstallés (messagerie instantanée, chat vidéo, voix par IP etc…). Les logiciels customisés (à l’exception des extensions de navigateur) ou les fichiers off-line ne sont pas admis. Les modifications physiques du cybercafé ne sont pas autorisées. L’exposition est publique et se tient durant les heures d’ouverture habituelles du cybercafé. Tous les visiteurs sont bienvenus au vernissage, pour découvrir des oeuvres artistiques (et pour consulter leur mail).

Aram Bartholl 2010

Artistes invités :

OPERATION BLING
Anonymous
2011

Anonymous est le nom adopté par un groupe constitué d’hacktivistes et d’utilisateurs de 4chan qui met en place des manifestations et autres opérations sous cette étiquette conceptuelle (Anonyme). Ce nom fait généralement office de couverture pour des acteurs de l’underground. L’”OPERATION BLING” est un appel à s’insurger contre la censure gouvernementale et celle des puissants de ce monde au regard des récents évènements liés, entre autres, à Wikileaks. “Ecrivez sur tous vos billets de banque “You are anonymous” (tu es anonyme) et laissez le système faire le reste.”

No Future
Jean-Baptiste Bayle
2010

NO FUTURE ! NO LIFE ! FUCK CYBORGS ! FUCK GOOGLE ! FUCK 3D ! DEATH TO RAY KURZWEIL ! WE ARE THE CHIMPS ! MEDIUM IS NO MESSAGE ! NOFUTURE IS NOW !
“NF! est né en 2010, 10 ans après le futur, 100 ans après le futurisme. Le nofuturisme a pour but de favoriser l’émergence d’une nouvelle radicalité à même de résister au « bluff technologique » dans un contexte où corruption, apathie et renforcement de la propriété intellectuelle servent de ciment à une spoliation généralisée des droits humains fondamentaux.” NF déconstruit les techniques de désinformation et le spectacle de la propagande, via une collection de journaux télévisés extraits de films(http://www.nofuture.biz ) un journal de sous-veillance twitter (http://paper.li/n0_futur3), et de cartographies critiques « d’ un contre-imaginaire décolonisé »
Jean Baptiste Bayle est un artiste, inactiviste, bricodeur. A l’«upgrade» permanent, moteur de l’économie numérique, il oppose le «downgrade», tentative de «résister à ce délire de technologies inutiles», de réfléchir à une alternative aux logiques propriétaires et de construire un futur collectivement par le partage des savoirs libres.

ArtWar(e)
Christophe Bruno et Samuel Tronçon
2010

Artwar(e) est une plate-forme de « gestion des risques artistiques » dont l`ambition est de reformuler l’histoire de l’art, les attitudes performatives et relationnelles, ainsi que les pratiques curatoriales, en utilisant des concepts récents issus du marketing, comme les « courbes de Hype ». Christophe Bruno propose une réflexion critique sur les phénomènes de réseau et de globalisation dans les champs du langage et de l’image. Il a été primé pour le Google Adwords Happening (à Ars Electronica) et pour Human Browser. A partir de mars 2011, il sera commissaire d’exposition pour l’espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume.

Future-Past
Claude Closky
2010
Connu pour sa série, toujours en cours, de pages web uniques et minimales, Claude Closky pose à l’internaute la question de l’avenir et du passé dans un diagramme sans fin. Combien de temps nous reste-t-il? Qu’est-il arrivé dans le passé? Pourquoi y a -t-il si peu de futur? Des questions cruciales pour la société et l’humanité sont concentrées dans des diagrammes standards du langage stéréotypé Powerpoint. Existe-t-il une loi fondamentale qui régit notre futur ou passé ?

Le Monde.fr
Marika Dermineur
2010
Le Monde.fr est un site qui détourne les pages du quotidien national de référence, Le Monde. Il permet à l’internaute de remplacer n’importe quel mot du site par un autre mot, via un site miroir. L’oeuvre questionne le vocabulaire médiatique, l’impact des mots, expressions et courants dans l’actualité. Marika Dermineur est artiste, co-auteur notamment de Google House, qui construit en temps réel une maison à partir d’images de pièces d’habitation trouvées sur Internet, membre du collectif Rybn, responsable d’Upgrade! Paris et commissaire d’exposition, dont la dernière Politique 0 s’est déroulé au Centre Niemeyer, siège du Parti Communiste français.

