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.
Symbol of tempting prey for unscrupulous era media communicators the eyeball and eyelids that hatch are a jumble of symbols and meanings, recognizable at various levels from any viewer. The eye and its processed multiple digital →
Formula è il primo sospirato prodotto non esclusivamente sonoro di un artista di rango come Ryoji Ikeda, e testimonia i suoi diversi pregi artistici (visionarietà, impeccabile dettaglio, coerenza nella ricerca) e alcuni suoi difetti umani (riottosità →
Autonomedia, ISBN 1-57027-139-9
‘Behind the Blip’ addresses the need of a critical and pragmatic analysis of that complex and fleeting entity called ‘software’. The constant presence of interpretative interfaces for any kind of communications between people →
The project 79 Days presents a complex subject developed through a very innovative. The central theme of the site, defined by the author networked hypermedia project Trebor Scholz, are the 79 days of the →
The software can convert the music in a matter of interface, where the code that oversees its production is blatantly natural, even in its abstraction in pixels. BallDroppings is a direct example of this model, in →
The Haitian-American Coalition of Palm Beach led a coordination of associations for the summons to court of Rockstar Games , makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto. In the last episode ('Vice City'), in addition →
With the gendarmes of the music industry on the one hand and the daily practice for millions of people on the other hand, the peer-to-peer is realized in every where in the time of the transfer, →
The mobility in the urban space of textual information, audio and visual, carefully assembled, it is a fertile testing ground, ready to reap the benefits of the intersections between wireless networks that cover the city. The →
With the ever greater control over the production of video games based on the powerful motors public, independent developers are beginning to get their hands on the implementation of possible content, developing titles that are free →
The procedures for data transformation makes it possible unexpected metamorphosis in that shape an entirely different form the original input sequences. In the transition from one conceptual domain to another, through appropriate interpretations programmed, the data →
