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.
Frankie the Robot is a dj simulated in 3D generated in real time by a software developed independently by Ash Nehru and Chris Fraser highly dynamic two English guys. The robot is projected on a screen →
It is thanks to the computational capabilities of the newer computers that software like Vocaloid Yamaha can be used on home computers. The program is a speech synthesizer capable of generating an output 'sung' and not →
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11.12.03 Singing bridges, swinging steel.
The daily ‘soundscape’ can hardly do without the architectural structures and the vibrations of the matter, which can produce revealing tones and →
Somehow capture the sound environment that surrounds the users of the network provides an aural perspective that photographs somehow tastes and vibrations of space otherwise the almost impossible to combine. This seems to be one of →
It is difficult regimented the possibilities of the software, especially when you offer opportunities for expansion through standard overt. MyTunes is specially fill a void left by Apple and its popular iTunes music player software that →
Following the latest summer trends Yorkers in London there is a monthly event dedicated to iPod owners who want to try as a DJ, or, as stated in the last neologism, such as 'MP3J'. At Dreambagsjaguarshoes →
A compilation commemorative typically pays a tribute of recognition to an artist, an event or a concept particularly important, but reversing this mechanism can stage a spectacular protest that has as its symbol the attack the →
.emusic
20.11.03 Nano guitar, inaudible nanosounds.
A Nano guitar, that is, a guitar built on a nanometric scale, has been built by Harold G. Craighead and Dustin W. →
Experiments like Gymnopédie No.1 demonstrate how the mixing of media obtained from the web can easily transform artifacts acquired, transporting, reviewed and changed into a new dimension. The popular music of Erik Satie here is enriched →
The create with simple shapes generated by computer visual rhythms that pulsate agreeing with a piece of music is one of the characteristics of vjing, which defines one of the approaches to the graphical representation of →
