Communication Art & Design

Launch Event at Ars Electronica Festival

Posted August 26, 2010

Re-blog from artzilla.org

We are going to exhibit/show/hack Artzilla-style work at this year’s prestige ARS Electronica “Festival for Art, Technology and Society”. F* yeah! We’ll be part of the “Digital Communities” TELE INTERNET exhibit, curated by Aram Bartholl

Besides a workshop and a guest presentation we’ll launch a new Browser App, THE ONE we’ve been hiding for quite some time…

The launch event will at MoFo PRIMETIME – Saturday, 20:00-21:00h!!! (Location: Linz, AT; Tabacco processing plant; Bulding 1, 3rd floor)

Ars it gonna be SO.MUCH.FUN – I’ll see you there!!!!!! /TBX



Artzilla at MAOW London

Posted June 29, 2010

The Artzilla Bus is coming to London this wednesday to present the lastest and dopest browser hacks during Mozilla’s Add-on Workshop evening MAOW 2010

Send us an email, if you wanna get in, it’s already booked out, but for Artzilla fan’s we’ll do everything :D /TBX

Infos:
London, Wednesday 30 June, 2010
6:30pm – 11:30pm
Hub Kings Cross, 34b York Way, London N1 9AB, UK G Maps

reposted from artzilla.org



Mozilla Drumbeat Project

Posted June 16, 2010

I am currently living in Paris to help out on the Mozilla foundation’s “Drumbeat” project (Yay!). I support Henrik Moltke, Drumbeat project coordinator, to find cool art projects and to get this brand-new project more clearly defined and started in Europe.

I’m happy to announce that our first outcome (many more in the pipeline) is today’s announcement of the “Open Web Award 2011“, a price for web artists, in collaboration with the Berlin-based art festival Transmediale. The deadline is in 6 weeks already, so hurry up!!

I guess you know I like to pimp stuff with sunglasses so…. here’s the flyer :D



Tonight in Berlin: Sneak Preview Of Top Secret Add-On

Posted June 12, 2010

(originally posted on artzilla.org)

Hey! We’ve been secretly working on a new + super-fun Add-on. It’s still in early alpha, so we won’t really publicize it or talk about it online yet. Nevertheless our friend and curator Aram Bartholl talked us into sneak-previewing it tonight in his new “Speed Show” format.

It’s quite an awesome concept, he curates cool online-based art work and exhibits it in an “internet café”, which he rents out entirely for the night of the show. Art in an internet café? Maxium culture clash ;) Many more Speed-Shows to come! Tonight’s topic is “TELE INTERNET – Pop.Net.Art” featuring some of TBX’s favourite artists and friends.

So if you like to see what the Artzilla Crew has been secretly working on, and what will be closed-beta in hopefully 3 months, than you should come here tonight:

Friday 11th of June 2010, 21:00 – 00:00
Kottbusser Damm 103, Berlin (G-maps)

More infos here:http://fffff.at/speed-show/



TBX @ Pirate Cat Radio, San Francisco

Posted May 4, 2010

Earlier this year (pre iPad, pre Facebook Like Button and right after my swine flu) the awesome Andy Blue of Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm in SF interviewed me on FAT Lab, Firefox Add-ons, Stickers, open source and activism. Tune in!

TBX @ Pirate Cat Radio

(originally posted on FAT)



Skate The Web And Other Metaphors

Posted February 23, 2010

Tobias Leingruber, Essay, February 2010

Metaphor Museum

To understand what “The Web” is, people always came up with metaphors. In the 90′s the internet was called “Cyberspace”, the “Information Super Highway”, or more recently “Web 2.0″ or “The Cloud”.
Olia Lialina writes 2005 in her essay “The Vernacular Web“:

“[..] The Internet was the future, it was bringing us into new dimensions, closer to other galaxies. [..] Space wallpapers made the Internet look special. This was obviously a space with a mission that other media could never accomplish.”

The metaphor “Cyberspace” and it’s space wall papers are long gone, expect some fossils and glitter remakes that survived through myspace.com. The internet is no longer science fiction, it became standard like water and electricity.
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Flash Art Magazine about Firefox Art

Posted January 21, 2010

Finally I got my fingers on 2 copies of the Italian Flash Art Magazine, Issue 274, in which Domeniquo Quaranta wrote about many of our Artzilla projects, and the web browser beeing our canvas :)

Article online on the authors blog (Italian)



Maximum Web Cred with FOXBLING

Posted January 18, 2010

Gain maximum web credibility with FOXBLING.

Picture: Mozilla Legend Chris Hoffman, Nadine Freischlad, TBX, Sarah and Mozilla Evangelism Lead Chris Blizzard

Photo by Evan Roth

As seen in Berlin at the “Skate The Web” exhibit, at the “BLK River Festival” in Vienna and soon at Transmediale Berlin, SA, Feb.06 6 pieces edition 8cm + 6 pieces edition 4cm. Shoot me an email if you want one.

Of course, the vector file for laser action is “open source” and available on thingiverse.com/thing:1609
Special greetz to my homie “Laser” Martin Bauer of lasernlasern.de

Original post on FAT



Let’s do the Browser Dance

Posted December 11, 2009

That’s right, Jamie Dubs and Tobi-x are in Silicon Valley tonight to DJ the after show party of the “Add-on Con 2009“!!!!!1

Location: Computer History Museum, Mountain View, 5:30pm

Our unofficial After-After-Show party w/ extra turntable action is happening in San Francisco later tonight, shoot us an email if you’re around!!!



“Skate The Web” Berlin, Opening Event

Posted November 4, 2009

Edits: This post was “lost”. Now back :D

Last Saturday we had our “Skate the Web” exhibit opening(31.10.09 – 18.11.09) event at Betahaus Berlin. Aram and I also presented FAT Lab. Here are some pictures of it. I wanna say thank you to Ela Kagel from Upgrade Berlin and Tonia Welter from Betahaus for hosting this event and the exhibit and most of all – Thank you A-RAM for all your support!!

Now enjoy some of the pictures. Video footage by 3sat coming soon :)
Here is a great photo set on Flickr by Lasern and another Flickr set by Bartholl and my own one.


Artzilla Silk Prints


Artzilla Tape Painting


Internets on Canvas No.2 by Jamie Wilkinson and Tobias Leingruber


Nadine w/ FOXBLING


Skatekeyboard No. 2, Artzilla Decks



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