local nons — Florian Kuhlmann · location-based net art 2013

a sculpture made of information

A local-non is a location-based net art exhibition and a site-specific installation — the realisation of a media plastic: a network-based permanent installation in public space. A sculpture made of pure information, its dimensions in space defined by bits, bytes, longitude and latitude, and the possibility of getting access to it. Except the medium we call reality, no physical layer is involved.

Selected artists with a close affinity to the net were invited to create web-based works, each on its own page, reachable through a single URL. A simple location check keeps the site available only at one specific position — request it from anywhere else and the works stay invisible, the visitor gets an "access denied". The show is therefore accessed mostly by smartphones, by people on site. To date, three local nons have been installed; they still work at their respective locations.

local.#non is a concept by the net artist Florian Kuhlmann.

access · offline · sculpture

2013 · access

local.#non.access

km temporaer, Kremmener Str. 8a, Berlin · opening 20 Sep 2013 · localnonaccess.de, available only at Kremmener / Wolliner Straße. The theme is access and its dependence on spatial reference systems; the only physical object is a plaque with the URL on the facade. Curated with the km temporaer initiators Elisa R. Linn & Lennart Wolff. With kim asendorf, alexander dekker, constant dullaart, karen eliot, eteam, fabian hesse, karl heinz jeron, florian kuhlmann, jan robert leegte, silvio lorusso, jonas lund, johannes p. osterhoff, niko princen, stefan riebel, sebastian schmieg, daniel schwarz, timothy shearer, rick silva, thomas spallek and ubermorgen.com (20 artists)

local.#non.access — a hand holding a phone showing the mobile site over a city map

local.#non.access — opening-night visitors gathered around a phone

full documentation (7 photos)

local.#non.access — the km temporaer doorway with tag-covered walls

local.#non.access — the site with 'do you want access?' and the artist list

local.#non.access — a visitor browsing the show by the barred window

local.#non.access opening — a visitor in the doorway of the empty gallery, phone and beer in hand

local.#non.access opening — a group in the corner of the gallery, gathered around a phone

local.#non.access opening — two visitors on their phones in the middle of the empty exhibition space

local.#non.access opening — visitors talking and browsing the show on their phones

2014 · offline

localnonoffline

Ebertplatz, Cologne · launched 4 Apr 2014, one week before Art Cologne · location-based at the Ebertplatz, a vibrant cluster of off-space galleries. A collaboration with goldundbeton.de, bruchunddallas.de and boutique-koeln.de. The theme is off-line: being disconnected, and being released from a line — both a nod to the off-spaces and to the freedom of getting off. With Sebastian Blank, Laura Brothers, Browser Based Foundation, Jennifer Chan, Florian Egermann, Dorotea Etzler, Manuel Fernandez, Thomas Hawarnke, Katrin Herzner, Yvonne_Klasen, Christoph Knoth, Jan Robert Leegte, Peter Luining, Jonas Lund, Lorna Mills, Diane Mueller, Niko Princen, Oliver Salkic, Nicolas Sassoon, Julia Scher, Sebastian Schmieg, Johannes Thies, Damien Weber, Joonas Westerlund and Joubin Zargarbashi

LocalNonOffline — night view of Ebertplatz with the lit vitrine

LocalNonOffline — the opening crowd in front of the illuminated shopfront

full documentation (17 photos)

LocalNonOffline — night establishing shot of Ebertplatz

LocalNonOffline — the banner with the full artist list and wall lettering

LocalNonOffline — opening crowd in front of the BOUTIQUE shopfront

LocalNonOffline — bicycles under the concrete passage by the Sion bistro

LocalNonOffline — hands tapping the offline page on a phone at night

LocalNonOffline — black-and-white view of the crowd across the plaza

LocalNonOffline — the Ebertplatz passage at night, lit galleries along the colonnade

LocalNonOffline — opening night: visitors under the colonnade, a blossoming tree in front

LocalNonOffline — a visitor presents the show on his phone in front of the BOUTIQUE window

LocalNonOffline — two visitors side by side, browsing the works on their phones

LocalNonOffline — a visitor alone with the show on his phone in the empty passage

LocalNonOffline — three visitors by the planter, bent over one phone

LocalNonOffline — two visitors on the planter wall at night, phone and beer bottles

LocalNonOffline — the column with the #LOCAL-NON-OFF-LINE work list inside the white space

LocalNonOffline — trombone and folding bike in front of the LocalNonOffLine.de wall lettering

LocalNonOffline — black-and-white: a group sharing one phone at night

LocalNonOffline — black-and-white: the empty Bruch & Dallas storefront with the LocalNonOffLine.de lettering

2015 · sculpture

local #non sculpture

Athens Digital Arts Festival, Diplareios School, Athens · 21–24 May 2015 · the third in the series. The theme is sculpture — a nod to the long Greek tradition, and to the local-non itself as a media plastic: a sculpture made of pure information, dimensioned in bits, bytes and coordinates. The works' thematic focus: public / privacy. With Anthony Antonellis, Jeremy Bailey, Banz & Bowinkel, Ole Fach, Isabella Fürnkäs, Galleryfist, Olia Lialina, Claudia Maté, Florian Meisenberg, Zsolt Mesterhazy, Lorna Mills, Eva Papamargariti, Dominik Podsiadly, Manuel Roßner, Paul Soulellis, Thomas Spallek and Ronny Szillo (17 artists)

Local #non sculpture — three visitors comparing the site across three phones

Local #non sculpture — the projected title and wall text in the exhibition room

full documentation (6 photos)

Local #non sculpture — visitors on phones before the wall banner

Local #non sculpture — the title plate with participating artists on the windowsill

Local #non sculpture — the site compared across three phones

Local #non sculpture — phone title screen: #LocalNon #Sculpture #ADAF2015

Local #non sculpture — a phone showing Isabella Fürnkäs' work

Local #non sculpture — projected title and wall text in the room