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.
is still open 's 2004 edition of DEAF , seventh Dutch Electronic Art Festival which saw the usual place rich program of conferences, exhibitions and events aimed at Rotterdam, home of the V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, and organizational core engine. After the edition of 2003 (Date Knitting), this time the theme was centered on 'Affective Turbulence: The Art of Open Systems', and has hosted a number of exciting projects including: 'MUSH (Multi-User Sensorial Hallucination)' Joachim Montessuis and Eléonore Hellio), a classic telepresence system, with the specific properties of the system itself can be explored in space using a 'magic wand' interface, and 'excited' revealing the presence detected only in quick flashes , ' The People's Portrait ', VSSTV – Very Slow Scan Television by Gebhard Sengmüller, already presented at Ars Electronica 2004 , where a television picture is 'printed' by the bubbles of plastic packaging transformed into pixels and filled with the right amount of inks red, green and blue, 'Bitmirror' Tobias Grewenig, a mirror of the observer that abstracts particles and fragments digital sound its original image, UnMovie, Axel Heide, Onesandzeroes, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle and that relates a conversation between men and bot software with streaming videos conditioned in the programming discussions, Onewordmovie , WIMPs , Perpetual Self Dis-Infecting Machine of 0100101110101101.org in which a transparent computer shows the perennial struggle between their virus Biennale.py and an antivirus, 'Gravicells' Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, a visual and sound of gravity acting on the visitors, monitoring weight, movement and speed, Mobile Feelings Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, with prototypes of mobile phones 'organic', in also capable of transmitting the heartbeat and breath of the people involved in the communication, n-Cha (n) t David Rokeby, seven computers that hear the conversations of users are recognizing through a voice recognition software and generating associative links between them, Cartographic Command Center Marc Tuters and Jaanis Garancs, a project that contextualizes local projects 'locative media' ie territorial information. Among the musical performances there was a run of live Echohce, a band with David Link, Jamie Lidell and FM Einheit (ex Einstuerzende Neubauten ), with Lidell singing lyrics composed a few seconds before the 'Poetry Machine' of Link, a software capable of generating verbal associations, and Tramjam RushHour Rotterdam, a performance distributed on the tram lines of the city by creating four hours sound intervention combined between planning and improvisation. Beautiful also the idea of entrusting to three characters egregious as many nights from them treated independently. So Lebbeus Woods introduced his vision of architecture, Marko Peljhan has organized his team of traffickers signals and Yukiko Shikata has created a cross-section of contemporary Japanese involving among others the Sine Wave Orchestra and manga artist Katsuki Tanaka. And in addition to all events, performances and public sculptures designed to mix data and actions of the patrons, it should be also noted that conference Florian Cramer entitled 'Executable Code and its Cultural Imagination: A Sketch of History', on the presence of algorithmic codes in Latin literature In Kabbalah, and in Western music.
