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 main occupation of Govcom.org Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, is the creation of 'policy instruments' for the web. The creator of the project Govcom.org , as well as director of the foundation, Professor Richard Rogers of the University of Amsterdam, started from the observation that the major protagonists of dissertations in progress on the web about important social problems come from government (. gov) , by industry (. com) and non-governmental organizations (. org), showing how science (. edu) often play a minor role in these discussions than you might expect. Although the domain Govcom.org not been identified in accordance with the spirit of RFC 'Domain Name System Structure and Delegation', written in 1994 by J. Postel, the acronym conceptual Govcom.org thus comes to signify symbolically the top three social actors involved in debates on issues related to the community:. Gov,. Com,. Org. One of the most important tools carried by the foundation is represented by a software called IssueCrawler, which embodies a search engine designed for server-side view maps of important social issues and gathering, through the analysis of automatic hyperlinks, the arguments based on similarity measures, identifying the organizations that have to deal with the same problems ('issue networks') and then viewing the sets of arguments in circles ('virtual roundtables') and clusters. Another interesting tool is Viagratool.org a system based on the technology of collaborative filtering systems, ie intelligent agents that filter the information found on the network, allowing a comparison of the data, and created on the basis of precise filtering tests that answer the question 'What Viagra is and whom-is it (really) for? ', to show in which information about Viagra you may come across a navigator, ultimately influencing the final decision whether or not to consume the product in question.
