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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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05:02:02 Transmediale02, go public!, Festival of new media art in Berlin.
The 2002 edition of transmediale begins today (05/02) in Berlin, with a significant deployment of resources and a dense program of events and works on display for five days. Among the works on display the famous 'Autopoiesis' American Kenneth Rinaldo, with ten sculptures robotic autonomous movement and the installation 'Empire 24/7' based on a webcam Wolfgang Staehle (USA). The interaction is represented by the video interactive video 'The Visitor – Living by Number' by Luc Courchesne where navigation takes place for numbers, and 'Field-Work @ Hayama' in which digital images recorded in the suburbs of Tokyo, connected with GPS data to be in a 3D space waterway through the same tracks GPS. For net art there are ' Crank the Web 'by Jonah Brucker-Cohen that allows you to adjust a physical interface with the speed of loading of images and texts from websites and' iow ianalbipootv mmif with mftw ibn cotflgohaha ISBT ', by Peter Frucht, which recombines the chat texts according to specific algorithms, remixing well as user interaction through a speech synthesis software. There are also 'net.flag' a new work by Mark Napier that uses a large number of flags as a base to create imaginative and witness how the era of Web nationalism is very much an issue of the past, 'Vectorama.org', a tool to chat with visual design tools to Lehni / Lehni / Koch, 'Roter Tropfen' a red drop that deforms continuously Simon Schließl and 'Actionist Respoke' of Janoschek / Schloemer, a sound generator that deconstructs a song by Mouse on Mars. On the sound front, performances are planned Robotlab (another dj robotic) and 'Busking 386 DX', the computer that sings pop classics in speech synthesis by Alexei Shulgin. Among the conferences will report 'Public Space Invaders', which will be the critical appropriation of the new digital public sphere and 'Paper.Hype' in which for the first time gathered the publishers of the magazines that deal with new media, including Neural. Expected event is also what will 'Radical Software' a magazine dedicated to the relationship between art and electronics printed in 1971 by Ira Schneider. Many screenings and concerts in clubs, as well as an eye-catching list of workshops, including one held also by the Italian Jaromil, who will explain how it was built the legendary program for manipulating video FreeJ now in release 0.3. Saturday will announce the winners in the categories 'Image', 'Interaction' and 'Software', with a further installation (Public Vote / Public Bet) by Stuart Rosenberg that will allow the public to vote and to bet on the winners.
