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.
It opens Nov. 21 's Viper 2003 edition of the festival , a festival of film, video and new media held in Basel in Switzerland. In continuity with the issues of the last two years ( 2001 and 2002 ) the field of new media includes a wide range of proposals, enhancing the young Swiss, already celebrated in the latest edition of Ars Electronica , as well as several international projects to 'teaches the motto that accompanies this edition:' ready made custom made ', which means to explore what happens between production and utilization. Among the projects included: Audio Tooth Implant by James Auger, Jimmy Loizeau, 'Interaktive Sound Performance' Thom Kubli, Sven Mann, with 11 VHF transmitters that broadcast many sounds fragmented be received by portable radios, Dictionary of Primal Behaviour of Urtica Art, the cd-rom 'Dwelling Incidents' by Ursula Bachman a visit in an apartment with the combination of real sequences and pattern sensitive' Exten (z) sion Project 'by Chiara Passa, a virtual room that meets the bodily perceptions of the visitor,' Fieldworks @ Lake Shinji-'Masaki Fujihata, a space which translates into a three-dimensional spatial coordinates of locations and interconnections of the time they describe,' Gyre 'by Christopher Musgrave offering synesthetic visions through a software developed by the author,' How Did We Go at Whole Year Without This? ', a DVD of Michael Mandiberg a destabilizing meeting of two people apparently similar 'Interbody' Netochka Nezvanova a performance adapted from the play by Tristan Tzara 'The CIUR à Gaz', in which five cameras bets on the city mate the results of the search engines induced by the movements of an octopus, 'BiScope: The World in a Box', a documentary film by Vishal Dar on the machines crank who roam the streets of India, 'Office Voodoo' of Michael Lew, an interactive sitcom in which the mood of two employees is controlled by two voodoo dolls, 'SignalFire' David Stout, a performance art in which visual disturbances produce a pure sound synthesis that has a retroactive effect on the same images, 'Track the Trackers' Annina Rüst a project that provides anyone the necessary equipment to have become aware of an overseer of his neighborhood, 'Turing Tables Ð An Untitled Composition for Tectonic Spaces' by Franz John, a data-space made of columns data that move in space and 'Violin Power' of Steina Vasulka, in which a violin MIDI commands a videodisc with its execution.
