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.
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In this issue there are:
interviews to: Marcell Mars, Dušan Barok, Daniel Reetz, Errant Bodies, Florian Cramer, Benjamin Gaulon, David Guez, Jonathan Puckey, Luc Gross, Jonathan Puckey, Stéphanie Vilayphiou;
reports of: Share Festival 2012, HAIP 2012, Collecting and presenting born-digital art;
news about: deFacebook, Blind Smell Stick, Cipher, Earthcode, Amazon Random Shopper, The sound of the Earth, MR-808, Hermes, Pendulum Choir, Five Introverted Machines, Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers, Facebook Demetricator, Random Selection in Random Image, Tworse Key, Livro-Obra;
reviews of: Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey / Evil Media, Charles R. Acland / Swift Viewing, Tony D. Sampson / Virality, E. Gabriella Coleman / Coding Freedom,, edited by Rasa Smite, Erik Kluitenberg, Raitis Smits / Acoustic Space #11, Techno-Ecologies, Frans Evers / The Academy of The Senses, edited by: Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer / Sound exchange, curated by Raffael Dörig / COMPILER*04. Replay, edited by Dieter Daniels, Inke Arns / Sounds Like Silence, Joe Evans / Ecliptic Plane, Neville Brody, Jon Wozencroft / Fuse 1-20, Fujiko Nakaya, Anne-Marie Duguet / Anarchive n°5 – Fog | Brouillard, Jussi Parikka / What is Media Archaeology?, edited by Max Hollein, Martina Weinhart / Privat / Privacy, Alessandro Ludovico / Post-Digital Print,
music reviews of: Jean Dubuffet: Expériences Musicales, eRikm: Transfall, Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox: Air Pressure, Carl Schilde: WOW, dakim: 34 fragments, Deison: Quiet Rooms, Emanuele De Raymondi: Buyukberber Variations, Enzo Minarelli: Fame, Quarz: Five Years On Cold Asphalt, eRikm, Martin Tetreault, Arnaud Rivière, Dj Sniff: DRIFT-01, Fennesz: AUN – The Beginning And End Of All Things, Francisco Meirino: Untitled Phenomenas In Concrete, Helmut Schäfer: Thought Provoking III, John Cage: Song Books, Kid Koala: 12 Bit Blues, Lawrence English: For / Not For John Cage, Lingouf: Terre De Pierres, Murmer: What Are The Roots That Clutch, Nad Spiro: Atomic Spy, Tree People, Pokemachine: Split;
and so on…
