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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12/09/01 New York: sampling the network.
To date, only a sampling of facts and opinions, in disbelief that does not pass, while the same images are looped in the short-term memory, so images that seem absurd to own a video game and not the reality, as has unfortunately. Follow the direct testimony of newsgroups and mailing lists prosepttiva gives a much more human than the media spectacle.
. "The collapse of the two towers was preceded by an explosion followed by the sound of bending metal and it broke. The sound that is heard in Manhattan after the collapse was terrifying for a moment it seemed that the entire city should sinking into the ocean. "
. "In 1945 a B-25 of the Army Air, it went crashing to the floor of the Empire State Building 79mo due to dense fog."
. "For many, the view of the Manhattan skyline without the famous Twin Towers is impossible to process."
. "A crowd was massed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and all look south for hours now, as if waiting for something else to happen. They see only clouds of smoke, and many have their own radio and TV with laptops."
. "The cell lines were disabled throughout Manhattan and the people were asked not to use the phone."
. "Telecom Italy has announced that it is now possible to call in New York."
. "The websites of CNN, NYTimes, Reuters, Sky TV and many others have been inaccessible since a few minutes after the tragedy. Repubblica.it In Italy also, and ANSA you could see."
. "If you want to help people, instead of writing an article on how they are dying, go to donate blood! Now! (Nurse at Bellevue Hospital against a reporter)"
. "The reality of the brutal destruction has reduced many people to silence. People in road passes in front of the reporter without even noticing them."
. "The carnage is real. Nothing seems more concrete. We are all victims."
