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.
While the list of Italian webzine that have stopped stretches eerily, all obviously frightened by the regime of penalties imposed by the new Press Law, Computer Point launched the first petition , which was signed yesterday →
Today in Bologna for the series of meetings 'Digital_is_not_analog' at the Media Lab Salara (via Don Minzoni 18), 'Hacktivism, experiences and activities of independent political communication on the Internet' with Ricardo Dominguez, the Electronic Disturbance Theatre →
Today in Bari at the Aula Magna 'Attilio High' at the Politecnico di Bari from 16.00 held the conference 'Digital autarky', and borders the audiovisual rights. Speakers include John De Stefano (computer graphics), Luciano Sovena (copyright), →
– Friday on Weekendance (Radio 2 at 23:00)
. Avalanches (breakbeat, tech-house)
– Saturday in Rome, at the Bluecheese
. Leeroy Thornhill (The Prodigy) DJ sets UK – Saturday in →
Finally approved the absurd law on online printing which requires registration and editor in chief (ie the roll of journalists writing at least) not to incur in the crime of illegal press. Penalties: imprisonment up to →
After the spectacular hearing at the U.S. Senate, as in a script for a Hollywood movie, the contenders appease the pleadings and institutional await the next moves. Meanwhile, the constant analysis of Webnoize yes speak to →
Tonight, like every Thursday. all'HMA (Hiroshima Mon Amour) in Turin, 'Soundscape', five hours of elektro, techno and house mixed and played by the General Electrik with videos of Alessandro Amaducci. Listening to the next day (Friday) →
From today through Saturday at the LInk, in Bologna, the sixth edition of Distorsonie , Festival of electronic dance music derivative, in its sixth year at the same time the VJ Convention 3.0, vijng national contest. →
It will take place from today through Friday at the Queens' College, Cambridge (UK), CODE, International Conference on Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy , which will confront artists, scientists, technical and legal aspects of →
According to the Public Hearing offered by Alanis Morrisette and Don Henley, Napster and artists agree with the adoption of a compulsory license for online music. The diagram should be similar to the one adopted so →
