hi all

looking forward to meet you all in RL. ;-)

WoW Workshop

hey everybody, feel invited to join the WoW workshop/performance http://www.datenform.de/woweng.html tomorrow on Friday 2.5.08 at Contact Theater...

Apeel

A very simple, again paper based and fun interactive project by Richard The » Gunnar Green » ...

"WoW" Seoul Movie

Nathalie Boseul SHIN curator at Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea had invited me to run the WoW workshop/performance for "Digit...

"Hey, beautiful girl!"

"Hey, beautiful girl on the bicycle. Your smile was charming ... would like to see it again -> (mobile number) " Isn't that romantic?It's cool to h...

Burning Man - Sandbox

"Sandbox Berlin" is one of the Second Life projects I did last year analyzing the digital space - real life relation.Sascha who just came back fro...

White and Blue

The Palast der Republik is almost gone and the temporary Monopol museum nearly finished.

CBS

(All fresh renovated. CBS was already here, Auguststr. Berlin)

Anti seat back

Some people just spend to much time on airplanes. ;-) But being creative keeps you from getting bored on long hour flights. Nice everyday life inte...

Prora

(Prora has been sold to private developers and will be partially renovated. How could you buy a flat on the beach which was build during the second...

Flickr Group On Jeans Imprints

Since I have been in holidays I didn't realize how popular my recent post on the Nokia 6600 jeans imprint became. I think this is due to the fact t...

"Sputnik" - Interview

This is an interview I gave for the Mexican magazin Sputnik.¿Hablas español?I don't but I like the layout and I am sure that Jerry wrote it down we...

"AVATAR the new you"

I'll show "First Person Shooter" at the Australian Centre for Photography in the exhibition "AVATAR the new you".5 September – 4 October 2008Austra...

MinorUrbanDisasters

Hi all! I am back from holidays and finally online again. On the left a souvenir from the baltic sea / Rügen. A beautiful detail of 'pavement art'....

Mörder Closed!

Oh my good! Toenjes closed the cafe and took off for holidays till end of August. How can he do that to us?!? Where are we supposed to hang out all...

Playing Revolution

(The burning car series in Berlin is on again. Found on Gartenstr. , Berlin)

Stumbling Blocks / Stolpersteine

Since I blog quite a lot about "street"-art I would like to point out one of my favorite public art projects (which is maybe not so well known out ...

Indoor Streetart

(An Oxymoron found on Gipsstr. Berlin. Gallery Circleculture , Artist?)

Talk to the wood!

Yesterday I visited Ariel in his studio and he gave me a sneakpreview on his latest works. Nice!!!But suddenly he was talking to a piece of wood!?!...

Pile of trash

A very nice piece by Arend deGruyter-Helfer student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. All the trash of Facebook. :-)facebook gifts arr...

The Suspect Backpack

Another interesting urban intervention. Somaya Langley presented her Suspect Backpack at ISEA two weeks ago.Disclaimer: Don't try this at the Airpo...

de-Gentrify

Yeh, a nice new project by urban hacking expert and Eyebeam research fellow Geraldine Juarez. "Dissident infrastructure for make yuppie neighborhoo...

Paintball Plates

I like the Extreme Craft paintball plates by Garth Johnson. Nice!GARTH JOHNSON, CLAIRE JOYCEKeramik, Glitter-PaintingsOpening und Catalogue-Release...

Construction Site Mark Up Language

(Not intentional but still beautiful graffiti. Found on Ackerstr. Berlin)

Nokia 6600, 2005-2008

I decided to start a collection of my worn out pair of jeans showing the traces of mobile tech development in society.... In "The Medium is the Mas...

Sculptures

Good friend and workshop colleague Holger Lindmüller builds very beautiful furnitures from recycled material. Check out the details. Nice!Actually ...

"Skymall Liberation" series by Evan Roth

Evan recently updated his art web store. I am a very big fan of the Skymall Liberation series.Skymall Liberation - White vs Non-White (World Shop)A...

Asia Interface Studies II

The traffic-light buttons in Singapore are great. ( Same in Australia?) A real nice big metal button you have to press to call for a green light. I...

Asia Interface Studies I

I did like the Metro ticket vending machines in Hong Kong a lot. Just point at the desired destination on the static interactive touch-board and th...

