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BIO
Johannes P Osterhoff is not a media but an interface artist. His middle initial currently stands for performance. Since January 1, he publishes all of his Google search queries in a one-year public online performance called "Google".
From the manifesto:
"I, Johannes P Osterhoff, shall do a one year performance piece. The piece is called Google and documents all searches I perform with the search engine of the same name. The performance shall start on January 1 and shall end on December 31, 2011.
I shall not use undocumented ways to use the search engine Google during this time.
Each of my search queries shall create a webpage that is indexed by this search engine and thus makes my searches publicly available as search results for everybody. Search queries can be ordered and bought. They shall cost 99 cents each."
Earlier works:
Since the rounded buttons of Windows were replaced by cornered ones, he keeps a wary eye on the more and more baroque graphical user interfaces of contemporary pop culture media.
He borrowed the "Submit Button" from Windows and rebuilt it in real space to memorialized the web’s first user generation (2003). Images of his "Aqua" series (since 2005) consist exclusively of elements from the colorful Apple operating systems. Its counterpart, "Aero" from 2007, encapsulated Windows’ iconic overpopulation, and the Defence Project (since 2008) captures the mania for security on interface level. Recent works like the adbusting "Freedom from Porn" or the game "Tell 2.0" are artistic statements on the user experience of closed platforms.
His projects have been exhibited at festivals, art fairs, in galleries, and the scientific context alike. He lives in Berlin, researches at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam and lectures Interface Design at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule and at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.
From the manifesto:
"I, Johannes P Osterhoff, shall do a one year performance piece. The piece is called Google and documents all searches I perform with the search engine of the same name. The performance shall start on January 1 and shall end on December 31, 2011.
I shall not use undocumented ways to use the search engine Google during this time.
Each of my search queries shall create a webpage that is indexed by this search engine and thus makes my searches publicly available as search results for everybody. Search queries can be ordered and bought. They shall cost 99 cents each."
Earlier works:
Since the rounded buttons of Windows were replaced by cornered ones, he keeps a wary eye on the more and more baroque graphical user interfaces of contemporary pop culture media.
He borrowed the "Submit Button" from Windows and rebuilt it in real space to memorialized the web’s first user generation (2003). Images of his "Aqua" series (since 2005) consist exclusively of elements from the colorful Apple operating systems. Its counterpart, "Aero" from 2007, encapsulated Windows’ iconic overpopulation, and the Defence Project (since 2008) captures the mania for security on interface level. Recent works like the adbusting "Freedom from Porn" or the game "Tell 2.0" are artistic statements on the user experience of closed platforms.
His projects have been exhibited at festivals, art fairs, in galleries, and the scientific context alike. He lives in Berlin, researches at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam and lectures Interface Design at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule and at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.
The Drop Shadow Talks: Digital Folklore, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied
Dates:
Tue Nov 24, 2009 00:00 - Sun Oct 25, 2009

With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its ?at medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
This season the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects in?uenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.
http://dropshadowtalks.com
Talk 3, Artist talk
November 24, 7 pm
Digital Folklore
Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Merz Akademie Stuttgart
Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large. Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media. Do you believe in users?
The Drop Shadow Talks are organized by and located at
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Hochschule für Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger Straße 24—25, D-10963 Berlin
The Drop Shadow Talks: Fuck 3d, Aram Bartholl
Dates:
Tue Nov 10, 2009 00:00 - Sun Oct 25, 2009

With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its ?at medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
This season the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects in?uenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.
http://dropshadowtalks.com
Talk 2, Artist talk
November 10, 7 pm
Fuck 3D
Aram Bartholl, Datenform, Berlin
In welcher Form manifestiert sich die Netz-Daten-Welt in unserem Alltag-Lebens-Raum? Was kommt aus dem Cyberspace zurück in den physischen Raum? Wie beeinflussen die digitalen Neuerungen unser alltägliches Handeln? Anhand einer Reihe seiner Projekte stellt Aram Bartholl das Verhältnis zwischen On- und Offline zur Diskussion.
The talk will be in German.
Seit 1995 lebt und arbeitet Aram Bartholl in Berlin. Aram Bartholl studierte Architektur an der Universität der Künste UdK Berlin und schloss dort als Diplom Ingenieur 2001 mit der Arbeit Daten am Ort ab. Mit dieser Arbeit gewann er auch den Browserday Wettbewerb 2001. In 2007 erhielt er eine lobende Erwähnung der Transmediale Berlin und gewann den 17. Video Kunstpreis Bremen. Für das Projekt Sandbox Berlin erhielt er 2007 eine Projektförderung der Berliner Senatskanzlei für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten und für das Jahr 2008 ein einjähriges Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds Deutschland.
The Drop Shadow Talks are organized by and located at
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Hochschule für Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger Straße 24—25, D-10963 Berlin
The Drop Shadow Talks: 2d3d, Lars Harmsen
Dates:
Tue Oct 27, 2009 00:00 - Sun Oct 25, 2009

With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its flat medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.
This season the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.
http://dropshadowtalks.com
Talk 1, Introduction
October 27
Tuesday. 7 pm
2d3d in Grafik-Design und Typographie
Lars Harmsen, Magma Brand Design Karlsruhe, Publisher Slanted Magazin
Bei allen Ansichten, Blickwinkeln, Betrachtungsweisen und Perspektiven: die Komplexität unserer Welt erfordert Fokussierung und Scharfstellung. Aber was passiert wenn aus 2D 3D wird? Wie verhält es sich mit Dimensionssteigerung und suggerierter Dreidimensionalität. Wie arbeiten Gestalter, wenn sie Installationen in die Zweidimensionalität zurückführen? Wo verschmelzen die Grenzen zwischen Raum und Fläche, Architektur und Design? Einen Schwung Antworten hat Lars Harmsen im Gepäck …
The talk will be in German.
Lars Harmsen ist einer der zwei Geschäftsführer der Karlsruher Agentur Magma Brand Design, Gesellschafter und CD bei der Münchner Agentur Melville Brand Design und Dozent an der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Pforzheim.