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.
CD – Consumer Waste
Constant Linear Velocity by Stephen Conford is a project made in 2016 for Color Out of Space, an unconventional art and sound experimental festival that has taken place in Brighton for the past ten years. It →
CD 10” – COdA
The Italian musician Imok hails from Cisterna, a hamlet of Coseano, a town twenty kilometres from Udine located deep in the Fruili Province. The electroacoustic composer is known for his experimental approach and in particular for →
LP – Persistence Of Sound
The Eccentric Press by Iain Chambers is a project commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and ABC Radio National/Australia. The former is a local public radio broadcaster of the German Land North-Rhine Westphalia, the latter is →
LP – FRAC Franche-Comté
The source of Dictaphones by Charles Pennequin is a huge archive of mini-tapes, which includes recordings of readings, monologues, voices and several experiments of sound poetry, some of them still unreleased but carefully preserved over more →
CD – Fang Bomb
The Cray Twins newest release, In The Company Of Architects, features Kai Fagaschinski on bass clarinet, Paul Baran on organ, buchla, and several electronic instruments, Antoine Beurger on flute, Werner Dafeldecker on guitar, Sergio Merce on →
LP – Gruenrekorder
With the recent upsurge of interest in environmentalism, so-called ‘green’ themes have emerged in both mainstream and Avant Garde cultural outputs. That said, it’s not a new thing that plants and their imaginary worlds are given special →
2 × Vinyl, LP – NLS
From the first track, Ficciones by Paul Prudence reveals a hypnotic sense of estrangement and seduction, thanks to some cosmic and meditative sequences, with infinitesimal audio emergencies, field recordings and very elegant treatments of →
CD – Touch
Bana Haffar was born in the 1980s in Saudi Arabia, but has lived in North Carolina since early childhood. After years of study as a classical violinist she switched to the electric bass and in 2014 to →
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262029667, English, 744 pages, 2019, USA
Originally meant for publication in 2015, this book, like most of the previously ZKM ‘branded’ MIT Press releases, is a dense tome. The 744-page text is an →
sonosheet, USB card + booklets – éditions ésam Caen / Cherbourg
On removing an elegant USB card with some beautiful prints on a pearl background from an envelope with the “THE LISTENER” printed on the seal, we transfer the 23 →
