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‘Map’ in Taipei
I am showing Map at ‘A Good Time Public Art Festival’ Taipei, Taiwan, opening next week on 20th of September. The marker is currently under construction. Nice!
Out of office Autoreply
I’ll be 100% off the grid till 8th of august. (in case you need info regarding ARS plz email inga seidler, who should be in cc of some your emails)
Pirate TV Set
(found near Bremerhaven, DE)
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
In a desperate moment on a monday night
How to connect a german Type F “Schuko” power plug (any power plug) to a suisse CEE 7/16 power socket (any power socket) at Zurich airport (any place) on a monday night (at any time).
We are living in the era of dead batteries (and it ll become worse with new cars). Always the same: either i foget the charger or I have the wrong (or none) adapters on me …
First released on F.A.T.
“Space is the Place”
I know, I am a bit late announcing this show …
“Space is the Place”
Curated by Conor McGarrigle & John Buckley
27 August – 1 September 2009
National College of Art and Design/Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Part of ISEA 2009
Reception Monday 31st August 18.00-20.00
Space is the Place is an exhibition of documentation of artistic practices which intervene in public space. The focus is on ephemeral, temporary works which take place out of a gallery setting, living on only in their documentation.
Exhibiting Artists include:
Aram Bartholl
Blackletter
Ralph Borland
John Buckley
Martin John Callanan
Joseph Delappe
Benjamin Gaulon
Institute for Applied Autonomy
I Left This Here For You To Read
Thorsten Knaub
Laboratorio de Situaciones
Glenn Loughran
Conor McGarrigle
Eve Mosher
Christian Nold
PARKing
Katie Paterson
Quadrafónica Urbana
Gordan Savicic
Mark Shepard
Surveillance Camera Players
Transborder Immigrant Tool
Trespass
Jeremy Wood
You Are Not Here
“Fuck 3D”
It’s about time to do something about the 3D hype.
Full project details on F.A.T. fffff.at/fuck-3d/ !!!
Nerd Scrunchy
I love the universality of zip ties! (Yes, I know it’s about time to get a new haircut.)
Out of Office AutoReply
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WoW @Laguna movie doc
WoW workshop and performance at Laguna Art Museum, July 2009.
Thx to Lev Anderson for camera and editing!
3D-2D
Should a 3D-space/game be part of a web-page, embedded like metaplace below or should the 2D content (browser) be part of the 3D space like in Secondlife below? Will there ba a protocol or platform which could connect all these separated 3D worlds out there (VRML didnt make it)?
Sure, games want to be capsuled in a specific atmosphere and for that reason they mostly run in standalone full screen mode. But I would love to be able to drop by at any kind of virtual space/game with a single click without installing a new client or game. I want my interface and controls to be the same everywhere. I want to be able to walk my Hubbo Hotel character in WoW….
An overview of Second Life and its competitors
The Top 10 Money-Making MMOs of 2008
I think it’s hilarious how people in SL simulate real life with all its imperfectness.
Geistiges Eigentum
“Intellectual Property” … close your eyes and say it 10 times very slowly …
The german translation even sounds more weird. I believe this is an oxymoron.
I just read this good summary on copyright etc issues in CT (german) and felt like sharing it. ;-)
Recommended book “Against Intellectual Monopoly” by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, available online for free!
Gott sieht alles
I am waiting for the day when Google will ask us to ’streetview’ our own houses and apartments. “Look, Tobi has a new kitchen table. Ah, here is his bathroom.”
Check the Google streetview bike on searchengineland!
Loud Tweets
Another version of the Tweet Bubble Series: Loud Tweets. While I was putting together the concept for the whole project I said in the very beginning: ‘Everything but no LEDs!!!’. LED scroll bars are just too much the cliche of everything. Too much advertising, disco, show off and cheapness (and too much Jenny Holzer ;-). And there are already a couple of T-shirts with LED scroll tags on the market.
But then we ended up starting on this never the less. Simon did the hack with this LED name badge I got at eARTS festival Shanghai. An Arduino board does a simulated 3 button thumb press input. So each tweet is programmed letter by letter which takes a while pull a tweet from the web. And I liked that emulating human cheap device interaction. The next step would have been to connect the badge to a GSM/GPRS Arduino to make it standalone without PC but I stopped it here. The simplicity would have been lost and in the and the price to make it a standalone device was not in relation to the cheapness factor any more.
I preferred to keep it like this and to walk it in the city. I like a lot the big ad bars or train info displays next to the personal twitter feed ad. Blink blink city signage in relation to personal show off ad bar in small scale.
The Tweet Bubbles Series – documentation
The Tweet Bubble Series is the result of my 3 months residency at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media this spring.
Check the all the Twitter to RL speech bubbles versions on the project page.
Thanks to V2 lab! And special thanks to my project team Piem Wirtz and Simon de Bakker.
