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.
According Webnoize another 25 per cent of users have abandoned Napster during the last week, and the main reason seems to be, with little doubt now, commissioning another filter against the listed songs by the RIAA, →
Today at 21:00, in Barbary 4 in Bologna, introductory seminar on the semiotics of the connective-immersive environments intotolato 'The DAMS after'. In a statement released by Franco Berardi (pictured) is a summary of what will be →
After the fatal news of the closure of the Internet Underground Music Archive, a pioneer since 1993 in the promotion of bands not yet under contract through music files (see IUMA closes) , comes the acquisition →
The site 7amnews.com New Zealand has published pictures of the Media Tracker, the terrible software developed by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Media Tracker detects a playlist, the network that are shared (Napster, →
It is being held in Sheffield, until Sunday Lovebytes , festival of computer based art and media. Combining web art (Jodi, Adaweb, Farmers Manual, Audiorom, Kunstradio, Radioqualia …) and new electronics (Autechre, Oval, Taylor Deupree, Kim →
Begins today in Nantes, France, ' Le Lieu Unique 'a festival until Sunday, will perform exponents of electronic, electro-pop and minimal grooves, including Bernd Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit, Chicks on Speed, Coil, DMX Krew and Kompakt →
– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. Goldie (pictured) dj set (d'n'b)
– Friday in Bologna, at the Link
. Anti Pop Consortium hip-hop (USA)
– Friday in →
Inaugurated today at the Whitney Museum in New York ' Bitstream ', an impressive exhibition that illustrates the importance of digital technologies for American art. A long list of artists, including Jason Salavon, Robert Lazzarini and →
Like two brothers quarreling with his mother, Napster and RIAA complain against the judge for their behavior. Napster now has blocked 228569 files, but says that the RIAA has provided him with inconclusive data, which is →
While there are those deep thinking to bypass systems Napster, or make it more powerful and efficient network Gnutella, The Mill Audio has released the beta version of BitBop , a software that implements a mechanism →
