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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.

 

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Jeph Jerman / Tim Barnes – Matterings

JephJermanWEB

CD – Erstwhile

There was not much in Jeph Jerman’s formative musical years suggestive of an abstract and experimental approach. Percussionist and sound designer Tim Barnes’ early work as part of the New York avant-jazz and indie rock scenes also →

experimentalfield recordingsfree form 17 Aug 2015

Cathy van Eck – Song No 3, histrionic electronic music

Cathy van Eck, Song No 3 – histrionic electronic music

Traditional stage rhetorics often find themselves in an awkward place within academic electronic music. The modernist movement wiped the slate clean of the conventions that were made obsolete either by technology or the desire for a clear-cut break with the →

audio artelectronicaemusic 14 Aug 2015

Lesley Flanigan – Glacier

LeslieFlaniganWEB

CD – Physical

Lesley Flanigan is an experimental electronic musician who lives in New York City and she certainly does not go unnoticed in her performances – both for her physical presence and for the use of a special tool →

droneelectronicaexperimental 12 Aug 2015

(edited by) Claudia Gianetti – An Archive(s)

Claudia-Gianetti-–-An-ArchiveS

Edith Russ Haus für MedienKunst, ISBN: 978-3000460180, English, German, 191 pages, 2014, Germany

The compilation of encyclopaedias, or the reduction of knowledge to manageable chunks, offering a catalogued as-complete-as-possible overview, has always been a problematic issue. In fact, the arbitrariness →

bookmedianew media art 10 Aug 2015

Biosphere Deathprod – Stator

Biosphere

CD – Touch

Geir Jenssen and Helge Sten – better known as Biosphere and Deathprod – have been called by Touch to create a project that is not a collaboration but rather a real split release, a selection that →

audio artelectronicaexperimentalsound 7 Aug 2015

Subway, dancer in the dark

Subway-participant-

Iran today does not promote any form of western culture and must comply with strict Islamic religious dictums: it is forbidden to drink alcohol, it is forbidden to have sex before marriage, it is forbidden to dance in public… and →

hacktivismmobilenew media art 5 Aug 2015

Various ‎Artists – [rec.phonophon] 5 Year Archive

Various-‎Artists-–-[rec.phonophon]-5-Year-Archive

2CD – Phonophon

With artwork by Tobias Schmitt – a name familiar to those who follow Gruenrekorder – this release celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Verein zur Förderung von Phonographie und experimenteller Musik e.V. and the phonophon concert series. →

ambientexperimentalfield recordingsfree form 3 Aug 2015

VVAA – Holo 1, CreativeApplications.net

holo1

magazine, ISSN: 2292-0919, English,, 218 pages, 2014, Canada

In the liquid territory of creative expression that uses technology there’s a hybrid area that includes, to varying degrees, programming, design, sound, interaction and science. Holo is a luxurious new magazine, conceived →

magazinenew media artsciencesound 31 Jul 2015

Alexander Rishaug – MA.ORG PA.GIT

Alexander-Rishaug-–-MA.ORG-PA.GIT

Limited edition 12″ vinyl – Cronica

There aren’t many cases in which a musical instrument is imbued with the characteristics of architecture and environment in addition to sound production. The organ is essentially a tool of location and has a →

acoustic/digitalaudio artexperimental 29 Jul 2015

Graffitizer, spraying the process of computation

Graffitizer

The Graffitizer project, by Daniel Berio, consists of a series of machines capable of generating abstract drawings associated with a sub genre of graffiti aesthetic known as Wildstyle. The style is characterised by a complex futuristic angular writing of overlapping →

hackingnew media artvisual 27 Jul 2015

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