More pics on flickr.
“Are you human?”
New project release! Everybody who crossed my path in the last 12 months might have got one of these business cards. Another project which has been in the drawer for a while. “Are you human?” Captcha codes are omnipresent on the web since a while and I loved them from the beginning. In a certain way they tell a lot about our relation to the machine world. And btw, I am waiting for the day when they will be extinct. It’s obvious that software + cpu power will become better in reading these at a certain level. “Hu? … Waht’s that? I can’t read this ….!” And will they return in the era of Blade Runner? ;-)
Enjoy the full story and more pics here!
datenform.de/areyouhumaneng.html
Moving to Wordpress, new rss feed!
I am moving away from blogger.com to wordpress. You might need to re-subscribe the feed. Blog adress is the same www.datenform.de/blog
“Follow me!” project for re:publica
I am preparing a nice little intervention for the german blogger conference re:publica 2.4.-4.4.2008, Kalkscheune, Berlin. Twitter community and all other microblogging users will have the opportunity to wear their profile picture/logo as a button badge. Show your web identity in real life! With small stickers of the same logo users can mark each other as followers on T-shirts/pullovers/laptops.
“Ah, it s you! What’s your nickname again?”
“How many followers do you have? Look at mine!”
I hope it’s going to be fun. More details and thoughts on this group-performance/conference- intervention in german. [To be translated soon.]
update: pic changed
Follow me!
Zeig dich mit deinem Twitterlogo auf der re:publica Konferenz! Sammel jede Menge follower und lass sehen wen du alles kennst!
„Kennen wir uns nicht von Twitter?“
„Ach, Du bist das! Wie ist nochmal dein Nickname?“
„Hattest du nicht letztens noch ein anderes Profilfoto?“
„Und? Wieviel follower hast du schon?“
„Sind die colorwars nicht endlich vorbei?“
„Wo ist Kosmar? Ah, da läuft der rote Besen…“
Das Projekt „Follow me!“ ist eine soziale Intervention und Gruppen-Performance für Konferenzen und Events rund ums Web. In Anlehnung an Microbloggingdienste wie Twitter, Jaiku oder Pownce interagieren die Teilnehmer des Projektes untereinander mit den Symbolen und in den Regeln dieser Social Web Services im realen Raum.
Jeder Teilnehmer bekommt einen Anstecker und mehrere Aufklebern seines Twitter (o.ä.) Profilfotos/-logos. Der Button wird am Hemd/T-Shirt/Pullover getragen und ermöglicht anderen Konferenzteilnehmern „Twitterfreunde“ wieder zu erkennen. Mit den kleinen Profilaufklebern können sich die User dann gegenseitig als Follower/Freunde auf dem T-Shirt „eintragen“. Ganz im Stile von Twitter entsteht ein grosses Wer-Followed-Wen-Spektakel mit jeder Menge face-to-face Interaktion.
Ein wichtiges Element bei allen Social Web Plattformen, insbesondere aber bei den Microbloggingdiensten ist das Profilogo des Users. Das Profilfoto, welches normalerweise ein Portrait des Nutzers zeigt avanciert zum quasi Markenzeichen des Users. Bei der Nutzung von Twitter und Co. erscheint zu jeder Kurznachricht eines Users das jeweilige Profilfoto im Webinterface. Da die User sich nicht unbedingt persönlich kennen, nimmt das wiederkehrende Bild, in Verbindung mit den geschriebenen Nachrichten eine zentrale Funktion als Interpretations- und Projektionsfläche ein. Auf diesem schmalen Kanal der Kommunikation entsteht ein Netzwerk von Bekanntschaften, die auf digitaler Ebene eine reale Verbindung eingehen.
Wie beeinflusst das Social Web Beziehungen zwischen den Menschen? Auf welcher Ebene, der digitalen oder der physischen lernen sich die Menschen wie kennen? Wie stellen sich User im Netz dar und wie werden sie dort wahrgenommen?
Aram Bartholl 2008
Happy easter!
I’ll be a week on early easter holiday. Have a good time!
“Skype is a snitch.”
I am not very good in tracking birthdays of friends, there always manybirthdays in spring. Addtionally skype notifies you when one of your contacts has birthday. Very handy but is it correct? Do I want that? Did I ask skype to tell everybody it s my birthday? Hmm … do I have to respond to a note because I know that he knows that I know …
I decided run an experiment. Since 5 days it s my birthday every day on skype. I got some messages, comments, emails and even phone calls. Some people were doubting, some noticed on the 3rd day. It was fun.
“Skype is a snitch.” Marius posted in a comment, very true.
(Btw, my birthday is on 27.12.)
“Sandbox Berlin” movie
The Sandbox Berlin took place 3.-14.10.2007.
Better quailty quicktime here.