Aram Bartholl – Blog

CRACKED RAY TUBE – at TLVSN Chicago 27.4.2011
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1st 2 min of an awesome tube-glitch performance  by the duo CRACKED RAY TUBE I saw at TLVSN last thursday in Chicago … NOISSSEE!!!

… love that ‘paintings’ series by Jayson Scott Musson a.k.a. Hennesey Youngman :)

Looking fwd to meet y’all in CHICAGO !!! :)

!!!ANNOUNCING:
SPEED SHOW CHICAGO: “while loop is true”
WITH NEW PROJECTS BY: MAX CAPACITY, Christina Kassi, onehalfprince, Whitney Carrier, Sage Keeler, creepysleepovers (Valerie Brewer) with Alex Inglizian, Pall Thayer, Saya Da Jung and Derek Repsch!
Wednesday April 27th 2011
6 PM – 8 PM
FREE!
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COPYMAX
1321 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago IL
60622
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Berlin-based artist/curator ARAM Bartholl initiated an ongoing series of exhibitions of New Media, Digital + web-based art called SPEED SHOWS. starting in the summer of 2010, SPEED SHOWS have been held in Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, NYC + now Chicago! Chicago’s SPEED SHOW is curated by jonCates:
http://fffff.at/speed-show/
SEE YOU THERE!!!

Olia and Dragan preaching ;) the Vernacular Web at the New Museum, NYC last Friday.
Awesome talk! And don t forget to help seeding the 1 TB geocities torrent!!!

“Screen Folding Study / JODI 2011″

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HAHA …this is sooo good!! Awesome!!!

I am presenting at Share Conference in Belgrade, Serbia tonight. They have an interestin mix of music, art and web people here, like that! See u at 8Bitch tonight!! :)

Tönjes gave me this tiny ‘tool’ because he thought I had left it at his Cafe (MÖRDER). But this wasn’t the case. Then we started guessing what this little needle sort of paperclip tool was good for. Someone said you would need this to eject a sim from an iPhone … is Apple still making you use of the  paperclip emergency technique?!? It is definitely useful to hit reset buttons in little holes but a ball-pen is usually enough for that, no? What is it for? Do you know? It is definitely a pretty sexy, high end tech, sturdy premium steel, well crafted piece of metal. Love it!

( found on Mommsenstr. Berlin )

This is a scene from a workshop I gave in Rotterdam last week. A group of students at Crosslab Willem de Kooning Acadamey developed ‘Dead Drops‘ spin-off ideas in speed-project-style. After 1 hour we had presentations :) Hanging out at Piet Zwart Institute and WdKA was fun! Cu guys around! Thx Aldje for the invitations.

( Looking fwd to teach a 1h thesis project class some day :)

( a nice detail found at Temporäre Kunsthalle, last show Summer 2010, curated by Jon Bock, )

Awesome stencil project by Saskia Aldinger. The spray tool from the program paint enlarged, printed and cut becomes a sprayed spray can image. I smell some Yo Dawg meme here ;) . Paintrush. Love it!

Awesome Gcar game experience by Linus Suter !

Current & upcoming shows / talks / workshops
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4.7. -18.9.2011
From here on
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011, Photo Festival, Arles, France
curated by Clement Cheroux, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Martin Parr & Joachim Schmid
with: Roy Arden, Aram Bartholl, Penelope Umbrico, Doug Rickard, Thomas Mailaender, Mishka Henner, Willem Popelier, Frank Schallmaier, Andreas Schmidt, Jens Sundheim, Jon Rafman, Hermann Zschiegner … among others

9.-18.6.2011
Portraits
OFFF festival & Sonar festival, Barcelona, Spain
curated by Hector Ayuso
with: Random International, Marnix de Nijs, Daito Manabe, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Aram Bartholl, Daniel Rozin, among others …

6.-10.6.2011
New Media Pathway
Merzakademie, Stuttgart, Germany
Wahlwoche guest teaching

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

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

12.5.2011
Stilvorlagen #6
HAW design department, Hamburg, Germany
Lecture cycle

27.-30.4.2011
Transit///Stasis
SFAI’s Thesis 2 Collaborative project, San Francisco, USA
with: Aram Bartholl, Christen Sperry-Garcia, Julie Cloutier, Nick Bastis, and Resonant City.

