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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18:04:02 Version02, digital culture festival radical.
It opens April 18 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (USA) Version02 , digital culture festival radical centers the selection of artists and its activities on so-called 'digital commons', a metaphor to describe the public spaces used to communicate and distribute ideas and to share tools and resources. The works deal with the technology to its tactical use and creative and digital media to create strategies for the maintenance and expansion of the public spaces of communication. The net art projects included are twelve: 'After Sherrie Levine' Michael Mandiberg (see scans of photos of other photos. ), 'A-virtual-memorial' by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, an archive of historical narrative, 'BuyOrBeware' Andrew Venell, everyday stories in public spaces, 'The Images Pillager' Ben Chang, a sampler of white noise images across the network, 'User Empathy Engine v.2.0' of TENbyTEN on the collection of personal data by the marketing, Self-Portrait by Brooke Singer (see Self-Portrait (v2.0). ) Borderhack Fran Ilich (see Borderhack online exhibition. ), 'Things may have never known' by Trevor Paglen, which peddles underground films at the box office for samples of Gnutella, 'The Church of Software' Italian Carlo Zanni (see Net Italian art: the landscapes of the church of the software. ), 'Newzoid' by Daniel Young (see Fake headlines self-generated. ), 'Space Navigable Music' LAB [ au], the concepts of space and time through sound applied to the third dimension, and 'Sodaplay', the curious thread-like animated creatures, can be created and modified by the user. Among the debates 'The Work of Art in the Age of Convergence' with Eduardo Kac and Miltos Manetas, 'Who's the Tool?' by Paul B. Davis, Cory Arcangel, John Dekam and Rob Ray, 'Naked Apprehensions of Technology' with Katherine Behar, Steve Dietz, Tiffany Holmes and Dan Sandinn, 'Alt.Media' with Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network), Sander Hicks (Soft Skull Press ), Rachel Rinaldo (Indymedia Newsreel) and Paul Dechene and Dave Niddrie (Adbusters), several workshops, including one of the Institute for Applied Autonomy, and another, 'Tactical Gizmology' edited by Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa. Finally, in addition to a full program of short films, a retrospective of Negativland Films by Mark Hosler, and a live audio-visual of Hexstatic (Ninja Tune), will also be carried on Beige World Cassette Jockey Championship '2002 ', l' only competition for DJs who use the boxes ('cj', jockey boxes).
