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 timeline that indicates precisely which sounds are performed by the sequencer is an icon of the media temporal (time-based media), and in itself embodies the concept of 'play', which originated in the hardware keys of →
The ability to dissect a musical piece in its most minute parts is related to its transformation into discrete quantities, through digital sampling techniques that allow the resulting binary encoding. De-structuring potential are related to the →
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07.05.04 Winnoise, the sounds of Windows in a complete piece.
Reelaborating the daily sounds of computer spaces is a challenge rarely accepted by electronic musicians. These sounds →
The different awareness of the sounds of the architecture, especially those that costitiscono examples of industrial architecture, has grown just at the stage, still in progress, post-industrial, during which it is possible to rethink the use →
The figure is closer to that hacker musician is that of the 'circuit bender', ie who edits old tools, often thought of as toys, amplifying or distorting the sound characteristics through a direct intervention on their →
The concepts of near and far sounds can be expressed in different ways by simply changing the intensity of the sound itself. Hlemmur in C is a project of Pall Thayer made at the conference 'Rethinking →
After the last edition in Campobasso in 2002 Is Not Analog Digital, the festival of art and digital hacktivism organized by 0100101110101101.ORG arrives at the CCCB in Barcelona. Entitled The Influencers festival of culture jamming, modified →
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23.04.04 Bannedmusic, the answer to copyright censorship.
After the sensational case of the Grey Album and the remarkable number of people who participated to the Grey Tuesday, →
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21.04.04 Evolution Control Committee, historical plagiarism.
One of the peculiar characteristics of musical plagiarism is to have a common goal, to protest against the absurdity of endless →
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06.04.04 Spectroscopic Toolkit, nanotonal music.
One of the principal uses of a machine is to explore of the boundaries of computation, that is, to process sets of →
