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 roots of Twitter? | Journalist Profile |
(tags: media)
Urushi Musical Interface on Vimeo
(tags: music sound design)
c60 Redux on Vimeo
c60 music player from IDEO’s Boston office
(tags: design music sound vinyl)
Warning: art that will blow your mind | Art and design | The Guardian
James Turrell's Bindu Shards at the Gagosian Gallery in King's Cross
(tags: art)
Debris, QWERTY at PPOW | Sarah Frost
QWERTY, art with discarded keyboard keys
(tags: art)
Ghosts of Amsterdam « How to be a Retronaut
(tags: photography visual media art mashup)
Satromizer for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
The world's first multitouch glitch tool
(tags: glitch art mobile)
Catt
Internet cornucopia vs. high art constipation
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Welcome – 27C3 public wiki
We Come In Peace. The 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany.
(tags: conference hacktivism)
TDK Boombox on Cool Hunting
TDK Boombox, The classic ghetto blaster gets a high-tech update
(tags: music sound urban)
Mediamatic.net – Arcade
Coin Swallowing Amusement Machines
(tags: exhibition videogame)
FBI: ‘Video Girl’ Barbie Has Potential For Child Porn « CBS Los Angeles- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of LA
Camera can record video, audio directly to computer
(tags: sex video privacy)
Found Tapes Exhibition : Space/Time Map interface
FOUND << TAPES >> :: _The Maps
(tags: sound music psychogeography urban)
the Art of DeTouch
Evan Roth
(tags: art design photography)
Trikoton
Trikoton The Voice Knitter
(tags: design sound voice fashion)
Playing Duchamp | Login
I have created a computer program to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp
(tags: art videogame)
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