My Generation Virtual Insanity
Shot of My Generation currently installed at Kunsthalle Mainz, for the show Virtual Insanity, inspired by Jamiroquai’s song (shutout if it starts playing in your head!). The line up is amazing: Antoine Catala, Cao Fei, Jon Rafman, Jordan Wolfson, Harun Farocki, Eva & Franco Mattes, Refrakt & Nicole Ruggiero & Molly Soda, Renaud Jerez, Igor Simić, Tabita Rezaire. Infos here.
“And now that things are changing for the worse see, it‘s a crazy world were living in And I just can‘t see that half of us immersed in sin Is all we have to give these Futures made of virtual insanity now Always seem to, be governed by this love we have For useless, twisting, our new technology Oh, now there is no sound, for we all live underground”
Thanks Stefanie Böttcher and Lina Krämer for the great job!
I Was Raised on the Internet at MCA
Curated by Omar Kholeif, “I Was Raised on the Internet” just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The artists list is so long I can’t even paste it here. We’re showing My Generation, BEFNOED and Catt, you can see some photos here. The shot above features our BEFNOED “tent” on the floor, and Cory Arcangel & Jeremy Bailey on the walls.
This Artist Duo Paid a Man $1,000
When Facts Don’t Matter at Lismore Castle Arts
Pics of “When Facts Don’t Matter“, that just opened at Lismore Castle Arts, featuring Alan Butler, Constant Dullaart, Eva & Franco Mattes, Trevor Paglen and Suzanne Treister. Curated by Paul McAree.
A few words about Riccardo Uncut
New work “Riccardo Uncut” commissioned by the Whitney Museum
Our new piece “Riccardo Uncut”, commissioned by the Whitney Museum, is public!!!
It’s the result of a call we posted on social media to buy someone’s phone and turn all photos and videos into an art project – an uncut and uncensored portrait of someone’s life.
Thank you Christiane Paul!
“Head Tree” on Niconico
Just made a new video, it’s called “Head Tree” and it’s part of our ongoing series BEFNOED. We published it on the Japanese video sharing site Niconico
Image search result for “Censorship”
New work titled “Image search result for ‘Censorship’ printed on various objects by online services”. It’s a print on bath mat, postage stamps, pacifier and glass cutting board paddle.
An object uncopied is
Hillel Schwartz, “The Culture of the Copy”
A new ceiling for Ceiling Cat
Opening tomorrow at Open Data Institute London!
“Ceiling Cat is a sculpture of a cat poking its head through a hole in the ceiling. It watches the activities of the ODI from above, and is a direct artist’s interpretation of the online meme of the same name. The original photoshopped image is thought to have originated in 2003. Although ignored for many years, from 2006 onwards the image started to be associated with the #Lolcat phenomena. Captions frequently list the different things Ceiling Cat is ‘watching’ you do, and range from the inane or crude to genuinely hilarious. In the ‘Lolcat Bible’ Ceiling Cat is presented as an equivalent to the Judeo-Christian God. The piece can be experienced as a one-off visual gag, a reflection on the power we entrust to the internet, or the nature of fictional omnipresent surveillance on culture.”
