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.
Also this year the serratissima three days of electronic music and digital art in Barcelona takes place in the usual weekend overflowing with proposals, June 16 to 18. The Sonar 2005 , in fact, does not change in the structure than in previous years, keeping the compartments so far congealed. The festival in part reflects the changes that occur in the ever-effervescent electronic scene. Thus we note the presence of a group mashup (the '2 Many Dj's'), and a great attention to developments visual, especially in their live implementation, surpassing the boundaries of VJing in the strict sense. Symbolic therefore the presence of Casey Reas, who in addition to illustrate Processing , the multiplatform programming language for multimedia use, which he created and developed, will perform in the visual of different live acts. Under the heading 'audiovisual concerts', then, there are also Spanish-tedesci FUSS! with 'AMBIENTADOR', the Smgwaw + Dregs with a simulation of a postmodern hell set at Abu Ghraib, the Mikomikona with 'Fourier-Tanzformation I + II' with moire pattern reinterpreted as acoustic events, the Cineplexx & Abe with the documentary 'The Synchronised Dance of the Magnetic Peanuts', Slub Vs Nebogeo with their vjing carried out through computer code programmed live, Laurent Garnier Cinemix with 'Inventory Before Disappearance', a mix of images provided from the Albert Kahn museum collections in ten twenty years of last century for the ambitious project 'Archives of the Planet', the My Robot Friend , Skoltz_Kolgen with 'FLüUX :/ TERMINAL' exploitative dramatic impact sterofonici in combination with the visual parts and Rei Harakami & Shiro Takatani with 'Lust'. In the section Sonarama, however, devoted to the overlap between sound art and new media, we find 'Mass Of Voice', Golan Levin / Zachary Lieberman – Jaap Blonk Y Joan La Barbara, already presented at Ars Electronica 2003 , Radio Astronomy of Radioqualia, projects RIXC , Marcel.lí Antunez, some members of the group TOPLAP ( Adrian Ward , Alex Mclean and Dave Griffiths), the Robot Software Garbage In / Garbage Out, Eugenio Tisselli and South African rand ()% Joe Gilmore and Tom Betts. SonarMática year is then entitled 'Randonnée', and is dedicated to the abstraction of the concept of landscape in the twenty-first century with a rich digital video and review of websites including: 'Echo Days' of Scanner and Katarina Matiasek, 'Bessenbahn' of Dietmar Offenhuber , 'Suburbs Of The Void' by Thomas Köner , 'Epple' of Röyksopp , ' Newsmap 'Marcos Weskamp,' RND # 04 'by Richard Fenwick' Sometimes' by Kid 606 / Pleix , ' Life: A User's Manual ' Michelle Teran, ' GPS Drawing 'by Jeremy Wood and Hugh Pryor,' FlickrGraph 'Marcos Weskamp, and' Baby Name Wizard Voyager 'of Martin and Laura Wattenberg. Among the top names, finally, engaged in concerts and DJ sets are: Miss Kittin , Luke Vibert , Jeff Mills , Le Tigre , The Soft Pink Truth and Goodiepal .
