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.
It will take place from today through Friday at the Queens' College, Cambridge (UK), CODE, International Conference on Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy , which will confront artists, scientists, technical and legal aspects of →
Public meeting today with Bruce Perens , in Milan, at the Auditorium of Cassina Anna at 17:00. After creating the pattern Debian distribution of Linux, Perens founded with Eric Raymond Open Source Initiative, becoming in fact →
The pool of lawyers who supports the magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly , has appealed in a court in New York for the code to DeCSS can be freely printed, in low to the famous 'First →
Few locations can be so revolutionary as those which require a reduction in the time spent watching television in our lives. A public forum on these issues was inaugurated on Yahoo Italy in recent days, entitled →
The Supreme Court has finally acquitted Jorge Vacca, owner of Topolin Edition, the allegations of the edition of 'Psycho Sexualis Pathia' (Spanish author Miguel Angel Martin), "because the fact does not exist" with the cancellation of →
It's for today netstrike against the Global Forum of Naples, who decides to e-government and e-business internationally. The event is scheduled from 15:00 to 17:30 on the website of Fineco , trying to clog one of →
In one of his last articles for SecurityFocus.com, Kevin Mitnick shows how effectively without puncturing any server, but simply accessing the data and some public databases raccontado a bit 'of lies, in the U.S. we can →
Seven lines of code in Perl, 526 characters called 'qrpff', developed by two MIT students wily Student Information Processing Board (Keith Winstein, 19 years in the photo, and Marc Horowitz) are the fastest so far created →
They share the initiatives of the LOA in Milan, with an intense program that provides every day of the week a different course every Sunday and a special seminar. Centered on Unix, Linux, hardware, C, PERL →
Un'happening for copyleft within the institutional Internet Festival will be held in Paris tomorrow. Under the 'Licence Art Libre' will be freely exchanged text files, graphics and sound, with a server, and 3 burners with 150 →
