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.
It takes place in Catania, venersì from 4 to Sunday, April 6, SoFar preview , anticipation in collaboration with the Festival Summary of Naples in the second edition of the festival of electronic music SoFar which will be organized in the month of October. Among the guests Blixa Bargeld ( Einstuerzende Neubauten ), Marco Passarani, Retina.it, Carlo Natoli and Jolly Music.
– Friday 04 April 2003: Ricky Montanari returns to Miss America, to Maffia Illicit Club, Reggio Emilia. At Bluecheese, Rome, Second ZNC Magazine Launch Party, with Sygo (Afun Recs.), Raffaele Costantino (Hertzz / Frenalamula) and Andypop (AdP / Basstation), d'n'b Italy. All'Init, in Rome, live in Three Second Kiss (free-form) and KBN (indiecore). Xplosiva, Turin, back to Officine Belforte, with Sergio Ricciardone, along with Giorgio Valletta, the first double with another dj-set also on the evening of the next day.
– Saturday 05 April 2003: If you have heard of the London nights Anokha, do not miss Talvin Singh, namely Asia and drum'n'bass dj-set more tablas, the Maffia. Drum'nBass Arena (Afghan and Maver) along with Bass Taste Crew and Unity, to present the CD "Italian Bassline Vol.1" (jungle and drum'n'bass), to Bluecheese Factory, Rome. Still all'Init, however, in Rome, live of Jasminshock (noise) and Physique du role (Intellicore). Presentation of the disk Painè, live set in the little hollow with Rocco Pandiani (Right Tempo) and Steve Little (Temposphere). On Radio 2 Rai, Weekendance, with Fabio De Luca and Francesco Roccaforte, dj-set broadcast of Don Carlos and Sergio Ricciardone, guest Painè + new previews.
– Sunday 06 April 2003: Still on the Maffia, 'Turntable Wizard', R &B; 'n Hip Hop Vibration, with Mista Bright Brown + + Tayone (Alien Army). Happening music Microelectronics, the links in the blue room: from Quantize Records, Pierpaolo Leo & Noxiuss Nabb, live set (dj set + video) digital room: dj Darshan & Oscar Wedmar (live DJ and vocals) + Superpitcher (Kompakt ) in the black room, Lele Sacchi (Soundplant, Milan) and Poker (Murshmellow) in the digital room: Giovanni Gandolfi (UNHIP Rec).
