Who’s Afraid of Face Recognition?
9th December 2023
Martin Asbæk Gallery is proud to present the exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Face Recognition?” by Niels Bonde, a pioneer within digital art in Denmark. As a result of the large-scale mosaic on the gallery’s windows, the space inside shimmers as a jewel, or maybe more specifically as a flickering screen. The artist’s interest in light […]
Digital Waterlillies
9th October 2021
NU galleri er meget stolte af at kunne præsentere en udstilling af Niels Bonde, en af dansk kunsts pionerer inden for computerkunst, netkunst og digitale medier. Niels Bonde har siden start 90’erne arbejdet konsekvent med overvågningsteknologien som tema, og var med til at grundlægge det banebrydende netkunst-site www.artnode.org Niels Bondes udstilling er en elegant og […]
Depixellation experiments
24th April 2021
Spending much too much time in in front of my screen, I am trying to move some of my activity out into the physical world. This project is part of a testing process using the original pixels, mosaics, a material with a history going at least 4.000 years back. In my proof-of-concept process to test […]
»Billederne er en moderne digital version af den franske impressionisme«
2nd April 2021
“Esther” og “Silas”. 2021 Fra portrætserie “95% sikker ansigtsgenkendelse”. Gallerist Martin Asbæk viser de fem ting fra hjemmet i Charlottenlund, han ville redde hvis huset brændte BERLINGSKE TIDENDE Søndag d. 19. maj 2019, kl. 17.30 SINE GERSTENBERG »Billederne er en moderne digital version af den franske impressionisme. De må ikke gå op i røg« Gallerist […]
Digital Water Lillies
24th September 2020
Digital Water Lilies 1 minute exerpt A series of pixellated screens using the same technology and priciples behind the facial recognition, but here applied to images of nature. The portraits are heavily pixellated, but through the algorithm still have a connection to the natural world, strong enough to make an actual identification of an individual. […]
Data Cattle
11th January 2020
Disruption is the rallying cry of new tech, and as Facial Recognition and analysis are developing at breakneck speed creating a legislative vacuüm, disruption may soon be the effect we encounter any time we show our faces. Automatic recognition of salmon and cows optimizes production, but is it OK to use it in our health […]
På dit glatte ansigt
7th November 2019
“Er du tvivl om dine behov. Hvad skal du købe, og hvor. Hvad mener du egentlig. Hvem skal du stemme på hvis overhovedet og ved du egentlig hvem du selv er? Bare tag det roligt. Det er der andre der har tjek på hvis du husker at bruge dine digitale skærme jævnligt. Billedkunstner Niels Bonde […]
Stretching space
14th April 2019
Live video pixellation. A sketch for an interactive public artwork stretching or squeezing two-dimensional space over time. The sketch demonstrates the softwares abilities. Physical and technical solutions for the permanent installation in a pedestrian tunnel are pending.
95% Sure Facial Recognition and other works.
5th October 2018
“Since 1992 Niels Bonde has worked with the theme of surveillance through his art, which ranges wide over sculpture, painting, textile, video, installation and classic as well as new digital media. Three decades ago very few people would have considered surveillance a central factor in their everyday life. In 2018 it has become an inevitable […]
Facial Recognition
30th April 2018
BOTSCHAFT. Adress: Uferhallen, Uferstraße 8. 13357 Berlin, Germany. OPENING: Friday May 25. from 18:00 to 22:00. Opening times: Mo-Fr 9:00-15:00. And by appointment. http://botschaft.cc/ Surveillance. From 1992 I have been addressing the topic in installations and objects, but as the use of computers and cameras have become ubiquitous today, data collection is no science fiction or paranoid delusion. […]
Multitasking Death Spiral
25th May 2017
Multitasking has been found to increase the production of the stress hormone cortisol as well as the fight-or-flight hormone adrenaline, which can overstimulate your brain and cause mental fog or scrambled thinking. Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. To make matters […]
404 Not Found – Market
17th February 2017
Internettet er i dag blevet en markedsplads, hvilket konkret og en smule nostalgisk manifesterer sig i installationen Market, som er Artnodes egen netbutik og lager. Varer og genstande, der har indgået eller indgår i internettets fortid og nutid, ankommer fra en af de mange e-commerce butikker, der er i verden. Hos Market indkøbes der objekter, […]
404 Not Found – Museum
17th February 2017
Museum – værket 100 tegninger blev oprindeligt til som en feberredning, da Artnode til sin store overraskelse opdagede, at der ikke var internetopkobling på Charlottenborgs Efterårsudstillingen i 1998. Da det ikke var muligt at vise det planlagte internetbaserede projekt, besluttede Artnode sig for at håndtegne hele hjemmesiden på papir. Det blev til værket 100 tegninger. […]
404 Not Found – File Room
17th February 2017
