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.
Inquisitive Devices – 2008
Questioning and engaging with the proliferation of mobile devices in urban space
(tags: mobile music sound)
Stairway to iPhone
Stairway to Heaven with the Sonic Mule iPhone app.
(tags: music performance sound software visual)
CCCS – ART, PRICE AND VALUE
A seminal exhibition →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262633635, U.S.A, 2008
La musica oltre la composizione. Questa valente antologia, edita da DJ Spooky, fornisce reale cibo per →
CD – Flux
Sorprende ogni volta Frank Rothkamm, nell’imbastire attorno i suoi progetti curiosi aneddoti, a volte biografici, oppure – come in questo caso – calibrati maggiormente sulla genesi del lavoro e →
SOCIAL SOUVENIR
Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they their name and address. The information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after →
CD – Dekorder
Concepito da Marc Richter, head honcho della Dekorder, sotto il moniker Black to Comm, vede la luce ‘Fractal Hair Geometry’, multiforme impasto di sonorità effettate ed oblique, droni →
“Smiles Less Noise” è un recente lavoro del media artist e interface designer Daito Manabe, ed è parte di una serie di lavori di tecnologia sperimentale che esplorano la cibernetica e le →
SOCIAL SOUVENIR
Visitors can buy a T-shirt of their own choice, the only condition being that they their name and address. The information is automatically mapped in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after →
CD – Raster-Noton
Produzione nella prima parte (tracce 1-10) assai eccitata e ritmica quest’ultima di Alva Noto, agita utilizzando più codici di comunicazione, modulati in sequenze sonore sempre ben sincronizzate, ispide e →
CD – Pogus
Con una laurea in letteratura inglese al King¹s College di Londra, Simon Wickham-Smith non improvvisa certo, nel titolo del suo nuovo album per Pogus, un riferimento abbastanza esplicito al →
Welcome :: make art 2008
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), open practices and free culture in digital arts.
(tags: art hacktivism software festival)
Phonagnosia
The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition of a woman who is unable to →
Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show [Jacobs School of Engineering: News & Events]
Copying keys from a distance with tech
(tags: hacking media)
SSRG – home
SSRG – Sicilian Soundscape Research Group, studying the Sicilian acoustic environment
(tags: art sound →
CD – No Label
Come in un mondo senza tempo, contrastate da energie atmosferiche indecifrabili, le diafane sonorità di Andrea Polli & Joe Gilmore, traduzione digitale delle grezze computazioni →
DVD – Domizil
Per Martin Neukom, in ‘Studie 18’, le serie di suoni seguono in maniera regolare lo spazio e lo spazio sonoro parametrico. Regole che generano pitches, spettri di frequenze, il →
