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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09:01:02 Generations artificial.
Artificial ART is a small collection of java applets that use pseudo-random numbers to generate visual patterns and geometric compositions of the →
. Art 
09:01:02 Avatar Body Collision, digital theater.
ABC Experiment is a project of digital theater started by Helen Varley Jamieson, which seeks to analyze the encounter →
. Hacktivism 
01/08/02 Surveillance cameras, unnecessary and approved.
With an incredible decision, the Supreme Court of the United States approved the installation of hidden cameras in the →
. Art 
08:01:02 Q4U, videogame art reflective.
' Q4U 'embodies conceptual another remix of a video game, this time performed by Feng Mengbo, artist thirty-six in Beijing →
. Art 
08:01:02 Love is four letter word.
The first issue of the electronic magazine Atomic Attack, made in Hong Kong, is dedicated to monographically net works →
. EMusic 
08:01:02 Duplication cd: U.S. Representative wants to legalize.
Rick Boucher, (pictured) Democrat to the U.S. Congress has stated that it intends to amend the Digital →
. Art 
08:01:02 Always suspect, animation against remote monitoring.
Always Suspect is a flash animation created by Haik Hoisington, Brooklyn artist, who plays properly emergencies related to →
. Art 
07:01:02 The sound of the masterpieces of art.
Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art is the conceptual operation of Ed Osborn, which in ten →
. Art 
07:01:02 'Cyberarts', net art in Singapore.
Seven are the works of net art accessible through the interface ' Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology ', →
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07:01:02 Mark Amerika: Filmtext.
The new work by Mark Amerika, ' Filmtext ', will be presented will be presented Jan. 9 at the ICA in →
. Hacktivism 
1.7.02 Anti-lies on the temperature of the eye.
According to the journal Nature, a team of scientists of Minnesota has developed a method even more →
. EMusic 
07:01:02 Audio Fingerprinting by Philips.
How to identify a song heard on the radio or accidentally, identifying author and title? While waiting for the developments →
by Alessandro Ludovico
What, in your opinion, is the worst danger for the free software, and what is the strongest point that still makes it worth for millions of people?
The worst danger comes from →
. EMusic 
04:01:02 The trojan inside Kazaa, BearShare, LimeWire and Grokster.
A Trojan ('trojan horse', a program that seems to do something and instead do anything), has →
