Aram Bartholl

In general data is stored on technically sensitive systems and can easily be lost. At the same time files today appear often as indestructible once uploaded to the Internet.

In this presentation I will talk about a variety of approaches on data destruction and how these connect to current events and questions in society. From professional hard drive punch systems and art projects to DIY thermite melting, the art of destroying data is a wide spread cultural phenomenon. Workshop: Bring your old hard drives to have them crushed with the IDEAL 0101 hard drive punch or cut the data platter yourself by hand. Competition: You think you can still recover files from this drive? Which methods are the best?

USB DeadDrops, IRL map marker in public, FUCK 3D glasses or How to vacuum form a guy fawkes mask. I will present an extensive overview of my art projects from over the last 10 years including the Fake Google car by F.A.T. and moar!! It all started here at the CCC congress! :)) For more info see link --->

Curator blabla...: The versatile communication channels are taken for granted these days, but how do they influence us? According to the paradigm change of media research Bartholl not just asks what man is doing with the media, but what media does with man. The tension between public and private, online and offline, technology infatuation and everyday life creates the core of his producing. In public interventions and public installations Bartholl examines which and how parts of the digital world can reach back into reality. Aram Bartholl is a member of the Internet based artist group Free, Art & Technology Lab - F.A.T. Lab. Net politics, the DIY movement and the Internet development in general do play an important role in his work. Beside numerous lectures, workshops and performances he exhibited at MoMA Museum of Modern Art NY, The Pace Gallery NY, DAM Gallery Berlin and XPO Gallery Paris. Aram Bartholl lives and works in Berlin.