Traffic Sign Art

( Although I still have some pics to blog from my Asia travel here comes a beautiful piece from german country side near Berlin. Found at station R...

GRL in Seoul

The "Hack the City" exhibition in Seoul was great fun. And I know that Evan & James from GRL have a new nice movie of the Seoul action which is...

Danger

Singapore has (at least) four spoken languages and very very little graffiti but some stencils ;-).Found at Upper Wilkie Rd, Singapore.

Open Shower

(Open Source on the beach, found at Santarosa Resort, Singapore)

Speakers

Sherwood Forlee designed a nice paire of speakers in speech bubble design. Hmm... that is maybe a good alternative for "Chat" ;-)Thx for the link P...

Welcome Bag

ISEA 2008 Singapore conference started yesterday. There is a lot going on here. Tons of paper presentations, panels and artists talks. Each night t...

High End Webcam

(found at "Enabled Disabled" Exhibition TMCA, Seoul)

"Chat" and "WoW" Futuresonic pics

Drew pointed me out that there are beautiful pictures of Chat and WoW taken during Futuresonic online.Picture and copyright by Jan & Emily Dixon

Royal Caution

Another very beautiful VIP entrance. NYC. Picture by Geraldine Juarez

Green

(The bar next door placed this viral advertisment in the elevator of the hotel I am staying in. Found in Singapore)

WoW Seoul

The WoW workshop/performance for the Hack the City exhibition in Seoul was great fun. More pics and documentation coming soon.Thx to all participan...

Anti Sticker

(Traffic-light post sticker protection, found at downtown Seoul )

.com

It's always fun to meet Evan and James from Graffitiresearchlab ( the mother cell of all GRLs! ;-). Last night we had a long and interesting discus...

Seoul

(My first day in Seoul. I love the semi offical street sign objects.)

V.I.P.

(A V.I.P. gallery entrance in Berlin-style. There is always a way to attract people. I wish this 'installation' was part of the exhibition. I love ...

HOTELbich

HOTELbich is a temporay art venue in Brussels run by good friend and artist David Helbich in conjunction with NADINE. On sunday 20th there will be...

Calendar Update

My upcoming events:5.12.08 - 4.1.09 "Sociial" Video Award Bremen at GAK, Bremen, DE 14.11.08 Talk at "Media Pavillions" Symposi...

Digital Playground "Hack the City"

Nathalie Boseul SHIN curator at Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea invited me to run the WoW workshop/performance for this exhib...

Picture in Picture

(found on Zionskirchstr. , Cafe Ex, Berlin)

Broken Glas

(found on Rosenthalerstr, Berlin)

Google Car Berlin

And here is a picture of the Google Streetview car cruising in Berlin and rest of Germany (and Europe). Btw, I am still waiting for Miscrosoft goin...

"Escape Vehicle no.6"

I had a great time last weekend during our 'Performing Spaces' workshop at Castle Bröllin. It showed that Anette and Miles had a very good hand in ...

More hardware music

Trockenbau

Today I went to the new gallery area right behind HamburgerBahnhof (looks a bit like the wrapped Reichstag) to take a look at the Shilpa Gupta exhi...

We're famous

And more Google map marker conquer public space. Hmm ... is this just a poster from the shop owner or a advertisment campaign by Google? I thought ...

"256² "

"256²" is a piece which I performed mid May 2007. Finally I found time to reedit the video documentation of this urban intervention.Pics and more t...

Two similar designs

(found at Bröllin, DE)

Google Images

via YoritThx for the link Peter!

Private vs. Public

Hey! My shortcut!(A fresh fence on former Berlin Wall strip found on Bernauerstr. Berlin)

Residency

Anette Schäfer and Miles Chalcraft the curating team of Trampoline are developing an exhibition project called "Performing Space" for 2009. A hand...

Top Shot Helmet

And another cool project by Julius von Bismarck. The Top Shot Helmet gives you a 3rd person view on yourself via a ballon cam from above. The pictu...

Poster Child

I got this beautiful handmade silkscreened exhibition flyer by Poster Child in my snail mail today . Nice! Thx!Poster Childall dolled up10.7. - 23....

Garbage Key

I like our shared workshop/office space a lot. A handful of cool people, great discussions, helping hands and lot's of fun. But you probably all k...

Text To Speech

Good friend Christoph Meierhans shows a piece called: "Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, and Bill Clinton, Former President o...

