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.
There are three international events that they stage the freshest relationships between sound and image that by a strange coincidence begin April 10 in three different European cities. At Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, opens pikseliÄHKY , a four-day live, screenings, installations and workshops, which assemble with a passionate spirit curatorial creating visual-audible artifacts. Among the artists who will perform live there are Johnny DeKam, Brothomstates, The Light Surgeons, Lumiere Bros, takakeno.cru and Under Control, while a series of original low-tech installations will be on permanent display, such as video-watch 'Last Clock ', the furniture from audio interactive' The Bench, That Became Confused '. In various clubs in Brussels, however, takes place for a week Cimatics that between VJing, live cinema, screenings and presentations goes on for a week acting as a liaison between the complexity of performance art, freedom of expression of turntablism and the aesthetics of digital images. A long list of prestigious participants: D-fuse + Scanner, visomat A / V, Datenreport, LAB [au], Minuszero + Eog, qubo gas + scratch pet land, Antonin De Bemels + Rob (u) rang, Stanzacrew vs The Mechanik , Visual Kitchen + Eavesdropper, Funkstörung, Cinétik + Deadbeat, Visual.Displacements feat. Markus Kienzl, etc.. etc.. In Bologna, finally, takes place the annual edition of the (renamed) Distorsonie alias DF03 futurmusic fair festival , a three-day sounds and images (also) digital. The program includes conferences 'Moog, analogies and sound synthesis', 'The compilations inspired by events, festivals and clubs nellíattuale international music scene', 'dee jay nellíera dellíMp3' and the interesting installation 'Space – Navigable Music' of the Belgians LAB [au], in addition to the exhibition Cinemix – 25 fps goes electro on the relationship between music and movement. Among those expected sets of Derrick May, Matthew Herbert, Jan Jelinek, Four Tet, Robert Owens, Patrick Pulsinger, Phoenecia, Total Science, and Italians Andrea Benedetti, Sindacops, Starfuckers, Wang Inc, Andrea Benedetti, Lory D, Francesco Zappala , Alexander Robotnik, Max Durante and Pilotjazou.
There are three international events that they stage the freshest relationships between sound and image that by a strange coincidence begin April 10 in three different European cities. At Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, opens pikseliÄHKY , a four-day live, screenings, installations and workshops, which assemble with a passionate spirit curatorial creating visual-audible artifacts. Among the artists who will perform live there are Johnny DeKam, Brothomstates, The Light Surgeons, Lumiere Bros, takakeno.cru and Under Control, while a series of original low-tech installations will be on permanent display, such as video-watch 'Last Clock ', the furniture from audio interactive' The Bench, That Became Confused '. In various clubs in Brussels, however, takes place for a week Cimatics that between VJing, live cinema, screenings and presentations goes on for a week acting as a liaison between the complexity of performance art, freedom of expression of turntablism and the aesthetics of digital images. A long list of prestigious participants: D-fuse + Scanner, visomat A / V, Datenreport, LAB [au], Minuszero + Eog, qubo gas + scratch pet land, Antonin De Bemels + Rob (u) rang, Stanzacrew vs The Mechanik , Visual Kitchen + Eavesdropper, Funkstörung, Cinétik + Deadbeat, Visual.Displacements feat. Markus Kienzl, etc.. etc.. In Bologna, finally, takes place the annual edition of the (renamed) Distorsonie alias DF03 futurmusic fair festival , a three-day sounds and images (also) digital. The program includes conferences 'Moog, analogies and sound synthesis', 'The compilations inspired by events, festivals and clubs nellíattuale international music scene', 'dee jay nellíera dellíMp3' and the interesting installation 'Space – Navigable Music' of the Belgians LAB [au], in addition to the exhibition Cinemix – 25 fps goes electro on the relationship between music and movement. Among those expected sets of Derrick May, Matthew Herbert, Jan Jelinek, Four Tet, Robert Owens, Patrick Pulsinger, Phoenecia, Total Science, and Italians Andrea Benedetti, Sindacops, Starfuckers, Wang Inc, Andrea Benedetti, Lory D, Francesco Zappala , Alexander Robotnik, Max Durante and Pilotjazou.