File room. I 1990erne var Artnodes centrale aktivitet websitet www.artnode.org. Her præsenterede Artnode egne projekter samt bidrag fra mere end 100 danske og internationale kunstnere. Værkerne vekslede fra fotos og tekster til lydværker, videoer og små interaktive programmer. Alle værker lå – og ligger stadig, tilgængelige som digitale filer på websitets server. Artnode har udvalgt […]
404 Not Found
10th February 2017
404 Not Found med kunstnergruppen Artnode bestående af Jacob Lillemose, Nikolaj Recke, Mogens Jacobsen, Martin Pingel, Niels Bonde, Kim Borreby og Morten Schjødt på Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. Fra pressemeddelelsen: “Artnode opstod ud fra en fælles begejstring for internettets nye muligheder for at udvide det æstetiske felt, både formelt, institutionelt og socialt. Siden deres første aktiviteter […]
The Garden
22nd August 2016
The Garden LED object, 184,5 x 283 cm, animation 10 min looped. Contemplations on the course of the Earth, during a walk through the lush garden of the (former Benedictine) San Cataldo monastery overlooking the city of Scala and the gorgeous Amalfi bay in southern Italy. The garden is one of humankinds first manifestations of […]
Sixth Extinction
20th May 2016
Video 6:01 min. 2016. The work is touching on the topic of the problematic trophy hunting and by extension the all too rapid man-driven extinction of the earths mammals, fish, reptiles and insects. The core of the video is a slow pan over the hundreds of hunting trophies adorning the iconic Zebra Inn in Maboneng, […]
Reality Percieved
11th March 2016
Installation view: Reality Percieved (group show) Gallery Egelund, 2016. Despite consciousness is possibly the most universal in human existence, a topic which has also been subjected to scrutiny in philosophy as well as in science since the dawn of time. There is still no general consensus regarding the nature of consciousness or its activities. There […]
The Truman Show Delusion
25th February 2016
Toilet (2015) Scale model (1:20) 20 x 20 x 30 cm. Niels Bonde är en av Danmarks främsta pionjärer inom digital konst. Hans agenda är politisk och aktivistisk. I takt med att vår gemensamma användning av sociala medier ökar explosionsartat blir vi också mer och mer desillusionerade till att tro att vi är stjärnor i en ”reality […]
Drones around Hollywood
5th August 2015
LED installation 240 x 16 cm, Animation 7:21 min. 2015. Even the most important events in our lives are no longer seen with the naked eye, they are now seen through our tv-, computer- and smart phone-screens. The series of works that Drones Around Hollywood is part of, adresses this phenomena directly, as they are only […]
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then”
26th September 2014
Quote from Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. The tin foil helmet is the last defence of the paranoid schizophrenics, wrapping their heads in foil as protection against evil radiowaves and wireless control. Each helmet have been named after the NSA spy programmes each made for specific purposes, one to log your google search history, one […]
Peter Emil’s Room
26th September 2014
Installation view – left: Tin Foil Helmet, podium Installation view – middle: Peter Emil’s Room, door spy hole, scale model 25 x 25 x 20 cm “Kids/youth room. My old room from around my communion. A room where the radiator was a recorder. Every time it made a squeaky sound/ the squeaky sound was that […]
Die Leidenschaften
7th March 2012
Tin Foil Helmet, 2012. DHMD – Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden http://www.dhmd.de/ Begleitbuch DIE LEIDENSCHAFTEN – ein Drama in fünf Akten Antrieb oder Störenfried? Die Ambivalenz der Leidenschaften von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart Wissenschaftler aller Disziplinen haben in den letzten Jahren versucht, dem Wesen der menschlichen Gefühle und ihrer gesellschaftlichen Relevanz auf den Grund zu gehen. […]
Reductio ad Hitlerum
11th July 2011
Understanding animals as a sideeffect of YouTube and social media. Since 2005 YouTube has given us Keyboard Cat, Skateboarding Dog, and Christian the Lion which have been the most shared, viewed and loved video material on the net. Obviously Temple Grandin and Jane Goodall will not learn anything from this, but for people whose main […]
Monument Valley/Jaegerspris Revisited/a homage to Johannes Wiedewelt
7th March 2011
Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846 – 1926) founder of Ericsson and early advocate of mobile phones.
Paris, Adolf, Britney & Cho
7th March 2010
This work explores how the meaning and interpretation of images has changed considerably the last 20 years, caused by the radical change of two factors: production with ubiquitous cameras and distribution via internet, mms, twitter etc. And how the dramatic change of these two factors, has affected the hierachy of human expression and communication forms. The […]
Emergency Room
7th March 2009
Blurry Architecture, 2011. (The building is the Vietnamese parliament, and the work was passed by the censors).
