Aram Bartholl
Drop in to create your own page for a special book displayed in the gallery, in Friends by Aram Bartholl. Each page can be personalised using stickers, polaroid photos and text. Plus make your personal stamp so that you can join other people's friends network by placing your mark. Books are also available for you to take away, to carry on collecting new friends around the city. One of three projects by Bartholl in the exhibition that thematise the relationship of net data space and every day life.
Commission / World Premiere
1 – 5 May, final display in CUBE until 17 May
Workshops: CUBE, Portland Street.
Free
The project 'Friends' is a workshop on web based social networks like Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut (among others) brought down to a classic paper friendship book involving the functionality and language of the web. All visitors are invited to sample their own paper friendship book from a range of 'hardware plugins' featuring different low tech elements. Like in social networks the participants of the workshop are then invited to share their books, collect friends and exchange information in various ways. From classic pen drawing, instant photo stickers to custom stamps all kinds of unplugged communications are involved.
How do the web based social services influence our real life social networks? Who is your friend and how many do you have? Where is the difference in getting to know each other on the net or in real life?
Artist Biography:
Since 1995 Aram Bartholl lives and works in Berlin. In his art work he thematizes the relationship of net data space and every day life.
In which form does this network-data-world manifest itself in our physical everyday-lifespace? What is being fed back into physical space from the
'cyberspace' into which data has been fed for so long now? How do these digital innovations influence our actions in everyday life?
For several years now, the artist Aram Bartholl has been working in the field of inquiry delineated by these topics and questions, and investigating the feedback effects of general digitization as an approach to gaining an understanding of the technological transformation of society. In the form of objects, installations, interventions, performances and workshops he takes the developments of recent years to the analogue phiscal space and attempts to get to the bottom of the issues inherent in them.
His art work has been shown on international media art festivals such as Ars Electronica 06/07 or Transmediale 07. Furthermore he participated in exhibitions at TENT Netherlandse, VOORUIT Belgiun, Eyebeam New York, Enemy Gallery Chicago, Trampoline Night Berlin and LABORAL Spain, among others. In more than 15 lectures and workshops Aram Bartholl presented his works.
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