Artists
Keller/ Kosmas (Aids-3D) Daniel Keller born in 1986 in Detroit, USA, Nik Kosmas born in 1985 in Minneapolis, USA | Lives and works in Berlin
Portrait
Nik Kosmas
Foto: Axel Schmidt
The duo,DanielKeller/Nik Kosmas (Aids-3D)describe themselves as “prosumers,” meaning consumers, who, at the same time, produce. Both artists are concerned with issues that arise at the point where art, technology, ecology, economics, and social activism intersect.
Aids-3D produced four new World Community Grid Water Features (2010/2012) for the MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI exhibition. These objects are a series of room water fountains, purchased on the internet, with a mini computer attached underneath each one. When the computer is on, the fountains light up. The unused computer time is donated to the internet platform Community Grid, which supports a variety of international aid and research projects that can access this computer time. So Keller/Kosmas are donating the complete runtime of the exhibit to the Community Grid; thus their work—Room Water Fountains Computer Sculptures—is making a contribution to a non-profit charitable project.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| 2012 |
NAK - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Kraupa-Tuskany, Berlin |
| 2011 |
NIMK-Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam T293, Napoli |
| 2010 |
Autocenter, Berlin 0047, Oslo |
| 2009 |
YAMA, Istanbul Galeria Stereo, Poznan |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2012 |
3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow New Order, Mediamatic, Amsterdam |
| 2011 |
Based in Berlin, Berlin The New Psychedelica, Mu, Eindhoven |
| 2010 |
Smart Frrridge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
 Enchanted, School of Development, Berlin |
| 2009 |
Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York
 The World is Flat, X Initiative, New York |