Blue meme
Caroline Delieutraz
2010
Les visages d’humanoïdes à la peau bleue se succèdent dans un morphing hypnotique, des Zotriens d’Ulysse 31 aux Na’vi d’Avatar, des Draags, géants bleus de la Planète sauvage, aux « programmes » de Tron.
Caroline Delieutraz extrait ces personnages de leur univers d’origine pour les associer dans une fiction commune. « Figures de l’étrange, mi-humain mi-autre chose (animal, extra-terrestre, robot…), ils représentent l’altérité. Ici, ils forment une sorte de communauté d’êtres hybrides…qui ne cessent de s’auto-engendrer. » Caroline Delieutraz questionne l’identité numérique, les conventions cartographiques. Elle est membre du collectif Microtruc (http://microtruc.net/) invité en ce moment à l’espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume, qui imagine des dispositifs navigant entre espace physique et espace virtuel.

thesleepinginternet.com
Constant Dullaart
2011
De sa série actuelle d’oeuvres portant sur les attributs d’Internet (thedisagreeinginternet.com ou therevolvinginternet.com etc.) Constant Dullaart pose la question de la personnalité d’Internet. A travers ses interventions discrètes via Iframe, Internet semble s’humaniser et faire preuve d’émotions. La page de recherche de Google, presque transparente et toujours légère (mais qui pèse lourd sur nos esprits par l’utilisation inconsciente et massive que nous en faisons) est défigurée par un détournement ludique du code qui remet en jeu nos attentes face à Internet.

GG/Paris
JODI
2011
Le duo d’artistes JODI est célèbre pour son travail consistant à déconstruire les logiciels et les systèmes en ligne depuis deux décennies. La base de données et les interfaces de programmation ouvertes de services comme Google Maps/ Earth permettent une variété infinie d’expressions visuelles imprévisibles. La série Geogoo de JODI a débuté avec des mash-ups aléatoires d’icônes Google Maps éparpillées à travers le globe et se poursuit par un voyage automatisé dans Google Streetview. Un tour de Paris mécanique contrôlé par une machine qui réinterprète les images satellites de Google d’une manière inattendue.

Nocinema
Jérôme Joy et le collectif nocinema.org
2011 (nouvelle version)
Nocinema.org emporte le spectateur aux quatre coins du monde, en diffusant des images d’une sélection de webcams en direct. Road movie impressionniste généré live en ligne, sur une bande son mixée en direct, à partir d’une base de données sonores continuellement mise à jour, nocinema.org, documentaire/fiction en ligne au déroulé imprévisible est un film sans début ni fin, sans acteurs ni scénario, excepté les histoires qu’on se construit en suivant le film des images et des sons streamés. L’application est développée par Jérôme Joy, compositeur, explorant notamment la musique en réseau, il est le co-directeur de recherche de Locus Sonus, laboratoire de recherche en art audio.

Facebook Resistance
Tobias Leingruber
2011
« Facebook est en passe de devenir le système dominant en matière d’identités sociales et dicte la manière dont nous devons nous comporter. Devons nous nous satisfaire de la manière dont Facebook visualise notre identité en ligne ou souhaitons-nous la changer? Cette modification peut être aussi insignifiante que l’ajout d’une image de fond. Facebook conçoit votre identité en ligne de la même manière qu’IKEA conçoit votre intérieur. La seule façon de singulariser vos étagères BILLY est d’y déposer vos photos de famille. La “Résistance Facebook” est une initiative de recherche qui prend acte de l’immuabilité de Facebook en tant que système dominant de gestion d’identité en ligne. Cette recherche porte sur les moyens de modifier les règles à l’intérieur même du système, au niveau local, par l’utilisation d’extensions Firefox.” TL

Naked on Pluto
Aymeric Mansoux / Dave Griffiths / Marloes de Valk
2010

Naked on Pluto est un jeu textuel multijoueur sur Facebook. Le joueur se retrouve tout nu isolé sur la planète Pluto, le Las Vegas du système solaire, paradis des consommateurs et des multinationales du divertissement. Il peut explorer, acheter des gagdets inutiles, parler aux bots insipides, s’amuser avec ses amis et se prélasser dans le conformisme de son nouveau foyer. Un meilleur des mondes dont on ne peut s’échapper. Pourquoi d’ailleurs, puisqu’il est façonné pour assouvir vos moindres désirs. Le jeu explore les limites et la nature des réseaux sociaux de l’intérieur, et s’accompagnent d’interviews d’experts sur la manière dont nos données privées sont utilisées. Un projet sous GNU d’Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk et Dave Griffiths, trois artistes impliqués dans la promotion du logiciel libre, dont le développement est documenté sur www.facebook.com/is.so.convenient ou http://pluto.kuri.mu

Tea Time with Albertine
Albertine Meunier
2009
Demandez-leur ce qu’est un hacker, un flashmob, un spam, un smiley ou un octet, les demoiselles sont incollables. Dédée, Dolorès, Gisèle, Annick, Jacqueline ont en commun d’être toutes des femmes de plus de 80 ans, et n’avaient pour la plupart jamais mis les doigts sur un ordinateur. Jusqu’à ce qu’elles découvrent l’atelier Tea Time With Albertine, qu’anime, depuis mars 2008, la netartiste Albertine Meunier : une initiation au Web pour les seniors qui se déroule tous les quinze jours à Paris. A chaque fois qu’elles découvrent un nouveau concept, elles réalisent une vidéo qui alimente un glossaire internet. Albertine Meunier est active sur le réseau depuis 1998, elle s’est intéressé entre autres, aux questions de la vie privée et de l’exploitation des données personnelles (My Google Search History)

VICKILEEKX.FFFFF.AT
M.I.A. Mixtape mirror de Geraldine Juarez
2011
« Les récents évènements démontrent qu’il est notoirement difficile de contenir l’information et que cette dernière peut aisément ressortir n’importe où. F.A.T emploie les mêmes principes pour maintenir le mix Vickileekx de M.I.A en accès libre et gratuit pour tous. De surcroît, vous n’avez même pas à donner votre e-mail!
Si néanmoins, vous souhaitez télécharger la version de ce mix faisant de la rétention de données, vous êtes priés d’aller sur le site VickiLeekx.com de M.I.A et d’y inscrire votre e-mail.» GJ

Mashed Up Mashup
Evan Roth
2011
Célèbre pour ses logiciels libres mâtinés de culture pop, EvanRoth remixe deux albums de GirlTalk qui sont, à l’origine, une bouillie auditive de samples dans le but de produire l’ultime album de mashup. Le sample et le remix existent depuis longtemps en musique, notamment dans le hip-hop. A l’ère d’Internet, des licences libres et de la culture de partage, c’est devenu la discipline par excellence. Mashed up Mashup est une parfaite représentation du chaos actuel entre copyright et licence libre sur Internet.

My facebooklife
Systaime
2011
Michaël Borras a.k.a Systaime… un pur rejeton de la culture numérique, celle qui rebat les cartes de nos identités, de notre rapport au monde. Trublion du réseau, il remixe le flux, égratigne les puissants et les poseurs, tout en mettant en lumière notre dépendance médiatique. Avec My facebooklife, Systaime joue avec l’interface très formatée du réseau social Facebook qu’il fait muter quotidiennement.

VideOdrome
VideOdrome Mailing List
2010-11
« Shh, not a word, videospam only». VideOdrome est une liste de diffusion, où les participants conversent exclusivement par vidéos interposées, pêchées sur le web. Une fois qu’on a souscrit à l’énigmatique liste (http://lists.machineaecrire.com/mailman/listinfo/videodrome), Videodrome ouvre ses vannes, distillant dans votre boîte aux lettres ses images séditieuses en flux continu, accaparant rétines et temps de cerveau disponible avec le spectacle ahurissant de ce vortex vidéo qu’est YouTube, entre mamies flingueuses, tourette karaoké, porn olympics, feu de bois et autres «sarkoseries».

Robocopyright ACTA
La Quadrature du net (Jérémie Zimmermann)
2010
La Quadrature du Net est une organisation de défense des droits et libertés des citoyens sur Internet. Elle promeut une adaptation de la législation française et européenne qui soit fidèle aux valeurs qui ont présidé au développement d’Internet, notamment la libre circulation de la connaissance. À ce titre, la Quadrature du Net intervient notamment dans les débats concernant la liberté d’expression, le droit d’auteur, la régulation du secteur des télécommunications ou encore le respect de la vie privée.

