Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
Neural 75, Artificial Corporeality (co-edited with Zane Cerpina) + extra: a postcard pointing to an AR extension of the artwork Ejector by Tim Høibjerg . Subscribe now!
Issue #75, 2024 ISSN: 2037-108X
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In martial arts and other combat sports, the importance of rules has a deep-rooted ethical and philosophical foundation directly proportional to the violence of the sport itself. The stronger the athlete can hit, the more solid and respectable his figure →
The Photographers’ Gallery, ISBN 978-1916348721, English, 198 pages, 2023, UK
The Photographers’ Gallery is one of the few contemporary art institutions that has developed a rather unique digital programme in recent years. In doing so, →
CD – 901 Editions
Giuseppe Ielasi, in addition to being well known among the enclaves of international contemporary music for his expertise in the post-production phase (mixing and mastering), has substantial experience as a musician and experimenter with multiple sound →
To what extent are the sounds we use when speaking influenced by the surrounding soundscape? We may adapt our vocal communication to the conditions in which we find ourselves, but this (perhaps even reciprocal) influence could also be traced back →
Verso, ISBN 978-1788730068, English, 272 pages, 2023, UK
Even though AI has been the most discussed technology for some time, its deeper cultural understanding still remains obscure, lost between boastful technical specifications and the fear →
7″ + booklet, and foldout poster – Singuhr Editions
Robert Lippok presents with Singuhr Editions, two recordings that derive from a performance and sound installation dating back to an event that originally took place at the Meinblau Projektraum in Berlin →
Various artists have manifested the physical presence of invisible networks, such as the painful Costraint City by Gordan Savicic in 2007. Since then, wireless networks have expanded in terms of range, power and data transmitted. In Ombres Blanches, the Lab212 →
peacock & the worm, ISBN 978-1739217921, English, 92 pages, 2023, UK
Research projects generally use the book format both as an archive and as a dissemination medium, sometimes missing the opportunity to understand it as →
LP – Subtext
James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, aka Emptyset, mark the fiftieth release for the Subtext label (founded by Ginzburg) with Ash. It is somewhat of a return to the label’s roots– the duo recorded the album in 2023 →
Even after more than a century, radio is still a solid media paradigm, having been the first to establish the modern process of information transmission in space. radioPHØNIX is a radiophonic installation by Timo Kreuser & PHØNIX16 that utilises this →
Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1501370540, English, 368 pages, 2023, USA
The hierarchical role of television, the epitome of the one-to-many broadcast model, has been deeply shaken in time and space by the mobile, nomadic and responsive →
CD – Crónica
Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context, supporting ecological sensitivity, giving life to significant sound experiences, →
The recent resurgence of magical practices may be related to the increasing complexity of technology, epitomised by AI. Among them are artists who combine both, such as Exorcismos (aka Moisés Horta Valenzuela), who in his project SEMILLA AI has assembled →
meakusma, ISBN 978-9462087194, English, 200 pages, book + 7xCD + 2x data DVD, 2023, PBelgium
Publishing is a question of choice and possibilities. Choice is expressed through the editorial process, and opportunities are →
