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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07:11:01 Videolisboa.
Begins today in Lisbon (Portugal), Videolisboa Review of video and new media art in its aspects related. In addition to the video also shows a selection of CD-ROMs and websites. Among the latter Trashconnection (see Trashconnection ), Visual Chaos (kinematic experiments), cannibalizing Web (Web conceptual and political), How Do You Feel (pop ultrapositivo with a curious effect magnifying iconic), Amorphoscapes (spectacular geometric effects in shockwave) , Gashtgari (places of Tehran elusive after a revision made in Geneva), Embryo (conscious procreation and science), Vesu Visus (paradoxes of identity natural, cultural and virtual), Grasping at Bits (a political essay on art and hypertext control intellectual in the digital age), Praystation.com (state of the art of experimentation in Flash) Sprawl (landscape transformations in the U.S.). In addition, finally, to a retrospective on the artists Steina and Woody Vasulka are provided for up to three live performances: 'Violin Power', in which the same Steina Vasulka a violin in MIDI interface to a computer and to a Pioneer Disk Player, with a proprietary software developing access to individual frames of the exhibition, 'Klangkrieg' a concert electroacustico on urban sounds of Felix Kubin and Tim Buhre; 'Too Early For Sorrow Too Late For Happiness' in Breda Beban in which a trip to the former Yugoslavia Live commentary is transforming the perception through the interpretation of reality.
