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 dominant market positions attract the creative code like flies to honey, as their creations liberating applicarte their respective platforms can be viewed comfortably by a large number of users. And so, as happened to Google and Ebay, the circumvention of the rules imposed is also occurring for the iTunes Music Store from Apple. After such examples 401ok and MyTunes , it is now the turn of two other 'hacking' the most used software for buying music online. iTMS-4-ALL is a script written in Perl that allows you to access all'iTMS without installing the program from Apple but through a simple web interface. The working version of the server side is hosted by Downhill Battle and licensed under the GPL and not only allows visualization of the contents, but also a preview of the use of sound, which is supposed to even implement some of p2p networks. In terms of management of copyright, however, had given 'the' Jon Lech Johansen, before developing his QTFairUse, a dll file for windows that recorded on the output of a streaming QuickTime AAC, or just the files sold on iTunes, then evolved into a patch for the free cross-platform software VideoLan. All this in spite of the dictates of multinational Cupertino and its persecution of ' PlayFair ', independent software that can remove the protection implemented by FairPlay, its digital copyright management. Playfair was removed before inultilmente from an American Indian, and then from a mirror, and now multiply it by the network. The monolith of polished standardized software s'incrina flourish with its inevitable small internal cracks.