PURE EVIL

Pure Evil Solo Show4th July-2nd August 2008at INK_DInk_d96 North RoadBrightonBN1 1YEGallery/Studio - 01273 645299

"Species of Spaces"

Among a couple of openings on busy Brunnenstrasse Berlin I liked the show "Species of Spaces" at Pitrowski gallery last friday. Kym Ward among six...

First Person Soccer

And again a commercial in computer game adaption style. Hmm... Although I've never seen a first person soccer game on PC or console so far. Had any...

Waterfalls

NYC has some waterfalls now. But who are these two funny guys on the boat? ;-)Thx to Jerry for pointing out the event! (Berlin has just Olaf's fact...

Maria?

More spiritual streetart. Seams to become popular.( Again on Auguststrasse Berlin, Artist?)

Gun Camera

The Image Fulgurator by Julius von Bismarck I recently posted about made it through the whole blogosphere: from Make ( thx Jonah!) , to BoingBoing ...

DIY Shin Guards

As you might know Germany is quite crazy about soccer right now. On Sunday there will be the European championship final game Germany-Spain.Of cour...

"Short Moments of Inner Calmness"

I recently dropped in at Gitte Weise galleryon Tucholskystrasse Berlin and saw the current solo show of Ingo Gerken (who is also running "West Germ...

Slaves

SP38 turns Auguststr. Berlin inside out, into a gallery. Good proportions and nice rhythm. ;-)

Traffic Light Jammer

This traffic light on Invalidenstrasse Berlin takes ages before it switches to green for pedestrians. Additionally it has an antenna sensing the ap...

Image Fulgurator

Ars Electronica announced golden nica winners for 2008! In the category INTERACTIVE ART Julius von Bismarck got a golden nica for the Image Fulgura...

Secure Lock

The Deutsche Post has a new high security "lock" preventing customers from cash machine scam. This green plastic piece in front of the cash machine...

Fear

Yes, I like simple wood constructions.atAntje WachsbyTomáš Svoboda

Entrance Situation

I like the perfect symmetry of this work. Almost another clerical streetart piece.;-)

Handcuffs

New adbusting piece by The-Wa on just.blogsport.de. Poor ebay campaign. Good job!via rebel:art

Muscle Temple

no comment. ;-)(found on Adalberstrasse, Berlin)

Hello neighbours!

Another locative public note I found this morning. Someone asks his/her neighbours for a w-lan connection. Thats excactly what I advice people who ...

Stainedglass

A nice clerical variation of Pixelator. TV-Filter is also mentioned within a series of related pixel pieces on antiadvertisingagency.comPosterchild...

Cowboys of Barcelona

Streetart exhibition in Barcelona.17 June 200820:00see flyerwww.vaquerosdebarcelona.orgwould love to join ...

Ohne Tomatenglas!

A typical lost/found message in public space. I like these kind of local-public letters. The way how it was attached to the sign made me stop. Taki...

World of World of Warcraft

Another fake on the realism topic. :-)'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'

Trojan Attack

Although this is not a typical virtual-real translation it has a lot to it. It is more likely an underground-mainstream translation made up by some...

Foam Booster

On my way to the DIY store I stumbled upon Dieter Lutsch's foam pieces at VLASAK a small nice new gallery in Berlin Wedding.Nnice! Hmm... how about...

No Parking

(Borsigstr. Berlin)

Parasite Architecture

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin also known as Stabi is a very popular library in Berlin where students and PhD candidates like to work in.I am not sure ...

LANDREFORM movie

The Landreform carousel yesterday was great fun. In the beginning the fire was really big and we thought for a moment the event might end up in SUP...

MUTO

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

"Friends" documentation online!

I just finished the documentation for my latest project "Friends" which has been premiered at Futuresonic 2008 a month ago. It was a lot of fun and...

Burning Car

Another car piece by the artist group SUPERFLEX. I like their works a lot. The Burning Car is quite symbolic for rising the oil price and the hun...

LANDREFORM

hehe, looking forward to take a ride in this carousel tomorrow ... LANDREFORM Carousel Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Markus Lohmann, Harry Sach...

60 seconds

Steffen Kasperavicius counts three times 60 seconds layered in one movie. Nice vid!Thanks for the invitation to Halle Burg Giebichenstein / Werklei...

