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.
One of the methods to avoid the eternal conflict of forensic involving public to copyright is to use the sharp weapon of irony, stimulating large-scale popular reactions that make clear the paradox between the obsession with exploitation until 'bone of copyright and common sense that characterizes the majority of artists. The lawsuits, in fact, been going on for too long and the difference in the means by which the majors and their lobbyists facing them, relegates a few resounding successes victories possible. Downhill Battle is an organization dedicated to building a music system fairer and came to prominence hosting iTMS-4-ALL . A new project has been finalized after the incredible judgment that at the beginning of September 2004 recognized the NWA guilty of violating U.S. law on copyright championship for 3-note guitar riff from 'Get off Your Ass and Jam 'Funkadelic and have it included in their '100 Miles and Runnin'. A previous judgment had rejected the claim of George Clinton (guitarist and leader of the band), stating that even his family would have been able to recognize that such a small fragment of music without an explicit suggestion. From here 3 Notes and Runnin ' , a free online compilation that commemorate and protest this latest legal absurdity. The songs submitted to the organizers (forty so far, all more than discrete) lasts 30 seconds and all the same sample using organic indicted, making the irrefutable evidence of the enormous potential richness and diversity derived from sampled music and his artistic use. This type of cultural reprisals, immediate and spontaneous, able to shift the focus on the technical possibilities popular (essential) and the need to revise the concept of ownership related to music samples.
