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.
. Hacktivism 
03:05:02 'Gigabyte', the girl who wrote 'Sharpei', the first virus for. NET platform from Microsoft.
Gigabyte is the nickname of the Belgian girl who created a virus xapace to nail services 'Microsoft. Net'. The eighteen year old virus writer living in Belgium and began writing code at the tender age of six years on the Commodore 64 uncle. The virus 'Sharpei', distributed as attach to emails, masquerading as an upgrade from Microsoft that brings a "speed increase of 50 percent," and instead goes to edit some files related to the platform. Net The girl says she would like to distribute the virus prior to the public release of the platform, and who has not secretly released and was even sent to the antivirus software house that program, hoping for a classification of 'high-risk', and posting as well the code on its home page, so that anyone can analyze it. According to Gigabyte "The Microsoft said. Net and C # are safe, but as I have shown you can write a virus in C # as in any other language.'s Not my fault if some people are so stupid as to open the attach without any precaution. " And on the claims femmiste heralded by the American media simply states "I say that I am a girl because I have nothing to hide. You should know that there are also girls who write viruses, but this is not my motivation in doing this type of programming. I do this for me, not for the whole world, as the other women do not need me to self-determination, I can easily do it by themselves. " Two years ago, Gigabyte had written another virus (Scrambler) and stirred unpredictably sound content of the mp3 files on the hard disk of the user.
