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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17:04:02 Is Not Analog Digital 2002 in Milan.
Inaugurated on April 17 at 19:30 at the Infopoints of Pond Street, 2 Milan (reservations required 02-57404540), the fourth edition of the festival in three years of net.art Digital_is_not_analog , this year entitled 'Interfaces Cultural identity in games and Internet time '. Curated by Marco Deseriis (nickaname: Snafu), this year also sees the presence of international guests, such as Matthew Fuller, founder of the London-based group I / O / D creator of the first browser artistic (Webstalker), which presents TextFM, software Speech interfaced in Perl on a Mac that law, in the true sense of the word, text messages sent by SMS or web. This synthetic reading can be heard through a network streaming, which can be relayed by a radio station. The program also Bilchbaum Andy and Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men collective, a group of sappers media who runs a website very similar to that of the WTO with a lot of different content, and creators of parodyware YesIWill, able to create a parody of a website in less than no time (see RTMark: YesIWill first parodyware. , and Reamweaver 2.0, parodyware the Yes Men. ). Expected then the intervention of the Milan group of epidemiC, numerous collective dedicated to the cultural value of computer viruses, which presents downJones sendmail, a code that insirisce in e-mail messages a phrase unexpected, to dissaputa of its author. Another prominent guest Agnese Trocchi (nickname: Machine), who will present a creative use of Freenet, the free network for the exchange of information, through a treasure hunt, a project that will be out in a month and which was funded by the festival net art Taiwanese 'The Kingdom of Piracy'.