Illegal

The Charite (big Berlin hospital) is in trouble. The giant ad on the scaffolding is illegal. Since 5 months the hospital has no permission to show ...

Cooperation

(It seems like two or even three different artist have been working on this billboard, found on Ruppinerstr, Berlin)

Expired

While googeling I stumbled across some old posts from kunst-blog.com( a well known german art blog ). It seems like all 'old' posts don't show any ...

"Fuck Street Art"

by Pieterjan Ginckels 2004-2007 3 mounted colour prints Edition of 3 Size 55x80cmHehe, I like that. An...

Linz

I got my ticket to Ars Electronica Linz today. This will be my first time to AEC as a plain visitor and I am looking forward to have plenty of time...

Berlin Default Platte

(Found on Mollstr. Berlin)

Digigripper

A beautiful project by Olaf Val. Climbing on a screen while depending on the changing pixels is a very physical way of interacting with the digital...

Facades

("Let's stay friends" cafe, Berlin.)

BeggingBot

The "Bettelbot"/"BeggingBot" by Alexander Gurko plays music just by floppy and hard drive mechanics. A 3,75 and 2,5 inch floppy drive and a very ol...

2HD

At Kaiser Supermarkt, Central Station Berlin you can buy floppy disks at the checkout. I could't believe what my eyes saw there. Floppy disk?!?!? I...

Talk at KHK

Yesterday I had a talk at the Art School Kassel. I enjoyed my one day trip to Kassel quite a lot. A nice modern concrete school from the 70ties is ...

MÖRDER

I like the way how Tönjes serves coffee.[and it s really good, hmm...]

German Finger

I already had a pic of the official german finger print scanner in my blog lately.But this time I had to get a new passport which includes a scan o...

Hey NYC !

The very cool project "International Dance Party" by Niklas Roy and Addad Hannah was shown lately in Montreal at the Elektra festival.Hey NYC, befo...

Inflated Metal

Yesterday I went to see the 8.1 Pechakucha Berlin at this year DMY organised by my good friend Joachim and Iepe (famous for chess boxing in DE). I ...

Sex And The City

untitled-1

"untitled-1"mixed media: wood, stonedimensions: 120 x 120 x 40 cmbyunknown construction site worker(Grosse Hamburger Str. , Berlin)

Fake Real - Real Fake

I take it as a compliment like in chinese culture when I find reproductions of my work on the net. This Google Map marker is a nice and very subtle...

Sliced Graffito

(found on Kastanienallee, Berlin)

Flying Penis

A very nice Virtual -> Real transformation I couldn't have done better ;-)Flying penis' are nothing very unusual in Second Life. A so called gr...

Zombiger

(found on Torstrasse, Berlin)

Faraday Tent

Since I did the mobile phone pouch "Silver Cell" in 2004 a faradayic tent was on my list of possible projects but it never happend. Via the upcom...

"WoW" in hangul

For the exhibition "Hack the City" at Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul South Corea end of July I will run the "WoW" workshop and performance ...

"Are you social?" at Nimk

Netherlands Media Art Institute formerly known as Montevideo in Amsterdam will show the "Are you social?" T-shirt in the upcoming exhibition "My [p...

"Follow me!" docu online

I still have some badges left over from the "Follow me!" intervention at the re:publica conference a month ago. Is your Twitter avatar among these ...

Calendar Update

My upcoming events:25.7.-30.7.08 Presentation at ISEA 2008 Conference, Singapore, SG 22.07.- 24.08.08 "WoW" at "Hack the C...

"Chat" at Futuresonic

Chat at Futuresonic a week ago was great fun. We started at the Acadamy before the Wire concert (pic) and then had fun in public space on Oxford ro...

Games and the City

Just a very big ad campaign but also another way on how computer games conquer public space.

Consumer Media Art

The success of Nintendo Wii shows very well how classic Media Art of the last 20 years has arrived in everyday consumer products. I am curious how ...

Screen Reality

Main music act during Futuresonic was RZA as Bobby Digital. It's a long time that I've been to a "big" concert and I found it amazing how many peo...

Augmented Reality

(found during Futuresonic, Manchester, UK)

Automatic Sliding Doors

Warren Neidich solo exhibtion at Magnus MuellerExhibition dates: April 4th - May 17th, 2008Infinite Regress, 2008 Steel, colored glass, in...

