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.
Provocatively titled 'No Concept' opened on July 25 Garage, 2003 Festival which is held in Stralsund (Germany). The editors have tried to reflect this time one of the most important issues in these times, that is the feeling of uncertainty, insecurity and disorientation, and at contempi, of open possibilities that the dramatic changes in society and infrastructure are carrying. As in previous editions , particular attention was made to the sound stage where there are vibrations architectural Mark Bain – 'Trembling Structures', the frequencies interact in the dark Alex Davies – 'Heterodyne', 'Anchortronic 5.1' new dvd / installation of surround Time's Up, 'Fruit Power', the sounds made by the electrical conductivity of various kinds of fruit XvWersch / D.Krooshof / T.Scheele, the waves emitted by mobile phones as a tool of control for resonant magnets in 'MobileMinder 'Matthias Fitz, the navigation system sound space' Sonic Maze 'by Christian Engler and urban sounds programmable' stadt sound station 'of akuvido. In other installations are data transformations forgotten in 'Garbage In / Garbage Out' of Robot Software, paper models instantaneous 'The world as cardboard model' of Eiscafé, adoptions cultural 'Adopted' Gudrun F. Widlok, 'Self-Trigger Keys' metaphorical keys as small sculptures in public places Aniko Szövenyi, a surveillance camera ironically self-built in 'DIY: CCTV' of triPhaze, Garbage In / Garbage Out – Robot Software, software switchare false religion plug 'n pray Italian Lionello Borean, ' stop motion studies ', studies on the animation frame by David Crawford, the files of the projects that were never completed the' files and folders' by Thomas Keller, 'numb' Christian Oyarz 'No a web application for psychometric testing, transmission of the movements of his body from his home in another place through sensors' noBody' Christian Oyarz'n, keywords collectively shown in '+ Key Words' by Magali and Desbazeille Siegfried Canto and ' la langue charge if 'Michaël Sellam. The conference 'Instable Systems' with Andreas Broeckmann, Antye Greie, Simon Waters, Eric Hobijn and Thilges3, the festival of short films 'niale g-' and a full program of evening concerts complement the full-bodied program.
