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.
dvd video – Kiasma / Kinotar
The pioneers and the avant-garde electronic musicians have beaten a path that often strayed far from the museums and big institutions. But they have something important →
The aesthetic consequences of collective projects deserve a specific study, which is still lacking in theoretical disciplines, but whose starting material becomes richer every day. And last of many projects that have found their way →
Computers from twenty years ago, such as those made by Commodore and Atari, are the tools of a large community of music composers that go under the label of ‘8bit music’ and compose a remarkable →
The urban area of Innsbruck hides two small wireless server that the windows of the Head of the store Wholly Cow Cafe and send, or rather trying to send pictures to other devices on the →
The Kinetic Image by Massimo Fiorentino, Italy-born and naturalized Danish, allegedly works on the one that you can define the boundary line, so the contact between different modes of visual representation of the →
Digital technologies of reproduction of the images have introduced previously unknown mode of representation: by the horizontal lines of pixels in the rapid passages of the video (testable in many dvd) the patterns →
It was inaugurated on May 13 Digifest the 2005 edition of the festival of digital culture and design in Toronto called Digifest Goes Wild! . Made from the local Design Exchange this event →
Increasingly blurred the boundary between material objects and information assets resides more in the interpretations induced by our brain. The distance, especially by entities external to us is →
The habit of using search engines has slowly calcified habits and sequences of interaction that lead us to make automatic gestures when we look for something on the net. The impressive database of images of →
The ability of the electronic medium to make 'temporary' images of any kind through their digital display, consequently follows the temporary nature of the information of our time, and the transition from stable →
