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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04/26/01 4 cycles, a series of dj.
The fourth edition of the exhibition of contemporary art ' Cycles 'is this year dedicated to the figure →
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24/04/01 Napster, new filters and Winamp.
Napster announced that it is to adopt a system of 'acoustic fingerprinting', which is unique recognition based on the →
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Offensive radio online on 24/04/01.
The RIAA has obtained another judgment of the U.S. Copyright Office that requires online webcasters to pay royalties on songs →
One of the most innovative electronics of the last decade, Autechre, are on tour in Italy. Two dates: Pietralata now at the center of Rome and tomorrow at the Links of Bologna.
– Friday in Turin at the Supermarket
. Ian Pooley (pictured) (tech-house) Frankfurt
– Friday in Rome, at Brancaleone
. Scientists PM, Lazarus + DJ MC Fox (breakstep) UK
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Today at 21:00 Mascarella the Sala Bologna conference by Franco Minganti the University of Bologna on the theme 'The grain (sound) of the radio'. At the end will be a screening of the documentary 'Radioland Murders' →
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has complained to the local police precinct Chengkung fourteen students of the National University of Taiwan, accusing them of illegally copied and exchanged files to mp3. A raid →
I Live, American rock band has put up a site with six new songs that could be included in the new album expected this summer. The fans are asked to vote on them (according to a →
The 2001 edition of the Love Parade will be held regularly, but a week later than expected, ie on July 21. The Association for the Protection of the Tiergarten who organized a counter-demonstration on the 14th →
– Thursday in Milan, at Ciak
. Sigur Ros (pop)
– Friday in Milan, at Cox 18
. Tluk (pictured) (electronica)
– Friday in Bisceglie (Bari), the Tam →
