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.
(edited by) Dominik Landwehr – Machines And Robots
Edition Digital Culture 5, Migros Kulturprozent, Christoph Merian, ISBN-13: 978-3856168551, English, 288 pages, 2018, German
The “creativity” of machines is a hypothetical quality that emotionally escalates in our minds when they have an anthropomorphic shape, or when, in other words, we call them “robots”. In the contemporary post-digital uncertainty there are different feelings connected to robots, especially generated by the apparent rapid escalation of their efficiency in accomplishing human tasks. The fears connected to their growing presence in our society is reviving the archetypal science fiction nightmare of artificial entities taking over, in the so-called “robopocalypse“. This book is the fifth volume of the Edition Digital Culture series which is supported by the Migros Cultural Percentage. It starts with an overview of the robot-based artworks supported by Migros over the years (Kammermann), and continues with a technological state of the art report (Fischer); a review of different science fictional, imaginary, hybrid social environments and ideas (Theisohn); the use of machines in art described by the Museum Tinguely’s director (Wetzel); machinic aesthetics in 20th Century art (Broeckmann); perspectives on possible robots’ creativity (Pankow, Spoerri); and, how they can express the relationship between art and science (d’Andrea). There’s also a “photo essay” composed in a similar fashion to a tumblr visual blog, with a series of disparate but consistent images in a somehow logical sequence. It completes a valid and circumstantiated publication, which should induce new thoughts and ideas, rather than just wipe out fears.
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