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.
You can use sound and animation 8bit or quote without falling into nostalgia? The project friendchip seem to give an affirmative answer to this question, combining the rigor of aesthetic choice, an adequate conceptual digression that →
From May 13 to 18 in Bologna, AngelicA , International Music Festival, thirteenth edition, abysmal & tight.
From 8 to 10 May, the links of Bologna, Flava of the Year 2003 tenth edition, style, →
Headspace is a documentary about the club culture that instead of being made according to the conceptions of a single director, was assembled by appealing on the web for the collection of audiovisual materials on the →
In addition to Gameboyzz Orchestra Project , there is at least another good band that composes music with the Nintendo Gameboy. The Teamtendo The fact manages to orchestrate the different microconsolle laptops so excellent, with results →
In the ferment of the new vogue of low tech music 8bit begin to establish themselves even channels dedicated to streaming that allow you to listen to that show productions, remixes and incorporate the sounds of →
In the representation of the sound waveforms and spectrograms resides production of images that highlights the specific characteristics of frequanze analyzed in a graphical snapshot photographing the sound itself in a sufficiently precise. Sound 2D Warper →
The fascination of mathematical abstractions has always attracted musicians, especially for its world populated by imaginary entities and extended in infinite spaces. Numbers like pi greek, then representing a further mystery with their impregnable number of →
120 Years of Electronic Music is a site that attempts a compilation of the history of electronic musical instruments from early experiments with electricity by the end of the last century →
Panse is a platform created by Pall Thayer for the development of net art audiovisual and open to all. It basically consists of a program of streaming audio to mp3, with a tcp server running on →
The music and video games have a crucial factor in common: both are enjoyed as a function of time. The videogame music more focused, therefore, have the characteristic of marrying sound and game play into a →
