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.
From July 14 to 16 at the space Muffathalle of Monaco of Bavaria is expected the event " MediaDemocracy and Telestreet – Networking Free TV ", edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli, founder of the networking project AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artivism, and the filmmakers Berlin Alexandra Weltz. The event, part of the "Okay" Understanding Europe: Italy ", an exhibition organized by the cultural and political Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung / bpb, wants to think through a conference, an exhibition and several video presentations of projects, on what and 'the Italian media activism, focusing on the "phenomenon" Telestreet. MediaDemocracy Telestreet and presents projects and reflections on the' media guerrilla 'and independent media in Italy, despite the television monopoly Berlusconi, lives and develops a number of years through TV to a network of neighborhood, community and independent radio stations on the Internet, which acts in the interstices of the Italian media landscape. Telestreet The network has come to count many TV free scattered throughout the national territory, which exploit the presence of shadow cones to transmit its signal over the air television through an antenna built for the occasion and a self-managed schedule. Muffathalle In the event at the Monaco, the activity of telestreet is documented through several video contributions collected at the site of the collective project New Global Vision, while during the opening, Disco Volante Candida TV and video-TV will present posters of Telestreet. Besides the vision of the materials of Telestreet Disco Volante TV and most historic Candida TV and Minimal TV, during the conference will be made a reflection on the issue of accessibility of information and the power of images from the project infoAccessibile of Henry Bisenzi, while Matteo Pasquinelli of Rekombinant propose a reflection on media activism and the new collective imaginations. Among the projects in exhibition, include the DVD-P2P FightSharing, made by Candida TV and Greenpepper magazine and focused on the Reality Hacking, Media-activism and Telestreet. concludes the event, the screening of the documentary "Radio Alice" by Guido Chiesa, a retrospective on the historic free radio which revolutionized communication over the air and on the '77 Italian and in the evening, a performance audio-video DJ Bellissima.
