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.
Check the Culture(s) of copy photo set here.
La copia come strumento di riappropriazione di significato, di amplificazione e creazione di senso: è questo il territorio delle opere scelte per la mostra “Culture(s) →
Semiotext(e), ISBN-13: 978-1584350859, March 31, 2010, English
Dopo “Arte e Rivoluzione”, Gerald Raunig ha scritto un libro diverso elaborando un concetto formulato da Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari sul concetto di macchina, vista →
CD – Mutable Music
Interfacciando un violino a MaxMSP, Mari Kimura estende le tecniche espressive tradizionali dello strumento, focalizzando la propria ricerca essenzialmente sugli intervalli delle subarmoniche. In “The World Below G →
L’associazione di musica e colore come concetto può essere fatta risalire al XVI secolo al pittore Arcimboldo, anche se l’esempio più citato è il più moderno “Sarabet”, una sorta di “organo a colori”, →
Greyscale Press, ISBN 978-2-9700706-0-3, August 2010, Format: Paperback, 4.25″ x 6.875″, 122 pages
Nella sua introduzione, Ana Carvalho descrive il processo di produzione di questo libro come un “wiki-sprint”. In effetti questa pubblicazione è →
CD – Zeitkratze
Registrate dal vivo al Philharmonie Luxembourg nell’Ottobre del 2009 e poi editate nell’estate dell’anno successivo in Germania, ai GreenHouseStudios, queste cinque nuove composizioni di Alvin Lucier risuonano assai intense →
Automatype- writer è una macchina da scrivere che funziona in modo autonomo: i tasti si azionano, scrivendo sul foglio di carta retrostante senza bisogno di dita umane che li digitino. Inoltre la macchina è →
CD – Endgame
Articolando in maniera piuttosto evocativa field recording, interventi vocali e droni dilatati, utilizzando sia tecniche digitali che strumentazione acustica, il sound-artist australiano Gail Priest dipana in “Presentiments From The →
Dala – Vinyl player concept for fantastic sound | Roundedoff
Dala – Vinyl player concept for fantastic sound
(tags: vinyl sound music)
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553086, 312 pages, August 1, 2010, English
Carsten Nicolai ha attitudini diverse per il suono, l’arte, la scienza e il graphic design, ma sono quasi perfettamente coerenti →
“Net label” is the established definition of record labels that produce only mp3 files and usually give them away (or sometimes even sell them) online. Delaware, an atypical Japanese music/design group, →
CD – Serein
Album di debutto per il duo composto da Alex Smalley e Svitlana Samoylenko, aka Olan Mill, audioartisti piuttosto colti e raffinati nel proporre elegiache sequenze strumentali, evoluzioni assai eleganti →
Baltan Laboratories, ISBN 9789081583015, English, 2010
Dopo l’istituzione del MIT Media Lab nel 1985 il concetto di “Lab”, inteso come spazio di ricerca e sperimentazione attraverso le tecnologie e i →
CD – Gruen
Nessuna metafora – anche nel mondo dell’arte e alle sue latitudini maggiormente sperimentali e avanguardiste – supera per le immediate suggestioni che riesce ad evocare, quella dettata dall’opposizione caldo-freddo. →
