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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09.10.02 Unplugged: Ars Electronica 2002
It was inaugurated on September 7th 2002 edition of Ars Electronica, entitled ' Unplugged, as the art scene of Global Conflicts ', which focuses on obscure points of globalization, those who, through art, reflecting An opportunity still in the making, and that is the use of technology as a means of expression and cultural diversity as a political tool, in sharp contrast to the mere speeding up of economic transactions. Inquest sense are different sections of the festival including the symposium 'Wiring Africa', on the African continent in the balance between emancipation and 'cyber-colonialism', 'Africa Art Screen' an exhibition of video art from Nigeria, Egypt and Senegal, the 'Urban Africa Club' a festival of electronic music band coming from the city, the first clash with the opportunities and contradictions of real-time media and 'Hip Hop Worldwide' where hip hop bands of Cote d ' Ivoire and Senegal meet with American colleagues Anticon and Lucky Kitchen. To try to contextualize the visual globalization is' Change the map ', consists of two installations:' Energy Solutions / Water resources' Peter Fend which shows the relationship between conflict and water resources, and 'Border Rescue' focuses on ' excluding regions related to industry old-fashioned; also features many works of web and net art included, such as 'net.flag' Mark Napier ( see ), 'They Rule' Futurefarmers, 'Carnivore' of RSG '. / LogicalAnd '( see ), and Minitasking of Schoenerwissen ( see. ). And in the same spirit also the presentation of another film on September 11 '09.11 Artists', about how life, perception and creative work of New York artists has changed after the tragedy. Among the special projects also the conference 'Pixelspaces' on the convergence between architecture and video games,' Radiotopia 'a radio event with speeches and contributions through the network from all over the world, '66b / cell' a performance of the group of Japanese with a fine choreography and variegated colors matched with practices dj / vj, 'Gameboyzz Orchestra Project', a concert of nintendo used as musical instruments, 'Kingdom of Piracy' ( see ), an online space that explores the ultimate piracy as a form of art , projects in the main square of Linz ('Watch Out', a giant eye looking from the top of a roof paizza the connected signal conditioning instrument with Seoul and 'Box 30/70', a sound installation in a container that accords with the noise of the square in front of the center) and 'Parallax PLX of Game' an exhibition of industrial design products Ryota Kuwakubo ( see ). Reconfirmed finally spaces 'Campus' for the work of the students of media art, 'Hidden World' at the Ars Electronica Center with augmented reality projects, 'Electronic Theatre' with the help of the best works of computer animation, 'Klangpark' with sounds irradiated for hours on the Danube, and 'U19', dedicated to young artists under 19 Austrian electronic.
