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.
One of the first documentaries about net art, made by an American television is available online in streaming. ' Net Art 'takes a little more than six minutes and collects opinions and short interviews from the →
Define Your Enemy is a work of art of web Namniyas Ashuratova, a member of the Russian scene. Not at all politically correct, the site features a photo gallery of famous people, stereotypical icons of a →
Occasionally even the Italian press seems to wake up about what happens in the rest of the digital world out of the stock market fluctuations. The number of Carnet the January cover and special features on →
Tonight in a webcast meeting with Mark Tribe (pictured), founder of Rhizome.org at the Jihui, a meeting space in that of New York. Meet at 7:00 PM local time (in Italy about one in the morning) →
The MOMA in San Francisco, with the contribution of Intel corp., Is organizing 010101: Art in Technological Times , an exhibition of art and technology that will be inaugurated on March 3 next year. In →
The loss of spatial references, especially when you're in front of a screen that lights reflected images from around the world is the theme dealt by Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer and Rony Vissers. The three Belgian →
The most frequent image of cyberspace is certainly that in 3D. Search Space of Mike Lyda consists in a series of virtual spaces in VRML that represent the results of a search engine in 3D. Each →
New number (the 3:4) of the BeeHive Hypertext a 'Hypermedia Literary Journal' that public works accessible through the web of hypertext creative writing. In summary work of Gregory Ulmer / Talan Memmott (with a spectacular introduction →
The mark of Etoy, the group of artists behind this collective name (see Neural 16), was finally registered after nearly three and a half years of waiting. Meanwhile Etoys, the giant of the retail sale of →
New work of web art created in Shockwave by Euan Sutherland was commissioned by New Media Scotland. It's called Modern Plagues and traces the decline of the 21st century through its crazy development policies at odds →
