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 functional approach of design often offers original perspectives in the composition of multimedia elements active on screen and in their iconic rapresentazione. The sounds, in particular, can be viewed through multiple metaphors that transcend the →
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27.02.04 Dot Matrix Synth, a dot matrix synthesizer.
Firmware hacking is a sophisticated practice which gives pretty good results to the courageous ones who do EPROM reprogramming, →
The Bastard Pop is one of the few radical movements that have managed to shake the system of industrial music to its roots, managing to discover the Pandora's box of copyright in all its paradoxical contradiction →
As you lose the schematic authors cataloged in albums and vintage years, in favor of individual songs floating in different genres, the user himself can decide, the archipelago of musical productions takes on a more magmatic →
Friday, 13 and Saturday, February 14 at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bari held [A] [A] [LOG] _ [BOX] , seminar of electronic music and digital arts. Two days of seminars and →
After Personal Orchestra , begin to perceive other development initiatives for software emulation of a sphere, that of classical and symphonic music has always been difficult to technological innovation. Ivory Synthogy is a program that emulates →
Although entry into the limbo of 'dead media' audio tape resists (like vinyl) used in a popular and widespread among the users cut off by the digital revolution. To incorporate this spartan analog technology, which is →
Do on their own can give birth to innovations and models are able to make a stir. In the collision (just begun) the online sales of music tracks, open from iTunes phenomenon, there are actors who, →
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27.02.04 Tectonic Plates, microgeography of sound.
If the vinyl records truly are the last organic medium for listening to music, the analysis of their structure and physical →
Usually at a concert, or in the presence of an event equally loud, these vibrations are perceived that the sound is 'heard' in a much more physical than usual. And a special stimulation of →
