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.
Opened on 29 August at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Abstraction Now is an exhibition of media art that includes video, installation and a review online on the web is carefully abstract art, capable of changing formulas →
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05.09.03 Algorithmic Clustering of Music, to compress=to know.
Tell me how you compress and I’ll tell you who you are. This is the apparent result of the →
Begins August 30 Interference – particles> frequencies> flows; sounds and visions of contemporary , festival to be held for two days at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di San Martino Valle Caudina (Av). The festival, organized →
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07.10.03 Phobias, fears on a screensaver.
Using an object in unintended ways is one of the peculiarities of hacking and of art and, besides the ingenuity of →
The Rhythmicon was a musical instrument built in 1931 by Leon Theremin (the inventor of the other tool of the same name ), at the request of the composer and theorist Henry Cowell. The structure of →
The recombination of genetic data is one of the areas that most attract today's electronic artists, containing a strong, contemporary, along with the endless creative potential and transformation of the sequential language of genes. Already the →
Historicize the data processing is the most important social task, as well as historic and must not be a coincidence, then, that the first BBS that has been performed to date back to 1972 and was →
ASCII characters are now a defined visual aesthetic, when they go aa replace the pixels in the screen simulation. A reduction of the information and their interpretation with the mediation of the alphabetic forms is able →
Nifca Publication, ISBN 951-8955-74-3
The definition of ‘software art’ still has a long way to go to enter the Oxford Dictionary, but the Read_me festival is doing a good work in defining its characteristics and cultural →
The margins of expression of those who build animations with the standard flash dilate as the techniques that transcend the traditional tools and perspective comes out of the box the most popular. InsertSilence is the site →
