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.
1l inaugurated May 15 in Riga (Latvia) the sixth Media Architecture, New Media Cultural "Art + Communication" festival , an event that stands at the cusp international research network between the computer and the postmodern architecture. The topics range of the application of the dynamics of the network incorporeal to the creation of physical spaces open and public, based architectures processes, and hybrid spaces such as reachability and positioning via networks and satellites is impacting on the notions of space-time and on ' social organization. To emphasize the reflections on urban transformation, the seminars have been provided in the old part of the city, with several vacant sites, as well as the ambitious project of the new headquarters dell'RIXC , the media center of the Latvian capital. The conferences are 'urban geographies and networked media / process-based architecture' with Frans Vogelaar, invOFFICE, KHM, Lev Manovich , Tuomas Toivonen-HALL, Francesca Ferguson / Urban Drift , Herve Trioreau, Carl Biorsmark, Kristine Briede / K @ 2 and Alex Adriaansens/V2, 'Hybrid space / Interrelations of media art in public spaces, in virtual networks and architecture' with Eric Kluitenberg, Tania Gorucheva of Russian Media Art Lab (RU), Edwin van der Heide, Luke Jerram, Atau Tanaka , Tamas Szakal, Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Christoph Theiler / machfeld, Tim Boykett and Andreas Mayrhof / Times Up , 'Cellspace / wireless networks, mapping and GPS-positioning' with Marc Tuters / GPSter, Ewen Chardronnet / Ellipse, Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol , Wayne Piekarski (AU), Jaanis Garancs (DE-LV), Adam Hyde / Radioqualia and Llocative media / maps and psychogeography 'with Konrad Becker / Public Netbase, Brian Holmes, Aske Hopman, Esther Polak, Tom Demeyer, Marleen Sticker / Waag Society, Leonore Bonaccini, Xavier Fourt / Bureau d'etudes, 0100101110101101.ORG / Vopos . Among the facilities include: 'Matrix', installation by Luke Jerram, which creates light sculptures directly into the eye of the user, using a proprietary technology of image retention on the retina, 'Real Time Line', the application to the territory of local ' self-titled project carried out in Amsterdam in December last year. 'Psychotronic Government', maps of the Bureau d'Etudes, and 'Soft Cinema' by Lev Manovich, in which the user is subjected to an endless series of sequences filmed narratives constructed on the fly from an appropriate software according to the rules imposed by 'author, including songs from the soundtrack. Also sonic performance with three-dimensional visual and sound interfaces (Navigable Sound, Pingsonik, Sesema-Industrial.net, Cellulae.net), videos of Mike Stubbs and Wolf Kahlen, 'LSP # 2' by Edwin van der Heide with a laser controlled by the sounds , 'Sensor Duo' of Atau Tanaka and Cecile Babiole, 'Data Comm Space' by Adam Hyde and 'Spectrosphere' of Clausthome. Finally presented 'Acoustic.Space (4): Media Architecture' magazine aperiodic printed in Riga, together with the dvd 'RT-32: Acoustic Space Lab', with the history and exploration of multimedia performance about the famous radio telescope VIRAC deployed to Irbene .
