http://youtu.be/eE26y-r63vY, track byDanny Dive Thru

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

Improve your reading capabilities! Download the book glasses here and make your own pair today!

One of my favorite pages from my upcoming book! :) In the shelves in the next couple weeks! Thx to everyone involved in this book!!

ARAM BARTHOLL
The Speed Book

Perceptive and entertaining investigations of digital culture.

Edited by Domenicio Quaranta
Design by Manuel Bürger
Publisher: Gestalten

With essays by:

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

I’m opening the xmix xmas-mix mixtape season!! (my 1st mix on FAT!) My son loves KISSfm Berlin (and I love to ‘torture’ my collegues in the studio workshop with it ;)  This one is for you Ole!! :D Have a great holiday everyone!!

>>> Listen online here <<<

>>> Download full mix here <<<

Playlist:

Credits: 3D logo font generated at cooltext.com

Art aware hackers!! Your code can be art! Yes, no kidding!! Just follow the super easy tutorial below and make art today!!

Recent events have shown again that computer code and its power is still underestimated by the public and governments. The way software is written, it s quality, openess, closedness etc. has a very high impact on which way society is taking.  Some small changes or features in code can result in an enormous loss of democratic values or lead to a hidden surveillance state.  Because comparably only few people can read and understand code it is so important we communicate it, discuss it in public and make it art! :)

Congrats to the CCC for revealing and revers engeneering this incredible piece of software and to FAZ (a leading german news paper, circulation of 360.000) which went of the charts by printing 5 full pages assembler code. Awesome!

BOINGBOING: Chaos Computer Club cracks Germany’s illegal government malware, a trojan that spies on your PC and lets anyone off the street hijack it

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club published the sourcecode for a piece of malware used by the German government to spy on citizens. The software was discovered in the wild and reverse engineered. It can be used to spy on or control remote PCs. Because of flaws in the software, anyone who was infected with this by German police was vulnerable to spying by “anyone on the street.” The German supreme court banned the use of trojans to spy on German citizens in 2008. ….

’0zapftis’
solo show – Aram Bartholl
Oct. 12 – Dec. 11 2011
at MÖRDER Borsigstr. 1, 10115 Berlin

SPEED intern with me on a high profile project tomorrow night in Berlin! You still need an internship for your culture/media/art program? This SPEED internship is your chance!!!

Hey all!! I’m currently working on an update of my piece Random Screen  and I’m in the delicate situation to need to EMPTY 25 beer cans for this project by thursday morning. I have no clue how to do this by myself and I would very much appreciate your help on processing the liquid of these beer cans. Please post your application with picture in the comments and make sure to reference your expertise and prior experience in this very field.

All friends are welcome to hang out with me at my studio tomorrow night Oct. 5 in Berlin-Wedding any time after 8pm! :)

Aram Bartholl 2011

Radom Screen 2005-11

1. Drill a hole!
2. Install a DeadDrop!
3. Share more files :)

DeadDrop #644 was installed for the show “Social Media” at The Pace Gallery,
510 W 25th St, NYC – 9/16 – 10/15/2011
Participating artists: Christopher Baker, Aram Bartholl, David Byrne, Emilio Chapela, Jonathan Harris, Robert Heinecken, Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher, Sep Kamvar and Penelope Umbrico

Great show! Thx to the team for awesome support!
Aram Bartholl 2011

;;D

1. Visit the MoMA! (see also How to make your own MOMA artist pass)
2. See the show ‘Talk To Me‘ (July 24 – November 7 2011)
3. Hook up your notebook to one of the 5 Dead Drops and check out the art on there.
4. Just drop your own art on one of the drives and you are in!

Congrats! You have a piece in the MoMA! :) –

Aram Bartholl 2011

Since I was in the lucky position to be inculuded in the “Talk to me”  show at the MoMA with the offline filesharing project Dead Drops I felt like it would be a great idea to share the possibiliy to show work in the MoMA. While visiting the ‘Talk to me’ show  all artists are invited hook up their computer to a flash drive and to drop their art on one of the 5 Dead Drops in the show. Check out the art in the show! Check out all the digital art on the Dead Drops! :) And claim you have an art piece in the moma, which is true! I also recommend to apply for an anual artist pass which will allow you to come back at any time for free. If you can’t get the MoMA artist pass because your are a digital artist and therefore can’t prove to have had ‘Offline’ shows procedd as followed :) http://fffff.at/how-to-make-your-own-moma-artist-pass/

‘Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects‘ curated by Paola Antonelli.
July 24–November 7, 2011 at MoMA, 194 projects on display by artists and designers.
Projects by F.A.T. members in this show:

• Dead Drops project by Aram Bartholl,
• Eyewriter by [the EW-Team] Zach Lieberman, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, TEMPT1, and Theo Watson
• Graffiti Taxonomy by Evan Roth
• Double-Taker (Snout) by Golan Levin

Evans opening yesterday was awesome!! Thx to everyone for showing up! The VIP private preview ‘gallery walkthrough’ is public now! :) Text and links to all pieces below! Enjoy!

