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.
In view of the WSIS in Tunis in mid-November, WorldInformation.org The project is producing, in addition to a series of initiatives, another newspaper, in 'everyday' with interventions that dissect the problem of the right of access to information through a international perspective and multiple (theorists, artists, musicians, activists, lawyers, etc.. etc..). Sole control that large cultural industries are trying to exercise, has as a counter the spread of global initiatives to protect the exchange of information, their reuse and collective development and decentralized jeopardized by protectionist policy blind date perpetrated by corporations and governments. In developing countries, rapid development, disputes become paradoxical, with a fragmentation of the exchange of information through different media channels transmitted in semi-legal one hand the installation of new infrastructure of commercial production on the other, thanks to the lowest labor costs. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the next World Information City is expected to Bangalore (India) November 13 to 20 with a program of activities that will see interventions David Lyon and Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, an exhibition of media art curated by Namita Malhotra, Ayisha Abraham, Kiran Subbaiah includes several works by local artists, including Raqs Media Collective and international, such as the Makrolab Marko Peljhan and the presentation of some projects in progress, including 'United We Stand', the new work of 0100101110101101.ORG. This city, in fact, is one of the nodal centers of economic change produced by the Information Technologies which is reflecting dramatic changes in urban and social, with the thousands of hectares of the business of companies'' IP Corridor 'and 40 per cent of the population living in the slums of the slums. The project started in 2002 has already produced another edition printed on intellectual property .
