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.
The representations of the sounds through signs represents an abstraction of their acoustic efficiency through a unique display. Sonic Wire Sculpture of Amin Pitaru is a software which allows to represent the sound through lines that →
The only way to stem the desperate natural reuse of existing information, whether they are music tracks or video images is shake the specter of the law, even if more time passes, the more duplication techniques →
Arizona State University, ISBN 0972429107
The possibility to ‘write’ informations in living beings is one of the characteristics of transgenic art, an art form which Eduardo Kac (see the interview on Neural n.20) →
The formalization of a practice through a system of signs becomes, in fact, the creation of a language, with which you can communicate complex meanings in their abstract symbols. The turntablism, however, is a complex practice, →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262134241
The necessary contributions by female artists in the creation of media art hasn’t yet received the contexualization and place in history they deserve. The realization of artifacts which can →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262692864
The movie industry is one of the most conservative ones when it comes to new models of production and enjoyment. The historic ‘broadcast’ model, where few big companies handle →
TThe last twenty years of studies on corporate organisation and efficiency in human resources management have sacrificed, through their experiments, every ethical principle to achieve the holy grail of the capital machine: productivity. The interaction →
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0816643539
Organic transformations hurt our sensitivity, since they represent the fear of the new body models, weak in their experimental constitution. This text collects a detailed and unique analysis →
The sounds have a crucial role in a social context, and their variation often leads to a consequent change in the relationships that exist in the environment at that time. The interaction between the different sensory →
Among the possible consequences of the simulation, there is also the ability to rework dramatic events. From the experiments of psychologists with symbolic worlds created artificially, it has gone in recent years through the experiences rebuilt →
