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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31.12.01 Perspectives on New Media, net.art exhibition of JavaMuseum.
It is active for the first time online exhibition of JavaMuseum, entitled ' 1st of Java – Perspectives on New Media '. It consists of 37 framed works in the specific site viewing and categorized.
In 'Communication' are: 'Videomail' Fernando Llanos, video sent via email and interface safety of flight, 'Sprawl' by Patrick Lichty, Quicktime VR panoramas on the transformations in the suburban midwest USA, 'CRISC' Atle Barcley , where users can watch their 'movements' in the pages of the site, 'Wap Icon' Eldar Karhalev, religious icons for mobile phones, 'Manta' Jaka Zeleznikar + Aleksandra Globokar, a story of summer, sea and islands based on the search engines, 'Desktop' Brooke A. Knight, a webcam pointed on the screen, rather than on a person and 'id' of George Alamidis, ID cards multiple artist.
In 'Living Room', however, 'The world of awe' of Yael Kanarek, a treasure hunt with nostalgic feelings for the technology, 'Ghost City' Jody Zellen, on the representation of the city by the media, 'Relish' Jacki Danylchuk, short videos about food and about the game, 'Brown' by Ian David Aronson, a documentary flash on the growth of a child in a biracial family, 'Illegal operation' by Toni Mestrovic, videos of Dental illegal operation, 'chicosalvak' Marylin Watelet five video interviews, '24h00 'Valery Grancher, twenty-four photos taken during an entire day by as many students on a campus of Berkeley and' qwertyu 'Italian Giacomo Verde, poems on the physical space.
In 'Garden' could not miss the Turin '8081 'with their digital ecosystem' The Island ',' Oximoris', a retrospective of the artist of the site, 'SlipstreamAndromeda' Christina McPhee, three videos and interactive flash superimposed with four texts loop and scores, 'Killthepresident' of Sfear Bebopanaut, digital photos and installations on the metaphor of the assassination, 'Experimental Life Project' Digital Sisters Indeed, languages and conversations perceived chance, 'Crossing the Divide' Trebor Scholz + Carol Flax , personal stories of lives lived in close proximity to geographical boundaries, 'selbst-LOS / SELF-LESS' Wolf Kahlen, some pages out of a possible conceptual and ritual death 'Warped Wrapping Our Minds' of WOWM.org, direct submission of projects of 'art through chat-rooms.
In 'Studio', they are, 'trashconnection' Roman Minaev, (see Trashconnection ), 'imagen' Leander Seige, (pictured) a generator of images that can be drawn also to a uploadata user 'Realtime Fogchars 'Marek Gibney, characters obtained by grids nebulae,' algorhythm 'Ashley Holmes + Matthew Hawker, animated gif sound and beats for postmodern theories,' ASCII-tecture 'of Aleksandra Globokar, architectures in VRML,' The Art of Spirolaterals', by Robert J. Krawczyk, images of spirals that are closed and 'treetrunk.mov' by Doron Golan, a video to explore the nature of pixels in Quicktime VR.
In 'Poetesses Lounge', finally, there are the famous Mez [mary-anne breeze] with 'Cloh! Neing God Ange N-Lz', text and images on the absurdity of cloning, 'Get Real' Tiia Johannson, on ' mediated ultrasound image of an unborn child, 'Enregistrer1' Armelle Aulestia, conversations with images of tapes re / winding, 'My Faux Cinema:' Fresh!'' Nicole Stenger, reveries of Los Angeles in VRML, 'Silence' of Olga Kisseleva, a conceptual work on the silence from two different perspectives and 'Glen 9' Yifat Gat, visual poetry.
