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.
The reworking of the work of another person is not a new practice in the art world , and often the original authors involved have expressed disappointment at having lost a part of their 'paternity'. Paradoxical →
Anne-Marie had begun Schleiner with his repeated campaigns pacifist Velvet Strike carried out within the popular online game Counterstrike through some hacks that did show poster as 'Hostage of an Online Fantasy' or 'You are your →
The creators of Recode are trying hard mirrors to their website, in most countries because of the offensive of lawyers of Wal Mart (one of the largest retail chains in the U.S.), who are ill-treated the →
With nearly sixty million users is considered to be the second largest market after the U.S. network for growth and value of the data being transported. But the Chinese government has always been poorly digested the →
The scoop came from newswire of Indymedia, who posted a link to a webcam pointed at the Reuters Baghdad , which opens a glimpse of reality filtered little about what's happening (albeit at a distance) in →
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07.04.03 Wikipedia: free no-copyright encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, whose international version(wikipedia.org) was created in January 2001 by Larry Sanger and BenKovitz, with support by Jimbo →
Every day the soldiers-American cowboys trample with bombs dozens of lives of Iraqi civilians, and Tomahawk missiles-Cruise of the pompous American generals have also hit the few internet infrastructure of the capital. Ironically (or perhaps especially) →
Inaugurated on April 2 at the New Yorker Hotel the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy , the conference takes stock of the guarantees of privacy associated with the use of technology. Several topics →
In an absurd spiral of unnecessary violence in Iraq, the conflict goes on, reported by television and newspapers in an equally absurd race for who screams louder titles of terror and horror. In the branching network →
Re-Code is a free web-service that allows its users to share some information about mass-produced goods and create bar codes ready to print and re-use in department stores, overlapping the official ones to determine the price →
