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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12:04:02 Weekender: Summary festival, Koop, Bertallot Royalize, Phat'n'Small.
On 12 and 13 April was held in Naples in different places (Church S.Severo the hanger, Notting →
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11:04:02 Sonograms Jeff Talman.
Jeff Talman is an artist who uses certain frequencies called 'standing waves' or 'room tone', or the sounds (between 2,000 and →
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10:04:02 The war in the spring of the majors to unauthorized copying.
The majors seem to be down on the warpath against you all that →
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09:04:02 Natural VLF Radio, sounds and atmosphere of the space.
Natural VLF Radio is one of the websites provided more information and recordings of 'Natural →
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08:04:02 Silence Machine, the machine of silence.
Selwyn Wright, ingenere and professor at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire (UK), has developed after two years →
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05:04:02 Weekender: Coil, a tribute to Peter Grossi, Blake Baxter + Chemical Brothers on the radio.
Saturday, April 6 c '? the only Italian date →
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04/04/02 New CD of Celine Dion, this crashes PC and Mac
The new CD of Celine Dion 'A New Day Has Come' (pictured) is generating →
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4.3.02 Recognition of muscular sound + Subnetwork advertising Kazaa.
– The research center of Japan's NTT DoCoMo, has embarked on a program to develop a →
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04/02/02 Save the radio online.
The independent radio online still have their raison d'etre as they can find band and small sponsors to survive. But →
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29.03.02 Weekender: Mega trance event in Montalbano (Apulia), Foetus, live videomaking, Timo Maas.
Nice event for twenty consecutive hours from Saturday evening, around Montalbano with →
