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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11:04:03 Weekender: Blog conference, Community TV, King Britt, Matthew Herbert.
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– Friday "on April 11 in Turin, to 'Aula Magna Istituto Avogadro, the major conference TV Rubbish? No. TV of the community , organized by the province of Turin on TV Community and its development models, with interventions of other European realities (Barcelona TV, TŽlŽ bocal and Offener Kanal). In Milan, however at the House of Culture at 20:00 the first Italian Blog Conference , organized by the Fifth State and Il Manifesto.
– Saturday, April 12 at the Marble Hall of the Province of Pescara, holding the meeting ' Free Software, a viable alternative ', aimed perloppi? to educational applications.
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– Friday "11 April 2003: Miss America, DJ sets with Claudio Di Rocco, the Maffia, Reggio Emilia. From Philadelphia, King Britt & Ivana Santilli, live at the Pergola, Milan. The Germans DoubleX Inc. (Pulver) for Agatha, at Brancaleone in Rome. Dj set by Matthew Herbert (aka Wishmountain and Doctor Rockit), pi? Giorgio Valletta and Sergio Ricciardone, Xplosiva, Officine Belforte in Turin. Last two days to Doing, International Festival on Contemporary Entertainment in Bologna (at 17:00 at Raum, presentation of the book "Subtle Body – a look on the new European choreography"). Even at Brancaleone in Rome Brancadanza, video-on contemporary dance festival, with screenings on Saturday. Fabio De Luca, dj-set to Makkeroni, Latin America. Labelmag.com Re-Launch Party, dj-set Luca Ballerini, experimental space club, Milan. Basstaste Crew, Collision Detect, Adp (dânâb) + B Muvis Videos Clan, the console Bluecheese Factory, Rome.
– Saturday, April 12, 2003: A preview of the festival Naples Summary – synesthetic perceptions at the Fondazione Morra with the presentation of the summary database: output01 (+ cd rom) and live by Philip Jeck and Maurizio Martusciello + video + rh, jack, Kinotek. Ghittoni Stephen and Mary Arena (visuals) to Discoversion, Zo Culture, Catania. Nellâetere of Weekendance, this week are Dave Piccioni and Herbert, and of course many new previews. You reply to Cox, Milan, with westernato concert Bugo. D-Stephanie (aka Lickin ‰ Shot, Belgium), dj-set to Jonah disco club, Latin America. Step and break, Alessio Bertallot the Maffia, Reggio Emilia. Umek and Valentino Kanzyani (Slovenia), the Cube Club, Mugnano (Naples), 5 hours dj-set. Otolab – No War For Oil, audio and video live set, Cube Media Zone, Theatre Multipurpose Busy, Bologna.
