Speed Show "Becoming, Not Being" August 27th 2011, Berlin Germany Curated by Sterling Crispin 9pm - 2am / 21:00-02:00 Uhr internet-cafe Bordeaux Schonhauser Alle 52a 10437 Berlin A Speed Show is an exhibition format developed by Aram Bartholl. The basic idea of this exhibition format is to create a gallery like opening for browser based internet art in a public cyber-cafe / internet-shop for one night. The exhibition format is free and can be applied by anyone at any place. http://speedshow.net/ "Becoming, Not Being" is in reference to flux, change, turbulence, evolution, emergent phenomena, consciousness and the Internet. It's a way of thinking of 'non-selfhood' and an openness to change and flexible notions of self and other. It is a model of thought in which travel and movement, rather than destination and place, become areas of investigation. The world is in constant flux, which creates infinite opportunities for discovery and rebirth. There is no empirical objective structured reality in which we live, but rather fluctuating interference patterns and fractal levels of consciousness and thought which are constantly forming and dissolving like flocks of birds. These spiritual notions of impermanence, non-selfhood and interconnectedness are analogous to the structure of the Internet and the ways in which it has transformed, and will continue to transform human consciousness. I have asked participating artists in "Becoming, Not Being" to consider the title of the show and interpret it freely as they see fit. - Sterling Crispin
Artworks on exhibit :
Joseph Coniff & Zach Reini "Cool Story Bro"	Lorna Mills "Ifalforu"	Daniel Keller "Starter Anxiety Console"	Kristy Foom "Lionel Witchie"
Ernst Markus Stein "DIY Church"	Anthony Antonellis "Put It On A Pedestal"	Sterling Crispin & Francoise Gamma "past, present, future, do we have a soul with contour?"	Alexandra Gorczynski "Cheerleading Machine" Nicholas O'Brien "Amongst My Artist Friends"
Lucy Chinen & Emily Gervais "http://transglobaltravel.biz/"	Mario Zoots "Hermeneutics of a Hoax"	Wyatt Niehaus "Hierarchial Dynamics"	Dmitri Obergfell "Untitled"
Aurora Crispin "you are here irl"	Bea Fremderman & Ryder Ripps "Untitled"	Rafaël Rozendaal "tossingturning.com"	Mike Schonebaum " record>imagesize> 150saveasjpeg> automate>batchprocess> 150saveasjpeg>uploadtocloud "
Jeremiah Johnson "All Distances Reduced To Zero"	Jeremy Bailey "Nam June Paik for NJP Art Center"	Britta Thie "liquify"	Ania Urbanski "8th Internet"
Niko Princen "Infinite Line"
Artist statements & didactic information :
Ania Urbanski - "Some where in the lines of code within a database containing the memory and the imagination of a transhuman being lives the interdimensionet. ‘The 8th Internet’ lies as an online median of past, present and future consciousness of the self as an intergrial part of the internet." Untitled (Recovered).GIF 768x1024 pixels, Hand Drawn w/Mouse on MS Paint. 2011
Lucy Chinen & Emilie Gervais -
Niko Princen - Still runs in Chrome and Safari Doesn't run in IE, Firefox and Opera In Firefox the Infinite line stopped at 17895698 pixels In IE the Infinite line stopped at 10737418 pixels
Mike Schonebaum -
Sterling Crispin - I am very interested in the work of Francoise Gamma and when given the opportunity I was happy to collaborate. For me his work is very elegant & beautiful and speaks to our human relationship with technology, our identity, consciousness and the ways those are all changing in a very direct way, all subjects that are dear to my heart. In our collaboration we passed several animations & video works back and fourth, experimenting with the ways in which our styles could meet and overlap. In the end we came to an animation that emulates the Quartz Composers "Cover Flow View" of Mac OSX, a method of viewing and browsing through images in Finder, and Francoise's animation "Do we have a soul with contour?". A human figure running through a fluid space, its body warping to the forces at play, changing with time, with a gender but no identity, perhaps its not quite human yet? Visually the piece appears as though it may be interactive, and I think that denial is interesting. The viewer is left to contemplate the looping animation and its meaning, which raises more questions than it provides answers. Francoise Gamma - This is a translation from the book "An Introduction to Metaphysics" by Henri Bergson that inspired me to create the animation "Why do we have soul with contour" "The concept can only symbolize a particular property by making it common to an infinity of things. It therefore always more or less deforms the property by the extension it gives to it. Replaced in the metaphysical object to which it belongs, a property coincides with the object, or at least moulds itself on it, and adopts the same contour. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Metaphysics The collaboration has been like that; not having time to do a new work, I selected my last piece for the exhibition [PAST], but now it is not the last one [PRESENT], so I believe and hope to create a new work with Sterling in the [FUTURE].
Mario Zoots - Hermeneutics of a Hoax, 2011 - Appropriated Title, Imagery and Text. I’m engaged in the appropriation and manipulation of contemporary cultural images, signs and symbols. My recent focus has been on popular culture expressed through the internet. I follow online news stories about celebrity deaths, blogs, tumblr’s and sites like flickr analyzing how people share information through a visual language. My collage is a way to participate in this timely online dialogue.
Photographs from the opening :
computer terminal #6 was a sink Mr. Alagoz & Sterling Crispin Britta Thie and her work "liquify" Aram Bartholl & Sterling Crispin Aram Bartholl , Britta Thie, Katja Novitskova, Niko Princen & Friends Anthony Antonellis, Katja Novitskova, Niko Princen & Friends Ryder Ripps & Bea Fremderman Frieda-Raye Green & Friends