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.
Among the possible consequences of the simulation, there is also the ability to rework dramatic events. From the experiments of psychologists with symbolic worlds created artificially, it has gone in recent years through the experiences rebuilt engines of video games that allow involvement other than through the first-person view ('first person' in Unreal, Quake, etc..). The possibility of splitting dreamlike identity of fluid in 9-11 Survivor , a prototype in which the protagonist must try to survive the tragedy of September 11, there are various projects in recent years have involved more or less directly the unconscious the player, bringing on a different, more intimate and subtle her reactions to changes in light colored screen. Waco Resurrection makes up this type of process for a particularly controversial in American history, namely the massacre in Waco, Texas, in 1993. The unclear role of the U.S. authorities in the death of eighty civilians (including women and children) belonging to the Branch Davidian religious group, after 51 days of siege, the community accused of child abuse and possession of weapons (both charges ever try), it has remained as a long shadow in the common sense of Americans. This game starts over at the end, that is the prophecy that their slain leader at the time (David Koresh) returns to the place where perished for the final battle. Being a multiplayer game, everyone has to fight not only against external threats, but also against the 'Koresh' rivals wearing a helmet in the installation of the same shape of the head and face of Koresh, which allows you to interact with voice commands. The amount of sounds using the shell is remarkable: from psychological weapons fielded with the phrases amplified by the FBI to biblical quotations up all'orrifico sound of arms. A decade after the collective unconscious emerges personificandosi the protagonist of a social drama, putting at stake the fate and staging a late vissuata from the inside and then once so unequivocal. The conflict takes on the traits represented so that everyone wants to emphasize, giving an illusory and liberating possibilities of judgment.
