Aram Bartholl

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Aram Bartholl
Photo: Eva Paulsen 2011

Aram Bartholl (born December 27, 1972 in Bremen ) is a German media and conceptual artist. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1995 .

Life

Aram Bartholl studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2001 he finished his studies as a graduate engineer and won the 2001 Browserday competition with his thesis "Bits on Location". During his studies, he completed a nine-month internship at the MVRDV Rotterdam architecture firm . From 1996 to 2000, Bartholl was a member of the Freie Fach artist group (today AnArchitektur), which is known for its discursive and interventionist theming of public space. He was also part of the Free Art and Technology Lab aka FAT Lab, a web initiative founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly, of which he was a member from 2009 until its dissolution in 2015. Since the winter semester 2019 he has been teaching as a professor for art with a focus on digital media at the HAW Hamburg .

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Aram Bartholl is known as a concept artist who examines the relationships between the digital and physical world, including issues of anonymity and privacy.

The partly interdisciplinary works of Aram Bartholl can be essentially assigned to media art, conceptual art and post-digital art. They are mentioned in connection with those of Constant Dullaart and Evan Roth, among others. Bartholl comprehensively examines the consequences of digital media and the resulting changes for society. He gained international attention for his groundbreaking work Map, an installation in public space that creates a connection between the digital and real world. Aram Bartholl's artistic adaptations of existing computer games, like in 1st Person Shooter, bridge the virtual with the physical perception in a completely new way.

He also tried out new curatorial formats for the presentation of digital art. In the SPEED SHOW exhibition series, he organized gallery-like opening events in local internet cafés to show browser-based works by various artists. In 2014, Bartholl curated the exhibition Full Screen , which presented digital works of art by Ai Weiwei , Constant Dullaart, Rafaël Rozendaal and Evan Roth on various screens, including portable devices .

Bartoll has been visiting professor for visual communication and new media at the Kunsthochschule Kassel since 2015 . In addition, he was visiting professor at Broad Art Center UCLA , Los Angeles during the winter and summer semesters 2016 .

Selected works

Keepalive

Keepalive is a permanently installed sculpture near Hartböhn in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, which was commissioned by the Center for Digital Cultures of the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . The title of the work refers to the keepalive signal of the same name , a message unit sent out at regular intervals that checks the network connection of two devices in order to diagnose errors in data transmission or to keep the Internet connection stable.

“With Keepalive, the stone itself becomes a data carrier. In a very archaic but also conspiratorial manner, information can only be exchanged locally, because in contrast to globally networked servers, services and clouds, this stone is not connected to the Internet. You have to go into nature to find the stone and make a fire to activate the data source, ”says Jennifer Bork, explaining the work of Aram Bartholl and also points out that this raises the question of what is“ survival ”in our modern day Time means reformulated.

Domenico Quarant also described the work as a post-apocalyptic source of our knowledge: "... a fiction that ironically locates it in a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk scenario where humanity has been“ kept alive ”, the internet is over and power is provided by fire [ ...] it may once turn useful and even essential for a wandering Mad Max to survive, as the only remaining access point to basic information. "

Dead drops

Dead drops

Aram Bartholl's ongoing project Dead Drops started in New York in 2010 in five public locations around the city. Dead Drops are USB sticks cemented into the masonry, which act as peer-to-peer stations and enable a network for local data exchange. The project spread rapidly all over the world - in various countries, such as South Africa, Ghana, Germany, Iran and Russia, more than 1,400 copies of the dead letter boxes were installed.

The project was expanded in 2013 with the installation of the DVD Dead Drop installation at the American Museum of the Moving Image . Bartholl implanted a DVD burner on the side of the museum, the inconspicuous drive slot of which is accessible to the public at all times. Visitors who discover DVD Dead Drop and insert a blank DVD-R to burn will receive a digital exhibition curated by selected artists and Aram Bartholl, a data collection or other additional material.

Map

Map by Aram Bartholl at the show Hello World, Kasseler Kunstverein 2013

In 2006 Aram Bartholl first developed Map, an installation in public space. Bartholl installs a huge, spatial representation of the Google Maps pin exactly at the point that Google Maps defines as the center of a city. The locations used so far have been Taipei , Berlin , Arles , Tallinn and Kassel . Each sculpture is placed on site for three months and is usually shown during an exhibition or a festival taking place at the same time.