[First posted on FAT - fffff.at/speed-show-5
Facebook invite on.fb.me/eu3Wg3 ]

The SPEED SHOW series is coming Paris! It’ll be awesome! We will rock the place and on top we’ll kill the night with a F.A.T. lab after party at Le dune! Spread the news! Bring all your friends! Book your flight today!

SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris (G-map)
13th January  2011
7:00-11:00 PM

F.A.T. lab after party at
Le dune cafe http://www.ledune.fr
18 avenue claude vellefaux, Paris

Curated and produced by:
Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny

Participating artists:
Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann)

Open Internet

2010 showed the full scale beauty of open Internet culture. Governments and industrial lobbies are trying more than ever to establish new regulations and tools to control the net. The Internet must stay open and neutral! Avoid being shut down by government and make sure your (online-) life or business is not dependant on a single large company or governmental restrictions. It is important to keep rethinking net structures to escape from the mainstream social vortex which is incapable of reflecting on itself. Internet art and net subcultures play an important role in questioning and deconstructing everyday web defaultism and global, digital industries.

We are very pleased to present an exquisite selection of internationally-known artists at SPEED SHOW vol.5 ‘Open Internet’ – Paris. A wide range of brand new art works created especially for ‘Open Internet’ discuss the current impact of Internet pop culture, open source, minimal amateur and radical options of the Open Internet. A combination of excellent Paris-based, internationally-know artists and restless Open Internet advocates form the perfect base for a promising opening night at the awesome Welat cyber cafe Paris.

Aram Bartholl 2011



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French version
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SPEED SHOW vol.5: ‘Open Internet’
Welat Internetcafe
12 Rue d’Enghien, Paris (G-map)
13th January  2011
7:00-11:00 PM

F.A.T. lab After:
Le dune cafe http://www.ledune.fr
18 avenue claude vellefaux, Paris

Commissariat artistique:
Aram Bartholl, Marie Lechner & Anne Roquigny

Artistes invités:
Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Tronçon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérôme Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann)

Open Internet

2010 a montré l’impact de la culture Internet libre à grande échelle. Les gouvernements et les lobbies industriels s’évertuent plus que jamais à mettre en place de nouvelles réglementations et outils pour contrôler le net. L’Internet doit rester ouvert et neutre! Assurez-vous que votre vie (en ligne) ou que votre activité professionnelle ne dépende pas d’une seule grande entreprise ou de restrictions gouvernementales. Il est important de toujours remettre en question les structures du net et d’échapper au conformisme social qui empêche tout recul. L’art sur internet et les sous cultures du réseau jouent un rôle de vigie, questionnant au quotidien les failles du web et les industries numériques transnationales.

Nous sommes très heureux, pour le SPEED SHOW vol.5 ‘Open Internet’ – Paris,  de présenter une brochette d’artistes internationaux avec un éventail de pièces récentes, dont certaines créées spécialement pour “Open Internet “. Elles interrogent l’impact de la culture pop du réseau, de l’open source, des pratiques amateurs et des engagements radicaux pour l’Internet ouvert. Un assortiment d’excellents artistes français et internationaux couplés à de fervents défenseurs du libre sont les ingrédients d’une soirée prometteuse au sympathique cybercafé Welat.

Aram Bartholl 2011

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops
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13.05 – 28.09.2011
Gate(way)s
Kumu, Tallin, Estonia
curated by Sabine Himmelsbach
with: Aram Bartholl, Clara Boj & Diego Diaz, Boredom Research, Petko Dourmana, Escoitar, Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Kirsten Geisler, Ingo Günther, Hanna Haaslathi, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Christina Kubisch, Andrea Kuluncic, Marc Lee, Les Lien Invisibles, Tapio Mäkelä, Jenny Marketou, Eva & Franco Mattes, Tanja Ostojic, Julius Popp, RIXC, Saso Sedlacek, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak / Marton Fernezelyi, Thomson & Craighead, Timo Toots, Anna Trapenciere, You Must Relax

25.5.2011
Digital Folklore
Conference cycle at Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
curated by Marie Lechner
with: Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, JODI, Aram Bartholl