CD-Recycled 45rpm

One of my favorite projects at Futuresonic 2008 "CD-Recycled 45rpm" by Aleks Kolkowski. The audience was invited to bring their old CDs and have on...

House on a House

If Berlin was just Toscana ...(Rosenthaler Platz)

"Friends" pics!

WoW at Futuresonic

WoW workshop and performance at Contact Theater Futuresonic was great fun yesterday.[Btw, Eyebeam R&D fellow Geraldine Juarez a.k.a Jerry does ...

The Factory

Friendsnetwork "online"!

New project "Friends" started today at Futuresonic. Finally the workshop is up and running. If you are in Manchester drop by CUBE gallery and get y...

hello CCTV world

Caught CCTV cam. Found during the opening of Futuresonic in Manchester.

Computer Game Arrows

Another car commerical implementing computer game elements.Seems they pic up on each other 1 2. Check out the arrows. A variation of Speed.thx for ...

agoasi

Call for USB art!

Call for participation. Miriam Winkels and LaForge started a nice competition for USB stick case mods. Please post your results in the USB-ish flic...

Calendar update.

My upcoming Events 25.7.-30.7.08 Presentation at ISEA 2008 Conference, Singapore, SG 22.07.- 24.08.08 "...

"Friends" stamps

Stamps for "Friends" workshop at Futuresonic arrived. :-)(more than 30)Join the Friends network at Futuresonic 2008! Get to know cool new friends a...

Soccer Ball

Hmm ... something is wrong about this soccer ball. ;-)

Jetlag im Ausland

Boris is a good old friend from Bremen who studied composition in the Netherlands. Serge and Boris were running a nice guitar/computer-duo for serv...

"Friends" tattoos!!!

"Friends" tattoos arrived today.Don't miss the "Friends" workshop at Futuresonic 2008.It's going to be fun! :-)[Actually the "flag tail" is suppose...

Join "WoW" at Futuresonic 2008!

Join the "WoW" workshop/performance at Futuresonic 2008! On Friday 2.5.08 during Futuresonic festival I will run the "WoW" workshop which results ...

FUTURESONIC 2008

I like this pic on the Futuresonic webpage art section a lot. It reminds me of something ....hmm... I don't exactly remember. ;-)But anyway, come a...

Locative Media Pacman

Interesting post by Jonah on MAKE blog.Pacman game path arranged into audio tapeThis project, "Nam June Paik Man" by Irish artist, Ivan Twohig, is ...

Thought Bubble

Tim Pritlove proposed a thought bubble version of the "chat" project to me during 24c3. It could look like this piece but would you have a conversa...

"Follow me!" on TV

"3sat Neues" a german TV magazin on computer, technology and society had a report on re:publica 08 conference where I was performing the "Follow ...

Green map marker

Besides the classic red map marker Google has introduced more colors like green for navigation and blue for user content on the Google maps web int...

CaixaForum

Since we are both graduated architects Pablo gave me a nice tour on the recently finished CaixaForum by Herzog & de Meuron, a quite impressive ...

Closed Circuit

Me, the camera and my case in the entrance to Medialab Prado which I visited after Casa del Encendida in Madrid. I had a nice conversation with Ma...

"Try again" pics

I had a very good time in Madrid. The "Chat" performance went very well, we had a lot of fun on the street and in a bar. It is a great honor to fin...

taxi !!!

Cc - Bcc

For my last exhibition newsletter I forgot to put everybody on bcc. So the whole list of recipients appeared in each email. I am really sorry about...

"Try again"

This is the Index of the "Try again" exhibition catalogue listing all involved artists and authors:"Try Again"La Casadel EncendidaMadrid, ES10.04.0...

"Chat" at La Casa del Encendida

During the opening of the game art exhibition "Try again" at La Casa del Encendida I will show "Chat" tomorrow night 8pm 10.4.2008, Madrid, ES. I w...

"Follow me!" pics

The "Follow me!" intervention at re:publica 08 conference was great fun. The german twitter crowd cooperated perfectly, everybody was desperately w...

Grey Layers

PGP - GPG

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"Follow me!" project for re:publica

I am preparing a nice little intervention for the german blogger conference re:publica 2.4.-4.4.2008, Kalkscheune, Berlin. Twitter community and al...