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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30.05.02] and_scape [, net art of nuclear power.
] And_scape [ is the last work of web art media artist Agricola de Cologne, directly inspired →
[R] – [R] – [F] Remembering, repressing, Forgetting ? a festival to more online? versions (this one? the 1.0), the result of the activity of co-ordinated international artists and curators. RRF, "Memorial project against the Forgetting →
Is in progress at the Round House Community Centre in Vancouver the 2003 edition of the New forms Festival , which entitles its third edition of 'inter [sec / ac] tion', ie art that intersects the →
The role of the curator to select and emphasize the work of an exhibition is so essential? And above all, infinite in the free online accessibility and interconnectivity of electronic works, what sense have the 'restrictions' →
For the inauguration of the first in Bangkok Chiangmai New Media Art Festival have chosen a collective performance enabled network with poor means. On April 28th at noon (Italian time) are all invited to manifest itself →
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01.10.02 Digital Media Festival 2002 in Manila.
Inaugurated on October 1, Manila (Philippines), the Digital Media Festival 2002 , an event organized by Fatima Lasay →
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4:09:02 Violence Online Festival, online works on the concept of violence.
Violence is a tool, a process vital and necessary or only the result of →
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07:08:02 File 2002 electronic language international festival.
It opens on August 8 in Sao Paulo (Brazil), the 2002 edition of File electronic language international festival →
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07/16/02 Net Italian art, a compendium of JavaMuseum.
The JavaMuseum, in his latest collection of works online, tried to carry out a survey of artists →
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04.06.02 with | text, net art literature.
with | text is accessible online net art exhibition conceived that, in the words of its editors, as →
