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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22:01:03 Netmage 03, an international festival of livemedia.
After the edition of two thousand , and that of last year , opens Jan. 22 in the third round with Bologna Netmage , an international festival of livemedia, host of this year's Art Fair. Organized by Xing and sponsored by Diesel, also enjoys this time of multi-device that allows a wide fruition of the shows. The program includes a contest that follows all ' Italian Live Media Contest last October that it has selected ii Otolab Milan and the Florentines Ogino Knauss for you to 'slip' with other European groups (Bas Van Koolwijk, Mikomikona, Semiconductor, KMH, Monitor Automatique) and Americans Mordka. The two winning teams will go a contribution to the realization of a showreel. Four events are planned: at the opening of the festival three works on the relationship between text and image director Tim Etchells, the performance of 'Before the image then the title' the Teatrino Clandestino, the live presentation of the Qubo Gas accompanied by the music of Scratch Pet Land (Sonig), and finally the project 'Stereo # 1' commissioned to Catania Upside Dog and Massimo. For the live end of the evening will open with the duo Christian Fennesz / Claudio Sinatti, followed by PatrickTuttofuoco / BHF and their 'Superstereo', and concludes with the performance of the Germans Tarwater with visuals Lillevän Pobjoy and follow the Romans Jollymusic. Afternoon workshops and a space 'à la carte' similar to Sonar in Barcelona, where you can request and view the different materials of the festival, complete the program.
