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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06:02:03 A database leads a program on the radio.
Carson Daly is an American journalist who has earned fame and fortune before as the host of 'Total Request Live' and then as the voice of the radio countdown of the top ten best-selling albums in various U.S. states. This program is broadcast simultaneously in eleven different cities based on telephone requests from listeners. The ' Carson Daly Most Requested 'is a program of Clear Channel and is transmitted daily by 140 stations. To overcome the inevitable overlap and to avoid untold tour de force of speaking, the production network has decided to build the various editions constructing the various phrases of Daly through a database of his voice recordings. The conductor seems to spend several hours a week in his apartment in Manhattan to mark brief introductions to the songs, which are then transmitted as files in Los Angeles, where technicians will transform the study of all entries in the database as audio files, which now contains dozens of thousand of records. The eleven versions of his one-hour shows are then constructed with a tight cut &paste;, which simulates the passion of the speaker to the local top ten, without his knowing anything of its actual composition. Not a few protests to this type of practices that came to fruition as well in legal hassles. First, the National Labor Relations Board that supports find in the digital practices of Clear Channel a breach of contract staff issuer WWPR-FM in New York. But even the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, a sort of trade union, is evaluating whether there are also here violations of collective bargaining agreements. Moreover it also happened during a holiday in Daly technicians have had to work to rebuild the sentences are announcing a song by Michael Jackson unexpectedly jumped in the first ten.
