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.
The paradigm of sequencing embodies the charm of temporality inherent in the music, along with the control mechanisms left in the hands of the author and the infinite possibilities of variation from the different sounds used. →
The breakup of privacy can be seen from several warning signs, including an increasing development of devices that try to offer the user the beautiful red and juicy apple of personalized services in exchange ingestion of →
The dominant market positions attract the creative code like flies to honey, as their creations liberating applicarte their respective platforms can be viewed comfortably by a large number of users. And so, as happened to Google →
The simulation of natural processes is a medium of choice in computer science, from its very beginnings. The decay, or deterioration of the contents, is a concept that reflects the sleek design of the PC shun →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262072475 As for the structure determines the content? In the case of network protocols, they determine the form and structure, but are notoriously indifferent to the contents, at least apparently. Alexander →
The exaggerated illusion of control cradle his perverse dreams of omnipotence in the study of the human brain. Find the remote possibility of the crime at the outset, that is in the minds of those who →
The timeline that indicates precisely which sounds are performed by the sequencer is an icon of the media temporal (time-based media), and in itself embodies the concept of 'play', which originated in the hardware keys of →
Eduardo Kac, already a pioneer in the 90s of Biotelematics and Transgenic Art, continues its line of research in the phenomena of communication between different species (men, machines, plants, animals, …) with the new installation: ' →
The ability to dissect a musical piece in its most minute parts is related to its transformation into discrete quantities, through digital sampling techniques that allow the resulting binary encoding. De-structuring potential are related to the →
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201745755 See the invisible, this is one of the tasks of the cartographers of the network, from the first insights of the vastness and complexity of the communication infrastructure worldwide have sought models →
