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.
Being spied on by the FBI in recent months probably means having to deal with the software Intellifind Verint Systems of New York, as in press releases flaunting incredible ability to surveillance. The software works by →
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16.04.03 FM7, wave modulation software by Native Instruments.
Coming from Stanford University’s Center Of Computer Research in Music and Acoustic, in the beat-generation California, inspired by the →
Funded by the Walker Art Center, the prestigious cultural center of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are East African cities is a work of Julie Mehretu web, artist in residence of the same institution. The artist, →
The famous rapper Ice T has decided to sell his new album ('Repossession') through the services 'confident' of Kazaaa , one of the most popular platforms for the exchange peer-to-peer networks. The artist was one of →
Neuordnung is a concise collection of images degraded by a manipulation of their code. Benjamin Fischer has created intervening on the composition of their files, unbalancing the ones that are the coordinates of reading and internal →
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14.04.03 Software Art.net, Switch n.18 and Making Art on the Web.
Software programmed not for productive purposes, but aesthetical, social and conceptual, is becoming more and more →
Among the many vultures of war, we can include also the Sony Entertainment has patented the phrase 'Shock and Awe' after a few days of the war (March 21) to pave the way eponymous video game →
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11:04:03 Weekender: Blog conference, Community TV, King Britt, Matthew Herbert.
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– Friday "on April 11 in Turin, to 'Aula Magna Istituto Avogadro, →
Although not the most recent Bio-Tek Kitchen is a mod, which is a modified game that playfully brings an eerie kitchen large uncertainties related to the development of biotechnology. Once again a shooter 'first person', this →
The reworking of the work of another person is not a new practice in the art world , and often the original authors involved have expressed disappointment at having lost a part of their 'paternity'. Paradoxical →
