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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13:02:02 immedi 2002.
Organized by the Ann Arbor Michigan's Electronic Artist Coalition, is being Immedia 2002 digital and electronic art exhibition , an international festival of electronic art divided into different areas of selection (installation, video, web, animation, performance, music, and static works design). Crowded, in particular, the web section with 'The Central City' and 'Amorphoscapes' of English Room, 'N3XT' Shirin Kouldije, combined and interactive animations, 'Time as a Color' by Christopher Otto, time is understood as a combination hour-minute-second combined with percentages of red-green-blue and made with a single color resulting 'IO-N' and 'Sous Terre' by Gregory Chatonsky, an intriguing visual reflection on the Paris metro, 'Eidetic Memory' Rick Mullarky, everyday images in memory as shown in a daydream and 'Eat The Monster' by Matthew Shultz, hypertext literature that dynamically recombines three different stories, depending on the paths chosen by the player. In the section devoted to the sounds should mention the presence of Italian Franco De Grassi with his 'Zoloft', a composition obtained entirely by sampling the first twenty seconds of the 'Sequenza V' by Luciano Berio for solo trombone and reprocess all through granular synthesis C-Sound. Among the conferences, finally, were those of Golan Levin, one of the students of John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab, who will present 'Scribble', a performance of combinations studied time and time between random sounds and colors making use of the Audiovisual Environment Suite, and the closing held by Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman, about his recent support for the Final Scratch software that allows you to manipulate acoustically sound files through a turntable connected to the PC and a vinyl as an interface.
