Net-conceptual artist Aram Bartholl and Kathy Rae Huffman will converse in an event called ‘Offline/Online Convergences’ at LA’s LACMA building on April 26.
Curator, writer, and long-term thinker on media art Huffman will discuss with Bartholl the convergence of the physical and the virtual with respect to urban space in his work, as well as considering how digital landmarks and customs translate to urban culture.
Bartholl is based in Berlin and his now infamous and instantly recognisable Dead Drops (2010 – ongoing) sees USB sticks embedded in brick walls in public. He often makes work to answer forms of display for digitally-produced works that maintain the nature of intimacy, privacy and yet anonymity of their experience and receivership outside (necessarily) of an art context. He recently presented group internet cafe show-cum-net art dedication, LA Speed Show featuring artists JODI, Ann Hirsch and Petra Cortright.
It’s interesting that the title of the event is worded in the order: Offline, Online, as opposed to the other way around which is perhaps the way we usually assume to argue for the non-total intervention of the internet.
See the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA) website for more details.**
