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.
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17.02.03 Injunction Generator, Ubermorgen’s legal art.
With their usual controversial and iconoclast spirit, Ubermorgen, an artist group created by some of the members of Etoy, realized The →
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14:02:03 Concrete_Maschine, the text as abstract visual composition.
Concrete_Maschine is a conceptual work of Johannes Auer which is inspired by the historical avant-garde and their →
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14:02:03 Audioscrobbler, the music that I'd like.
Audioscrobbler is a university project by Richard Jones who tries to analyze the music listened to suggest new →
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13.02.03 Weekender: V_, Le Chemin des Machines, Turntable Against War, Make Cheese, Not War, Philip Jeck, Badmarsh, John Duncan, Dino Felipe.
– Friday, February 14: →
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13:02:03 The Agent's Story, narrative that is constantly changing.
Guest pi? recently by the section of the site Artport Whitney Museum, The Agent's Story ? →
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13:02:03 Diamondgate, abstract reactive surfaces.
Diamondgate is the title that is common to a series of experiments made by the Al Jarnow Protozone Interactive. These →
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13/02/03 Against the idiocy of war: Rooting Out Evil, Webcam in Iraq and John Perry Barlow.
While the last of the Symantec Internet Security Threat →
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14.02.03 The Chrono-Files, from time-based art to database.
At the Ort für aktuelle Kunst und neue Medien in Munich (Germany), the exhibition The Chrono-Files, from time-based art →
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12:02:03 unauthorized follow suspects with GPS.
Paul Seidler, a former boyfriend of Connie Adams, is tried in a court of Wisconsin (USA) for having stalked →
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12:02:03 Leo Mariño, experiments visual poetry in flash.
Stigmatize the experiments in Flash in the simple category of 'web design', may result in the exclusion →
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02/12/03 CD of the concert in real time.
According to an article in the Boston Globe one of the largest agencies of concerts in the →
Long before the orchestrations of [The User] and their symphony for needle printers, there was someone who, in 1970, could extract melodies from a noisy printer. It was the IBM 1403 printer (made in 1964), from →
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10:02:03 The Insecurities Project, fragments of an insecure world.
Our habits are deeply marked by the idea that the danger may be around the corner →
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10.02.03 New issue of Subsol, masses of content.
Online is the new expected number of Subsol magazine of critical texts of culture and new media →
