Aram Bartholl - Museum of the Moving Image - August 16th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For this new commissioned work, artist Aram Bartholl (Berlin, b. 1972) will embed an inconspicuous, slot-loading DVD burner into the side of the Museum, available to the public 24 hours a day. Visitors who find the Dead Drop and insert a blank DVD-R will receive a digital art exhibition, a collection of media, or other featured content curated on a monthly cycle by Bartholl or selected artists. 

DVD Dead Drop is a continuation of Bartholl’s series of offline file-sharing networks in public spaces. The original Dead Drops cemented unauthorized USB thumb drives into walls, buildings, and curbs, encouraging a “read-write” information ecosystem. Here the “read-only” DVD Dead Drop serves as an automated platform for dispensing digital culture to the public at any time, day or night.

The first exhibition on DVD, entitled HOT, and curated by Bartholl, represents a wide range of artistic positions analyzing, reinterpreting, and deconstructing the moving image. As Bartholl says, “The moving image has been hacked, transformed, and infiltrated from multiple directions and digital sources, but over the last ten years it also conquered the Internet. The show HOT features new and classic works from well-established digital artists, served to the public hot on silver disc 24/7.” HOT includes work by 0100101110101101.org (Eva and Franco Mattes), Constant Dullaart, Curating Youtube (Robert Sakrowski), Joel Holmberg, JODI, JK Keller, Olia Lialina, Jonas Lund, Rosa Menkman, Katja Novitskova, and others. HOT will be available from August 16 through September 15, 2012.