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.
Inaugurated on May 14 at the ZKM in Kalrsruhe (D) shows the banquet, Metabolism and Communication that takes the human metabolism as a starting point of investigation as the larger, more complex mechanisms of the 'metabolism' social and ecological around us. The space of social communication given by the consumption of food has been eroded over time by the culture of fast food and invasion in the domestic space of the television medium. Among the many installations there are the historical performance video of Marina Abramovic , a bizarre secret history of American burgers in 'Ussa: Secret Manual Of The Soviet Politburger' Mark Boswell, the relationship between food, Christianity and television media in 'Food ( For) Thought, (Three) Ingredients From The Mass Consumers Diet 'by Daniel Crooks,' The Last Nine Minutes' by Douglas Davis, one of the first performance with the use of communications satellites where the artist was only in a study by communicating gestures with his invisible audience. This concept is taken a few years later by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 'Hole in Space', where a public satellite link established between New York and Los Angeles times connecting places of the two cities on big screens, altering the perception of space and time and creating a new dimension in the topology of the media space. Also present 'Individual-Citizen Republic Project' by Daniel García Andújar – Technologies To The People on the new concept of citizenship evolved through new technologies, ' Minds of Concern: Breaking News 'of Knowbotic Research, the controversial work that uses a Public Domain Scanner to analyze the vulnerability of the network subjected, 'Frontiers of Utopia', an interactive installation by Jill Scott that makes many women to tell their experience of the twentieth century in the United States, the Russian dall'immigrata beginning of the century to the computer engineer nineties, contextualizing space and time at which draw each character belongs to, 'The tables turnes, Three Parts' by Paul Sermon, a virtual representation of a table in which three people located in three locations of the exhibition (Barcelona, Madrid and Karlsruhe), can communicate videoconferencing and 'News' Jiri Suruvka, a fictional television news program, news parody of famous mimed in Batman costume and where the only sound is the chewing of potato chips 'journalist' that creates a long-distance relationship with the passive viewer.
