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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02 05:12:02 Techne, interactive installations in Milan.
It is always open space at Spazio Oberdan in Milan ' TECHNE 02: Between art and technology – Journey into the world of interactivity ', an exhibition of interactive installations that sees materialize its second edition after two years. Curated by Roman Fattorossi, the exhibition includes: 'Scribble Test' by Mario Canali, a work in which the user scaraabocchi on the screen are reinterpreted in music, color, fragments and stage actions, while a printer produces a psychological profile presunsto by that user 'Lipstickjoystick' by Ennio Bertrand, in which the physical actions of the user affect the performance of the movies shown, taken from scenes of cartoons in which the bodies are represented in defiance of the ideformabilità of their body; Studio Azzurro The present 'Drums south' big three membranes that sound tap emit sounds and vary the images projected on them; 'Order and Chaos' is the work of Limiteazero, a client of Carnivore showing the flow of data in the network Spazio Oberdan, editable by customers. The Group presents Makrida 'Longitudes of a look' a video installation in which the spectator has to determine the definition of the images and their focus, contradicting the axiom that closer proximity makes lìimmagine more visible; 'Of course it's raining: do the beautiful and the bad weather 'is the name of the installation by Nicola Toffolini that mimics some natural phenomena possible thanks to the efforts of emergency responders, and finally' Shared Emotion 'is the installation of Piero Gilardi and through a pressure-sensitive pads of the fingers , activates emotional areas in the spectator-performer.
