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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24.04.02 European Media Art Festival 02.
It opens April 24 the 2002 edition of the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück (Germany), with the motto 'New Images – New Stories – Art in Modern Media'. Again the international festival offers a packed program for four days and for the kinematics attention is focused on the media scene in Asia, with a focus on China and Korea, along with a wide retrospective of the Canadian Razutis, author of experimental films, theoretical texts and video in 3D. Also provided for the European premiere of 'Underground Zero', a documentary film of the events that occurred September 11, coordinated by Jay Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi, which involved 150 authors of experimental video and documentary. Highlights include the performance of PASS (Portable Ambient Sound Sysytem), a portable unit that changes the sound events in real time, and that of Barbara Lattanzi with his 'Muscle and Blood Plan' (see 'You are Late', in Nosferatu pixels. ). The section includes ten works of net art: 'What are you doing to me?', Igor Stromajer ( see ), 'Amorphoscapes' spectacular geometric effects in Shockwave Room, 'Sam and Roy / Radio Free Tank' of Samthedog.com, short humorous short flash, ' Trapped 'by Sachiko Hayashi, hypnotic succession of texts about serial killer with an interesting interface, 'Webwürfelwerkstatt' geometries labyrinthine animated by Hanna Kuts and Viktor Dovhalyuk, 'www.nowar.nogame.org' , another movie of the French javascript jimpunk warlike conflicts, ' Flight 404 'of Flight404, a hypermedia narrative of the alleged flights,' Flow '(see Flow, flash video surrealism. ), ' Miniatures 'of Mulleras, micro shorts choreography, 'Filmtext' (see Mark Amerika: Filmtext. ) and ' Netzspannung 'by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, a media lab in the network. Until 20 May, finally, will be available 'Ex The nature of machines', an exhibition of works of art by Canadian duo Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn, who works with standalone machines and robots, including 'Lassemblée', a performance in which 48 identical robots in an arena metal is confront each other in a series of visual and aural stimulation.
