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.
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18:06:02 European Digital Rights, the European association for the digital rights.
A new organization for the protection of digital rights was established in Brussels (Belgium), →
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06/18/02 Corporate Alternative Reality, tactical media for use in advertising.
Corporate Alternative Reality is a new media project Damian Stephens, web designer and supporter of →
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18:06:02 Rhizomes, the collective image.
The rhizomatic structure, visionary description of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari related to non-hierarchical network, which then found many conceptual →
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14:06:02 Hell, net art uncertainty.
Heaven and Hell , Nick Barker of English, is a work of net art assembled with clear ideas that more →
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14:06:02 Friendlyghosts, morse code words to pictures.
Friendlyghosts Irish Garrett Phelan is a translator of the text, which through a script in flash converts words →
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14:06:02 f3codandfun, free software and retrocomputing party with Stallman in Piedimonte Matese (Caserta).
It takes place on 15 and 16 June at the indoor stadium →
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06/14/02. Wav, electronic music festival in the canals of Bruges (Belgium).
Inaugurated on June 15 . wav , sound art festival that takes place in →
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06.13.02 13 Hours of the Discovery Channel television video remixing.
The New →
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13:06:02 Moodstats, emotional art software.
Developed by the crew of k10k.net, Moodstats is a software for Mac and PC, which you can download for free, →
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13:06:02 The British government wants to allow local authorities to spy on citizens.
The British government is debating a provisional list of organizations that may →