9.3. – 12.9.2011
Identités précaires
Jeu de Paume, Virtual Space, Paris, France
curated by Cristophe Bruno
with: Les Liens Invisibles, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, the Yes Men, Heath Bunting, Cornelia Sollfrank, LAN, Michael Mandiberg, Fanette Muxart et Clode Coulpier, Julien Levesque, Mouchette, Luther Blisset, among others

26. – 28.2.2011
Phaenomenale
satellite event, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
“Friends” workshop, Aram Bartholl

4.2. – 15.3.2011
Alternative Controllers
Devotion Gallery, New York, USA
curated by Walter Langelaar, Babycastles Resident
with: Aram Bartholl, JODI, Julian Oliver, Kaho Abe ….among other

26.01 – 24.4.2011
The Uncommon Portrait
Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, USA
curated by Stephanie C. Holt
with: Do Ho Suh, Martin Schoeller, R. Luke Dubois, Daniel Rozin, Jun-Jun Sta. Ana, Laylah Ali, Aram Bartholl, Noah Kalina, Michael Ferris Jr., WK Interact, and Evan Roth … among others

27.1.2011
X-Lab Salon: Space Invaders
EYEBEAM art & technology center, New York, USA
curated by Stefani Bardin
art + technology + food + conversation with fellows Kaho Abe and Aaron Meyers, and residents Aram Bartholl and Ted Southern

13.01.2011
SPEED SHOW vol.5 : Open Internet
Internet Cafe Welat, Paris, France
curated by Aram Bartholl, Anne Roquigny & Marie Lechner
with: Anonymous, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Christophe Bruno & Samuel Troncon, Claude Closky, Marika Dermineur, Caroline Delieutraz, Constant Dullaart, JODI, Jérome Joy, Tobias Leingruber, Aymeric Mansoux & Dave Griffiths & Marloes de Valk, Albertine Meunier, Geraldine Juarez feat. M.I.A., Evan Roth, Systaime, VideOdrome mailing list, La Quadrature du Net (Jérémie Zimmermann)

17.9.10-6.2.11
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)

Fall 2010 / Spring 2011
Artist in residence at
EYEBEAM art & technology center, New York, USA
current residents:Aram Bartholl, Stefani Bardin, Tahir Hemphill,Ted Southern; current fellows: Aaron Meyers, Brooke Singer, Jacob Ciocci, Jon Cohrs, Kaho Abe

2.12.2010 – 15.2.2011
15 Seconds Of Fame
Solo show, Aram Bartholl
MÖRDER, 10115 Berlin

past events here

“15 Seconds Of Fame”
Solo show, Aram Bartholl
at cafe MÖRDER, Borsigstr.1, 10115 Berlin
2.12.2010 – 10.1.2011

Google Streetview self portraits series
60 x 40 cm, Lightjet C-print, Alu-Dibond, Acryl
Video screencast, 1:22 min, 640 x 480 px, Digital picture frame 33 x 25 cm

Aram Bartholl 2010

flickr-set

flickr-set

hey all!
I am hanging some prints at my favorite coffee place in berlin mitte upcoming Wednesday. Feel free to drop by and have a beer/coffee with me. :-)

“15 Seconds Of Fame”
Aram Bartholl solo show
at cafe MÖRDER
Borsigstr.1
10115 Berlin
(G-maps http://bit.ly/hvWGLh )

2.12.2010 – 10.1.2011
Opening Wednesday 1.12.2010, 16:00 h

Look at that desperate guy running behind the Google Streetview car in Berlin
(that s me :-) hehe … congrats Germany! (original tweet from 10-13-2009)

On the same day in Fall 2009 F.A.T. lab came up with the idea to build the fake Google car for Transmediale :-) http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/ http://vimeo.com/9455140

I am pleased to announce the next SPEED SHOW of the ongoing series upcoming week in New York City! It was much fun putting together such a great selection of Internet / browser based art from a wide range of awesome artists of different net-genres and net-’decades’. :-) I am expecting around half of the artists to be present and I hope all you people in greater NY will come and see! Credits to EYEBEAM for having me as a resident in NY! Check also SPEED SHOW Traces which took place 10 days ago in Bucharest and was organized and curated by Silvia Saitoc & Matei Sâmihăian! Great job guys! (pics)

SPEED SHOW vol.4: Super Niche
Wednesday, 27th Oct. 2010, 8-11 PM
90 Bowery Internet Cafe, NY 10013
( G-maps ) FB on.fb.me/cjevSi

Has (inter)net.art left its niche? Or is it clustered into zillions of tiny net niches splintered into numerous subtopics? The Super Niche could be a very big niche, a surf-club which is almost mainstream (?) or a sub cell of a extreme small niche of  a 1-visitor ever page in deprecated HTML oblivion. Learning from evolution the beauty lies in the absurdity of super niche solutions, of visual workarounds in every day life net culture. It’s time to create more niches! It’s time to superfy!

