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 visionary of overlapping elements, also historically dissonant, is the distinctive style of People Like Us century to Vicki Bennett, sound artist who for fifteen years has been producing music and radio programs →
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 →
The recognition of the images and their synchrony with the sounds that accompany them temporally determine peaks of attention that the Granular Synthesis, ie Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich, have enjoyed for more than →
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 →
dvd video – I.M.C.C. / Metropolis Records
‘Making the revolution sexy’ is the catching slogan that David Trussell, songwriter from Melbourne, has followed for twenty years with his band, the Snog, a unique example of →
dvd – C0C0S0L1DC1T1
Serial projects, those where an information travels from person to person and is progressively modified until it reaches its final state, or a documentation of this transformation process, are the domain of →
The role of the radio (first source of 'noise' and primary tool of consciousness far beyond the mere sound of music listening) is the theme around which the Portuguese label Crónica decided to →
There are many questions that surveillance by cameras implies: they are perceived as people's movements observed by the watchers? How to change the behavior of people feeling observed by the cameras? What kind of →
cd+dvd – C0C0S0L1DC1T1
The relation between sound and vision has become clearer since the introduction of their interpretation as sets of binary data. In their numerical abstraction, these →
The interdisciplinary approach that characterizes the most interesting groups of audiovisual music sheds light on how the concept of 'group', especially if you also linked to a live performance dimension, has long since crossed musical →
