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.
New number (the 3:4) of the BeeHive Hypertext a 'Hypermedia Literary Journal' that public works accessible through the web of hypertext creative writing. In summary work of Gregory Ulmer / Talan Memmott (with a spectacular introduction →
The Optical Storage Technology Assocation (OSTA) has announced a specific compatibility, called Multiplay ensuring for all Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) and Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) discs can be played on CD players and DVD adhere to →
The Digidesign, the producer of the Pro Tools, will be honored with a Technical Grammy for the degree of innovation brought to the world of music production. The first model of Pro Tools dates back to →
The mark of Etoy, the group of artists behind this collective name (see Neural 16), was finally registered after nearly three and a half years of waiting. Meanwhile Etoys, the giant of the retail sale of →
The novel Kruder & Dorfmeister or Jazzanova will learn the art of the remix with the new contest put on by Groove Armada in collaboration with Raveworld.net. The song is to be redrawn I See You →
The sounds of Jupiter were detected by a microphone placed on the Cassini spacecraft, now en route to Saturn, which will pass close to the planet in 2004. Although already been detected previously by the Pioneer →
New work of web art created in Shockwave by Euan Sutherland was commissioned by New Media Scotland. It's called Modern Plagues and traces the decline of the 21st century through its crazy development policies at odds →
Soundom is a new service (currently still in beta test) of the type 'earns giving data about your habits'. By downloading an appropriate player is tracked (and transmitted to the source) of each listen made (mp3 →
Another electronic group that has had some success online are the Trance Factory , which rose from obscurity to make more than $ 15,000 a year from sales of CDs and percentage download from mp3.com. The →
Infinity 303 is the last of the successful artists risen very quickly in the hall of fame of mp3.com. A little 'as Darude (see Neural 17), Mikel Fair, a twenty-seven of Houston, Technical Supervisor at Compaq →
