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.
Coniglio Editore, ISBN 8888833730
The mail art network, self-defined as ethereal, had long conceptually anticipated the telematic one, and its own media (the postcard, the stamp and the rubber stamp) have been field for →
Complex phenomenon than the rave, from many origins and developments within which play different factors, from the music to the spaces on the ridge often unsure of the new aesthetic youth, their organization →
book – kuda.read / The Notebook – ISBN 3865882110
The data and their free flux through the network nodes are the core of the Stalder’s research, that during almost a decade has analyzed the →
kuda.read / The Notebook, ISBN 3865882110
The data and their free flux through the network nodes are the core of the Stalder’s research, that during almost a decade has analyzed the forms of organization →
This is the second volume of the series Videoludica, a series of critical essays focusing on stocks that have most influenced the history of video games. The shooter of the ID software, true →
book+cd – Sonic Arts Network
The ‘pataphysics (the initial apostrophe indicates recursively the lack of a pataphysical prefix) is the next evolution after physic and metaphysic and is defined as the “science →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262134578
The record producer has been the deus ex machina of the pop aesthetic innovation in different historical moments. His role is being the architect of the →
Ready-made, ISBN 9984953807 On the tenth anniversary of the birth of net.art autodecretata (the point is essential), have multiplied initiatives and 'commemorations' that looking back they tried to historicize the phenomenon with →
Terre di mezzo, ISBN 8889385375 The concept of 'piracy' has long been abused by the media in its negative sense against those who illegally duplicated information protected by copyright. In Italy, in fact, →
No Starch Press, ISBN 1593270461
IT security common sense tells people that are defending their systems to always identify the attacker, where the ‘attack’ is intended as a vertical and treacherous action for breaking →
