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.
[This is a talk presented at the Game Culture conference in Novi Sad]
Italy has a strong political tradition, having also generated various related creative movements wisely mixing politics and art (like free radio in →
Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother | The Register
Forget the web, we want to watch real crimes.
(tags: tv hacktivism media net video)
L’installazione ‘Privileges’ di Diane Landry consiste principalmente nell’alterazione semantica dell’ oggetto di uso commune ‘libro’. Un dizionario viene infatti trasformato in un flip book per animare la metafora dei privilegi culturali. Il numero →
CD – Illegal Art
Nel panorama in costante cambiamento dell’uso specifico sei campioni in musica, l’etichetta Illegal Art rappresenta una sfida artistica costante al diritto d’autore e ai suoi zelanti gendarmi. →
Fra i festival internazionali di arte e tecnologia, il Microwave di Hong Kong è stato uno dei primi in Asia, ma ancora non abbastanza riconosciuto sulla scena internazionale. La →
Transmediale 08 Award, Nominees
Eleven runners
(tags: art media)
Spy cameras set up in Baghdad to counter insurgents – Yahoo! News
Iraq’s security forces have set up 250 “spy” cameras across the war-ravaged city to flush out insurgents and criminals, an official said.
(tags: hacktivism)
CD – Low Impedance
Schegge retropop, malsano blues cibernetico, attitudine punk o cabaret postmoderno se preferite: tutto questo e molto altro ancora (dissonanze rumoriste, vocalità estrema e cultura industrial) si →
Foto set
La metà degli anni novanta è stata senza dubbio un periodo seminale per le arti mediali con un fiorire di iniziative internazionali che hanno incoraggiato l’avvento delle reti telematiche globali, →
enter3
3rd international festival for arts, sciences and technologies, organized by Ciant in various locations in Prague
(tags: science art media)
2CD – Xi
Droni dilatati oltremisura, sonorità ottenute accuratamente modulando ‘bagpipes’ (cornamuse) in armonie tonali suggestive, avvolgenti, intricate nelle spire melanconiche degli inviluppi seriali spesso percorsi da imperscrutabili secondarie derive. Un album →
Blip Festival 2007
The Tank + 8bitpeoples presents a 4-day modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world.
(tags: music videogame sound preservation)
Le riflessioni sulla vita artificiale si sviluppano, per lo più, intorno al dogma della rappresentazione digitale: solo ciò che può essere rappresentato su uno schermo può essere affrontato e compreso. Questo tipo di →
CD – Potomak
‘Tutto Nuovamente Aperto’, questo il titolo dell’ultimo album degli Einstuerzende Neubauten, combo celeberrimo, capace ancora di scompaginare ogni ruolo, ogni musicale certezza, mettendo da parte nostalgie e vetusti stereotipi →
