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.
Digital Aesthetics Research Center, University of Aarhus, ISBN 87988444040 The pervasive presence of the software in everything we use daily, did not involve the same capillary diffusion of a culture of software, expanded and →
The granularity of the images in which ASCII characters are used in place of the pixels has numerous inherent characteristics. Has a retro 'graphics of the first attempts simulated the first electronic computers ( RTTY-art →
If the hacking most celebrated is the one that is a technical and conceptual elegant solution to a problem, the whole practice of intelligent reuse of resources, in fact, is able to break the deadly →
The interpretation of the sounds through different domains of knowledge is a practice that flourishes thanks cultural abstraction imposed by the new media and their ability to reduce all knowledge to poison information. This perspective →
The EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) can be considered as an esoteric phenomenon whereby recording ambient sounds seem to perceive voices, physically unexplained. The spoken sentences, then, appear to be precognitive of events, or revealing elements →
On 16 December are presented publicly licenses Creative Commons Italian going to fill a void of possibilities that now they fully available in our country. The meeting is scheduled from 14:30 to Conference →
The resistance to the culture of surveillance and control begins, with its urgency of interpretation and contrast, to permeate areas of expression other than purely political. Broken Channel, commissioned since the last edition of the →
Imagine you find yourself in the narrow streets of Montmartre, in front of you there is no longer any trace of the traditional (and somewhat petulant) portraitists. Their place was taken by a series of →
The ogle camouflaged cameras and the pervasiveness of their presence, are a constant of central urban areas of the city. But it is the invisible presence behind the cameras what is probably →
The evocative power of sound, tends to lose this peculiarity when it accompanies the images, which by themselves are likely to drown the imagination of the viewer. To prove the opposite are artists such as Tilia →
