Aram Bartholl

The work of Aram Bartholl (*1972 Bremen, lives in Berlin) operates at the interface between the internet, culture, and reality. He focuses on the relationship between the public and the private, online and offline, and a love of technologies and everyday life. In the shape of interventions and installations in public spaces, Bartholl explores the effects when elements of the digital world coincide with reality. His work Pan, Tilt and Zoom (2018) consists of three motorized CCTV dome cameras installed on the floor of the exhibition gallery. Their auto tracking function ensures that they follow every movement in the room. When the lens moves, the camera’s center of gravity shifts and it begins to roll along the floor. The software is thereby confronted with even more movement, which in turns heightens its activity. From time to time the cameras collide with one another or begin to pursue each other, setting each other continuously in motion.