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.
Mediachest is a system that allows you to get in touch with other people to exchange books, cds, dvds and games. Contact is based on the research of materials in which you are interested and exchanges →
The magazine Simultaneity comes alive in an entirely in English version with a number theme entitled 'The Soul of Digital Art'. Founded in 1997, with specific interest on new media art and its multiple expressions, the →
Towards the contemporary sound is a 'speech given by Aurelio Cianciotta during the seminar' The sex appeal of the inorganic, a seminar on electronic music 'through the plots of dj culture from its beginnings.
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Yet another audio/visual symbiosis between a musician and a videoartist who integrate their abilities amplifying each other. Three tracks where dark ambient sounds and the bouncy percussions of Pure, from Vienna, intertwine with Johnny Dekam’s jumpy narration. →
The main occupation of Govcom.org Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, is the creation of 'policy instruments' for the web. The creator of the project Govcom.org , as well as director of the foundation, Professor →
Biotechnology impose new parameters of perception of the organic structure of nature, which for the first time sees altered the processes of development and growth from within and not just as a mere consequence induced by →
The size of the machine and the anthropomorphic looking for a instinctive communication, beyond the interfaces and metaphors, is one of the ideal conditions to which every artist aspires communication. That's why a work such as →
Two emblematic episodes are bringing the fight for the right to free exchange of content on the network. Tuesday, February 24 was the 'Grey Tuesday' in which nearly 170 sites hosted files indicted for a day →
It takes place in Monaco of Bavaria, from 26 to 29 February Neuro, Networking Europe, Movements and technologies of the common , a 'conference' and set 'presentations' at the same time he wants to leave behind →
A member of the large collective Incident.net, Reynald Drouhin is one of the most original french electronic artists for its interpretations of digital archetypes. His work touches not only the nature of images but, more importantly, →
