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.
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09:10:01 Secret meeting of the entertainment industry.
According to reports gathered by the online newspaper 'The Register', last week would be held in Washington a closed-door meeting between representatives of the RIAA, Andy Grove of Intel president, Lou Gerstner of IBM, Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Ass of America , Jay Berman of the IFPI, Edgar Bronfman of Vivendi Universal, Gerald Levin of AOL Time-Warner and members of Disney, EMI, Sony, Bertelsmann, Matsushita and Toshiba in addition to representatives of the U.S. Senate. Hillary Rosen of the RIAA has shown some brutal tactics that they would be materializing. Provides a chord with the manufacturers of sound cards that implement technologies that block the playback of protected content. The failure of specific CPRM (see Hard Disk copy-protected ), it was a big step back for the industry but now raises. The Rosen, in fact, want them to be removed to read any of the protections now enjoyed by the ISP, making them responsible for their content as much as their users. According to Michael Eisner of Disney privacy laws are a major obstacle to this type of lens. Enthusiasm is then come from technology and anti Midbar SafeAudio copy of which is not yet known countermeasures. The spirit of hysterical omnipotence can finally be summarized in the phrase of Steve Heckler Sony's "When consumers can no longer freely exchange music, then you will have to buy it in the format that we will decide."
