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.
USB Card + booklet – NUKFM / Rizosfera
XIII Rumori Santi is 45 minutes long and features eleven tracks. These tracks are the work of ecologist and sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro and add to the already broad catalogue of NUKFM, a label run by Rizosfera, a cultural collective who have collaborated with artists such as Obsolete Capitalism and Network Ensemble and produced releases for Adi Newton, Howie B and Mark Stewart. XIII Rumori Santi also includes contributions from the recently passed Mira Calix, Michael Vallera and Akira Rabelais, and illustrations by Giuseppe La Spada. The cover artwork is edited by Gabriele Fantuzzi from Delicatessen Design. This is the ninth album from Cordaro, an artist who focuses on audio research and the possibilities of new technologies. The inspiration behind XIII Rumori Santi is the work of anthroposophy theorist and occultist Rudolf Steiner on the “thirteen holy nights” between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany. According to Steiner, each of the holy nights has a significance related to the flow of time and during this period the gates of heaven are open, creating a special connection between the spirits and humanity. During the thirteen nights from December 24th 2020 to January 6th 2021, Cordaro created a series of contemporary meditations during a time of pandemic. From these thirteen spiritual meditations, he has created nine tones, an interlude and a coda, for a total number of eleven tracks that seek to investigate inner consciousness and the different dimensions of sound. A more technical interpretation of XIII Rumori Santi reveals an engagement with isolation and a dedication to sound manipulation that creates dark moments that provoke sensitive and reflective listening. This release includes a tape and the digital download of the audio files on a USB stick.
Giuseppe Cordaro :: XIII Rumori Santi – Booklet Trailer [Tape C60 + USB Card + Booklet]
Giuseppe Cordaro :: XIII Rumori Santi — Teaser
