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.
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02.20.03 Art in Motion IV, interference patterns.
It was inaugurated a few days at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Southern California, Pasadena Art in Motion IV , an international festival is' time-based media. With the caption of 'interference patterns' this event will address its content to the recognizable traces that intersect the cars, the natural elements and human beings. The interface, so no more conceived as a point of contact between dual entity, but as a composition of several generations of waves, whose final result depends on their intersection and glare / cancel each other. Selected works (video installations and interactive perloppiù) reflect the loss of binary logic in favor of a complex landscape that promotes raids mapped. Among the many works emerge 'Modern Convenience: The Luminous Object' Didi Dunphy, a fun and enjoyable interface collective custody organic / digital minor dell'etoy. CUSTOMER-SERVICE-CARE, already presented in BigTorino , corporeality digital Data responses from White Square by Yves Bernard, inflat-o-scape, a multi-faceted vision and experimental information of an urban area, the size of speed / distance / time expressed by 'Time Machine' by John Klima, In Transit by Michael Pinsky that explores the transport system in London and the relationships between the spaces of architecture and our perception of time, the generation of audio-visual Amoeba Dean Snell, the inevitable ' Central City 'of Stanza, the relationship between space, memory, and territory in Crowds and Power Jody Zellen, animations obtained reprocess material in digital super8 in ROY-G-BIV II by Gregory J. Scranton, the myths of the oral tradition in Korean animation computer graphics (Hungboga Semi Ryu), the narrative of GPS running in 34 North 118 West Naomi Spelman, Jeff Knowlton and Jeremy Hight and augmented reality experiences of 'The Gambit' , made by Gregory J. Scranton.
