Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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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.
Rapper Prince Harvey, after his computer crashed and his external drive was stolen, managed to record an entire album in Apple Store SoHo in four months, befriending employees, hiding files and using USB sticks and mail. as support. Abbie Hoffman would have been proud.
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa – Scandinavian Tourist – The Helen Scarsdale Agency
Schurer / Steinbruchel – track one – Nonvisualobjects
Mahmoud Refat – Untitled 1 – Mort Aux Vaches
Yuta Segawa – Fourth Shift – CNC
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Mattin – Broken Subject – Anti-Copyright
Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny – Two – Non Visual Objects
Autistici – Broken Guitar, Discarded Violin – 12K
Klaus
Schulze – Stardancer – Revisited
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Yannis
Kyriakides – Wordless – Unsounds
Mattin – Proletarian Of Noise – Hibari
Kim Cascone – Statistically Improbable Phrases – Anechoic
Chris
Watson/BJ Nilsen – Storm – Touch
Peter
Rehberg →
@C & Vitor Joaquim – Lissabon – Feld
Steve Peters – Abrasions – Sirr
Gene Bowen – Desert’s Edge – Amorfon
Uusitalo – Sikojen Juhla – Huume/Audioglobe
Annea Lockwood – →
Andrey Kiritchenko – – Mort Aux Vaches – Staalplaat
Luc
Ferrari – Rencontres Fortuites – Sub Rosa
KTL2 – Abattoir
– Editions Mego
Mathias
Delplanque – Anti-Reflet – Low Impedance
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Hecq – 0017 – Hymen
Vogel/Mayas/Renkel – Perception Feedback – Absinth
KK Null – 0418 – Touch
Spyweirdos – Should be a spell – Poeta Negra
Radicalfashion – Shousetsu – Hefty
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Yoshio Machida – Texas Vino – Amorfon
Johann Johannsson – Part 4/ibm 729 – 4AD
Kotra and Zavoloka – Out Of Nowhere – Kvitnu
Dimitri Voudouris – Praxis – Pogus
Keene – The River – Poeta →
The Alps – The River Lies with the The Lilies – Spekk Japan
Peter Rehberg – Kapotte Muziek N.14 – Korm Plastics
Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo – Crossing Into – and/OAR
Tor Lundvall – Empty City →
Rosy Parlane – Jassamine Part Two – Touch
Giuseppe Ielasi – Giuseppe Ielasi – Häpna
Netherworld – Kryos – Glacial Movements
The Idealist – The Knives Are My Eyes – Nosordo
Lithops – Sequenced Twinset – →