21.-24.4.2011
Electron Fesival
Festival des cultures electroniques de geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
curated by: Raffael Doerig
with: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Aram Bartholl, René Bauermeister, Christian Croft & Andrew Schneider, Joseph Delappe, F.A.T. Lab, Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel, Andy Guhl & Norbert Moeslang, Florian Kaufmann & Michael Egger, Leopold Kessler, Christin Lahr, Eva & Franco Mattes, Manu Luksch, Nikolas Neecke, Ubermorgen, Julius von Bismarck

7.-9.4.2011
Share Conference
State of Exit Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
with: Data Mining – Google – Rafe Kaplan, Political Party – Pirate Party – Amelia Andersdotter, Crisis Mapping – Crisis Mappers – Patrick Meier, Generative Art – V2 – Joost Rekveld, Digital Rights – Electronic Frontiers Foundation – Katitza Rodriguez, Mapping – Ushahidi – Jaroslav Valuch, Mobile Activisam – Mobileactive.org – KatrinVerclas, Blogging Disidents – Global Voices – Sami Ben Gharbia, Dead Drops – Aram Bartholl, Copyright – Electronic Frontiers Foundation – Kurt Opsahl, Civic media – MIT Media Lab – Chris Csikszentmihályi, Art and Data – MakroLab – Marko Peljhan, Flash Mobs – Improv Everywhere – Brian Fountain and Robyn Sklarenm, Future / SF / DIY – Wired Blog – Bruce Sterling, Flattr – Peter Sunde, Community – 4Chan Moot, Blogging – Yahoo News – Andrew Golis, Polical Tribes – Sam Graham-Felsen, Community – Couchsurfing, Mobile Community – FourSquare, Crowdfunding – Kickstarter, DIY Books Digitising – Marin Seric

14.-15..3.2011
CrossLab
Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Presentation and workshop.
with: Melanie Rieback PhD,Jon Stam, Aram Bartholl, Danja Vasiliev & Julian Oliver, Aart Muis/Rob Donkers, Rob van Kranenburg

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

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
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Past events & shows….

OPEN INTERNET
public intervention
video: 4:06 min

Aram Bartholl
2011

I ve been looking at these cheaply produced, super low resolution LED signs (the IRL animated gif ;-) for a while already.  End of last year I filmed this meaningfull pair in a kiosk window in Berlin and fell in love with them.  First I used the picture for the SPEED SHOW 5 title in Paris but I had to take it a bit further. :) You find LED signs in any shopping window especially in EU these days. There are also many OPEN signs in US but hardly any INTERNET signs. I had to change that! :)

The OPEN INTERNET intervention was produced during my residency stay at EYEBEAM.

JODI killed it at Foxy Productions last week!
http://blogs.artinfo.com/imageconscious/2011/02/16/jodis-blow-out-performance-at-foxy-production/

“Mostre open source” article by Domenico Quaranta, on the SPEED SHOW series and Rafael Rozendaals BYOB (Bring your own beamer :) shows in Flash Art Italy, Issue 290, February 2011, p. 32. – Read the article on Domenicos blog (italian)

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by zweintopf
Graz Marienplatz 1, 2009
Kran, Kranführer, LED Lichtschläuche, Steuerung, Benzinaggregat
all pictures by Marcus Auer

(found at Gerichtstr. Berlin)

Awesome! via @sinkdeep

The open-close sound and feel of the makerbot printed heart boxes is awesome!! You get easily addicted. * crrack ….crrracck ….* It’s a bit like the joy of cracking pringles with you mouth.  thx @bre!

Unrelated:
So strange that guy with the crazy look on the flight yesterday tried to attack me with a plastic spoon …. ;-)

[first released on F.A.T.]

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!

(found on Bedford and 7th, Wbrg, NYC)

(awesome graphics by my 6 year old son :-)

[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/ :-)

« In Memory of Chuck Poynter » by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied 2011 for folklore du web

via Gaite Lyrique mag

:-) love it!

(….working on a new piece at Eyebeam NYC … check out this short preview, Internet Cat! :-)

Congrats Google! It s fun visiting all these museums. Gives it the real streetview feel! ;-)
(Screens by Ariel! Thx man!)

Babycastles presents DADAMACHINIMA
Curated by Walter Langelaar of WORM (Rotterdam)
Opening 7pm on Friday, February 4th. On view until Sunday, March 7th 2011.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194553047227854