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 opens Aug. 22 in Aarhus, Denmark 's 2004 edition of READ_ME , an international festival of software art that this year is divided into a two-day conference and a subsequent three-day 'camp', understood as a collective event and shared space, this time not in the open air, but hosted by the local Academy of Fine Arts This festival is an annual full scan using the code of the interfaces and their conventions as a means of artistic expression, giving this' year a broad spectrum of projects and visions. Along the list of actions, including, 'A Re-Declaration of Dependence Ð Software Art in a Cultural Context It Canot Get out of' Jacob Lillemose, a socio-cultural contextualization of software art; 'Code as performative speech act' by Inke Arns, the performativity of the Code; 'Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Code' by Geoff Cox , Alex McLean and Adrian Ward , on the aesthetics of generative code; 'Lego for a Meta-Meta-Art-Theory of Forms' Andreas Leo Findeisen, on theoretical that can affect the emerging theories about the software; 'mise en abyme in Software Art: A Comment to Florian Cramer' Troels Degn Johansson, on the figure of the 'mise en abyme', ie the recursion of elements, by artists such as theming of the problems of representation 'Code Art Brutalism: Low-Level Systems and Simple Programs' by Simon Yuill on the relations between assembly code and brutalist architecture, 'Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary Organisation for its Promotion' of Amy Alexander , Nick Collins, Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean, Fredrik Olofsson, Rohrhuber Julian and Adrian Ward, the newly formed organization TOPLAP composed of musicians who create music in real time with the code; '{Software} Structures' by Casey Reas on relations between the software and the work of the artist Sol Lewitt; 'Super-Abstract: Software Art and the Redefinition of Abstraction' Brad Borevitz, which analyzes the abstraction in the software on multiple levels; 'Digital Objects' of Matthew Fuller that analyzes a group projects of social software prompting you to reflect on the nature of the software, 'No Carrier and Other Stories from Philippine BBS Culture' of Fatima Lasay on significant culture of BBS in the Philippines, 'A Glimpse Beyond Search Engines' by Christophe Bruno , who tries to look at the network as a global set of texts with all the philosophical consequences of the case; 'The World According to the Web' Douwe Osinga & Ernst Wit, seeking to build two-dimensional maps to describe the world seen from the web; 'The Sequencer Paradigm 'by Alessandro Ludovico, software for music sequencing seen as cultural archetype;' Made by Users 'Mirko Schaefer, who describes the potential role of users in shaping the products in a context of cultural freedom and' Software Art and Political Implications Algorithms in 'Pau Alsina David Gonzalez, describing the inevitable political implications in the creation of algorithms that interrogate the database. The camp is run in conjunction with the Dorkbot, an organization that facilitates informal but very active local meetings of those who experience with software, hardware and technology varies. Here also are planned workshops, presentations and performances in the next three days, including Paul Slocum , Peter Luining , the creators of NEST , Tom Betts , Joan Lean
dre , Douglas Repetto and Goodiepal .
