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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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Florian Wittenburg – Beyond The Traceries

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CD – Wandelweiser

The English word “tracery”, “flechtwerk” in German or “nervatura” in Italian can be translated in different ways, first of all as “interlace”, which is well suited to the idea of ​​intricate electronic music, but also as “embroidery”, →

ambientaudio artelectroacoustic musicexperimental 11 Jan 2021

edited by Sabine Himmelsbach, Angelique Spaninks, Ariane Koek – Real Feelings, Emotion and Technology

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Christoph Merian Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3856169312, English, 192 pages, 2020, Switzerland

Technology’s influence on our emotions is a recurring topic in digital culture discourse, especially since we entered the era of the quantified self. In particular, →

booknew media arttheory 7 Jan 2021

Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol.4

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CD – Noton

This is the fourth and penultimate work Alva Noto released for the series Xerrox. The project began in 2007 and is based on the iterative reproduction and manipulation of digital samples, copying and then copying again. Unlike →

audio artelectronicaexperimental 1 Jan 2021

(edited by) Susanne Gaensheimer, Kathrin Beßen – Cao Fei

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Hirmer Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-3777432045, German, 192 pages, 2019, Germany

Cao Fei is probably one of the most requested Chinese artists by US and EU art institutions. This can largely be attributed to a rare ability →

artbooktechnology 24 Dec 2020

(edited by) Lawrence Kumpf – Blank Forms Journal, Vol. 4: Intelligent Life

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Blank Forms Editions, ISSN: 2642-7052, English, 302 pages, 2019, USA

The 4th issue of Blank Forms’ journal serves its vocation to research and publish forgotten dynamics and connections in experimental music. The issue’s →

bookmusictheory 17 Dec 2020

Richard Glover, Bryn Harrison, Jennie Gottschalk – Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality

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Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1623564940, English, 200 pages, 2019, USA

The temporality of music is a core argument for the perception and awareness of time. Music is discernable through time and its perception can influence the →

audio artemusictheory 11 Dec 2020

(edited by) Joerg Bader – Rob van Leijsen: The Drone Chronicles 2001–2016

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Spector Books OHG, ISBN-13: 978-3959053105, English, 784 pages, 2019, Germany

Drone images have rapidly introduced a substantial perspectival gap into our already overwhelmed visual faculties. This is the most spectacular change we have experienced →

bookdesigndronetheory 3 Dec 2020

Síria ‎– Boa​-​Língua

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Cassette – Crónica

Boa-Língua in Portuguese literally means “good tongue”. This expression is often used in contrast to “bad tongue” that is “small talk”. For his second album Siria used structures of his former work, Cuspo. She used them as →

experimentalfree form 27 Nov 2020

Tim Ingold & Carmen Pardo & Mikel R. Nieto – A soft hiss of this world

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Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder, ISBN-13: 978-8409128617, English, 264 pages, 2019, Germany

It is perhaps surprising that experimental music labels have recently produced some of the most interesting experiments in print publishing. Maybe →

audio artbooksound 24 Nov 2020

John Beck, Ryan Bishop – Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde

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Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-1478006602, English, 240 pages, 2020, USA

Whenever we want to date the first examples of media art (from antiquity to the 20th Century), there are a few influential moments in history →

artbooktechnology 17 Nov 2020

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