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.
The imaginative power of the word and its intense evocative capacity are still trumps digital artists, that whenever they can worthily compete with these elements contribute to the construction of meaning independent of machines. p0es1s, digital poetry is an ambitious exhibition digital poetry edited by Friedrich W. Block, in coolaborazione with Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer at the Kulturforum citizen. The broad spectrum of techniques (literary aesthetics of the code generation of language, texts elaborated collectively the net, visual potential of words, etc.. Etc..) Has been represented in a historical overview and sufficiently comprehensive, carefully spreading the various virulent forms of language. Among the projects presented were: ' Poétrica ', Giselle Beiguelman, GogolChat by Christophe Bruno and Jimpunk, 'Stream', by Simon Biggs in which the overlapping of phrases creates an abstract space and deep, in a sort of stream of consciousness, 'The Famous Sound of Absolute Wreaders', a collaborative project of Auer, Döhl, Egger, Gassner, Kieninger and Suter, which allowed a re-cross-reactive and the texts produced by each, which ended with a parallel retraction of an editor and a machine textual and with a further production of seven authors based upon these results, 'Oskarine', Ulrike Gabriel and Oskar Pastior, which combines literary talent Pastior with the code of Gabriel modifying the original texts of the author according to the rules changing, 'Cunnilingus in Nordkorea ', a classic work of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries , and its narrative combine full-screen text with jazz in the background, 'Teletext', destabilizing the text in graphic format / text Teletext (Teletext), ' Ascii forkbomb ', the famous and formidable Jaromil text string that generates multiple processes to drown the computer in his own business,' hyPoem 'of Joerg Piringer, the new blog where Mez Mary-Anne Breeze continued to compose with his hybrid language 'mezangelle', 'Diagram Series 6' Jim Rosenberg, whose poems contain a diagram of the sintassi.Ê
