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.
On the same route of those who attempt to extract a few souls from the data in constant motion on network cables, Amy Alexander and Peter Traub have scheduled a site that converts the results of →
It is currently in beta testing Snoopstar , the software of the little-publicized Bertelsmann, which could intervene in the Napster case were to fail at any moment. The official version is that Snoopstar is just a →
Duet will be ready for the summer. The distribution system in payment of audio and video, developed by Vivendi-Universal in collaboration with Sony should be able to exploit not only the PC network, as well as →
In the last week have been sent to as many 60 judicial communications providers that host servers that are part of the network Open Napster, being run software like Napster, but disconnected from its company. There →
As in an epic kidnapping of a major spy or a famous person, send the majors to say at the top of Napster that their offer is too low. Based on subscriptions potential of $ 5 →
Sunday 25 around 23:00 PLAYer replay, live webcast by Karlheinz Essl which leaves play the eponymous program as a tool for improvisation, using sounds as 'objet trouvées' and putting them together through composition algorithms in real →
– Friday in Milan, at the Tunnel
. Funki Porcini (Ninja Tune)
– Friday in Bologna, at the Link
. Malaisa + Ice one (n Dogs Pigs Entertainment) hip hop →
The Matador , label Pizzicato Five, Matmos, Mogwai and Cornelius, has signed an agreement with Liquid Audio for the online distribution of its non-exclusive tracks. The first artist to inaugurate the agreement is Stephen Malkmus, the →
Inaugurated yesterday the new public space ' Steam Factory 'in via Procaccini 2 in Milan, home to' The Factory of the imagination ', a film festival and new technologies. Today from 14:00 screenings and workshops, with →
SafariDog v1.1 is a new application for Windows that allows easy meta-searching (through multiple search engines selectable), comparative shopping of music products and listening to streaming audio and video channels. All this, 'free', ie the price →
