Thomas Levin

Posted by Christian

Thomas Levin will be giving a talk at Uni Köln on 22.11.2011 at 19.30h.

To make sure we’ll get there in time and we can actually get in (there may be a big crowd and at Uni Köln it’s usually packed!), we’ll meet in front of room2 at 18.30h.

http://www.zfmk.uni-koeln.de/thomas-y-levin-und-datamoshing-as-syntactic-form

 

Update:

Video documentation of Thomas Y. Levin’s talk  “Datamoshing as Syntactic Form. Reading Digital Video Compression Algorithm Hacking.” is now available:
http://www.zfmk.uni-koeln.de/colognemedialectures/programm/13-thomas-y-levin

Visiting artist: Michael Krebber and students

Posted by Christian

Thursday, 3. November, 16.00 Uhr, Aula

All welcome, refreshments afterwards!!

Michael Krebber has a professorship at Städelschule in Frankfurt. He visits the Surveillant Architectures seminar at KHM with his students from Frankfurt. This Aula event will take place Thursday, Donnerstag November 3rd for what will sure to be an exceptional time.  Afterwards snacks in the Mensa.

Michael Krebber’s work resists categorization.  From painting to anti painting, from physical involvement to  avoidance of a signature style, from role maker to blog mocker, his rebellious statements continuously shock, surprise and inspire discussion.He visits the KHM after just returning from New York.

New exhibition at Greene Naftali New York thru November 19th.

From the exhibition announcement:

MICHAEL KREBBER
C-A-N-V-A-S, Uhutrust, Jerry Magoo and guardian.co.uk Painting
20 October – 19 November, 2011

Michael Krebber arrived at his temporary studio, housed in the same building as Greene Naftali Gallery, several weeks before the opening of the present exhibition, with the content of several blogs printed out in his suitcase. Working within a highly circumscribed packet of time, Krebber copied selections from these blog pages onto appropriately proportioned canvases.

C-A-N-V-A-S, an acronym for Corpse After Negating Visual Art Strategies, and Jerry Magoo are both anonymous blogs, the first based in Brussels and the second in New York, with which former students of Krebber at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt-am-Main are involved. Written from the perspective of young artists currently emerging in the gallery circuit, both blogs are known for posting vitriolic commentary on contemporary art exhibitions, which Krebber frequently passes along to his e-mail list of current students.

Uhutrust is the personal blog of Michaela Eichwald, an associate of Krebber since the early 1990s and now a Berlin-based artist represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York) and Vilma Gold (London). Since the posts which Krebber had planned to paint have been deleted due to controversial content, the Uhutrust paintings in the present exhibition take the form of blanks.

The Guardian.co.uk art blog is written by Jonathan Jones, who posted a negative review of an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery by Mark Leckey, a London-based artist represented by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (New York), Cabinet Gallery (London) and Galerie Daniel Buchholz (Cologne and Berlin). This review, published on May 23, 2011, has generated 308 posts to date in the Comments section of the blog, including interventions by the artist under his own name.

By parasitizing the negative     socio-
pedagogical influence networked painting, Krebber
agency
to hasten collapse.

This exhibition is presented simultaneously with “Here Comes the Sons,” at Real Fine Arts, 673 Meeker Ave., Brooklyn, October 22 – November 20.

Michael Sanchez

CTRL [SPACE]

Posted by Christian

Required reading for the seminar:

The catalogue for the 2001 ZKM exhibition CTRL [SPACE]  – Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother.

It’s in the Semesterapparat in the library, also Christian has a copy that you can come and borrow (if you promise to treat it well). Plus the artist’s pages are still online at http://ctrl-space.zkm.de/e/ (English) or http://ctrlspace.zkm.de/ (deutsch).

We suggest you should go and have a look at the essays, only available in the printed version. There is an interesting (German-only) interview with the curator Thomas Y. Levin here.

CFPP

Posted by Julia Scher

for October 21

The “Vogelsang Intervention 2009- Generation” publication party will take place at the library this Friday at 15:00h

Susanna, myself, Peter, Evamaria, Daniele, Aino and others will participate, and Nico’s sound trax will be played.

Please join in for the discussion and refreshments.

seminar #1

Posted by Julia Scher

In the library semester section shelf:

2001  CATALOGUE Ctrl:Space 

 1983  VIDEO “Der Reise” Michael Klier  color & B&W surveillance footage  83 min. RT

 “1WTC” BOOK published in 2011 by Friedrich von Borries
 hot topics including:

   —1978  “Video-Architecture-Television” by Dan Graham, “An architectural code both reflects and directs the social order.  In the not too distant future one can envisage that this code will be supplemented, modified and in part supplanted by a new code”  And indeed, with the internet of course this is exactly the case.  So we will look at Graham as one of the base architectures leading into what was later virtual telecommunication, internet and satellite.

—1981  Sophie Calle “The Shadow” 

—1996 Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) www.notbored.org/10-year-report.html

—2002 Christoph Faulhaber “Mr Security”

 

room2 and equipment

A diagram on the smart board will re iterate the wiring diagram sketched during seminar.  You can reach Christian or Henning for details.

If you are in the seminar you can check out the seminar room’s equipment including the new Apple IPhone.

 

0zapftis!

Posted by Christian

German government malware reverse-engineered by the CCC  shown to be incompatible with the constitution. And very badly coded.

Here’s the CCC’s press release, with some juicy details:
http://www.ccc.de/system/uploads/76/original/staatstrojaner-report23.pdf

And some more insight:
http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b06e60e0

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung’s original article
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/chaos-computer-club-der-deutsche-staatstrojaner-wurde-geknackt-11486538.html

Update: a PDF of the Feuilleton pages with the funky source code.
“Der gefährlichste Abschnitt der Spionagesoftware auf fünf Seiten: ein Text, den wir nicht verstehen – und der doch unser Leben bestimmt.”

 

Blog software updated

Posted by Christian

I managed to update our blog to the latest version of WordPress, so it’s now up and running again. Alas, the old theme by Florian doesn’t work any more, so please bear with us while we’re figuring out a new look for the blog!
If you think you have a good idea for a design, or know a nice theme, let me know.
Christian