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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05:07:02 BeeHive, new issue of the ezine web art of literature.
Each new issue of BeeHive (see Hypertexts of the author. ) consists of a number of literary projects of web art, and this is more like an exhibition of works of art to an online electronic magazine. This also applies to the level, always high average content including who each in his own way, experimenting with narrative text and its multiple applications through the various web resources. In this output we find 'Panhandle' Jason Nelson, a complex history that is generated from the alleged letters never sent in the thirties and that develops through different technologies and interactive images in their representation; 'The Meddlesome Passenger' by Scott Rettberg, a hypertext in seventy parts that uses a split screen where the low is dedicated to showing additional language connections of linked text at the top, 'The Phenomenology of Approach' by Alan Sondheim, a long essay about forty brief reflections on the structure of the text and that of the world, 'When Multimedia Literature Goes' Roberto Simanowski, another essay that analyzes three works of literature German electronic ('Epos der Maschine', 'Trost der Bilder' and 'Digital Troja'); 'Bjsk' Chris Ballange showing a word letter by letter formation through a permutation of all the others, while the sound loops in the background accompanied by a voice announcing the sentences that are being gradually formed; '_] [ad] [Dressed in a skin c.ode' Mez, (see Net art of Mez in a solo exhibition of javamuseum.org. ), however, is an anthology of texts written in his hybrid language 'mezangelle' spread through e-mail, and sites for half net; 'Axial Poetics' by George Quasha, an essay on hypertext literature and several related theories subtitled 'free standing on an open language axis'; 'Periodically chatted' by Lawrence Upton, a series of texts written in many voices in the form of a chat, and finally 'intersperse / Ugly' by Peter Howard two poems in flash that cross two texts producing variable amount of noise (intersperse), or perform a cut-up sound in a small black box (ugly).
