Kai Altmann

Names

• Kai Altmann
• Kari Altmann
• Hitashya

Mediums

• Installation, Performance, Video, Film, Music, 3D, 4D, Painting and Drawing, Photography, Digital Media, Objects, Sculpture, Text, Websites, Social Media

Genres and Movements

• Conceptual Art
• Ceremonial Art
• Abstract Art
• Performance Art
• Installation Art
• Health & Healing Arts
• Post-Production Art
• New Materialism
• Ambiguationism
• Algorithms and AI
• Post-Institution
• Pop Culture
• Pop Music
• Social Media
• Memetics and Memes
• Digital Art and New Media
• Digital Nomad
• Music Videos
• Ecofeminism
• Intersectional Feminism
• Queer Studies
• DIY Culture
• Sci-Fi
• Post-Western Art, Music and Film
• Post-Internet Art and Music
• New World Art, Music, Film and Culture
• Indofuturism and Desifuturism
• MENASA Futurism
• Global Futurism
• Spirituality and Consciousness
• Worlding

Solo Exhibitions, Performances, Projects, Releases and Screenings

• Hitashya, "Jua Kali" Video, Endless EP, Goa and Online, 2022
• FLEXIA XLE: Oasis III, Three Terra by XLE.LIFE, Anjuna, Goa, India and Online, 2022
• Hitashya, "Tear Up La Tierra", Endless EP, Online, 2020
• TTOA: Native Arrangement II, Final Hot Desert, USA and Online, 2020
• SOFT MOBILITY: Monsoon Season (Precious Cargo), N22, Bangkok, 2019
• FLEXIA XLE: Oasis I, Garage Gallery, Prague, August 2019
• TTOA & SOFT MOBILITY, Forde, Geneva, 2018
• XOMIA, Ellis King Gallery, Dublin and Online, 2015
• First Look: Soft Mobility Abstracts, New Museum, New York and Online, 2014. Curated by Lauren Cornell.
• SMART MOBILITY, 131 Chrystie, New York, 2012
• CORE SAMPLES, Extra Extra, Philadelphia and Dis Magazine, New York and Online, 2011

Curated and Organized Projects

• Hitashya, New World Music, Spotify, 2020-.
• XLE.LIFE, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Videos, Social Media, Experiences and more, Global and Online, 2018-.
• Garden Club, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Global and Online, 2011-.
• Troping, Curatorial Projects, Online and In Spaces, 2010-.
• R-U-In?S, Editorial and Curatorial Platform, Global and Online, 2008-.

Group Exhibitions, Performances, Projects, Releases and Screenings

2019

• Get Well Soon, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, 7 Dec 2019-1 March 2020. Works by AIDS-3D (Keller & Kosmas), Kai (Kari) Altmann, Llyn Folkes and Stanya Kahn, Daniel Kiss, Linda Weiß, Benjamin Zuber. Curated by Ellen Wagner. "Works are collected together that deal with the recuperation of the human body as well as others forming a bridge to the healing of the ecosystem or society as a whole."

2017

• Hybrid Layers, ZKM, Karlsruhe, June 2017-Jan 2018. Works by: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Iain Ball, Enrico Boccioletti, Holly Childs, Claire L. Evans, Stefanie Hessler, Joey Holder, Yuri Pattison, Nadim Samman, Manuel Scheiwiller, Viktor Timofeev, Elvia Wilk, Sophia Al Maria, Auto Italia South East, Glass Bead, Ricardo Benassi, Blunt x Skensved, Aleksandra Domanovic, Ed Fornieles, Guan Xiao, Yngve Holen & Aedrhlsomrs Othryutupt Lauecehrofn, Rachel de Joode, Delia Jürgens, Daniel Keller, La Plage, Lawrence Lek, Metaphysics (Beteiligte KünstlerInnen: Eddie Peake, Florian Meisenberg, Anne de Vries, Rubén Grilo, Jack Strange und Anna K.E.; produziert von: Philip Hausmeier), Katja Novitsokva, Tabita Rezaire, Unknown Fields, Anne de Vries, Yu Honglei. Curated by Giulia Bini, Sabiha Keyif, Daria Mille, and Philipp Ziegler.

