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.
Inaugurated on April 30 in Wroclaw (Poland) the tenth Media Art Biennale this year entitled Globalica, conceptual and artistic Tensions in the new global disorder , which shows in a variant of the original leitmotif of the last year (art in globalization) after Unplugged at Ars Electronica and Transmediale to Play Global . Highlight the individuality and identity of electronic artists and their heterogeneity in the global scenario, using the real-time exchange of technologies and innovations. It is discussed in the symposium which takes its name from the festival attended by Geoff Cox & Joasia Krysa (i-DAT), Adam Chmielewski, Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Andreas Broeckmann (transmedia), Monica Narula (Raqs Media Collective), Zoran Pantelic (kuda.org), James Stevens (deckspace) and Piotr Wyrzykowski (CUKT). Among the installations, however, if they report two Polish Arkadiusz Baginski. 'Globalica', a reinterpretation of the famous software Erno Rubik cube-puzzle, with each side dedicated to a continent through distinctive graphics and specific sound samples that can be mixed color-mixing culturally as did the original game. In 'Komunikatory', however, the lights of the traffic lights have been modified by other commonly recognized icons from popular culture, such as the at sign ('@') or the hammer / wrench cross reporting on working days. Also exhibit 'David', the computer printouts of large format Klaus Pobitzer, made thanks to special printers, and the series 'Photography of "nothing"' Józef Robakowski, in which photographic images obtained thanks all'impressionamento derived from magnetic radiation directional, construct a plausible narrative invented by the author and it investigates the mechanisms of perception of reality attravertso the images themselves. Also featured performances with a concert of Gameboyzz Orchestra Project , '4 hands' of Merlier Bertrand and Jean-Marc dystrophy, in which the hands of the two direct the succession of sounds and images very well using the possibilities of the motion tracking software EyeCon, and 'Ping Melody' by Pawel Janicki and Artur Majewski that transmit data packets sound by rewording the return by the protocol Ping and the resulting delays and errors. There is also a selection of CD-ROM which includes works by Takahiko Iimura, Sanjurio Alex Rubio, Borjana Ventizlavova, Miroslav Nicic, Elodie Lachaud and Jan Simon, and it also revived the series of net art Pixel Plunder and among the works proposed are 3D Music Instrument by Jan Simon and I know where Bruce Lee lives of Skop. Even the video program, finally, it is remarkable with 'Stealing to Subvert', a selection of works that distort and reshape the image of the omnipresent mediascape, 'Remediation_Variants', dedicated to video 'peripheral' geographically and conceptually but that reproduce the rhetoric of the new media, and a survey of young Peruvian video art.
