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.
Inaugurated May 8 at the new Passenger Terminal Amsterdam is the World Wide Video Festival , which this year celebrates twenty years of activity through exhibitions and retrospectives that trace this long period of development of media art, including installations of Juan Downey, Gustzáv Hamos, Tony Oursler, Komiko Kushiyama, Jiangwei Wang, Minnette Vari, Nalini Malani, Francesc Torres, Rita Myers, Keith Piper, Anne Quirijnen, An-Marie Lambrechts & Peter Missotten, Francisco Ruiz de Infante and Jem Cohen. The main area of investigation of this edition is Latin America which includes a staff of the Brazilian Santos ƒder which also mentions 'Neptune's Choice', an essay by video poem in which he describes the urban rhythms and the daily routine of the Dutch capital that has hosted for a few months, as well as a large selection of works curated by José Carlos Mariatequi center High Technology Andina (ATA) in Lima. Selected solo shows particularly important that dedicated, however, Marina Abramovic, a pioneer of performance art, from the early seventies he used the body as subject and medium. Some screenings take place under cover of darkness on a circular screen placed in a park, while the World Wide Media Lounge will host projects 'single-screen', such as net art works, videotapes and CD-ROMs. Among these is the long list of short films running in rotation, among which should be mentioned 'All Readable Files' by Canadian Daniel Olson that reconstructs the identity of a person as the files found on the hard disk of your computer. Among the works on the network, however, there are 'Fantastic Prayers', Tony Oursler / Constance DeJong / Steven Vitiello,' Inner City 'in Room,' Powerful Poetic Machine 'Andrey Velikanov and' Space, Navigable Music 'LAB [ AU]. The closing event, finally, is the RGB, a dj / vj three-day festival, which hosts names always at the forefront of musical experimentation and visual of our times such as: Scanner, Driessens & Verstappen , Ellen Allien, Station Rose and Burnt Friedman & Nu Dub Players.