• Held Together With Water, Le Commun and Other Venues, Geneva, 2017. Works by: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Art & Language, Mathieu Arbez-Hermoso, Sacha Béraud, Erik Boulatov, Roxane Bovet, Nicolas Brulhart, Dayna Casey, Mathieu Copeland, Cuss Group, Anne-Laure Franchette, Gilles Furtwängler, Charlotte Laubard, Anders Karlsson, Elise Lammer, Jonas Lund, Sébastien Mennet, Nastasia Meyrat, Yoan Mudry, NONu, Camilla Paolino, Civic Paths, Steve Roggenbuck, Tiziana Terranova, Lawrence Weiner, Arnaud Wohlhauser, Emilia Yang. Curated by Roxane Bovet. "By associating the tools, experiments, and ethics of early conceptual artists, with those of the participative web’s new knowledge communities, Held Together With Water attempts to link together similar developments from different times in history. This exhibition tries to stand aside from the generational acceptation of a new aesthetic; from the hashtag “post-Internet” and from its global interpretation."

2016

• Geologos Space, Komplot, Brussels and Online, 8 Sept-8 Oct 2016. Works by: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Iain Ball, Enrico Boccioletti, Holly Childs, Claire L. Evans, Stefanie Hessler, Joey Holder, Yuri Pattison, Nadim Samman, Manuel Scheiwiller, Viktor Timofeev, Elvia Wilk. Curated by Blunt x Skensved. Installation Shots. Also included as hanging lightbox installation in Hybrid Layers.

2015

• Biennial of the Americas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, 14 Jul-30 Aug 2015. Works by Kim Allen, Diego Berruecos, Zach Blas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Marcelo Cidade, Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker, Sterling Crispin, Debora Delmar Corp., Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Coco Fusco, Marcius Galan, Anna Bella Geiger, David Hartt, Karl Haendel, Kai (Kari) Altmann as Hitashya, Sarah Anne Johnson, André Komatsu, Robert Longo, Jorge Macchi, Laleh Mehran and Chris Coleman, Adam Milner, Aliza Nisenbaum, Fernando Ortega, Bernardo Ortiz, Adam Pendleton, Tania Pérez Córdova, Joaquín Segura, Skawennati, Eduardo Terrazas, and Ryan Trecartin. Curated by Lauren Wright.

2014

• Extinction Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, 18-19 Oct 2014. Extinct.ly portion featuring works and new commissions by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Ed Atkins, Kev Bewersdorf, David Blandy, Benjamin Bratton, Keller Easterling, Femke Herregraven, Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, Pietro Leoni, Delfino Sisto Legnani, Alessandro Mason), Emily Jones, Maurizio Lazzarato, Lisa Ma, Alex Mackin Dolan, Timothy Morton, Julian Olivier, Tobias Revell, Ubermorgen, Michael Wang, Liam Young, Anna Zett. Curated by Ben Vickers, Curator of Digital. Extinction Marathon curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

2013

• Open Shape 3, Curated by Jasper Spicero.

2012

• Motion, Seventeen Gallery, London, 17 May-23 June, 2012. Works by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Merce Cunningham, Harm van den Dorpel, Michael Guidetti, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, Sean Raspet, Emanuel Rossetti, Hito Steyerl, Artie Vierkant. Curated by Ceci Moss and Tim Steer. "The object that exists in motion spans different points, relations and existences but always remains the same thing. Like the digital file, the bootlegged copy, the icon, or Capital it reproduces, travels and accelerates, constantly negotiating the different supports that enable its movement."

• Global Art Forum Six, Art Dubai 2012, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha and Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, March 2012. Commissioned Video by Kai (Kari) Altmann + Ayshay (Fatima Al Qadiri) Presented by Victoria Camblin. GAF6 Curated by Shumon Basar. GAF6 Also Included Over 50 Contributers: Goldin + Senneby, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Rakowitz, Sophia Al Maria, Michael Govan, Sultan Suood Al Qasemmi, Yasmine El Rashidi, Sophie Fiennes, etc.

• Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest, 2012. Program Curated by Lea Rasovksy, Matei Samihaian and Silvia Saitoc.

Residencies and Fellowships

• Space A, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2022. Solo Artist and Musician Residency with additional support from Space A and Digital Kathmandu Recording Studios.
• Goa, India, 2020-2022. Co-Vid Solo Artist and Musician Residency.
• N22 and Tentacles Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019. Visiting Artist Residency and Performance.
• Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, New York, 2019. For self-designed travel and exhibition in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam with additional support from ACC. Followed by relocation to Mumbai.
• Garage Gallery, Prague, Czechia, Jul 2019. Residency for Exhibition Installation.
• Forde, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018. Visiting Artist Residency and Exhibition Installation.
• Clark House, Mumbai, India, 2017. Visiting Artist Residency.
• Rijksakademie Guest Resident and Lecturer, Art & Science Fellowship, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015.
• The White Building and Space Studios, London, UK, 2014. Visiting Artist Residency.

Awards

• Net Art Prix 2014, Rhizome and TASML Beijing, 2014.

Talks

• A New Aesthetic?, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, 12 Oct 2012. Curated and moderated by Melanie Bühler, speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, David M. Berry, Adam Cruces, James Ferraro, Bea Fremderman, Katja Kwastek, Pierre Lumineau, Daniel Pinkas. Supported by The Goethe Institute.

• Vital Content, Union Docs, New York, 21 Oct 2012. Screening and discussion. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Nick Lalla, Jacob Gaboury. Moderated by Jacob Gaboury.

• Vital Content, Regional State Archives, Gothenburg, 2013.

• Vital Content: Biowar, Skogen, Gothenburg, 2013.

• Seven on Seven 2014, New Museum, New York, May 2014. Speakers: Kate Crawford, Holly Herndon, Kate Ray, Aza Raskin, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Hannah Sawtell, Avi Flombaum, Simon Denny, Nick Bilton, Jen Fong-Adwent, Ian Cheng, Frances Stark, David Kravitz, Anil Dash, Kevin McCoy. Curated and Moderated by Michael Connor.

• Disassembling Stacktivism, Goethe Institute, London, 15 Oct 2014. Speakers: Jay Springett, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Paul Raven, Julieta Aranda. Moderated by Jay Springett.

• Do You Follow? Art In Circulation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Selfridges Hotel, London, 15-17 Oct 2014. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Alex Bacon, Hannah Black, Michael Connor, Constant Dullaart, Renzo Martens, Monira Al Qadiri (GCC), Derica Shields, Takeshi Shiomitsu, Martine Syms, Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Amalia Ulman. Moderated and Curated by Michael Connor. Part of Frieze London ICA Offsite 2014.

• Blame it on the Algorithm, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 4 April 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, David Wightman, Dr. Bettina Speckman. Curated by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Rijksakademie and Melanie Bühler. Moderated by Melanie Bühler.

• Lacuna Sovereignity, Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, 10 April 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Anne de Boer, Cory Scozarri. Moderated by Cory Scozarri.

• Kari Altmann Artist Talk, Artists Space, New York, 21 May 2015. Invited by Hito Steyerl as part of her solo exhibition. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Ruth Saxelby. Moderated by Ruth Saxelby.

• No Internet, No Art, Book launch and presentation of "Soft Brand Abstracts: Closer Than Ever Before", Swiss Institute, New York, 14 Jul 2015. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Melanie Bühler.

• Freeportism as Style and Ideology?, E-Flux, New York, 2016. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Julieta Aranda, Hayal Pozanti, Brad Troemel. Moderated by Julieta Aranda.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann Visiting Artist Talks, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2016. Invited by Eva and Franco Mattes.

• Meta Images, Le Commun, Geneva, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Roxane Bovet and Yoann Mudry as part of Held Together With Water vernissage.

• Meta Images XLE, Strelka Institute, Moscow, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Holly Childs. Part of Strelka's program, The New Normal by Benjamin Bratton.

• Meta Images XLE, Tentacles Gallery, N22, Bangkok, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann. Invited by Henry Tan.

• Meta Images XLE, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann.

