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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14:03:02 Net.film, the films that embody the internet.
An international group of artists is exhibiting different interpretations of the concept of 'net.film' to 'The Ides of March' an exhibition in New York at ABC No Rio Gallery. Behind the different jobs there are the theoretical assumptions that bind the different practices that well they interface with the network and its structure, going beyond the standard streaming. The net.film in fact are based on the language of cinema showing it as content on the net, giving the perception of the 'movie', via a web page, and incorporating the possibility of changing content and structure at any time, so what is received is assembled at the precise moment of activation of the link. Beyond the variations that can be made, authors must always be known and the 'film' does not provide a real interaction with the user, because the browser is understood as a mere 'projector'. Its perculiarità Finally, resides in being composed of several parts, namely files on a server. The section ' Net.film ', curated by Bull Miletic, contains' You are here', a short film of the same Miletic set between destinations in rocks and deserts, 'All Systems Go', Katie Bush, with short animations on the loop from normality surreal, 'The End', another full-screen textual history of Young-hae Chang + Marc Voge (Heavy Industries), 'Psycho', Vuk Cosic, other ascii redefinition of the classic Alfred Hitchcock's' Disciplines Number Four of Milton Graham (pictured), a natural landscape, which occasionally reveals its digital nature and 'BCC', of Motomichi Nakamura, a series of flash animations (already presented to the Korea Web Art Festival, see ) of frustration and anxiety actually expressed by users of the community discussion forums.
