2020
growth [installation view]
moving treadmill style polyethylen + polypropylen plastic grass, self-driving, UpDrive Motor, SITI Gearbox, Bosch Indego 350 lawn mover, wood, vinyl wrap film; 205 x 205 x 60 cm;
Klasse Denny Group Show "Jahresausstellung"; HFBK Hamburg, 2020
Ci
[SOLD OUT] — cap; black, 100% cotton-twill, white logo embroidered; low profile, adjustable back tab; one size; 19€
Sold at HFBK Hamburg's 2020 annual exhibition
2019
m87 [installation view]
W.C. 3# Exhibition w/ @ttimmba
interactive video installation within an intimate social space at Wartenau 15, Hamburg;
34 x 54 x 35,5 cm, toilet, waterproof bag, amazon fire hd, powerbank 20000 mAh
2in1 [installation view]
10" android tablets attached to Massage Guns; adjustable dual screen mount system, aluminum airline rails, 3D printed polycarbonate parts, powerbank 20000 mAh; 80cm x 70cm x 60cm;
Klasse Denny Group Show "Jahresausstellung"; HFBK Hamburg, 2021
turbo_kit [NFT]
HSBC BANK, TRADE REPUBLIC, VIRUS,
2020 INDEXDJX: .DJI Index turbo charger
*Denny class at HFBK has worked on a digital platform that distils this dynamic into a platform for artistic communication. We combine a copy of the popular social chat network Discord with a virtual copy of a Mercedes-Benz OM502LA truck engine – providing a flexible space where we can install digital artworks. The exhibition is structured through the thematic chat channels of the Discord user interface, and represent interrelated topics that the artists address in their work. The Discord chat structure allows visitors to interact with the works e.g. via emoji reactions or direct responses.
The exhibition space is both the digital presentation of the Denny class for 2021’s HFBK Annual exhibition, and commissioned as a part of the project »Conditions of a Necessity« initiated by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
[Text: Rahel Grote Lambers]
[Current Event] FREE! 41+ eGift Cards | kunstverein.digital
The work > FREE! 41+ eGift Cards by the artist Leon Roth deals with the implementation of game design mechanisms in a decidedly non-game context, with the abstraction of money and the way gift cards form and transport values.
The first level of the work deals with the motivator reward system. Especially in games, crowdsourcing platforms and companies, the use of reward systems is one of the most effective motivators. They create a sense of competence, participation and autonomy. This method of game design in a non-game context is called gamification. This is an approach to designing platforms to motivate and subsequently reward desired behaviors of users in a game-like system. Paid crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk[1], employ this type of strategy for their monotonous microtasks, where humans train an AI for minimum wage. Many tasks involve labeling data as quickly as possible, especially image data that is fed into supervised machine learning models to help them better understand the world, such as transcribing audio files for Amazon Alexa.
Press & features:
Internet Explorer: Kunst online #11 Die Welt steht Kopf | gallerytalk.net
14. Dezember 2021 • Text von Lara Brörken
> Banz & Bowinkel schaffen bei Priska Pasquer einen mathematischen Raum ohne Schwerkraft, der “Almanac for Refusal” des Festivals Transmediale öffnet ein sich progressiv verweigerndes Universum. Beim Kunstverein in Hamburg konfrontiert Leon Roth User*innen mit der eigenen Konsumgier und die “New Viewings 37” der Galerie Barbara Thumm lassen die Grenzen von Natürlichem und Künstlichem verschwimmen. Wer nach diesem Internet Explorer noch weiß, wo unten und oben ist, hat gewonnen.
2021
Time Capsule 2031 NFT [2021, ZIP File] | Klasse Denny HFBK
For the Summer Semester of 2021 (April - July) a group of students at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg) met weekly for an hour and a half to work through the phenomenon of NFTs – Non-Fungible-Tokens – and their sudden visibility in the art context. Local blockchain enthusiasts were enlisted to walk the group through the basics of blockchain, and the recent rise of NFTs as art. Topical issues related to this phenomenon were explored and discussed – from the basics of private currencies, digital money, claims to “decentralization”, the political affiliations and ideologies commonly associated with cryptocurrencies, the electricity usage of ‘Proof of Work’ consensys mechanisms and emergent alternatives like ‘Proof of Stake’ and ‘Proof of Spacetime’.
The session was concluded by a group exercise: minting a collective NFT on a ‘Proof of Stake’ blockchain. It was decided that a ‘time capsule’ format would be used, where all artists in the group submitted a file. These would be collectively compressed into a password-protected ZIP file, which would then be stored on a decentralized storage service.An HTML file was minted as an NFT, containing the links to this wordpress webpage. And in order to access the time capsule, a second page is timed to go live in 10 years – providing the key to unlock the ZIP, and reveal the aged files in 2031.
For the NFT, a fixed price was set for sale (1 Tezos for every participating artist), and a german GbR was set up to split proceeds in the future equally among the participants. Further, a 25% resale rate was saved into the Tezos smart contract, so that the minting wallet would receive this percentage whenever sold.
the Genesis Stone [installation view]
The work visualizes a historical artifact unearthed after a long search in the unordered depths of the dark naturalistic worlds of former Gen2 Metaverse battlefields. The find includes the discovery of the Genesis Stone*, which was reinterpreted and created based on the narrative of the six Infinity Stones from the Battlerealm in the form of two interlocking inside a block. With re-creation of the stone and its powers, according to the story, should initiate the first redistribution after the introduction of the contiguous metaverses.
*The Genesis Stone is one of the six Infinity Stones native to the Battlerealm. It was created by channeling the energies released by the great battles of the Contest of Champions. Its properties include Creator Deity, Mental Projection/Animation, Trust Embodiment, Perfection Embodiment, and Genesis Aspect Manifestation, as well as the Primordial Force Physiology.
Klasse Denny Group Show "Jahresausstellung"; HFBK Hamburg, 2022