Attention!
7th March 2009
Anmeldelse af Camilla Jalving: https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/kultur/se-mig
Ystad Konstmuseum
7th March 2009
”Attention!” by Niels Bonde Interview with curator at Horsens Art Museum Lone Schubert In the exhibition ”Attention!” you are exploring the quest for fame and fame as an end in itself – an end that justifies any means – and about mass medias role in this. Can you elaborate on that? Yes, the lust for […]
Bad Days
7th March 2006
Catalogue for the exhibition: Bad Days “There’s not a problem that I can’t fix, ‘cause I can do it in the mix.” – Indeep, “Last Night a DJ Saved My Life” (1982) “Contemporary art thus presents itself as an alternative editing table that shakes up social forms, reorganizes them, and inserts them in original scenarios. The […]
Shutters
1st March 2004
http://www.ubartgalleries.org/ Shutters features work from the 1970s to the present emphasizing the act of watching to investigate personal and detached experiences of domestic spaces. Artists: Niels Bonde, Nancy Buchanan, Sophie Calle, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sarah McEneaney, Courtney Grim, James Johnson, Joel Ross, and Shizuka Yokomizo.
Lost in Tomorrow
1st March 2003
An Art Lovers Home Centro Cultural Andraitx Spain 2003 Installation views of carpet and wall installation. Together, a series of 3 carpets comprise the mapping of a selfproclaimed “Art Lovers” home. The carpets is a critical comment on art as a commodity, a commodity that gives the owner a particular status, as well as expensive […]
hell(o) (t)here
1st March 2003
Land of Milch and Honey Voges und Partner Frankfurt am Main Germany 2003 Installation views of carpets and wall installations. Through a meticoulous mapping of rooms, with all thats in them, everyday life is transformed to topographic maps, and suggesting there is some kind of underlying principle thats about to be revealed. As a game […]
Flowcharts and Diagrams
25th October 2001
In 1999 The Danish Arts Foundation, the public art commission (Statens Kunstfond, Udsmykningsudvalget) organized a curated commission to investigate internet art – Stedet 3. However the Danish Arts Foundation were very shortsighted, and closed the site in 2001, thinking that the internet was a fluke. Here is my contribution: http://www.artnode.org/art/bonde/flowcharts/index.html
Adding dimensions
1st March 2001
Adhesive tape, 4 x 8 x 8 m Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Fortalesa, Brazil Courtesy the artist In addition to the normal spatial dimensions X, Y and Z, I have added three new dimensions Æ, Ø and Å as a homage to Herbert Bayer, the former head of Bauhaus. Bayer developed a theory about installation described and visualised […]
MetaFuckPage
18th October 2000
Web project from 2000 commissioned by the Danish Art Foundation, exhibited online and at a group show “Grønningen”. As a consequence of the fast development of file formats, parts of the programming in this project is now obsolete. http://nielsbonde.com/xextraweb/megafuck/main/metafuckpage.html
A Good Cast is Worth Repeating
1st March 2000
Group show with gallery artists Voges + Deisen Frankfurt.
7th Havana Biennial
1st March 2000
Website: http://universes-in-universe.de/car/habana/bien7/expo-pa/english.htm
High Density 1
1st March 2000
High Density is the first of Artnodes investigations of interaction versus art in the digital media. This investigation concentrates on the function of the search engine and the conditions of navigating on the internet. The search engine is the catalyst in a game between the empty work and the work full of content. http://www.artnode.org/projects/hd/index.html
Soft Machine
1st March 1998
Soft Machine: Design in the Cyborg age; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 28.11.1998-10.1.1999 Curator Marie O’Mahony
An Interactive Tragedy
31st December 1997
“Maktutövning i de moderna samhällena vilar i mycket liten grad på tvång och fysiskt våld. Bara för ett par årtionden sedan ansågs det viktigt att ge akt på formella ritualer i umgänget mellan människor. Elever var tvungna att stå upp när de talade med sina lärare; stor vikt lades vid exercitsmomenten i det militära; titlar, […]
The Art of Detection: Surveillance in Society
1st March 1997
https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/art-detection-surveillance-society MIT List Visual Arts Center. Curated by Jennifer Riddell.
Geben und Nehmen
1st March 1996
Ausstellende: Bitter-Weber, Bigert-Bergstroem, Niels Bonde, Tim Head, Kunstlabor, Katrin von Maltzahn, Mathilde MuPe, Daniela Plewe, Pokorny-Miler, Heidi Specker Kuratoren: Armin Medosch und Barbara Thumm
Flow of Reaction
1st March 1995
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, curated by Barbara Claassen-Schmal.
Re-evolution
1st March 1995
Curated by Juha van Ingen and Mikko Maasalo KIASMA, The Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki.