• Meta Images XLE, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 2017. Speaker: Kai (Kari) Altmann.

Interviews

• Taliesin Bower, Lexie Mountain, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Ripe for Capture: Artist Kari Altmann is a Prophet, Vice Magazine, New York and Online, 18 April 2013.
• Fiona Duncan, "Age: Late 20s, Sex: Female, Location: Wi-fi--Artist Kari Altmann is the Future", Bullett Magazine, New York and Online, 2013.
• Lyndsy Welgos, Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Context Coaxing: An Interview with Kari Altmann", Topical Cream Magazine, New York and Online, 2014.
• Jean Kay, Kai (Kari) Altmann, "An Interview with Kari Altmann", AQNB, London and Berlin, 5 Jun 2014.
• Heather Corcoran, Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Rhizome's Heather Corcoran Selects Cloud-Based Artist Kari Altmann", Hero Magazine, London, 6 Oct 2014. Part of Young Art Week.
• Ruth Saxelby, Kai (Kari) Altmann "Dallas to Dammam Direct: Kari Altmann on Gulf Futurism's U.S. Outpost", The Fader Magazine, New York, 19 Nov 2014.
• Yusuke Shono,"Interview with Kari Altmann", Massage Magazine, Tokyo, 2016.

Artist Essays and Editorials

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Core Samples Back End", Dis Magazine, New York and Online, 2012.

• “Kari Altmann Top Ten Links of 2014”, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York and Online, 2014. Featuring Maluca Mala, Ayesha Siddiqi, Bangs, Forever Traxx, Cargo Club, Norman Orro for Panther Modern, Etc.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, Cadence Kinsey, "The Meta Image: Ambiguationist Bullets, Visual Culture in a Post-Western, Post-Production, Pan-Optic World", 2015, Posted in 2020.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "New Terms 2015", 2015-.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Xomia" Six-Page Spread, XOM Magazine, USA, 2015.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Consumer Reports: Kari Altmann", Dubai Travel Log, Art News Magazine, New York and Online, 24 Feb 2016. Edited by John Chiaverina.
  • "By The Time You're Thirsty, It's Already Too Late: Selected Media Streams from a Long Dubai Weekend 2015", Archived on Medium, 2016.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "First Five With Kari Altmann", New Criticals, The New School for Social Research, New York, 30 June 2016. Edited by Tamsyn Gilbert.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "XLE.LIFE: #Petrosumer: Bangkok (#Fuelyourlife)", XLE.LIFE, Global and Online, 19 Oct 2020.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "Welcome to the New World, You're Late", 2021, Posted in 2023.

• Kai (Kari) Altmann as Hitashya, "XLE.LIFE Guest Posts: Hitashya Selects #NewWorld Music", XLE.LIFE, Global, 2022-.

Artist Books and Publications

• Kai (Kari) Altmann (ed.), R-U-In?S Catalogue #001, 2010. Visual content, art and new editorial spreads culled from the R-U-In?S project in 2009-2010. Includes an essay. Additional contributions from Iain Ball, Matteo Giordano, Sam Hancocks and Sebastian Moyano.

Magazines, Blogs, Journals

• Ruth Saxelby, "The Visual Artist at the Centre of the Post Internet Explosion", Dummy Magazine, London and Online, 29 Aug 2012.

• Compiler 04: Replay, DVD Magazine ed. Raffael Dörig, Otto Publishers, Berlin, 2012.

• Benoit Lamy de la Chapelle, "De l'art « post-Internet »" / "On “post-Internet” Art", Zero Deux, 2014. (French)/(English)

• Eva Folks, "Concerning Art Post-Internet", AQNB, 3 Mar 2014.

• Melanie Bühler, "Ideas About the Contemporary Role of Photography Within Digital Culture and Artistic Practice", Fotomuseum Winterthur Blog, 16 Mar-30 Apr 2015. "Online Image Behavior, Where Photographs Live Today" on Kai (Kari) Altmann's Hhellblauu, TToshibaa and R-U-In?S.

• Ruth Saxelby, "We Talk in Pictures Now, But What Does It Mean?", The Fader Magazine, New York, 3 May 2015.