When We Were Kings

A solo SPEED SHOW of new and updated Internet based pieces by Evan Roth.
Curated and hosted by Aram Bartholl.

8:00 – 10:00 PM, July18, 2011
90 Bowery, New York, NY
speedshow.net/when-we-were-kings

When We Were Kings is a reference to an era that began with the wide-spread adoption of the Internet. It is the celebration of a time that is seemingly coming to close, when the architecture of the web treated everyday citizens the same as the kings. Intentionally scheduled back to back with an opening at the Museum of Modern Art (where Roth is showing two pieces), When We Were Kings is an experiment of Eric Raymond’s Cathedral and the Bazaar metaphor as applied to the public exhibition of art.

Break The System!

I only know a few artists who have been that influential for a whole generation of Internet aware artists and art aware coders in the recent past. I always admired Evan for his radical openness. It takes a lot of guts as an artist to open up and share your artist practice to such an extent. Creating tools, generate and share open source code that enables everyone to make and distribute art online or in public space is Evans mission. His work is full of hacks for the browser and the city! They range from clever interventions on an airplane, to digital tools that change they way of thinking for a whole generation of writers.

Evan’s philosophy, the crossover of pop culture and open source, plays an important role not only within F.A.T. Lab. Hackers meet rappers! Richard Stallman and Andy Warhol posing as best friends – back in the days photoshop! It already feels to me like these two fields have age-old tradition of co-operations. Thanks to Evan’s high skills in picturing this philosophy he successfully branded a young generation of art aware coders and Internet aware artists with his ideas. No one else knows so well how to play the click-masses for crowd sourced projects or hits the nerve better with participatory projects on the meme stream.

In the tradition of pop-art Evan deconstructs the web with great precision in its visual language and underlying code. He rearranges and combines these elements of mainstream internet and meme culture to visual iconic pieces. Or instead of breaking these systems Evan applies taxonomies to disclose the hidden rules of them. The alphabetical order of html tags or precise analysis of graffiti tags are driven by the same concepts. When We Were Kings is the first solo exhibition by Evan Roth in the speed show format.

Keep breaking the system Evan! – Aram Bartholl July 2011

All pieces by Evan Roth:

When We Were Kings – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, triptych, unique edition*
A commemorative reconstruction of the original best friend of the bored at work network.

Inverted HTML - 2011, HTML, JavaScript, unique edition*
Inverted HTML alters a web page by changing the orientation of all of the comment tags, in effect swapping all that was hidden with all that was visible.

Domain Seizures – 2011, HTML, JavaScript, triptych,
A looping display of domain names that have been seized through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations directorate.

Bad Ass Mother Fucker – 2011, HTML, JavaScript
A looping demonstration of the artist’s current ranking as the number one search result for the term ‘bad ass mother fucker’ on Google.

Personal Internet Cache Archive Triptych – 2011, HTML
(May 6, 2011, May 20, 2011 and July 11, 2011) unique editions*
An ongoing study of archived images collected passively through the artist’s everyday Internet usage.

White Glove – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, unique edition*
The motion data of Michael Jackson’s white glove from his landmark 1983 performance of Billy Jean.

All HTML – 2011, HTML, unique edition*
One sentence contained within every HTML tag in alphabetical order.

Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris – 2011, HTML, Flash, unique edition*
Analysis of Paris city wide graffiti tags.

Boxes, Banners & Skyscrapers – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, unique edition*
Composition using found Internet advertisements of industry standardized pixel dimensions.

Banners & Skyscrapers – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, unique edition*
Composition using found Internet advertisements of industry standardized pixel dimensions.

Untitled NSFW No.1 – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, unique edition*
Formal study using animated gifs and absolute positioning.

Untitled NSFW No.2 – 2011, HTML5, JavaScript, unique edition*
Formal study using animated gifs and javascript.

GPL As Subject – 2011, HTML, unique edition*
A self reflective open source General Public License

Alphabetical Order – 2011, HTML, Flash, unique edition*
Individual graffiti letters are isolated in sequence from a single location.

Hypnotized By Puffy – 2011, HTML, Flash, unique edition*
Puff Daddy’s vocal contribution to The Notorious BIG’s classic rap anthem, Hypnotize.

URL Performance – 2010, HTML, Flash, unique edition*
http://asdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkjhasdflkj.com ‘Try it yourself!’

Inbox Victory – 2010, HTML, PHP
1) Answer all of your emails. 2) Open your web cam. 3) Take a screen capture photo in front of your defeated foe.

Cache Rules Everything Around Me – 2010, Video, 9:36, edition of 5*
Animated gif mashup video collage

See You See Me – 2009, Video 6:25, animated gif, edition of 5*
A series of video shots in Airport security results in a collection of x-ray distorted frames as animated gif.

How To Keep Mother Fuckers From Putting Their Seats Back – 2008, Video, 0:35, edition of 5*
Micro intervention on an airplane

* Pricing available upon request at speedshow AT speedshow.net