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.
We’re in Kassel, for co-curating with Nat Muller a week (July 16-22) of panels within the Documenta 12 Magazine Project. It’s called “Papel and Pixel Week” and it’ll be dedicated to →
Offline – Online Publishing: The Love for Print in an Age of Electronic Media is a conference on the paper/pixel dual and controversial relationship. It’s scheduled for the 19th of January (today), at the →
Paper is meant to last and this printed annual anthology of media art projects and experiences originating in Belgium, is even more valuable because it’s focused on the outcomes of a specific territory. →
Xmeda.be – ISBN 9081073311
Paper is meant to last and this printed annual anthology of media art projects and experiences originating in Belgium, is even more valuable because it’s focused on the outcomes of a specific territory. →
The new Neural printed magazine is available (issue 24, Geek Girls). Interviews with Shu Lea Cheang, Natalie Jeremijenko, Cory Arcangel, People Like Us, Kaffe Matthews, Igor Stromajer, Barbara Lattanzi. Articles →
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edited by: Miren Eraso, Alessandro Ludovico, Slavo Krekovic
Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
ISBN 8479075082
The relationships between paper and pixel are really strategic for the publishers, even more if →
The complexity of the contemporary life has increased also because of the continuos necessity of becoming accustomed with new norms and then adapt consequently. This process is very similar to a new game →
edited by Margarete Jahrmann, Max Moswitzer – GoApe, ISBN 390238901X
The complexity of the contemporary life has increased also because of the continuos necessity of becoming accustomed with new norms and →
book+CD – LMC/Resonance – ISSN 1352772X – RESsupp2CD
The sound art scene has received a tardy acknowledgment, and then only because of the fascination of its technical apparatus and of the extensive use of →
Digital culture, as several other areas related to innovation, has always lived the dichotomy between technical and academic, who sometimes have raised their fences to recognize and distinguish. The alleged sterile contradictions that are sometimes generated →
