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 takes place in Scandinavia, and the precision between Stockholm, Helsinki and Tallinn as well as by sea, ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in 2004 , the biennial international conference that brings together artists, critics and theorists from around the world under the aegis of 'Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. This twelfth edition begins on 14 August and was coordinated by Tapio Makela with a large team of experts and consultants of the fervent Baltic area. Conference and Exhibition will be held perloppiù on the ship (!) That will take guests between the three cities where there will be other initiatives to coincide with their arrival. The program, dense for the eight-day event, includes, among dozens of meetings, 'The List, the mailing list phenomena' with Melinda Rackham – Empyre, Kathy Rae Huffman – Faces, Charlotte Frost – The Rhizome & Further and David – Fibreculture ; 'Tactical social fictions', with Angie Bonino – Hacking Net: Virtual Organization, Daniel Michelis / baum.haus – Hypertagging, hyperdemic graffiti, Rosanne van Klaveren: Memoires of a testee – recorded recollections at Braintec and Italians Lionello Borean + Chiara Grandesso / Usine de boutons – Plug'n'Pray , 'Translocal networks' with Travellab, Manuel Bonik, Michael Mikina – split_connect, Obok / Ronald Jones, Laurie Mäkelä – Babel Launch and Rodriguez Foundation Association – Tester , 'DIY Wearable Challenge workshop' with Katherine Moriwaki and Jonah Brucker-Cohen , a panel discussion on ' Critical Art Ensemble : Science art and their legal limitations', 'Mapping space, the social potential of locative media' with Marc Tuters, Ed Mac Gillavry, Ben Russell, the 0100101110101101 . ORG and Giles Lane, 'Working across boundaries: curating and preserving new media art' with Beryl Graham, Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz and Caitlin Jones, a presentation of futuredj by Mathias Fuchs and Sylvia Eckermann, 'Uncovering Histories of Electronic Writing' with Noah Wardrip-Fruin – What was Hypertext?, Nick Montfort – Continuous Paper , Michael Mateas, Jill Walker, and a keynote by Matthew Fuller (interviewed on Neural 21 ), as well as concerts, among others, Felix Kubin, Akufen and Deadbeat .
