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.
Funded by the Walker Art Center, the prestigious cultural center of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul are East African cities is a work of Julie Mehretu web, artist in residence of the same institution. The artist, →
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14.04.03 Software Art.net, Switch n.18 and Making Art on the Web.
Software programmed not for productive purposes, but aesthetical, social and conceptual, is becoming more and more →
Neuordnung is a concise collection of images degraded by a manipulation of their code. Benjamin Fischer has created intervening on the composition of their files, unbalancing the ones that are the coordinates of reading and internal →
Although not the most recent Bio-Tek Kitchen is a mod, which is a modified game that playfully brings an eerie kitchen large uncertainties related to the development of biotechnology. Once again a shooter 'first person', this →
You can give tactile sensations with the words and the voice? In this fascinating hypothesis was built La langue if charge (The tongue is loaded) is an experiment in shockwave that tries to relate the text, →
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10.04.03 Digital Art Museum, history of technological art.
Is it possible to contextualize the current evolutions of digital art, through Internet and every new media, without other →
The data contained in the fertile archives search engines often constitute a domain of knowledge that they can be used as a basis for processing visually and / or conceptually sophisticated. GooglePoweredGoggleBox is a tool that →
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09.04.03 Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word v.1.0.
The vision of computer tools as mere aseptic productivity tools has already been disproved for some time by software →
Staying in to play is the project of the artist and game designer John Paul Bichard, who has decided to make public his period of stay virtual (online artist in residence) at Variablemedia. Starting from February →
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08.04.03 Life is like water, life as a liquid sequence of images.
‘Life is like water‘ is a new work by Peter Horvath (who’s also the author →
