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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18:04:02 Big Torino 2002, a young art electronics.
Inaugurated on April 19 in Turin, Big Torino 2002 , the biennial exhibition of young artists in the Mediterranean, which this year sees the participation of different situations related to net art and electronic art in general. The famous, even if scaled group of Etoy, for example, has already landed in Turin its 'etoy.TANK # 4', a container of orange with all the technology group standards, including those for night vision , which is connected with the TANK # 10 arrived from Tokyo. The group also intends to take charge of the daily digital and physical custody of the children and teenagers who visit the exhibition (6 months-12 years). Other projects involved, 'Pettek' by Israeli Tal Adler, an art project on the forthcoming elections of the Israeli parliament that provides for the filing of fictitious candidates, 'Big browser, surfing reality' Fabrice Gallis, in which the artist collects information wandering the city and the stores on the net, 'de-lete.tv' Fran Ilich, an interactive movie that between fiction and educational aspects challenges the misconceptions about feminism of Mexican adolescents, 'Distributive Justice' by Andreja Kuluncic a project on redistribution of resources which is part of a network game where you can exchange goods and intangible assets, 'Oblomov' by Martin Le Chevallier an interactive video where the protagonist sleeps until someone does not activate a single click, 'ethnic Cities' Samantha Longoni & Martin Roth / Belleville, an installation that involves the use of 'Fotobots', the cameras connected to the network and that can be activated remotely, positioned behind windows allow you to get photos of what is ripresto at all times, '. / LogicalAnd' of re-p/m.ash Maja Gusberti, Michael Aschauer and Nik Thoenen a virtual and interactive three-dimensional landscape that comes from real information, that is, numbers, codes and statistical data, 'karaoke' by Frank Guerrero of RTMark, where inside a bus is helped anyone to make a video, 'e-city' by Markus Weber and Dirk Vogel, a virtual city that wants to be redesigned by the inhabitants of the royal city, 'Superprison' of Superflex (Bj ¿rnstjerne Reuter Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen), a video channel on the internet spread by a prison with a group of inmates. The exhibition will run until May 19.
