Destop Country ist ein digitales Musterland aus sauberen Reihenhaussiedlungen und mit vorbildlichen Bewohnern.
Doch hinter diesen perfekten Fassaden gärt es genauso wie in der realen Welt.“ — taz
Johannes is feeling lucky!

ikeaBookstore

Spontaneous opening of an Apple-like bookstore at a local Ikea mall (Tempelhof). We used the books from there, the iPad we made from cardboard.

Art    
July 2010

Google Juice

Recently I was able to distill the mysterious Google Juice, the etheral substance that floats between web pages. Get your bottle, but beware, it is addictive!

Art 
June 2010

Freedom from Porn

Steve Jobs offers iPad users “freedom from porn.” And yet the iPads' measures will offer an unprecedented porn experience. An ad-busting from Berlin Mitte.

Art    
May 2010

7 Windows

Seeing now through dim Windows obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know as I also have been known. 1 Corinthians 13:12

Art    
March 2010

Fakebook

Facebook gives people the power to share lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. I wanted to give up Facebook for the project...

Text    
February 2010

Spam Jokes

Spam Jokes is a growing collection of jokes I regularly get with spam comments sent to my blog. Enjoy the high literature of spam! You can follow via Twitter.

Text 
November 2009

Defence Project Blog

A blog about the numerous promises of absolute security one encounters on desktops. I am trying to categorize the associated defensive imagery.

Text    
November 2009

Drop Shadow Talks

In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks present art and projects influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.

Curating    
October 2009

Desktop Island

Got struck on a deserted island. So I thought. By now I discovered a lost civilization based on—Windows. I cannot leave yet, so please read my notes!

Art  Text      
October 2009

Black Square 2.0

Outrage in the art world—rounded corners and a crude gloss effect applied to the icon of Suprematism. Kazimir Malevich would turn in his grave.

Art 
September 2009

Windows 68

Windows 68 is a modification of Windows XP that starts a revolutionary in the system. Press Revolution! instead of Start, use Graffiti instead of Paint!

Lectures    
May 2009

Drop Shadow Blog

Here I blog about the oddities I encounter when I take a walk in the digital drop shadow. Difficult subject. So far I am not even sure about its light source.

Text    
May 2009

Traveling Desktop Country

At MoAA Berlin I was starting to think of Windows as a very white-bread system whose suit wearing citizens picnic on far reaching meadows.

Lectures    
April 2009

Interface Art & Discourse

My great first students at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule had to render their most striking experiences with interfaces into concrete projects.

Lectures 
January 2009

Defence

Defence is a selection of aluminium shields extracted from the interface of Windows Vista. They can be used in sword fight or similar combat.

Art    
November 2008

The Final Frontier

Interface… the final frontier. A seminar at Merz Akademie on the space depictions on desktops. Interface Night lives long and prosper on YouTube.

Art  Lectures    
May 2008

Black Square Flickr

I uploaded a digital version of Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square to Flickr. Because of a bug in the uploader, it turned out entirely black.

Art    
February 2008

IMG SRC

My small book on visual information retrieval systems. IMG SRC ORG searches images with images and not with text like pathetic Flickr or Google.

Text    
October 2007

Aero Contest

For the second Interface Art competition I decided that my partner should be nobody less than Microsoft. So far my inquiries have fallen on deaf ears.

Curating    
September 2007

Aqua Contest

The first graphical user interface art competition ever. Readers of Maclife magazine were asked to produce Interface Art out of OS X elements.

Curating 
September 2007

Aero: System Holidays

The population of Windows Vista has gone to holiday in protected mode. The wanted to shut down gracefully. But on the way home they crashed anyway.

Art    
August 2007

Aero: User Romance

Diptych on the romantic feelings operating systems can develop when in close touch. The desktop icons have a picnic then they go swimming—on wallpapers.

Art    
August 2007

Aero: Home Security

The first print made of Vista wallpapers and icons (in various sizes). Lucky me! There are 256 by 256 pixel big images in the many concealed DLL files!

Art    
August 2007

Prints on Canvas: Vista Ed.

Why the standard icons for my digital images on Windows could be sold at bargain bins and why a collector from New York pays a small fortune for my version?

Art 
July 2007

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