The series was developed by him in order to draw the viewer's attention to the increasing merging between virtual and physical space, as well as to the influence that providers of cartographies have on our perception of a place. Bartholl's spatial representation of the Google Maps pin forces the viewer to reevaluate the information provided by digital maps, for example the importance of a city center, the politicization of borders and issues related to maps and the digital versus the physical world.

Exhibitions

Aram Bartholl's work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

He is one of the invited artists of the 5th Skulptur.Projekte Münster 2017, an exhibition curated by Kasper König and taking place every ten years, which has so far presented artists such as Nam June Paik , Mike Kelly, Rachael Whiteread, Mark Wallinger and Rosemarie Trockel .

Part of his 2016 solo exhibition #remindmelater at Kunstverein Arnsberg , #remindmelater, included the performance Greenscreen Arnsberg , where passers-by were almost literally captured by a portable green screen .

In 2011 Dead Drops was part of the "Talk to Me" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Solo exhibitions:

  • 2015 Point Of View - Babycastles Galleryhe, New York City, NY
  • 2014 Hurt me plenty - DAM GALLERY Berlin, Berlin
  • 2012 Reply All , DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Awards

An honorable mention from transmediale Berlin for the work Random Screen and with his concept for the work Sociial he won the 17th Bremen Video Art Prize. In 2011 the work "Dead Drops" received an honorable mention from the Ars Electronica Festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the manhole cover beeps , TAZ. December 6, 2001. Retrieved January 6, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Biography 'Free Subject'
  3. ↑ FFFFFAREWELL.AT . Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Course Catalog | Department Design | HAW HH. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ulf Mauder: "Sculpture Projects" takes up digitalization for the first time in 2017 . dpa. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  6. ↑ Tweet to the museum , Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 6, 2013. Retrieved February 20, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Ole Reissmann: We are making a portable radio hole . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  8. ↑ Carriers of secrets hide data in the masonry , N24. February 13, 2011. Retrieved February 20, 2017. 
  9. ^ Street View and Beyond: Google's Influence on Photography . October 24, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Claire Voon: Fire Up a Wifi Router Hidden Inside a Rock . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Aram Bartholl . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  12. ^ The art of the digital natives , Deutschlandfunk. January 11, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2017. 
  13. ↑ ARTINPOST: Art & Technology # 13: Aram Bartholl Against the Prevalence of Digital Media . Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  14. ↑ Jonah Brucker-Cohen: Aram Bartholl Sees in FPS mode . Gizmodo.com. September 29, 2006. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  15. ↑ Author Focus . Edge-Online.com. August 22, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  16. ^ "Speed ​​Show" - the new exhibition concept from Aram Bartholl , Arte TV. October 31, 2012. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2017. 
  17. ↑ Aram Bartholl . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  18. ↑ Visiting Faculty . http://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=107.+ Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  19. ↑ Jennifer Bork: Aram Bartholl - Keepalive (2015) . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  20. ↑ DOMENICO QUARANTA: Oh, When the Internet Breaks at Some Point . Montabonel & Partners. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ Katharina Bons: Bearers of secrets hide data in the masonry . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  22. ↑ Juliane Bergmann: In Search of Digital Dead Drops . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  23. ↑ Jillian Steinhauer: Somewhere Between Cyber ​​and Real: An Interview with Aram Bartholl . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  24. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/prj/gtw/aus/wer/bar/enindex.htm
  25. ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on December 16, 2014. Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  26. ↑ http://datenform.de/blog/tag/map/
  27. ↑ http://www.datenform.de/mapeng.html
  28. ↑ dpa: "Sculpture Projects" takes up digitization for the first time . monopoly. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  29. ↑ Aram Bartholl Remind me later . Art Association Arnsberg. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  30. ^ Aram Bartholl: Greenscreen Arnsberg . Vimeo. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  31. ↑ Becky Stern: Aram Bartholl's Point of View Exhibition #WearableWednesday . Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  32. ↑ Hurt Me Plenty . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  33. ↑ Tilman Baumgärtel: A Flicker in Cyber ​​Reality . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  34. ↑ Aram Bartholl . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  35. ↑ Bruce Sterling: Aram Bartholl: Reply All exhibition + “The Speed ​​Book,” Berlin . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  36. ↑ Video Art Award Bremen 2007.
  37. ↑ Recognition 2011 . Retrieved February 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bartholl, Aram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen