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.
Start today the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and a large group of activists, united under the name Geneva03 is organizing some days workshops and conferences alternatives, despite having accepted, by some of →
Now in its sixth edition, the ' International Conference on Generative Art which is held each year at the Milan Polytechnic, research continues in a broad spectrum of technology and culture that has developed around the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-10101-7 The sudden change in the rules imposed from access simultaneous and equal information, obtained through the network, sparked the curiosity of many social scientists that the last five years have →
The modification of everyday objects nel'arte reconsidering their use canon allows you to recode their role, now taken for granted by changing their characteristics to the purpose not so overtly functional. O Telephone is an installation →
Some archetypes of the code are the basis of deep interpretations in a contemporary where the same code has pervaded more and more everyday life contexts. The algorithmic model, given by the sequence of instructions and →
The sixth edition of Life / Vida , Madrid competition of artificial intelligence and art has produced its annual verdict on the best works, which are rewarded, if increasingly rare these days, with various cash prizes. →
Communication guerrillas or strategy, tactics and practice of an unconventional and subversive use of some of the main forms of creativity aimed at sabotaging the most current complex system of rules almost always creeping expression →
The concept of public space in a city, even if originally intended as a physical place for debate and confrontation, has undergone a radical transformation during the years, and now fully contains all the immaterial production →
One of the personal dreams of ordinary people, as shown by one of the first interactive games present at the Sony Center in Berlin, is to be able to control an orchestra in a personal way. →
It takes place on 6 and 7 December at the Museo degli Esposti The Wheel of Naples, the second edition of the Summary Electronic Arts Festival 2003 . Already since last year it was obvious musical →
