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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22/04/02 Interactive Arts Festival.01, net art selection.
In the Kwan Fong Gallery at California Lutheran University was inaugurated by about ten days an international exhibition of net.art online by 's Interactive Arts Festival.01 . Curated by Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, included 14 works by artists from around the globe. Are testable in the order: 'Evolution of the process' Jemma Anderson and Justin Barkhuff, a flash video that allows you to analyze in sequence the evolution of a painting, 'Globalize' India's Anjali Arora that combines reflections on the digital divide collage hi-low-tech multi-colored 'Impermanencia' of Mexican Natalia Blanch, a small archive of poems organized according to the sounds and words, 'External Memory Access Device' Victor Martinez Diaz, based on 5 paintings located on the four points Cardinals no longer the center, which treats obesity as a metaphor of human development and the body as a means of individual memories and speeches, 'Space / / The Real, The Fantastic and The In-Between' coordinated by Juan Devis, a series of stories Angelenos in the suburbs of mixed media flash-vector with overlapping photos from the true (and revealed by the click), 'Frontera Sur' of the same Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, an exploration of the historical and lively south coast of Mexico, 'Self Portrait in Vector' Indonesian RE Hartanto, an autobiography animated flash pop aesthetics of the author, 'Desktoptheater' Adriane Jenink, net.theatre an interactive way where users become avatar of a multimedia performance, 'Collateral Assets' Deb King, a collective collage of personal photos with the title of the work out, 'No-Content' Brian Mackern (see No-content.org. ), 'Bad for your Health Wrong Color', flash animations of the South African Mustafa Maluka where 'interaction is hidden in invisible links,' El Exilio de Gradel 'Argentinean Adolfo Schneidewind, an information database on the diaspora of the Argentine people. Also two Italian: Carlo Zanni with 'The Church of Software' (see Net Italian art: the landscapes of the church of the software. ) and Mauro Ceolin with 'The Flash Movies' (see Net art Italian: RGB Project. ).
