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.
The definition of the organic matter according to 'patterns' of data is a concept generated the information age, it is replaced dynamically to materials and maps of processes. ICC in Tokyo will be inaugurated on April 29 Open Nature , an exhibition curated by Yukiko Shikata, which explores this double vision of nature that transformed the analysis and simulation techniques digitization is perceived in a more direct and natural briefly, and At the same time, communication technologies and organizations that follow evolutionary developments of nature. The works included include: 'Flatland' by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, formal abstraction and dynamic views of the Mekong River delta, 'Corpora.proceed (sky)' of doubleNegative Architecture , architecture generated from data drawn from the time heavenly 'Biopresence 2055' Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel, 'Naked Bandit / here, not here / white sovereign v2.1' of Knowbotic Research , an interactive representation through the iniquitous forms swollen and programmable power structure of information technology , 'spray' and 'modular re.strukt' of Carsten Nicolai , 'Spectral-System Tyo ON2005' Marko Peljhan Pact and Systems, with its mobile laboratory and independent data processing drawn to satellites and networks, 'Radio Astronomy' of Radioqualia , 'The Sine Wave Orchestra stay' with the band, with their usual combinations of sine waves, 'Spiral Jetty' by Robert Smithson, new ecosystems created in the seventies in Utah, 'To the Sea' by Takamine Tadasu , a parallel between human gestation and computer science, 'Virtual Marathon' of tsunamii.net , a marathon conducted through servers on the network, with speed calculations that reflect their distance, 'PHYCH | OS', sui generis work of Ubermorgen that describes the difficult period of Hans Bernhard after the abuse of narcotic drugs and total immersion in the culture of the network, ee 'White Track, Green Track' + Hideyuki Yamashita Yamashita Lab in NID, architectures and artificial landscapes constructed of local natural rules. They are the information flows and their interactions that implement forms of redefinition of nature through the fusion of opposing categories such as material / immaterial, embrace a new potential relationship that opens up additional possibilities for processing.
