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.
The life cycle of electronic information is absolutely unstable, being tied to its recording media that must then be interpreted by machines whose standards have always been far from definitive. The lability of the →
dvd video – Baltic
Camera surveillance gives rise to many questions: how are people’s movements perceived by the watchers? How do their behaviour changes when they feel observed? What kind of archive is created →
dvd video – Crónica
The fundamental role of the radio (the first source of ‘noise’ and the priincipal instrument for the conscience of sound, beyond the mere listening to music) is the theme →
book – Continuum – ISBN 0826416152
The genealogy of contemporary music passes through many essential points distant in time and in cultural ambits. Only now, in the time of networked information, we can trace →
The unavoidable hierarchy of importance of data on the Net that emerged thanks to search engines, whose goal is to represent ‘the best selection of contents’, represents a conceptual vicious circle. That is, the popularity of →
The obsession with the memory that the unstable computer networks have inculcated turns, in certain cases, serial filings, not all inclusive, which attempt to preserve evidence and documents for future ethereal digital →
Inaugurated on October 20 at the Mediatheque Santa Teresa di Milano, Connections Legendary , net.art exhibition that the intention of the curator Luca Lampo tries to retrace the effervescent past ten years the phenomenon →
The continuous fluctuation, a networked information has rarely been captured effectively, and the static nature of most pages, as updated frequently does not render the continuous and steady flow of new information on the net. →
Features amphibious for this video that starts emerging from the primordial soup-far-advertising and continues moving steps inquiring about the dominated territories and, to be honest sometimes saturated, net art. The hybrid nature of the project →
It seems far away the time when video directors were perfect strangers, anonymous journeyman in the service of the big stars of music. Do clip was considered a fad, a diversion ennobled by authors such →
