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.
There are all the elements to think of a real holding new-style economy. But in reality this project is a brilliant fake that makes a mockery of communication strategies and gets a big commercial success playing →
Respect Bootleggers is a parody site officer Respect Copyrights , created by the MPAA, the lobby of the studios. Overturning the moralistic proclamations of industrial celluloid with the common sense of sharing files over the network, →
In rural areas of Cambodia, the internet connection is not as common as in a country western counterpart. The poor economic conditions faced by those areas of Asia are a reality and for this reason the →
The practice of intercept and decode part of the invisible signals that constantly crossing public spaces is similar, from a conceptual point of view, the interpolation of the critical flow of news, as both seek to →
Control technologies are the 'blanket' of existing police enforcement, because, despite being almost always experienced their fallibility are sold and passed off as 'safe' and 'extremely reliable', in a game dispendiosissimo upward of technologies used for →
The student spirit was not born with the technology, but certainly they have been stimulated by the numerous possibilities offered by the frequent invisibility of interlucutori, hidden behind technology representative. Located in Troy, Michigan, in a →
Is underway in Naples at the TerzoPianoAutogestito of the faculty of Architecture and the social center CSOA Workshop 99 Radio Kills the Video Stars , a national meeting of free radio stations, as they call themselves →
The hysteria of control expressed by CCTV cameras is slowly creeping acceptance of a dangerous game that now affects the privacy of millions of people. Among the negative records is found the British, whose legal regulation, →
Albeit still in the academic stage of verification, the study conducted by Matthew S. Hindman, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis and Judy A. Johnson, disturbing social implications for freedom of expression and diversity of opinion in the political sphere. →
The project 79 Days presents a complex subject developed through a very innovative. The central theme of the site, defined by the author networked hypermedia project Trebor Scholz, are the 79 days of the →
