This is not a hoax! It really works! But you ll need some extra training for your neck muscles ;) Don’t be worried about party pictures any more. Just keep your head tilted when ever a friend pulls a camera or you travel to the UK. You’ll be safe! In case you are not an expert in software like Kyle’s ofxFaceTracker you can also test this just with your phone or camera. Facial recognition is default nowadays (especially on all the Faceboogles….)!!

by Kyle McDonald & Aram Bartholl
Berlin 2012

first posted on fffff.at/how-to-avoid-facial-recognition May 9 2012

(the german case of sharing … one of the reasons why german GEMA is not getting it, i guess ;)

Aram Bartholl at [DAM] Berlin

In cooperation with the last Transmediale 2012 which ran from 31 january until 5 february under the title “in/compatible” in the HKW the gallery [DAM] Berlin is showing the first solo exhibition of new media artist Aram Bartholl (*1972 in Bremen) who lives and works in Berlin. In “Reply All” Bartholl deals in different ways with the topics of computer and internet and constantly blurs the borders between the real and the digital world.

In various positions Bartholl demonstrates discourses of power in the digital world. The human being seems submitted to the laws of the binary code. However, the people also have free access to information worldwide. The artist’s works don’t come to live only because of looking at them but more of the thougt-provoking impulses which Bartholl initiates. They come to a life of their own that is emerged through the participation of the viewer. Space, feel of the surface and political potency mark Bartholls works and aren’t only bound to digitalism. The medium of the internet is treated critically, mocked, projected into the analogue world and becomes a punching ball of our imagination.

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read on at http://blog.artconnectberlin.com/2012/02/26/aram-bartholl-at-dam-berlin/

OI – series
premiered at  [DAM Berlin] ‘Reply All’ solo show, Jan 27 – March 10,  2012

4 unique pieces
50 x 5 x 160 cm
LED signs, wooden rod, wooden board

Aram Bartholl 2012

Dedicated to the Open Internet! (…it s really hard to capture the awesome brightness of these panels …)

by Bastian Hoffmann

by Philipp Schorlemer

by Olga Gubar

by Darja Shatalova

I am very pleased to finally publish this new project I’ve been working on the last couple months (def. not a Speed Project ;) It was premiered last week at my solo show opening ‘Reply All’ at [DAM] Berlin. If you are in town drop by, check out the show and make your own mask! FOR FREE!!

‘Reply All’
Solo show: Aram Bartholl, January 28 – 10th March 10 2012
[DAM] Berlin, Neue Jakobstr. 6/7, 10179 Berlin

Materials:

• polysterol 1-1,5 mm, 23 x 33 cm
• plaster
• hose, hose connectors
• clamps
• vacuum hand pump, (camping supply)
• toaster
• wooden board, rods
• stop watch
• original, prototype or master mask to make copies from

Tutorial:

1. positive plaster cast from mask
2. additional plaster modeling (chin and forehead) optional
3. negative plaster cast from model to obtain master mold
4. include hose, hose connector and holes for decompression in the cast
5. toaster parts rearranged to heating board, mounted on stand
6. heat 1mm polysterol approx. 2 min in 6cm distance
7. and keep pumping !!

all pics on flickr!

Vacuum forming is a quite old technique and is used a lot in mass industry especially packaging and such. The lid of your coffee cup is vacuum form i.e. Students in product design are used to vacuum form their prototypes, it’s a very common technique in that field. You also find all kinds of tutorials on the web how to build your own DIY vacuum former (Instructables). The one I am proposing is less flexible in what you can produce but are able to produce the same piece in a rather fast cycle (2:30 min) The setup above was inspired by this video.
I think we live in a super interesting era. This is just the start of a paradigm shift from mass industry production to self DIY fabrication. And it s going to get very interesting with all the patents and copyright issues for physical objects very soon. Like Cory Doctorow puts it: “… to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it’s just been the mini-boss at the end of the level, and the stakes are only going to get higher.” I am super curious to see someone print a pair of Nike sneakers on the new makerbot replicator or just imagine Apple would sue everyone because your DIY tablet looks like an iPad. It might happen soon. – Aram Bartholl 2012

Build your own vacuum forming gear today. Copy, experiment and remix! Start coping physical things! And keep pumping!! ;)

Transparent Guy Fawkes

“You don’t know the power of the dark side! We are Legion. The force is with you. Expect us. Join the dark side !”

Darth Fawkes

“How To Vacuum Form”
by Aram Bartholl 2012

The anual congress by Chaos Computer Club germany (#28C3, the 28th year) last week was great. I had a lot of fun with a new piece in progress there and as ususal many interesting dicussions. Cory Doctorrows talk on ‘The coming war on general computation’ turned out to be the unofficial keynote. :) He draws a very good picture how closed hardware will affect the freedom in computation. Check it out below!

Check all talk recordings at https://www.youtube.com/28c3 or direct and torrent downloads at FEM. I also recommend How governments have tried to block Tor or Politik hacken

In a Pecha Kucha Lightning talk I present Dead Drops on day 3!

Edited by Domenicio Quaranta
Design by Manuel Bürger

With essays by:

Josephine Bosma,
Jonah Brucker-Cohen,
Jon Cates,
Lindsay Howard,
Alessandro Ludovico,
Evan Roth,
Bruce Sterling,
Brad Troemel

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Thx to everyone involved in this!!

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https://shop.gestalten.com/index.php/catalog/product/view/id/4453

Aram Bartholl
The Speed Book

Perceptive and entertaining investigations of digital culture.

Release Date: January 2012
Format: 21,6 x 28 cm
Features: 268 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-393-2

About This Book

Aram Bartholl’s work explores the power structures, the social systems, the cultural innovations, the inner dynamics, the languages, and the products that are shaping our age. This first comprehensive monograph offers entry to an oeuvre in which space and cyberspace mingle and mangle each other, a realm that uses as little technology as possible while still speaking a digital language.

Aram Bartholl: The Speed Book features savvy experiments with transitions from the virtual to the physical: USB sticks embedded into walls, buildings, and curbs; giant real-life versions of Google’s red map markers positioned in public spaces; portraits generated from search results. An introduction by critic and curator Domenico Quaranta as well as essays by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, art critics, and fellow artists guide readers through a wonderfully skewed version of reality under the influence of the internet, something Sterling refers to as Bartholl’s “self-created twilight zone.”

… read more and preview etc

Press release! http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond

Just 119 m to the next Dead Drop “G23” !!