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.
Starting from the questions that accompany each exposure online web art (just an illusion technique? Much of what is produced to stand the test of time and hardware and software upgrades? Those who can be called →
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13.05.03 user_mode, emotions of interaction.
Starting on May 9 and ending on May 11, the Tate Gallery in London will host user_mode = emotion + intuition in →
The first edition of a festival devoted to the investigation of the social and artistic psychogeography is certainly an event of no small importance. ' Psy-Geo-Conflux 'is the name of this festival, which would be annual, →
Inaugurated May 8 at the new Passenger Terminal Amsterdam is the World Wide Video Festival , which this year celebrates twenty years of activity through exhibitions and retrospectives that trace this long period of development of →
Beat keys for several hours a day has become the norm for those who in recent years has embraced the profession of programmer. In addition to the screen, in fact, the protagonist of the reflections of →
This text is an interesting experiment in which each chapter of literary criticism alternates a story, in the common theme of cyberculture view from a distinctly feminine perspective. Quest'alternarsi of 'criticism' and 'fiction' involves the two →
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08.05.03 Radiator 002, technology as a way to mediate reality.
Technology as a mediation factor between physical space and artificial reality, a tool for extracting the art →
The possibilities of interaction, they can go far beyond the visual variations on the screen and the real potential of an interface blew up just when it begins to affect reality. A dramatic performance that expresses →
Connect spaces is a practice that has yet to overcome the primordial sharing images or verbal description, more or less in real time of them. The RemoteHome: a new home for the mobile society is a →
In counter-current with an ancient scientific determinism, and in full agreement, in contrast with the theories of chaos introduced in the mid-seventies, the strange attractors (strange attractors) describe the nature of the turbulence and patterns that →
