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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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22/03/02 Net art at the Biennale of Sao Paulo.
The 25th Bienal de São Paulo (Brazil), which opens today (22/03) provides a section dedicated to net art divided into two sections. That relating to foreign artists is curated by Rudolf Frieling German ZKM and has eleven international projects: 'Identity Swap'; donated the database identity, edited by Heath Bunting & Olia Lialina, 'Tuesday Afternoon', the literary hypertext on the right to migrate geographically Carol Flax & Trebor Scholz, 'Communimage' the collaborative project of images uploadate like a puzzle by visitors Calc & Johannes Gees, The 'classic' 'Gashgirl', the narrative text and photographs of Francesca da Rimini, 'Ghostcity ', the paths of hypertext suburban Jody Zellen,' Between A Rock And A Hard Drive ', the transposition of dialogues chat communications between passing objects (sliding doors, parking lots, airports), Kristin Lucas,' Axis of Life ' Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid, short art videos that cover significant aspects of life, from birth to death, 'The Central City' room of a prospectus and navigable three-dimensional of a city where every building is linked to an experimental work geometries and colors of the author, 'Mediamorphose', the Brazilian Roberto Cabot, a painting that visitors to the exhibition can not observe a series of distortions resolved in the display with a webcam that also incorporates the astonished visitors 'Words' group German-Italian-American A12, a dynamic hypertext on the issues of urban development and architecture open to external input and structured with a particular interface levels, and 'New Image' Chinese Shi Yong, the conceptualization of a container to be filled artistic from time to time. The part dedicated to the Brazilian net art, however, was curated by Christine Mello and contains works by Lucas Bambozzi, 'Meta 4 Walls' (see Meta4walls ), Giselle Beiguelman, 'Ceci n'est pas un nike', where building and destroying models of nike shoes is reflected on the relationship between the image and its representation, Lucia Leão 'Plural Maps, Lost in São Paulo' exploration in 3D from its studies on the relationship between mazes and hypermedia spaces, Enrica Bernardelli , with 'Anticlockwise, the sun as usual', animations domestic forms on a bright ball, through a different perception of space and perspective, Artur Matuck, with 'Leteraterra / Landscript', the description of an island where the exchange of letters in words are the norm, also affected by atmospheric agents that alter the meanings and contribuisono to create new languages, Gilberto Prado 'Desertejo', a new interpretation of the landmarks and exploration of natural places in a virtual context, Ricardo Barreto , 'Satmundi: 1) Artemundo 2) Body 3) Pathos', (pictured) with works developed in the collective artemundo, Body and emotional stages of Pathos, Diana Domingues + group Artecno, 'Ouroboros', the Brazilian rituals to incorporate the powers of animals (snakes in this case) and Kiko Goifman and Jurandir + Müller 'Cronofagia', an anthropological work.
