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.
Remail
reinventing email, software prototype to analyze the inbox
(tags: net media software)
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis by Koleman Strumpf
Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
(tags: copyright music sound media net →
Peoplequotepeople is another valuable fist against that heavy and tired unhistorical giant called authorship, who is still trying to stop the provocative and revolutionary evolution of the network(ed) culture. The project seemingly takes the →
Infomania: Why we can’t afford to ignore it any longer
Email overload and interruptions is a major disrupter of knowledge worker productivity and quality of life.
(tags: net software media)
Disrupting Narratives – Tate Modern
Streaming of the whole conference.
(tags: art net software literature)
UK is a country where mail has always been duly delivered. UK is also a nation where the meaning of video surveillance is being redefined. Put these two national peculiarities in the hands →
The Future of Music -IEEE Spectrum
Tearing Down the Wall of Noise
(tags: media music sound)
Wii Drumsticks version 2.3 – YouTube
Emulating drum sticks
(tags: media music sound)
Jeff Feddersen, author of EarthSpeaker, is an artist with a well rounded background, mainly specialised on the dynamics (nowadays pretty blended) between music and informatics. His favourite subjects of research are nature and →
NBC muckraker gets hacked at Defcon | The Register
At Defcon a woman fled the conference after being identified in front of hundreds as an undercover television reporter
(tags: hacking media hacktivism tv)
Second Life parody – Draftfcb/paris
Simple but funny parody in real life.
(tags: video net media videogame)
Deletemp3.worm
The first worm whose payload is to delete any mp3 files found on the infected computer.
(tags: copyright hacking media hacktivism net)
BergmanBits
A tribute to Bergman just after his death in the form of links to bittorrent files of his movies
(tags: video net copyright media)
