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.
The festival of experimental film and video Stuttgarter Filmwinter , which opened its doors on 15 January, is expanding its area of research, more and more dirtying your hands with the new media, by its very definition ('festival of expanded media') , to the ever-growing attention paid to the contamination of techniques and media languages. Repeating the approach of last year, the part devoted to the works of the web is subjected during the month before the opening of the festival to the judgment of the public. All selected works have a narrative and cinematic soul that sets them apart, often conciliatory poetry and dream, intricando the visual possibilities of web techniques (flash in the first place), and not in a manner acquired several works testable directly from the web: 'Atmospherics / Weather Works' by Andrea Polli, 'Criptographever' of K-hello.org 'Either Side of an Empty Room' by Peter Horvath, 'Googlehouse' Marika Frankreich and Stéphane Dermineur, 'Somnambules' by Nicolas Clauss and Jean-Jacques Birge, ' Human Capital Software Solutions 'by Beatrice Gibson,' Machines will eat itself 'by Franz Alken, artists in exile gathered in the portal of the' Museum of Modern Art Kabul ',' Breathewords ', poems animated Adriana de Barros,' Scenario 'Michel Sellam, filmic memories, the symbolic and sequentially quick' Bad Mind Time 'Joey Bargsten,' GeneralNews' Daniela Alina Plewe, tool to temporarily change the text on web pages, the dream unfolding of 'Hiddensee' Tobias Hellmann, the fascinating journey into the folds of vinyl 'Tectonic Plates' Calum Stirling, the sound evolutions in Shockwave 'Soundcities' Stanza, 'The Doorman [passing]' Domiziana Jordan and Reiner Strasser, the obsession of windows browser's' The Bull of indiction 'Antonio Mendoza, similar to the technique used for years Jimpunk here with this' 1n-0ut [meditation] ~ ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡} {n-¡ff resolution ', and the sequences of deconstructed 'Unmovie' Axel Heide, onesandzeros, Philip Pocock and Gregor Stehle.
