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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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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Michael Lightborne – Ring Road Ring

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Vinyl 12″ – Gruenrekorder

Contact microphones are the tools used by Michael Lightborne, positioned close to the concrete pylons supporting the Coventry Ring Road, the huge dual-carriageway flanking the hometown of Delia Derbyshire. The road was built between the →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 7 Apr 2021

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – The Nomadic Listener

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Errant Bodies Press, ISBN-13: 978-0997874464, English, 124 pages, 2020, Germany

The Nomadic Listener is defined by Chattopadhyay as an ‘augmented book’. It is made of a stream of thoughts, generated by the itinerant author, psychogeographically exploring →

audio artbookfield recordings 5 Apr 2021

Black To Comm – Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens

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CD – Thrill Jockey

The piece begins with a tribute to the artist and activist Gustav Metzger – one of the founding fathers of kinetic painting and a theorist auto destructive art. In the composition, the confluence of voices and →

audio artexperimental 31 Mar 2021

VV.AA. – Resolution: Issue No. 0: The Pixel

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Onomatopee Projects, ISBN-13: 978-9493148192, English, 96 pages, 2020, The Netherlands

Already attentive to the formidable impact of digital images, Onomatopee publishes the inaugural issue of the new Resolution annual magazine, which programmatically “tackles images in →

artbooktheoryvisual 29 Mar 2021

Francisco López – untitled (2019)

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CD – esc.rec.

All the compositions in this new album by Francisco López for esc.rec. date to 2019 and were recorded in Den Haag, Milan, Riga, Prague, Mmabolela and Loosduinen. They are brought together here to resonate in a coherent →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 24 Mar 2021

edited by Tanya Ravn Ag – Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art

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intellect, ISBN-13: 978-1783209484, English, 442 pages, 2019, UK

Investigating media art in a limited geographical territory has frequently been attempted with mixed results, often claiming tenuous connections between the specific use of technologies and the →

booknew media arttheory 22 Mar 2021

Kotra & Zavoloka – Silence

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7″ one sided – Kvitnu

If choosing to remain silent is also a linguistic act, Then the greeting that Kotra and Zavoloka address to their audience as the last act before the closure of the label Kvitnu is especially poignant: →

audio artexperimental 17 Mar 2021

edited by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt – Playing Utopia, Futures in Digital Games

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transcript, ISBN-13: 978-3839450505, English, 332 pages, 2019, Germany

It might seem a curious accident that this book was published just before 2020 ushered in a tangible dystopia, but its discussion of utopia, through history, narrative, →

bookgamestheoryutopia 16 Mar 2021

Mads Emil Nielsen + Katja Gretzinger + Nicola Ratti – Framework 3

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10″ Vinyl – Arbitrary

This is the third chapter from Arbitrary in a series launched by Mads Emil Nielsen, Framework, a project focused on open and hand-drawn graphic scores which includes subjective translations by the Danish composer. Nielsen, who grew →

audio artexperimental 11 Mar 2021

Lev Manovich – Cultural Analytics

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The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-9083065502, English, 336 pages, 2020, USA

The eagerly awaited new Manovich book is built around an idea he started to publicly formulate in the second half of the 2000s: to →

bookdigital culturetheoryvisual media 8 Mar 2021

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