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Random Screen (v.3)
Short video docu on “Random Screen” v.3 2009 (finally HD)
“3D” is the new “i”
Marketing experts have already chosen the perfect ad term of the year 2010. Just put a “3D” in front of your product and everyone will love it! ……. OMG….
Do I need some sort of glasses for this high end very secure credit card protection system??!?
“Are you evil?”
How many Google services do you use?
Order now or download the “Are you evil?” printable version here! Based on “Are you social?“. Inspired by Kosmars’ microbutton collection!
Aram Bartholl 2010
“How to make money out of an empty fridge”
Check Ariel’s new VVANK project! A DIY fridge vending machine for your shared studio! The beauty of simplicity! Nice!
Hey Ariel, F.A.T. could use that machine to cover some costs during Transmediale 2010 selling drinks … haha
The Drop Shadow Talks
take a look at the The Drop Shadow Talks page Johannes setup for the talk series. It is much nicer than my copy-paste post here …
Artistic practice in the age of user experience
The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened background into three-dimensionality—and thus significance.
With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its flat medium.
Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
This semester the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.
Artist talk, Nov 10 Tuesday 19:00
‘Fuck 3D’ Aram Bartholl, Datenform, Berlin
BTK’s campus is located at Bernburger Straße 24-25, very close to Potsdamer Platz.
U-Bahn: U2 to station Potsdamer Platz or to Mendelsson-Bartholdy-Park.
S-Bahn: S1, S2 or S25 to station Anhalter Bahnhof or to Potsdamer Platz.
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule at Google Maps.
All talks will take place in room J/K on the second floor.
Admission is free.
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
New York, November 12 — 21, 2009Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on the F Train)
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the dominance and promises of the privatization model, the free market and private property have to be questioned, but also the conventions of the space-producing professions that follow and materialize these policies.
In this context the event “Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice. Therefore the narrow boundaries of the profession have to be left behind. We hence invite activists, geographers, architects, planners, and economists representing different critical approaches to discuss and develop concepts and practices that not only try to oppose and challenge the capitalist mode of production of space, but also try to go beyond it strategies of de-commodification, re-appropriation and alternative production of space. We will look at already existing spatial actions of resistance as well as search for possibilities to further theorize them: How can these strategies and alternative practices be turned into social and political forces towards post-capitalist spaces?
All events are public. All those interested are welcome.
Free dinner will be served during discussion evenings.
An exhibition and a reading corner will support and document the discussions.
Opening Reception Thursday, November 12, 7 pm
The Decommodification of Housing
Discussion with James deFilippis, geographer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick · Esther Wang and Helena Wong of CAAAV, Organizing Asian Communities, New York Friday, November 13, 7 pm
Bar + programming by Lize Mogel and Alexis Baghat, An Atlas of Radical Cartography* Saturday, November 14, 7 pm
The Real Estate Crisis, Private Property and the Prospects of Planning
Discussion with David Kotz, economist, University of Massachusetts Amherst · Teddy Cruz, architect, San Diego Sunday, November 15, 7 pm
Bar + programming by tba* Monday, November 16, 7 pm
On the Commons: Taking versus Granting Rights
Discussion with Peter Linebaugh, historian, University of Toledo · Brett Bloom of Midwest Radical Culture Corridor, Urbana · Rob Robinson of Picture the Homeless, New York Tuesday, November 17, 7 pm
Bar + programming by common room* Wednesday, November 18, 7 pm
Territory as a Means of Struggle
Discussion with United Workers, Baltimore · Neil Smith, geographer, City University New York Thursday, November 19, 7 pm
Bar + programming by Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO architecture* Friday, November 20, 7 pm
Reclaiming Capitalist Spaces
Discussion with Janelle Cornwell and Julie Graham, geographers, University of Massachusetts Amherst · Max Rameau of Take Back the Land, Miami
Saturday, November 21, 12 pm
Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
Lecture by David Harvey, geographer, City University New York, 12 pm
Workshops with special guests*, 2 — 6 pm
Final presentation and discussion, 7 pm
Party, 10 pm
www.oppositionalarchitecture.com —
A project by:
An Architektur
Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Umwelt
Alexanderstrasse 7, D-10178 Berlin
organized by Oliver Clemens, Sabine Horlitz, Anita Kaspar, Kim Förster
www.anarchitektur.com / contact: redaktion@anarchitektur.com
On occasion of:
Commissioned by Performa. Presented by Performa and Storefront for Art and Architecture. Supported by the Graham Foundation, IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and Two Trees Management, Inc.
Performa 09 (November 1-22, 2009) is the third biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
www.performa-arts.org
Blk River
Attention Attention you are entering the Street Art Sector!
Wow! First time using a can! Am I a writer now? ;-)
I’ll be showing “Are you human?” in- and outdoor at the Black River Festival Vienna next week.
BLK River Festival
Gallery Ofroom / Taborstraße 18 / 1020 Wien
Date: 22.October.2009
Time: 07.00 PM
Opening 22.10.2009
Participating artists:
Aram Bartholl
Busk
Deep Inc.
Brad Downey
Dtagno
Christian Eisenberger
Graffiti Research Lab/G.R.L.
Mark Jenkins
Know Hope
Tobias Leingruber
Aakash Nihalani
James Powderly
Albin Ray
Evan Roth
Max Schaffer
State of Sabotage
Stop Making Sense
Tempt One
‘Defence’
Hack the city!
I’ve bee testing my new tools for the workshops F.A.T. will offer at Transmediale 2010, good results so far!
;-)
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile
by Eric Spiegelman
via jamie