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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05/04/02 Net art Italian: Torinorama.
Torinorama ,? a 'orama', ie an attempt of new hypertext literature and not sequentially developed by David Boardman and Paolo →
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05:04:02 HyPoem, hyperpoesia typography.
HyPoem is the work of 'typographic hyperpoetry' Austrian Joerg Piringer, which has created an environment in java dynamic and interactive and →
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4.5.02 Control Panels, programming as an artistic practice.
Inaugurated on April 5 at the Hartware of Dortmund (Germany), the exhibition of software art ' Control →
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04:04:02 Russian Media Art, webcasting from Amsterdam.
On April 4, the theater De Balie in Amsterdam (Netherlands) takes 'Art Russian Media, A Dutch Russian Media →
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04:04:02 Hacker Art Forte Prenestino.
On April 4, 2002, as part of the meetings Jet-Net Forte Prenestino of Rome, at 21:00, will be held the →
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04.04.02 State of the Arts, symposium on electronic literature.
From April 4 to 6 is held at UCLA in Los Angeles (USA) State of the →
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03:04:02 Digital Pocket Gallery, net art found.
It is open for a few days the exhibition of net art Digital Pocket Gallery: Artists Respond to →
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03:04:02 404 Research Lab, the gallery of the error.
The interruption of the flow, being awakened by the drift, →
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03.04.02 Digital Cameras in trip.
The digital camera Nikon CoolPix 990 of septuagenarian American Farrell Eaves, worked perfectly until last summer, when he accidentally fell →
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02:04:02 Techno Poetry Festival 2002.
For two days (April 1st and 2nd) takes place at the Wesley Center for New Media at Georgia Tech in →
