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.
That George Bush will have a hard time for his re-election can be intuited from the general mobilization which is coming to be any where in the file progressite of American society. The front media activist, →
To represent the idea of violence in society and show symbolically that the use of a weapon can cause to the human body, the Dutch artist Joanneke Meester has reproduced 'Skin Gun', a gun, the size →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262072459
The contemporary rhetoric on ‘new media’ and their absolute novelty deserves a documented deconstruction to bring to the attention of contemporary culture the historical and cultural roots that immaterial →
The importance (and the possible fallibility) of the statistical analysis of data shows more and more intense use of the database, such as tools to create the sense of the frequency or the association of the →
Scott Draves is an artist with an enviable technical skills. Over the years he has produced the project open, cross-platform 'Bomb', one of the first music software and refined viewers' Electric Sheep ', a screensaver distributed →
Time Slice is a research project focused on finding alternative ways of representing the relationship between image and time. The author, Daniel Crooks (New Zealand artist based in Melbourne), has developed a technique very personal thanks →
From July 14 to 16 at the space Muffathalle of Monaco of Bavaria is expected the event " MediaDemocracy and Telestreet – Networking Free TV ", edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli, founder of the networking project AHA: →
Where is the computer with the IP number of the next higher or lower than your own? Looking at all the networked computers in an abstract way this machine is the next or previous song, the →
Is the medium used enough to define an artistic practice? That is, does it make sense to look for unifying characteristics in artistic expressions which share only the medium used? Probably not, but in the history →
By mapping the movements of the body into a state of meditation, you fill out a approximate numerical model of a complex system of forces which are made in the symbiosis between the physical control of →
