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How to save 2,30 € for a latte in Berlin
DISCLAIMER: Don’t do this at home …ähhh … at the city trains U-Bahn or S-Bahn. They check those quite often. The bus driver in the city might ask you for a ticket or yell at you but you can always try to just walk in. At Tegel nobody cares AT ALL …. enjoy the coffee places in Berlin! ( That’s all we have ;-)
See also James’ UK bus hack!
How to make your own MOMA artist pass
[first released on F.A.T. , don't miss the comments there...]
1. Download your pass here.
2. Print it on heavy paper, both sides.
3. Insert your name with a pen.
4. Visit MOMA a whole year for free!
You are only eligible to obtain an MOMA artist annual pass (25,-$) (regular entrance fee 20,- $ !!!) if you can proof that you had ‘OFF-LINE’ !!! art shows. Can you believe that? Online art doesn’t count in?!? We need to change that.
The making of the Free MOMA pass:
Let’s scan this!
It seems I am artist number #7156 which got an artist pass. (This year? Since the system was implemented? Doesn t matter in fact.) The entrance guard will just scan the code and look at the read out if the pass is valid. Code format is CODE_39. Ok nice!
Let’s scan the whole thing in high res!
We better generate that magic code A000000000007156 again at Online Barcode Generator for better print quality :-) You might wanna also just become the artist pass owner #7155 in case they kick Aram Bartholl out of the DB for some reason. ;-)
Done! I recommend the Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures show on 5th floor. Awesome! Let’s meet for a make out flashmob in that ‘exhibtion’ cinema ;-)
[You might also just go to Free Friday Nights, held every Friday evening from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m :-)]
PS: See also James’ http://fffff.at/how-to-sneak-into-the-venice-guggenheim/ :-)
“Highscreen”
A new piece I made for arte creative. Congrats to Alain! Great choice of works and great job for the site! Let s hope the servers will crash by traffic load !!! (Like mine today ;-)
BOOOOM !!!
(Drawing by my son, love it! Looks like a early Keith Harring ;-)
‘Home, Sweet Home’
Johannes P Osterhoff inaugurated his piece ‘Home, Sweet Home‘ at cafe St.Oberholz last Friday. Was fun! Nice one, like it! It was also shown at Ars Electronica 2010 but this is the perfect spot in Berlin’s most hardcore ‘Mac Cafe’ ;-). Congrats Joahnnes!
2011
“2011″
Video 00:25 min
Media: .3gp
Dimensions: 480 x 800 px
by
Aram Bartholl
2010
Tagg as you go!
I am very pleased to present a super fun cooperation with a very good friend Ariel Schlesinger!
Looptaggr! A great new tool to express your opinion in public. The latest streetart technique to support your favorite gang ( i.e. Wikileaks). Full tutorial and all pics at http://looptaggr.com.
A project by Ariel Schlesinger and Aram Batholl 2010
More at http://looptaggr.com
Streetview Germany
I can’t believe this! Germany entered the scene on the digital globe today! Congrats! Google Streetview is finally life! Although it seems Google had some trouble keeping the good quality. Many images are blurred or even black, strange – how come? ;-) ….. Oh! whats that?!? Look what I found!!! F.A.T. patrol is on Steetview OMG! yes true, I heard they tagged the car with a GPS last February … what?!? They even hijacked it?!?! (http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/ – don t miss the video) …
Update:
OMG! It seems that Google for one day even considered to run Streetview in Germany as a paid premium service … it would make sense! They spend so much extra money on ‘post production’ ;-)
The Streetview page was blocked and the text says something like ‘Due to the high effort in picture editing Google Germany has decided to run Google Streetview as a paid premium service….” The page was up for only one day and for some strange reason they list themselves now as a phising attack ?!? see yourself http://goo.gl/Nk9Ca . Probably trying to blame someone else ;-)
[Great speed coding job Dragan! Speed project by Dragan Espenschied and Aram Bartholl on a beautiful Friday morning last week! ]
“Dead Drops” preview
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and ‘How to make your own dead drop’ manual coming soon! Stay tuned.
Dead drop (Wikipedia)
In the meanwhile drop some files here!
87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot)
Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo)
235 Bowery, NY (New Museum)
Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St)
540 West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam)
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Udate:
I have to admit I wasn’t prepared for this unbelievable feedback I am got in the recent days. The preview post became a major release! This means while I try to hold up against a journalistic DNS attack I am putting together this site on the fly with my left hand:
http://deaddrops.com
The site is still a bit naked but step by step I am adding content (FAQ, how to, movie docu etc). If you want to embed your own dead drop in your city you are free to go. Check the instructions here.
TELE-INTERNET pics
#TELEINTERNET bit.ly/teleinternet at Ars Electronica last weekend was awesome! Thanks to everyone for participating and thx to the As team for support! Most popular ‘piece’ in the show was our coinopperated coffee machine :-)
Stay tuned for more documentation …
‘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
I am currently out of the office. Please contact info@google.com if you need immediate assistance. I won’t return your message when I am back in the office on Tuesday, August 29, 2009. Please consider to email me again in september to get a pole position in my inbox.
(I’ll be 100% offline, I hope ;-)
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.