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.
ERR OR ¬ is the attempt to establish a public archive of the errors of digital media. The Spanish collective joystick, which has carried out the project (along with Juanjo Fernandez), invites us to send →
As for the spatial dimension of the game is changing our sense of space is hard to say. In reality, however, the mediation of visual surveillance cameras in turn creates an additional dimension of perception, →
Transforming the data from the visual domain to the sound involves a conceptual shift is not indifferent. The mere association of the color of a pixel to a sound has arbitrary time, in fact, reached →
The wi-fi technology that allows you to deploy a wireless local area network within a certain radius, not only constitutes a 'door' to enter the nearest large network, but also a great opportunity for sharing →
Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674015436 The prospect of hackers as a social class is undoubtedly fascinating. Think, in fact, to the global community that has a common denominator pragmatism in handling everyday social →
The generative sound is conceptually tied to a kind of 'black box' that churns out tunes plausible depending on the parameters set. The algorithmic construction of the melodies is so connected with the change of →
World War II: a soldier polygonal weapon a hand grenade and drops it at his feet. His companions run away screaming but he remains stationary until the inevitable explosion. Detachment. A metropolis of the →
The practices of VJing are born from the use of digital tools at first only to coordinate the flow of materials analog, then evolving to manage the entire process of production and performance. The same →
Make the data according to visual coordinates unpublished, giving them a meal in the software to interpret them as if they were his specific inputs, offers a different perspective, and sometimes enlightening, on the data →
Already the artistic avant-garde of the early twentieth century attempted, in reference to science, what we now attempt an architect and a Japanese artist with a technological device much richer: represent € →
