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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12/03/01 Animations.
The gallery PS1 in New York is in progress and events , an exhibition dedicated to contemporary artists' perceptions of the animation as a medium. At the beginning of an era in which reality and fantasy of a film's animation seem to start to melt losing the clear boundary that divided them until a few years ago, were chosen thirty artists who interact with the concept of its 'animate', ie give a soul to something. Between the sections, particularly rich presents one dedicated to net.art, with prominent artists and major works such as: Open Studio, Andy Deck, a drawing tool collective Glassbead, John Klima, an instrument that produces musical objects online generated from multi-user (at most) a dozen people at once; 'p-Soup' by Mark Napier, a tool for creating animated drawings sound; 'Blur Browser' Mark Daggett that blurs the content of the web page requested by the user to it becomes abstract colors; 'ASDFG' Jodi, one of their animations syncopated error; 'Dakadaka' by Golan Levin and Casey Reas, a visual representation of the keys pressed on the keyboard, 'Flexible Planning' of Panajotis Mihalatos, a microgame recursion on the shares, 'Hikaru: Bio_Sythesis Session' of Basicray, on the concept of synthesis audio / visual, 'Dakota' by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, an animation in Flash-based 'Cantos' Part I and Part II of Ezra Pound, 'bulb in the 20th Century' of Xeth Feinberg, humorous cartoon on the limits of Flash, 'Day In, Day Out' by Alex Munro and Galloway, animation spend the day through the trans-atmospheric and climatic conditions and 'The Coils of the Serpent, part 1 'by Sebastian Luetgert, obsession of corporate logos. Also included are works known as' Sissyfight 'Erc Zimmerman and Word.com,' The Intruder 'by Natalie Bookchin (see' The Intruder ') or' Lullaby for a Dead Fly 'of Mouchette and' Praystation 'by Joshua Davis.
