Subject: Invitation RSVP / Artist Talk with WOLFGANG STAEHLE in Berlin, 16 May, 7pm
From: Christian Kobald <[email-masked]>
To: w <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 14:05:41 +0200

Dear art-world peers, shy admirers, and other hobnobbers,

We warmly invite you to Spike’s sixth artist talk at Soho House Berlin with the artist Wolfgang Staehle, in conversation with Spike editor and curator, Christian Kobald.  

To reserve one of the fifty seats for Spike’s guests, please RSVP to this email until 15 May. (Soho House members are asked to register via the club's app – there’s no cap on how many members can attend.)

We hope to see you there!

Take care, and till then,
Spike

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Slow Networks
An Artist Talk by Wolfgang Staehle
 
For the May edition of Spike’s artist talks, net.art pioneer Wolfgang Staehle will map out the technical and aesthetic ancestries of our contemporary adventures in cyberspace, focusing on a three-decade old proto-social network that presaged the emergent tensions, sentiments, and consequences of digital connectivity. A Q&A with Spike editor Christian Kobald will follow.
 
Wolfgang Staehle (*1950) is a German-born American artist. In 1991, following a successful career exhibiting in international galleries, he co-founded the initially New York-based virtual artist community The Thing, a bulletin board system of messaging and file-sharing that hosted an S&M roleplay run by artist Julia Scher and exhibited one of the first artworks sold online, Peter Halley’s digital print Superdream Mutation (1993).
 
In 1996, The Thing began hosting Staehle’s live video streams from sites in the US and Europe, such as the Empire State Building and a Benedictine monastery near his hometown. One of these webcam feeds is one of the only known videos to document the crash of the first plane into the World Trade Center on 11 September. Staehle’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and group shows at The New Museum, New York; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, among others.
 
Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Location: Soho House, “Red Room”, Torstraße 1, 10119 Berlin
Start: 7pm
The bar will be open until 9pm

Image: The Thing (BBS) circa 1994, featuring artwork by Mariko Mori

  

	                                              

Christian Kobald
Spike 
Editor 

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