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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11.07.02 Social Forum, social communication seminar + Eur @ ction Hub Project.
At the European Social Forum in Florence, we will also discuss communication at the bottom and information ecology. Thursday, November 7th at 14.00 and Saturday, November 9 at 9:00 am, media experts and discuss information on the construction of alternative economic models to create forms of communication free and independent, oriented to build public opinion critically aware. Will be reflected on the need to put in place practices and relations in view of information is not sold, which arise from civil society and from the meeting of social movements. On November 7, it is expected a round table discussion on Europe and the issues of the "Information Society", in which journalists and attended by international scholars such as Roberto Savio, Granville Williams, Pine Rea, Paul Barnard, Silvestro Montanaro, Henri Maler, Michele Sorice , a debate followed by speeches of members of independent media and mainstream socially engaged as Les amis du Monde Diplomatique, Paper, Liberation, Oneworld EEA Europe, Altreconomia, Africa / Sdebitarsi, Rekombinat, Radio Popolare, Sherwood. Saturday, November 9 the main theme will be building an ecology of information and democratization of the media and new technologies: in this case, the contributions of theorists and critics of the industry will alternate with those of independent media and motion ( including Indymedia, Peacelink, Rete Lilliput). Another important project in this event is the Eur @ ction Hub Project. From a meeting in Barcelona on 5 October, which saw the participation of several reality of motion (Indymedia, Intergalactika, Chainworkers, Las Agencias, Yomango, Movimiento de Resistencia Global de Catalunya, Comunicaccio, Laboratory Desobediente-Spain, Universidad Nomada, Colectivo in Solidarity with Chiapas, Dinero Gratis, Ninguna person es ilegal, etc..), kicked off this project, an experimental laboratory practices of communication, conflict and social activism. L ' Eur @ ction Hub Project aims to be an autonomous space to the "Parterre" in Liberty Square in Florence November 7 to 9, in the days when it held the European Social Forum. It is proposed to reflect and work on the processes of policy production, forms of experimentation expressive and communicative movement. The Hub (connector), expresses the wish to be a center of convergence open and inclusive, which infect practices, tools and knowledge, a path of liberation subway. Hub is also contamination of the identity and innovation of the forms of activism media and communications widespread peer-to-peer networks. There are various seminars organized in a horizontal manner, starting with the publication of its proposal for a workshop on the project site through a special form. Among the events on the calendar, "ESA. Laboratory techniques of social activism and subversion widespread in daily life", "Strategies for self-government of the collective sphere", "Media jamming and clogging cultural" laboratory audiovisual experimentation with TV and web radio hub .
Tatiana Bazzichelli
