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.
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The cultural viruses, namely those practices that fail to take root socially content out of the 'noise' background daily, are the prerogative of the artists more aware of the mechanisms of communication and the most cunning of walking in the thin limbo that the law and censorship leave to more daring. Ubermorgen (Hans Bernhard, founder of Etoy, and Lizvlx) certainly belong to this category, and their new solo exhibition [F] original, authenticity as consensual hallucination , demonstrates. Organized by the center [Plug.in] Basel (Basel), the exhibition is based on two seminal works, [V] ote-auction.com and Injunktion Generator , thanks to which Ubermorgen have developed the term '[F] original' , ie documents generated automatically by machines, accepted as original, but nothing more than "Just pixels on a screen, Just Ink on Paper" according to one of the famous phrases of the two visionaries. To confirm this fascinating thesis, was also conducted in another work, the BANKSTATEMENTGENERATOR , able to generate reports bank. Friday, 17, In a panel which will involve also Inke Arns, Susanne Ackers Lillemose and Jacob, in the same place and entitled 'A radical net.art project and it's desire for the art market', we will discuss these issues, while the two sappers have also launched another operation, issuing releases signed Art Basel, the biggest art fair that takes place simultaneously in the same city, which argues that technology RFID is being used by the organizers to collect personal data of visitors and draw their interest for the works, with a system that dynamically change the price of the work according to the financial possibilities of the beholder and passing all data to the respective gallery so that could replenish its database.
