I will show Hello Bitcoin at the Economics and The Immaterial show of Run Computer Run of Glitch festival in Dublin!  I am so happy that my new studio accomplice, Raquel Meyers, is also i this exhibition, as well as my friend Evan Roth, who will present togethet with Constant Dullaart on “Beyondthe White Cube”.

How do we give value to immaterial goods? How do we buy and sell digital images? What is the relationship between economics and digital aesthetics? How can curators and artists create new platforms and models for the creation of economic exchange? These are some of the questions that this show attempts to answer. We are currently accepting artwork (video, jpg, gifs, 3d models or HTML content) that will feature in a unique gallery-based exhibition. The exhibition is composed of two parts – a gallery-sited virtual show, and the online production and distribution of materially-realised limited-edition goods.

Rua Red
Preview May 24 6 – 9 pm
Show runs May 25 – July 13

Artists:
Lorna Mills Rollin Leonard Rich Oglesby Emilio Gomariz Benjamin Gaulon Emilie Gervais, Eu Tech Nik / Andrew Healy / Sascha Pohflepp + LINDA KOSTOWSKI /Geraldine Juárez / Raquel Meyers / ALAIN VONCK / DANIEL ROURKE + ALEX MYERS / JONAS LUND / Addie Wagenknecht + PABLO GARCIA / Andreas Nicolas Fischer / PINAR + VIOLA / CHIARA PASSA / REED + RADER / FRANCOISE GAMMA / YOSHI SODEOKA

RUN COMPUTER RUN @ GLITCH 2013 is an exhibition focused on examining artistic responses to cultural, economic, and social factors that currently affect the evolutionof the Internet. The festival features four exhibitions, eight workshops, a symposium featuring leading thinkers and curators in the field of New Media Art, and a showcaseof short films. It will wrap up on July 13th with a party featuring live performances by Irish musicians Voids, Replete, and RichieK!, with more acts to be announced. Now in its third year, GLITCH is an opportunity for the public to engage with New art in an exciting and innovative way. With a huge range of events and a programme of exhibitions involving Internationally renowned artists including Casey Reas, Marius Watz, FIELD, Pixel Noizz, Constant Dullart, Evan Roth and many more, this year’s GLITCH festival is the most ambitious and largest to date.

I decided to award a copy of the F.A.T NIKA this year in sync with the Ars Electronica Grand Prix.  And my award goes to: COMPUTER ROOMS by GO_80.!

Computer Rooms  is a beautiful little book that focus on the context in which computer culture happens rather than in their machines:

“This is what computer culture really looks like. A collection of photos that show the messy reality behind the shiny online facade. Where we make our living and spend our free time. And try to be creative. Or even maybe worse.

Very few people get to see these spaces. It’s not the kind of place we take photos of, or show to visitors. Maybe we don’t even see it ourselves. It’s a sort of secluded area hidden in plain sight, full of secrets, now on this display in this book.

This kind of places lead to political actions, fantastic music, art, new friends, inventions, love and so much more. This is IRL!”

/Goto80, Bräkne-Hoby, April 2013.

Goto80 (born Anders Carlsson, 1981) is a Swedish music artist and researcher. He has been described as one of the key players between glitch and chipmusic, as well as an active demoscener. At the turn of the millennium he was one of the first to bring chipmusic to a wider audience, and was also an early adoptor of live Game Boy music.^[2] He has an extensive back catalogue of free music – often open source – with a wide span of musical influences.^[3] He currently focuses on research and art, and maintains a number of blogs and labels such as Chipflip and the text-mode tumblr.  (source: Wikipedia)

About F.A.T Nika:

The F.A.T Nika is the Fake Gucci  of the fame economy.  It is a freestyle replica of Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica. A 3D modelled object statuette, copied from Wikipedia images of the Greek Nike of Samothrace and Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica. The prestigious new media award knock-off can be easily reproduced infinite times -digitally or physically- and use it to recognize any creative expression you or your group of friends value, in any way, at any time, for any reason.

The proliferation of the F.A.T NIKA started in 2012 but this fake gold version is the first copy awarded by myself.  Alas, the F.A.T NIKA must be reproduced, distributed and awarded as you please. Download and just copy it!

At Art Hack Day, i also worked  with my friends Pale and Jaywalk in this remix of the iconic artwork by  Carl Johan de Geers:

Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning Swedish Flag with the words KUKEN (COCK) and “Skända flaggan” (Dishonour the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately apprehended by the police.

A few weeks ago Google threat with legal action the Language Institute (Sprakradet) for resisting to define the word “ogooglebar” (ungooglable) as the state of being unable to find something in any search engine. Since Google feels that is Larger than Life they wanted to the definition to say that ogooglebar, should mean something is not available in Google.

The little sign – placed in the bar of the Bonniers Konsthallen -  scans the request to Google to light up the el-wire, as well as the ones to Duck Duck Go, inviting the clients of the bar to disrespect and resist Google.

Image: ComputerSweden

Fuck Google. KUKEN.

I had a lot of fun at Art Hack Day with @monki in my first foray on glitch, sound and polaroids. The theme was “Larger than Life” and you would ask how a glitch is larger than life? Well, imperfections are larger than life, aren’t they?

The Glitch booth started as a response to  Instagram: computer generated filters that emulate the errors of analog lenses and aestehtic of instant film to generate enhanced digital images. Gritch, aims to capture images degraded by computer generated errors on instant film.   The process in which glitchs are created or generated are hardly social,  the booth aims to make “social” the production of imperfect images  in the same way Instagram socialize the acummulation of enhanced images (based on actually, errors).

People have a lot of fun in the booth, around 230 polaroid shots taken during the night! The images really do look beautiful when printed, so here is a black and white GIF (the original shots were in color) instead because people took their hard copies with them -  and the polaroid prints really beats the digital RGB glitch!

The set up is very easy: the glitchs are generated in Processing and the user control the amount of it in their image making noise. By pressing a (ridiculous) button you print your polaroid.

Thanks Olof Mathé for the invitation! it was super the whole event, exhibition and party.

(via  Hrag Vartanian)

He made, possibly, my favorite piece of street art ever…..

Flickering flame: remembering street art pioneer Pasha 183

My contribution to the bitcoin craze:

Art critic Michael Jeppesen wrote a very cool review about my first solo show “Some people just want to see the market crash” in the danish newspaper Information. !

The opening of my show at Science Friction was awesome, thanks to the strobe light, beers and a no red wine policy!

Next friday i’ll give a talk about the work i did this past 2 months in Copenhagen and share some thoughts about the financialization of everything. While that here are some pics of the opening and the dj set of Jamie Allen!  (i was not aware of his djing skillz)

Thanks everyone that stopped by – specially my friends that came from Sweden and Jacob, Jens, Jamie, Maria and Fabrikken. It was really really cool to hang out in Fabrikken and Science Friction this winter!

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