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How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

Posted on June 15, 2010
Filed Under Berlin, creative strategies, exhibitions, ideas | 2 Comments

Just back from a few days in Berlin, where, among many other things, I had a chance to get together with Aram Bartholl to talk about his SPEED SHOW project, a beautifully simple initiative to turn your local internet cafe into a digital art show.

As Aram describes in his SPEED SHOW manifest:

“Hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night. All art works of the participating artists need to be on-line (not necessarily public) and are shown in a typical browser with standard plug-ins. Performance and life pieces may also use pre-installed communication programs (instant messaging, VOIP, video chat etc). Custom software (except browser add-ons) or off-line files are not permitted. Any creative physical modification to Internet cafe itself is not allowed. The show is public and takes place during normal opening hours of the Internet cafe/shop. All visitors are welcome to join the opening, enjoy the art (and to check their email.)”

I love the simplicity and DIY nature of SPEED SHOW, done in five easy steps:

speed cafe How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

1. Find Internet Cafe. Rent time on all the computers for the evening.

speed progam How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

2. Select work to show on standard browsers. Create gallery plan.

speed people How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

3. Invite people.

speed exhibition1 How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

4. Enjoy the show.

speed owners How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps

5. Make Internet Cafe owners incredibly proud and happy.

For a full description of the project and more video and photos, visit the project site here.

Photos by Kuc, top video grab from Aram’s video on project site.

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2 Responses to “How to Create a DIY Exhibition in Your Local Internet Cafe in Five Easy Steps”

rebel:art » Blog Archive » Aram Bartholl: “Speed Show” on June 15th, 2010 10:50 am

[...] Bilder zu dem Projekt gibt’s hier, das “Speed Show”-Manifest gibt’s hier. Via/Via Posted by *A Filed in Intervention, exhibitions, net.art, new media, new projects, theory [...]
Aram Bartholl: “Speed Show” | das dingsda on June 15th, 2010 8:11 pm

[...] Fantastisches Pop-Up-Ausstellungskonzept von Aram Bartholl: Für eine net.art-Ausstellung hat er in einem Internet-Café alle Rechner gemietet und auf diesen Monitoren Kunst präsentiert. Mehr Infos & Bilder zu dem Projekt gibt’s hier, sein “Speed Show”-Manifest hier. Via/Via [...]

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