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.
In a fit of protectionism, Madonna did disseminate peer-to-peer its traces counterfeit , similar to the single of the new album freshly baked, American Life, in which instead of the actual song there is a silence →
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24.04.03 Weekender: 72 Hours of cultural resistance, Eyes of Kassandra, Rennie Pilgrem, Andy Smith, David Holmes, Sister Bliss, Insiders.
– On 25, 26 and 27 →
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24.04.03 IanniX 0.54, a software dedicated to Iannis Xenakis.
Considered one of the most infuential musicians of the 20th century, Iannis Xenakis died in 2001 and, due →
For fans of vinyl collector 's ELP Laser Turntable is a device that innovates play discs of black lacquer. It is a laser scanner for vinyl hand-built with extreme care, with each of five laser to →
The Comparisonics Audio Player , now in version 2.1? software that allows you to see an audio file through a colored representation of its waveform. The colors are associated with similar sounds according to a sound →
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18:04:03 Weekender: Rainer Truby, Dj Die, Francesco Farfa, Ralf, Zu, Synthomatic Squad.
– Friday, April 18: At Csoa Cox18, Milan, concerts Ex-Girl (Japanese female trio →
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18.04.03 Atmospherics, sounds reconstructed from data.
Atmospherics/Weather Works is a performance, an installation and a distributed software project aimed at extracting sounds from storms and other weather →
Der the modern electronic sounds more current is gradually recognized also by the art system, The Moderns / The Moderns , is an exhibition organized at the Castello di Rivoli (Turin) on the various artists who →
Amorphone is the name of the musical instrument created by Yoshio Machida, to make even live its particular compositions of pre-recorded sounds, expressed in a series of releases entitled 'Hypernatural' and designed to be viewed comfortably →
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16.04.03 FM7, wave modulation software by Native Instruments.
Coming from Stanford University’s Center Of Computer Research in Music and Acoustic, in the beat-generation California, inspired by the →
