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.
From November 28 to December 5 is renewed in Nova Gorica (Gorizia in the other half of Slovenian territory) Pixxelpoint that after the editions of 2001 and 2002 was entitled ques'anno 'pixels city'. Two installations present: the famous 'Remain in Light' by Haruki Nishijima, presented at Ars Electronica 2001 , and 'LAST' by Ross Cooper and Jussi Angleseva, in addition to the workshops 'Intellectual Property, Copyleft and Free Software for Visual Creation' Andraz Tori and a report on Ars Electronica Futurelab held by Christopher Lindinger and a large set of concerts among which that of Hanin Elias (ex-Atari Teenage Riot). Meanwhile it has just ended in Halle (Germany) D-Motion , interactive media conference and festival, that among the projects on display included: 'Silvers Alter' Gina Czarnecki, which creates hybrid forms confronted with technical problems and ethical of genetic engineering, ' PainStation 'the Fur,' TAG, interactive real-time projection 'of Volker Atrops, which identifies with a video camera at a party some people with different signs attached to clothing and transforms them into abstract objects in 3D follow the movements of the same person, giving the whole sequence to the audience, 'mr_helmer' by Rainer Eisch, which perpetuates the vision of a camera on a liquid surface and the prospect of a line on the horizon, all so abstract from be able to be any other combination of simulated and 'V_game02_performance' Yanick Fournier, in which two characters are manipulated by strings attached to their limbs, reproducing a typical interaction in real and virtual in the full physical reality.
