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.
Sometimes the artists conceptual initiative to exceed those figurative and develop with the only glaring paradoxes formalization of an idea, capable of generating immediate emotional reactions. One of the most recent operations of this kind has →
Letters and sounds are a combination that always works, because the habit to listen to the phonemes makes the association sign-sound very natural. Text-To-Noise Synthesizer of Bludgeonsoft, is a free online tool which converts a phrase →
Springer, ISBN 3211005706 This text was created as an experiment in innovative integration between two previously distinct media, and often considered as alternatives: the printed text and the website. In building the ambitious project, the →
The structural forms of the network have rarely been assessed by the culture of architecture and, in these few cases, from people who have done the experiment one of the basic points of their work. Former →
The lack of tension, the tears realistic, and especially the complete absence of any winner, are all taboo for workers to entertainment playful, which instead have the need to keep senpre high and positive voltage of →
After the sensational case of the Grey Album and the remarkable number of people who participated to the Grey Tuesday, a large and strong battle front is starting to emerge to protect the artistic use →
The paradigm of sequencing embodies the charm of temporality inherent in the music, along with the control mechanisms left in the hands of the author and the infinite possibilities of variation from the different sounds used. →
The breakup of privacy can be seen from several warning signs, including an increasing development of devices that try to offer the user the beautiful red and juicy apple of personalized services in exchange ingestion of →
The dominant market positions attract the creative code like flies to honey, as their creations liberating applicarte their respective platforms can be viewed comfortably by a large number of users. And so, as happened to Google →
The simulation of natural processes is a medium of choice in computer science, from its very beginnings. The decay, or deterioration of the contents, is a concept that reflects the sleek design of the PC shun →
