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.
a conference curated by Tommaso Tozzi and Alessandro Ludovico
Friday, July 29, 2005
Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts)
Via Roma 1 – Carrara (Tuscany, Italy) tel. +39 0585 71658
9.30am – 1.30pm / 3.00pm – 7.00pm
with (in alphabetical order):
Robert Adrian (Wien, AU)
Hans Bernhard (Wien, AU)
Arturo Di Corinto (Rome, IT)
Steven Kovats (Rotterdam, NL)
Enrico Pedrini (Genoa, IT)
Cornelia Sollfrank (Hamburg, DE)
Luca Toschi (Florence, IT)
installation:
Giuseppe Chiari (Firenze – IT)
"Audio and Video recording from the seventies and eighties"
program:
9.30am – 1:30 pm
– Tommaso Tozzi – coordinator of Multimedia Art Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, Florence, IT
– Enrico Pedrini – critic, Genoa, IT
– Luca Toschi – Communication Strategies of the laboratory director and head of the Communication Theory master's degreee, Florence, IT
– Robert Adrian – artist – Wien, AT
– Arturo Di Corinto – teacher of Online Communication Psichology – Rome – IT
– Discussion
3.00pm – 7:00 pm
– Alessandro Ludovico – new media critic, Neural.it – Bari, IT
– Hans Bernhard – artist, Ubermorgen, Etoyholding – Wien, AT
– Steven Kovats – international programs developer, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media – Rotterdam, NL
– Cornelia Sollfrank – artist, Old Boys Network – Hamburg, DE
– Discussion
In the networked art the artwork 's boundaries dissolve in the intertwined relationships between subjects, objects, strategies and theories. This process not only modifies artistic, political and commercial models, but it transforms the cultures, the languages and the logic behind the theories of the interconnected society. Inter-disciplinarity, indétermination, transformation, decentralization and interaction, are among the key concepts of the sixties. But they are Also the background of the artists have used the That telematic networks to plan new worlds or to critique the existing ones. The conference 'Net History of the Arts' has the purpose to gather some important experiences about some of the most active subjects, Their actions and collaboration with external institutions, groups and movements, and the technologies they used, Even More importantly, Their theorical, social and cultural goals.
Biographies.
Robert Adrian X (AC / AT)
Celebrated contemporary artist, Produces installations, radio art and sound art works from 1957 and he's one of the Recognized pioneer of telecomunication art. He started to work and experiment in this field Already in 1979. He lives in Vienna.
Hans Bernhard (CH / AU)
One of the founders and creator of Etoy practices like the 'digital hijack'. He founded the group with Ubermorgen Lizvlx, and Realized famous net.art works like 'Vote-Auction', 'Injunction Generator' and 'Google Will Eat Itself'. He won many awards like the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica's 'golden nica'. He lives and works in Vienna and St. Moritz.
Giuseppe Chiari (IT)
Musician and artist. He's a composer from 1950 and he's the most important Italian representative of the Fluxus movement, and one of the most important italian artists of the 20th century. He wrote books, essays and writings That have changed the music system, and his works are Exhibited in museums all around the world. He's author of happenings and music experiments and he wrote music for different media.
Arturo Di Corinto (IT)
Cognitive psychologist and new media expert. Researcher at the University of Stanford (1997-1998), teacher at the Carrara Academy of Arts and University of Rome. He's author of essays on the technological innovation and social Behaviours relationship. He's a founding member of the Notice to mariners BBS, Islands in the Net and Cittadigitali. He writes Also for the national newspapers Il Manifesto, La Repubblica and for the magazine in April.
Stephen Kovats (CA / NL)
Canadian born architect and media researcher Stephen Kovats spent a decade upon German unification designing and Establishing media art and culture related programs at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. His "Electronic Media Interpretation Studio" hosted Numerous international projects, symposia and exhibitions. Kovats founded several media culture oriented exchange and network programs including Archi-Tonomy, EMARE, ECX and the Bauhauskolleg. Editor of the book "Media Revolution. Electronic Media in the Transformation Process of Eastern and Central Europe." Currently Kovats is international programs developer at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam.
Alessandro Ludovico (IT)
Media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from 1993. He has written books and essays media culture. He's one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community and one of the founders of the 'Mag.Net (European Cultural Publishers)' organization. He writes for various international magazines and he's Also an expert in the Runme.org board and a collaborator of the Digitalkraft exhibitions.
Enrico Pedrini (IT)
He curated international exhibitions and he was one of the curators of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale. He has written many essays on contemporary art. Actually he's studying the interactions amongst the Dissipative Systems, the Theory of Chaos and the Possible Worlds That bring art to the universe of the dissipation and the cathegories possibilism.
Cornelia Sollfrank (DE)
Studied Fine Arts in Munich and Hamburg, Bildende taught at the Hochschule für Künste, Hamburg, founder member of the female artists 'group "Frauen und Technik' and '-innen'. She's a founder-member of "Old Boys Network" and facilitator of the conference series 'Next Cyberfeminist International'. She works in the field of Internet art. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin.
Luca Toschi (IT)
Director of the 'Laboratory of the communication strategies' and head of the master's degree in Communication Theory, University of Florence. Author of the book 'The Language of New Media', he has written essays on the relationship between education and the language of new media. He has His career started in 1970 as researcher at the UCLA During the establishment of the first ARPANET nodes. He's a consultant for private and public firms.
Tommaso Tozzi (IT)
Teacher at the University of Florence and at the Carrara Academy of Arts, where he coordinates the Multimedia Arts Department. Director of UCAN – Center for Research and Documentation on Networked Digital Arts and Cultures. He Has Been the head of the cultural association Strano Network. Editor of Hacker Art BB
S (1990) and creator of the first worldwide netstrike (1995). Founding member of the italian newsgroup Cyberpunk (1991) and of the net Cybernet (1993).
