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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13.02.03 Weekender: V_, Le Chemin des Machines, Turntable Against War, Make Cheese, Not War, Philip Jeck, Badmarsh, John Duncan, Dino Felipe.
– Friday, February 14: at Bulk storage, Milan V_, VJ and video art exhibition, sponsored by Bulk, Box Otolab and special guest vj Solidrocketbooster, from Amsterdam, dj set Menthos (and follow Elec, Fantasmagramma, Autobam). Le Chemin des Machines, Dans le cadre du mois à Multi Méduse, in Bologna, the duo Minimum Frequency sound from the halls of Link, remotely through the internet with Quebec City, San Francisco and Vancouver. Turntable Against The War!! All'Agatha, at Brancaleone in Rome with Andrea Lai, Riccardo Petitti and Feel Good Productions. Great turmoil in Rome, presented by Basstation & RadiOndaRossa, Cause4Concern, Djset (UK dnb * Hardware/Virus/Metro/C4C Renegade Recordings). In Gaeta (Latina), the Zulu club culture, party with special video presentation on the Italian club culture Tunza Tunza. Belforte workshops, Turin, The Loving Robots Party, Xplosiva Fashion Xtra with Giorgio Valletta & Sergio Ricciardone. The Maffia, in Reggio Emilia, Egg ago, with Miss America. At Link, Bologna, against nostalgia, Turntablism Experience presents Philip Jeck (Touch UK): old records and record players salvaged from scrap shops. Valentine's Day with Ralf Le Mirage, MSSavino Arezzo. Expander with Landee-O, Stef and Claudio De Tommasi (RadioCentroSuono-Microwave). – Saturday, February 15: Asian breaks, sitar funk, with an exponent of historical bhangra scene, Badmarsh, the Maffia. Bluecheese Factory, in the capital (the one with the dome but also with a pyramid), 'Make Cheese, Not War!', With Andypop (Adp / Basstation), also breakbeat and drum'n'bass nite. Still on the Link, the presentation of Italian Bassline Vol.1, production that collects 12 tracks of many Italian artists of drum'n'bass + live performance with John Duncan (experimental). A Scafati (Sa), Retina.it, Nous, Maurizio Martusciello. – Sunday, February 16: Presented by Surphase & Metaverse, in Rome, for connoisseurs, the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Dino Felipe live set (Schematic rec./usa- Betabodega rec.), But there's also no Otto Von Schirach .
