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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12:02:03 Leo Mariño, experiments visual poetry in flash.
Stigmatize the experiments in Flash in the simple category of 'web design', may result in the exclusion of brilliant codes written to return to the vision of the dignity of a process with many still unexplored possibilities. Sounds by the succinctness perfect accompany the choices of the discrete site of Leo Mariño , artist from Barcelona (Spain), which hides in the dynamic manifestation of the interface, poignant examples of contemporary visual poetry. This integrates into its own language that can give the effect algortimici manipulation accomplished with tools, renovating the movement and enhancing the alternations of light. The space also is decomposed, superimposed and displaced to the task, domesticating also the time that can slide in both directions in the space-time micropanorami made in sequence by the author. The 'studies', evidence of research never pay Mariño, alternate rigorous works extremely personal narrative style. So the poems in measured verbal and interactive animation are distinguished as in 'A Pequeño Avenue', or arise from the mouse pointer, as in 'Green', along with a couple of images compared in Bisions, or to wild and inquetanti 'Diables de Piera '. Appellant that the algorithm Displayed with a sprained liquid and / or temporal progressively photos giving an animation that makes them seem illusory cone movies special effects. Twenty-five is the roof of experiments per year produced by Mariño, selectable by a multicolor matrix, which allows the access in chronological order, to appreciate not only the mastery of programming, but also the evolution of a work as the same author is 'best viewed with curiosity'.
