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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09:10:02 Emoção art.ficial, media center compared.
'Learn the media art' seems to be the motto dell'Itaú Cultural Institute has invited 13 other media center of the rest of the world to present their work and share criteria of research and development. So that each institution has submitted its family jewels in the exhibition Emoção art.ficial starting from the Ars Electronica Futurelab (Linz-Austria), which showed the Ars Box, a model of 'cave' for PC that replaces the expensive dedicated systems with a cluster of linux pc, while the Art + Com (Berlin-Germany) has developed a CD-ROM that plays the 'kidai Shoran', a strip of twelve feet from sliding in hand, with the description of Tokyo in 1805 and thousands of illustrations now be experienced with the same narrative. 'Talk Nice' is the work of the Banff New Media Institute (Alberta-Canada) that puts two people facing analyzing how many times the pitch goes up to the end of the sentence in a sort of competition that highlights the way they communicate. Custom electronic pieces '8 'is presented by the Daniel Langlois Foundation (Montreal-Canada) and shows the work of Jim Campbell who realizes generators images from conversions within electronic architectures are always the same. The Experimenta Media Arts (Melbourne, Australia) introduced 'Close' a projection on multiple screens where through a haircut you emulates the death of the individual who is also reduced slowly the rest of his body. Less metaphorical, but equally complex work of IAMAS (Ogaki, Japan), ie 'Remain in Light' a viewer of electric waves collected and 'Info.table' that transforms decorative objects in interfaces for digital data. Rafael Lozano Hemmer is the owner of the project of the Laboratory Arte Alameda (Mexico City), titled '33 preguntas per minute 'and consists of software that combines the words of a vast dictionary for dial 16 million applications at the rate of 33 words per minute. The Mars (Sankt Augustin, Germany) has instead chosen to present its video production through the installation 'Make your choice!' allowing you to select the different jobs simply by highlighting them. 'War / Wart' is the project of Mecad (Barcelona, Spain) that investigates through the voices of some important philosophers of the different forms of power and their social consequences, and always on the social aspects / focuses globalizing 'locationn' of Sarai ( New Delhi, India), which shows several clocks synchronized with the different capitals of the world in which instead of figures there are concepts such as' hope, anger, desire, panic, pleasure, pain, fear). Impressive is the historic installation 'Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100kmh)' in which an amplifier whirling wheel of a mechanical arm in search of patrons in its scope as a guard dog, all under the auspices of V2 (Rotterdam, The Netherlands ). Sex robot, that the Centre 'Cyborg Sex Manual' from the Wro (Wroclaw, Poland), while for the Zkm (Karlsruhe, Germany) are proposed three projects, namely 'web of life' in which the interaction takes place with a machine audiovisual through the lines of his hand, 'Artintact' collection of the best works on CD-ROM and selected products in the second half of the nineties, and 'Place Ruhr' with navigation in particular sites of this region of Germany through a projection to 360 degrees . Even the Itaú Cultural Institute presented two of his projects: it is 'descending Escada' perception in virtual representations of the abyss and 'Avenida Paulista', a reconstruction of the famous street of what it was like in 1915.
