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 from 4 to 8 February 2005 edition of, Transmediale , the massive media art festival that takes place every year in Berlin. This year hundreds of guests and a flurry of activity throughout the city that has few equals. Dense the program, thanks to the wealth of events run by other institutions, including hack.it.art , but an integral part of the program in all respects. For example, we find 'Banlieue du saw' Thomas des Nations, winner of the Golden Nica in the category Digital Music of the Prix Ars Electronica 2004 will be shown at GIMA – for international media art gallery, as well as 'Nordic Pioneers', the pioneers of computer art in Sweden carried out by the team of Electrohype for use by the [DAM] Berlin Digital Arts Museum. Among the conferences will indicate 'BASICS of Media Art' moderated by Mercedes Bunz, the aesthetic possibilities of an approach interdisclipinare of media art with Gunalan Nadarajan, Sally Jane Norman and Christiane Paul, 'BASIC Security', moderated by Florian Cramer, on the relations between cultural, technical and political aspects of security and its ethical boundaries, with Konrad Becker, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and McKenzie Wark, and 'Re-Thinking Media History', moderated by Timothy Druckrey on 'media archeology, namely the history of the arts media historically contextualized, with Ute Holl, Julien Maire, David Tomas, Woody Vasulka, Siegfried Zielinski. Among the many 'lecture', however, we find: 'Freedom of Art and Research' with Claire Pentecost and Steve Kurtz , ' net.art generator – Programmierte Verführung 'with Florian Cramer and Cornelia Sollfrank,' Infection as Communication 'with Alessandro Ludovico. Among the performances is also to MichelleTeran: Life: A User's Manual 'Berlin Walk' , while among the workshop are those of Parasite , edited by Michael Rakowitz and Corporate Fallout Detector curated by James Patten.
