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 is held on 2, 3 and 4 April to social laboratory busy Burrida of Genoa on the seventh Hackmeeting 2004 , one of the few unmissable able to gather the digital countercultural community of our country. Early in the preparation of a transnational meeting in the summer, the event has established the concept of LAN space, where each brings his computer and share resources and knowledge with the rest of the internal network by limiting access to the Internet a few basic services, the discussion list since the last edition discussed and organized the event with a renewed participation that is realized in the days before to put on the telematics infrastructure and logistics. Dense and extremely varied, as always, the program of workshops planned to drum swing for the first two days. In addition to the technical seminars on basic techniques, new technologies and safety (migration Windows> Linux, Kernel Hacking, Intrusion Detection Systems, exploits, php, bluetooth security, operating systems, amateur, XML, NIDS, GPG, Open Office, Domain Name Anarchy ) to the more political (network governance, e-government, accessibility, hacklab, anonymous web publishing), a greater number of workshops on audio (streaming audio with the use of the suite soma, getting an online radio, and Radiobase, on community radio, while on another comparison will host the musical performance participatory 'Piece for 20 hands'), 'Technical tests of oblivion' Decree on Urbani law, 'Bettytech' on the impact of non-commercial pornography online, and even two seminars of artificial intelligence (AI @ home and Humanoid Robots), and 'Retrocomputing' on the old computer machines. Throughout the day on Saturday 'Telestreet & WebTV' with, among others Bifo, Arturo di Corinto, Neural, with Tommaso Tozzi to coordinate the discussion and MuSE in the hut of the ZII FIST API usage of MuSE, software for the streaming audio also developed by Jaromil. In addition to the screening of Freedom Downtime, finally, a film by Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of 2600, it is planned to continuous streaming of events, for those who can not attend in person, by Radio Cybernet.
