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.
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10:12:02 Ether, compilation of generative music online.
Organised by the Australian musician Ian Andrews, the two-volume compilation of online Ether relate their pieces on voluntary →
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07:12:02 Giant Step in geometric animation.
One of the most widely used standard of jazz is certainly 'Giant Steps' by John Coltrane song of 1959, →
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07:12:02 Weekender: Club To Club, Trace, Nicola Conte, Dj Food, Terroritmo, Retina.it, Rennie Pilgrem.
In principle wins Turin, Club To Club, very large events located →
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06:12:02 The sound cold.
A refrigerator that uses sound waves to cool. This is the incredible prototype presented by Steven Garrett , professor of acoustic, →
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06.12.02 ‘Erratum Errata’, Dj Spooky remixing Marcel Duchamp.
On 28 November, the new project of Paul Miller alias Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid was presented at the →
– Friday in Turin, the Notorious
. Valletta + Ricciardone, house. I
– Saturday in Rome, the Ex-Warehouses
. Ascension Paul (Mission Traxx Records), house. Uk
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Censure 03:12:02 RIAA, mp3 farms and figures p2p.
– The latest arrogant threat of RIAA hit the daily electronic 'Register', which in response republished online, →
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02:12:02 Ogg Vorbis for Palm.
The Aerodrome Software has released a beta of its first audio player for Palm that supports the Ogg Vorbis compression →
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29.11.02 Oblique Strategies online.
Created in 1975 by electronic musician and producer Brian Eno and by British artist Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies are presented in →
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29.11.02 Weekender: Xploding Plastix, The Acid Mothers Temple, Tim Baker, Highfish, SUVs.
At Link, Bologna, Thursday, November 28, live from Xploding Plastix, the Norwegian group, →
