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!

Wilhelm Tell 2.0

johannes p osterhoff - Wilhelm Tell 2.0

The long-awaited update of Schiller's famous piece. Freedom is timeless and so is playful insurrection. Join us at Ars Electronica and follow #wt2 on Twitter.

Art    
August 2010

ikeaBookstore

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - Fakebook

Facebook gives people the power to share lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr. Wanted to give up Facebook for the project... but couldn't.

Text    
February 2010

Spam Jokes

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua Contest

The world's first graphical user interface art contest ever! Readers of Maclife magazine were asked to produce Interface Art out of OS X GUI elements.

Curating 
September 2007

Aero: System Holidays

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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

johannes p osterhoff - 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.

johannes p osterhoff - 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

Prints on Canvas: Mac Ed.

johannes p osterhoff - Prints on Canvas: Mac Ed.

I printed the iPhoto and iMovie icon from OS X on canvas, packed them in foley and tried to sell them without being recognized as Apple for 5 € each.

Art 
July 2007

Super Dock Clouds

johannes p osterhoff - Super Dock Clouds

Made of the animation when a program is deleted from the dock of OS X. A very glossy and big print on plastic. Quoting Cory's work with all due respect.

Art 
July 2007

Aqua III: Depth

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua III: Depth

The very last boiling up of Aqua took place at Galerie 35 in Berlin. The long running series of prints evaporated into Aero and is since then gone forever.

Art    
July 2007

Windows Real

johannes p osterhoff - Windows Real

With the YouTube blockbuster Windows Real users can experience an absolutely real interface. It was the result of a seminar I gave at Merz Akademie.

Art Lectures    
June 2007

– | /

johannes p osterhoff - – | /

A project by Jay P. Lee and me on Sergej Eisenstein's principles of montage. 50 years after his death we use those principles to let life and RSS collide.

Text 
December 2006

Aqua II: Float

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua II: Float

Even more water and drops. Almost floating out of the print. As all Aqua II, this diptych was shown at great ABC Gallery at Art Strelka in Moscow, too.

Art 
October 2006

Aqua II: Net & Drops

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua II: Net & Drops

Imagery inspired by the Nature screensaver. Even though water in combination with electrified technology is dangerous, it is all over the operating system.

Art    
October 2006

Aqua II: True Color

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua II: True Color

Seeing true colors and yet color blind? Test your eye-sight with another print on perspex from the Aqua series. Also made of OS X interface elements only.

Art 
September 2006

Hausbau

johannes p osterhoff - Hausbau

A PDF magazine inspired by my stay in Moscow that generates an unique copy for each reader. The engine is driven by a set of true type fonts and F-PDF.

Text    
November 2005

Aqua II: Star Bars

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua II: Star Bars

If I could take the scrollbars out of OS X, I think they would be blue light sabers. The force is with this big perspex print—if dark or light side is uncertain.

Art 
July 2005

Aqua (The Original)

johannes p osterhoff - Aqua (The Original)

A series of prints on perspex with a short story about a flooding kitchen. The prints consisted only of interface elements from OS X and were shown at EMAF.

Art 
July 2005

Earthly Bliss

johannes p osterhoff - Earthly Bliss

I found a dusty oil painting similar to the famous Windows XP wallpaper on my parents' attic. The history of computer graphics has to be rewritten.

Art 
September 2004

The Submit Button

johannes p osterhoff - The Submit Button

A 50 by 100 cm large-scale real-life model of the virtual submit button from Windows 95 and my first interface artwork ever. Currently it rests at home.

Art    
November 2003

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