Produced and curated by: Aram Bartholl

Participating Artists:
Erik Andersson, Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Charles Broskoski, Jon Cates, Aleksandra Domanovic, Doubble Happiness, Constant Dullaart, JODI, JK Keller, Greg Leuch, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Duncan Malashock, Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Aaron Meyers, Mark Napier, Katja Novitskova, Jacob Ciocci & Jeff Crouse, Jon Rafman, Ariel Rebel, Ryder Ripps, Evan Roth, Brad Troemel, Marius Watz

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 manifesto by Aram Bartholl 2010

All prior SPEED SHOWs documented at fffff.at/speed-show

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Like the concept, congrats for the first show of Chrysal Gallery Timur!

Chrystal Gallery / Exhibition One

Kari Altmann
Charles Broskoski
Lindsay Lawson
Billy Rennekamp
Maxwell Simmer
Harm Van Den Dorpel

curated and rendered by Timur Si-Qin
hosted by Gentili Apri

October 06, 2010 – October 07, 2010
Opening: October 05, 2010 from 20:00 to 23:00

From the report by Michelle Kasprzak about Ars Electronica 2010 relased on rhizome.org September 29th, 2010
rhizome.org/editorial/3791

“…….In the midst of it all, I found myself again and again gravitating towards the beating heart of the whole festival experience, “TELE-INTERNET” curated by Aram Bartholl. The salon-like space had a few terminals set up, internet-cafe style; some folding chairs around a small stage area; and several long tables covered with stuff and people working side by side to make things. Informal talks were held in the small stage area, and you could grab a coffee or the German hacker’s drink of choice, Club-Mate, while listening in. There was a sense of things both happening and about to happen, an unmistakable buzz. Festival goers could sit down and make something, listen to someone talking about things they were making or doing, or just drink coffee and use the internet at one of the terminals. It was a bit of blissful semi-chaos that encouraged people to stay and so was often very busy. Bartholl always played the arms-length host, letting things unfold, giving me the sense that if I wanted to, I could have grabbed the microphone and just started talking. It was a situation that I wished could have gone on for days or even weeks, to see what would happen and eventually evolve. …..”

Thanks Michelle!!!

• all pics flickr.com/photos/bartholl/sets/72157624869505726/
• movie docu vimeo.com/14923413

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops etc….

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Fall 2010
Artist in residence at
Eyebeam art & technology center, New York, USA
current residents:Aram Bartholl, Stefani Bardin, Tahir Hemphill,Ted Southern; current fellows: Aaron Meyers, Brooke Singer, Jacob Ciocci, Jon Cohrs, Kaho Abe

28.-31.10.2010
lost & found
Shift Festival 2010, Basel, Switzerland
participating artists: Aram Bartholl (Random Screen), Julius von Bismarck, Critical Art Ensemble , Paul B. Davis, Aleksandra Domanovic , Gijs Gieskes, Iocose, Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, Armin Linke, Monochrom, Deimantas Narkevicius, Catalina Ossa / Enrique Rivero, Niklas Roy, Harold Schellinx, Manuel Schmalstieg, Helene Sommer, Suzanne Treister, Alexander Tuchacek, Sarah Vanagt, Marie Velardi, Liu Wei

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

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

past events / exhibitions / talks etc …

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Constant Dullaart
2010

Artpocalyps is proud to present its third exhibition, showing new works by Constant Dullaart.
“Romantic Software Dialects’ In this exhibition Artpocalips will feature brand new, and recent photographic works romantically dealing with representation and the influence of Adobe’s Photoshop image manipulation effects.

