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.
Among the attempts to grab the not indifferent market of mp3 players for automobiles, one of the most interesting attempts has been developed by PhatNoise and consists of a reader cartridge, practically a small hard disk, →
According Measurecast , a detection listen to internet radio, during the holiday season, there has been a sharp decline in ratings, had to leave the offices, places where perloppiù you listen to this kind of sound →
After BMG also Edel has signed an agreement with Napster for the controlled distribution of tracks, from the future version of the software. It is the second most prosperous independent label ever, with headquarters in Germany →
Today at 21:00 in the Sala Laudamo of Messina, will host the exhibition 'Steven Brown & Vision Suite – Music in Short-footage', with Steven Brown (pictured), a founding member of Tuxedo Moon, and 4D Killer with →
The MOMA in San Francisco, with the contribution of Intel corp., Is organizing 010101: Art in Technological Times , an exhibition of art and technology that will be inaugurated on March 3 next year. In →
Napster is suing the Sports Service, which announced on the site unauthorized Napsterstore.com the sale of merchandise such as t-shirts and caps with the logo of the software (not for long) free movement of music.
Prince continues to experiment with creative promotion of the web. Two new songs, a duet with singer and composer of R &B; Angie Stone (U Make My Sun Shine) and a revised cover of When Will →
Prince continues to experiment with creative promotion of the web. Two new songs, a duet with singer and composer of R &B; Angie Stone (U Make My Sun Shine) and a revised cover of When Will →
The loss of spatial references, especially when you're in front of a screen that lights reflected images from around the world is the theme dealt by Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer and Rony Vissers. The three Belgian →
Exemplary action has been taken by the brave activists of the LOA just before Christmas. At the cry of NOCOPY has applied the now historic anti-SIAE stamp on the material present in the megastore around the →
