Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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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.
Rapper Prince Harvey, after his computer crashed and his external drive was stolen, managed to record an entire album in Apple Store SoHo in four months, befriending employees, hiding files and using USB sticks and mail. as support. Abbie Hoffman would have been proud.
Tra i media utilizzati per scopi artistici, il disco in vinile ha sempre giocato un ruolo speciale. Dopo essere stato utilizzato per oltre un secolo ha ancora molto altro da dire. È uno dei pochissimi media infatti che può funzionare senza elettricità e le sue caratteristiche cinetiche, la codifica materiale del suono e la sua forma iconica (ancora perfezionabile) hanno contribuito a renderlo attraente per una molteplicità di esperimenti. The Art Of Failure (Nicolas Maigret e Nicolas Montgermont) ha realizzato una nuova opera d’arte con la collaborazione dell’etichetta ArtKillArt. “Earth to Disk” concettualmente opera un processo di retroingegneria all’incisione del solco. Tecnicamente i dati di elevazione esatta della terra, prelevati dal database della NASA, sono stati convertiti in una forma d’onda audio con Pure Data e poi precisamente incisi su una lacca di vinile. “Earth to Disk” rientra inoltre nel loro più ampio progetto “Flat Earth Society” (una ricerca che esplora il concetto di appiattimento culturale delle distanze globali e delle differenze), l’opera è allo stesso tempo una rappresentazione e una sonorizzazione in un singolo luogo audibile, che codifica/decodifica la morfologia del mondo alla giusta velocità di rotazione.
Earth To Disk, Transposing Earth Surface On A Vinyl Record