Saturday, September 25 · 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Artpocalypse Collective
Tweede Laurierdwarsstraat 64
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pictures of ‘0,16‘ at ISEA 2010 Ruhr and at show ‘Shadow Dance‘ in Amersfoort on flickr.

first released on FAT

On my way to the Netherlands last Wednesday (for the ‘Shadow Dance‘ group show in Amersfoort) I decided in the last minute to set up a SPEED SHOW on short notice in Amsterdam for the following day. At the end of the 6h train ride I had all artist emailed and confirmed, speed curated!

Constant Dullaart picked a great Internet-shop remotely via Google Streetview (oh man, we need that in DE finally too!), Peter Luining checked it out and fetched me a phone number. Thx for support! I called the guy the night before and all was set. Since the shop doesn’t sell anything else than voice and internet we had to bring our own drinks. :-) (which he was cool with. Is that possible in NYC?!?)

Although the show was anounnced only one night in advance we had a fine crowd of visitors and lot’s of rain (which made everyone look at the art ;-). Thx to all for showing up on short notice! Thx to the artists! Thx to the ‘A.Internetcafe’-team!

Aram Bartholl 2010

All prior SPEED SHOWS documented here!
Press / Blog posts:

• Rafaël Rozendaal – Dollar Poster (stagnation means decline), 2010 – € 35 We Like Art – besprekingen van edities en origineel werk
• Glitchy web art on display in Amsterdam internet café « Anne Helmond
• The Internet Cafe As Net Art Gallery — The Pop-Up City

All pics on flickr. More pics by Anne Helmond, thx!

SPEED SHOW vol.3: Peace!
One night group show and part of an ongoing series of SPEED SHOWS.
Thursday, 16th of September 2010
Opening 7:00 – 10:00 pm
at ’A.Internetcafe’
Tweede van der Helststraat 15
Amsterdam (G-maps http://bit.ly/cTeJS6 )

Produced and curated by Aram Bartholl

Participating artists:

the revolving internet
css,iframe , http://therevolvinginternet.com/
Constant Dullaart
2010

Cache Rules Everything Around Me
animated gif mashup, video, http://vimeo.com/14782834
Evan Roth
2010

GuthrieLonergan.com
flash, http://www.guthrielonergan.com/
Guthrie Lonergan
2008

Blue Monochrome
Google Maps, http://www.bluemonochrome.com/
Jan Robert Leegte
2008

FolkSomy VJ
PC 4, Youtube, http://www.folksomy.net/ytct
JODI
2010

Arcade Hustla YouTube Channel
Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/user/ArcadeHustla
Jon Rafman
2009

obsolete
jpgs, http://obsolete.ctrlaltdel.org/
Peter Luining
2008-10

INTOTIME.COM
flash, http://www.intotime.com/
Rafaël Rozendaal
2010

Peace on the World
jpgs, http://picasaweb.google.com/TimurSiqin/PEACE
Timur Si-Qin

Torture Classics
Video http://tortureclassics.com
UBERMORGEN.COM & James Powderly
2010

Curated by Aram Bartholl

I am showing the piece ‘0,16‘ at the museum KAdE Amersfoort Netherlands. Opening upcoming friday 17th, 6pm. I am glad my name is not printed white on the flyer below , hehe … ;-)

“From 18 September 2010 to 9 January 2011 on show at Kunsthal KAdE, the exhibition ‘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’.

At ShadowDance the electric light goes out for a while as, with an imaginary candle flickering in your hand, you are drawn into the sometimes dark but also whimsical worlds evoked by the art. ‘ShadowDance’ is the first major exhibition about the use of shadows in art ever to be staged in the Netherlands.”

Thirty-six international operating artists
Vito Acconci (USA), Charles Atlas (USA), Dirck van Baburen († NL), Aram Bartholl (DE), Christian Boltanski (FR), Jim Campbell (USA), David Claerbout (BE), Haim Elmoznino (IL), Mounir Fatmi (MA), Ellis Gallagher (USA), 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), Wolfgang Munch & Kiyoshi Furukawa (DE & JP), Serge Onnen (FR/ NL), 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 (USA), Andy Warhol († USA), Diet Wiegman (NL).

more documentation on http://datenform.de/teleinternet/documentation/

bit.ly/teleinternet

Documentation on ISEA 2010 by tagr.tv featuring ‘0,16‘ a.o. works. The umbrella is nice!

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

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