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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07:01:02 'Cyberarts', net art in Singapore.
Seven are the works of net art accessible through the interface ' Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology ', the festival of net art in progress at the Singapore Art Museum, and are characterized by an excellent level of analysis and intervention on issues art in network. Deadfish, Yonk, Miso_Soup and Team Fragnetics have 'Untitled' cannibalized a net multiplayer game (Counter Strike) by replacing the scenarios with others on the places most familiar to them and speaking for the players 'Hokkien', a local dialect Chinese, converting the abstraction of cultural imperialism of the original version in a lived reality of elements and recognizable. Tsunami.net, however, has created an installation of telepresence in which a performer with gps (a device that reveals your location via satellite consultations) sends data to its exact location via a mobile phone and consequently causes a navigation via web 'physical' through a software called 'webwalker'. In 'Bodies in Virtual Reality' by Margaret Tan, instead you bring into question the models of virtual body created in the project 'The Visible Human Project', allowing users who register to inflict the same models bruises and wounds. Irina Aristarchova, in 'Virtual Chora', focuses on one of the most subtle of the web, allowing you to his site so appointed, to host (via upload) or to create users with all the material they want, demystifying policies access typical of the structure of the server. 'Suicide Gallery' of Vincent Leow, is an interactive installation where visitors can 'play' in audio and video with the moments that occur on the brink of suicide. 'Body Browser' by Paul Lincoln, provides navigational interface represented by a body that allows access to parts of the web corresponding to the parts of the body on which you click. In 'Acoustic Acclimation' Damien Lock, finally, presents a cross-section of the audio everyday life in Singapore, accompanied by a series of images to search for its perceptual connections.
