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.
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15:11:01 Digitales, net.art female.
All'Interface3 Brussels (Belgium) is in progress Digitales , a three-day meeting, debates, workshops and exhibitions liberating and profitable use of new technologies by women, with all the possibilities for development and not of frustration that may result. Coordinated by three associations (Interface 3, training female hi-tech, Sophia, network feminist and gender studies and Constant, organization theory and art of digital communications), the festival features discussions focused as: 'How to build a network using Linux and free softwares? ' Derieg with Aileen and Peter Huetmannsberger, 'Les Réseaux de femmes citoyennes sur le net' with Malin Björk, 'Femmes-machines' with the screening of films related to Marie-Anne Theunissen, -' Pourquoi les filles are not allowed attirèes par les sciences ? ' with the research group Newtonia, 'Virtual Eve or the paradoxes of cybernetic heroine' with Muriel Andrin, 'Last Real Net Art Museum' Oliana with Olia, 'Does Lara Croft wear fake polygons?' with Anne-Marie Schleiner, 'Gender approach to the computer myth' with Isabelle Collet, 'E-desires: technological fufilment of maiden's dreams' with Prof. Dr. Magda Michielsens, 'How to become a Cyberfeminist – basic instructions' of Cornelia Sollfrank . Even the works of net.art included in the program are no different, and among those included must be reported 'La violence et le vivant' of Isabelle Stengers and Didier Demorcy, 'F_SCAPES_II', a collection of video works in environments with particular emphasis on realtime nato.0 +55 and 'Divazine', an online magazine written by Lut Verstappen en Anne Adè.