• Kyle Chayka, "The Greatest Digital Artists of the 21st Century", Complex Magazine, New York and Online, 15 May 2015.

• "What Is Post Internet Art?", Elephant Magazine, Issue 23, 2015.

• “Que es el Arte de Post Internet? 10 Artistes”, Revista Codigo, Mexico City, 2015. (Spanish)

• Kyra Kordoski, "Hypergenre Ecosystems", White Fungus Magazine Issue #14, Taichung and Wellington, Online, 2015.

• Samantha Culp, "Liquidity", Leap Magazine, Beijing and Online, 2015.

• Raffael Dörig, "Digitale Kunst - Projekt des Monats / Kari Altmann, Soft Mobility", Kunstbulletin, Sep 2016. (German)

• Mark Gens, "A Critical Analysis of Art in the Post Internet Era", Gnovis Journal 17:2, Georgetown University, 2017.

• Ellen Wagner, "Sadness and Survival: An Attempt via Post-Truth and Post-Internet Art", Dafkinist, 2017.

• Ellen Wagner, Maria Anna Tappeiner, "Infrastructures of Knowledge and Alternative Mythologies", Kunstforum International, Volume 280: Future Resource Archive, Germany, 2022. (German)

Essays and Book Chapters

• Matei Samihaian, "R-U-IN?S Underground Economies", 2011.
• Melanie Bühler, "Immersive Brands", Megarave Metarave Catalogue, Presses du Reel, 2014.
• Roxane Bovet, "HTWW: Concerning Art in Post-Internet Times", Editions Clinamen, December 2016, French & English.
• Colin Self, "Xoir", 2019.
• Yasmin Morgan, "What Is The Color of Water?", The Art Columnist, 23 July 2020.

Books

• Katja Novitskova (ed.), Post Internet Survival Guide 2010, Berlin: Revolver, 2011, 272 pp. Editor, Worldcat.

• Gene McGugh, Post Internet: Notes on the Internet and Art, Brescia: Link Editions, 2011. Collected posts from the blog 122909a.com, Dec 2009-Sep 2010.

• Roman Kirschner, Ed., Raw Flows: Fluid Mattering in Arts and Research, De Gruyter Art and Architecture, 6 Feb 2017, 160pp.

• Karl-Magnus Johannson, Gluey-C (eds.), Communicating the Archive: Physical Migration, Gothenburg: The Regional State Archives in Gothenburg, 2013, 112 pp. [1]

• Melanie Bühler (ed.), No Internet, No Art: A Lunch Bytes Anthology, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, Sep 2015, 351+[63] pp; 2nd ed., 2018. Publisher, Editor. [2]. Reviews: Kay (AQNB), Roestenburg (INC).

• Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter (eds.), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, MIT Press, Oct 2015, 528 pp. Anthology. Publisher. Review: Galati (Leonardo).

• Parker Kay, A Cube Has Six Sides: The White Cube as Medium, Rome: The Canadian Academy in Rome, and Toronto: Swimmers Group, 2016, 90 pp.

• Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.), Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces, Berlin: Transcript Verlag, 2017, 268pp.

• Ceci Moss, Expanded Internet Art: Twenty First Century Artistic Practice and the Informational Milieu, New York: Bloomsbury, 2019, 160 pp, EPUB. Publisher.

• Ellen Wagner, Falsche Signale. Strategien der Mimikry in der Post-Internet Art, Zürich: diaphanes, 2021, 328 pp. Publisher. (German)

Exhibition Catalogues

• Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, 2011.
• Raffael Dörig (ed.), Megarave, Metarave, Oct 2014. (German)/(English)/(French)

Theses

• Andreas Ervik, Evolving Images: Attraction and Dispersion on the Tumblr Blog Garden Club, Oslo: University of Oslo, 2015, 103 pp. Master's thesis.

• Ceci Moss, Expanded Internet Art and the Informational Milieu, New York: University of New York, 2015. PhD dissertation.

• Ellen Wagner, False Signals: Strategies of Mimicry in Post-Internet Art, Offenbach: Offenbach University, 2019, PhD Thesis