Aram Bartholl – Blog

This one is really good! A while ago Jonah did send me a link for a Car commercial which somehow refers to my map project. Today he showed me this car commercial which transforms the good old “Spy Hunter” computer game into semi-real-life-action. Very well done! Remember the sound track? :-)

Thx for the link Jonah!

This “Installation” looks like a Mark Jenkins piece, but the guy is unfortunately real and serious about his begging effort. I keept seeing him at Hackescher Markt Berlin lately. He reminded me so much of Mark’s  “invisible” sculptures. Nobody takes notice.

Great work Mark! Was goo to meet you at the Open City exhibition last year!

The russian Gmail office claims to create “Gmail art”.
Is this a new category? ;-)

link

At Pechakucha Berlin Johannes P. Osterhoff showed his interface art at Tape gallery yesterday night. He is also teaching at Merz Akademie Stuttgart where he and his students created this fun movie last summer on the perfect WindowsXP desktop hill near Stuttgart. :-)

Nice video compilation of Transmediale 2008 on www.tagr.tv

“Plaza de las letras” is a beautfiful light installation by Pablo Valbuena involving existing city landscape in a virtual play.

Check out the movie!

This talk about the “corrupted blood” plague of World of Warcraft was held by floX at 24c3. The WoW disease was programmed my Blizzard itself but went out of control and took over the whole virtual world. floX did a very precise and interesting analysis of the the plague comparing it to real life diseases. In the end he is proposing to introduce virtual diseases as a regular part of MMORPGs. I like that idea and I am wondering how to connect to real life in the end too? ;-) see also –> Snowcrash

More details and resources on the talk at 24c3 schedule

Better quality quicktime here

I just updated the “Chat” project site with some new pictures and a movie of Chat action at 24c3.

The bosses of a large advertisment company in german did send their employees a blessed X-mas email. (No, I don’t work for them but I like the idea.)

Nice urban intervention by Mexican artist ,Gilberto Esparza. Urban Parasites
via Jonah www.coin-operated.com

Yesterday I went to see the exhibition “From spark to pixel” at Martin Gropiusbau Berlin. Nice show.

Installations by:
Romy Achituv (Israel): BeNowHere Interactive, 1997 (German premiere)
Gregory Barsamian (USA): The Scream, 1998. No, Never Alone, 1998
(German premieres)
Jean Michel Bruyère (France): Si Poteris Narrare, Licet, 2002
Jean Michel Bruyère (France): CaMg(CO₃)₂ (Dolomit), 2007 (world premiere)
Du Zhenjun (China): Presumption, 2000 (German premiere)
Dumb Type (Japan): Voyages, 2002 (European premiere)
Brad Hwang (Korea/Germany): Time May Change Me /
I Can’t Change Time, 2007 (world premiere)
KAI (Germany): Feuerkasten, 1991/2007
Ulf Langheinrich (Germany/Austria): Hemisphere, 2006–2007
(German premiere)
Dirk Lüsebrink / Joachim Sauter (Art+Com) (Germany): Invisible Shape of
Things Past, 1996/2007 (premiere at the Martin-Gropius-Bau)
Marie Maquaire (France), Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu, Berlin, 2003 (German premiere)
Thomas McIntosh (Canada): Ondulation, 2002 (German premiere)
David Moises (Austria): Hanoscope, 2002 (German premiere)
Nam June Paik (Korea/USA): Candle TV, 1975
Christian Partos (Sweden): Visp, 2000. Striptease, 1998. (German premiere)
M.O.M, 2003.
Erwin Redl (Austria/USA): FLOW Berlin, 2007 (world premiere)
Jeffrey Shaw (Australia) / Sarah Kenderdine (New Zealand):
PLACE Hampi, 2006 (German premiere)
Pierrick Sorin (France): Quelques inventions remarquables, 2003
Shiro Takatani (Japan): Chrono, 2007
Shiro Takatani (Japan): Camera Lucida, 2005 (European premiere)
Saburo Teshigawara (Japan): Light Behind Light, 2004 (German premiere)

The Sandbox Berlin took place 3.-14.10.2007.

Better quailty quicktime here.

Map marker seem to be quite popular lately. Take a look at this Kia-ad. Is there any relation to my “Map” project? ;-)
Thx for the link, Jonah!

My office colleagues Holger and Tobias are testing manual pixel-action.

Good old friend David, conceptual artist is performing. Nice!

Piece for solo dancer and solo musician created by Matthew Shlomowitz and performed by Mark Knoop and David Helbich at the University of York in July 2007. check also: http://www.shlom.com/ , http://www.markknoop.com/ , http://davidhelbich.blogspot.com/