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.
He was born in the economic capital of the strike viewers, the right to turn off the television for a time, but voluntarily and collectively as a liberating practice to acquire. An operation far from trivial, →
Start today the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and a large group of activists, united under the name Geneva03 is organizing some days workshops and conferences alternatives, despite having accepted, by some of →
The network may be the structure that allows to create seemingly utopian practices simply by enabling the contact and exchange. The Freecycle Network Worldwide strengthens these capabilities by hosting a number of mailing lists where anyone →
In the north of Italy, from Milan to triveneto, as a response to the policies of zero tolerance and progressive closure of the national border, were born hacktivist new realities that continue to survive despite numerous →
The effectiveness of protest that the organization of a relatively small amount of people can express has increased tenfold with the use of mobile technologies strategically employed. During the current Bush's visit to London was turned →
Comes from the editors of Adbusters the latest initiative aimed at protecting the right to communication, for it to be constitutionally accepted in all countries. It's called Media Card Manifesto , and is a powerful stance →
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13:11:03 Faith Converter, theologic plagiarism.
In this was of globalization of commerce and disneyfication of cultures, religious differences are hard to tame even for a →
The spaces of street advertising are in fact visual harassment, a part of our daily visual space that is rented to business communication and its vacuous market of dreams. The intervention of these spaces is becoming →
As reported by The Times of India, in response to the detention by the authorities to access Yahoo Groups is a cyber been called satyagraha , which is a form of protest that they can carry →
The machine of the truth as it is known to the general public is started at sunset. The feverish activity of the polygraph which decreed the veracity or otherwise of the claims examiner is going to →
