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.
In the harvest of VJing experienced or imported from video art, the collective Meso has built in recent years a solid background of collaborations, which has substantially enhanced their sophisticated visual research. These are often entered →
MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-122566-1
The explicitly stated intent of the editors of this book, who work for the Media and Communication Department of the University of Oslo, is to finally get over the vision of the →
Lines as a constitutive element of the alphabets. It is the principle on which it is built Sign Generator 1.0. , a generator of signs. Starting from a matrix of 9 points and lines that can →
The Right to Flash is a petition brought by an Englishman (Amir Dotan), an Israeli (Mushon Zer-Aviv) and a Palestinian (Naim Kamel), which explicitly calls for the software company to make Macromedia Flash compatible with writing →
Among the new words inserted in the 2003 edition of the ' Oxford Dictionary of Inglese , one of the most authoritative dictionary of the English language, there is also 'hacktivists', which loses its slang connotation →
The work presented in September by the DIAN (Digital Interactive Artists' Network) is 1n-0ut Jimpunk the French artist, author of numerous experiments and poetry such as animation GogolChat , International Computers * Error * , →
Opened on 29 August at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Abstraction Now is an exhibition of media art that includes video, installation and a review online on the web is carefully abstract art, capable of changing formulas →
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05.09.03 Algorithmic Clustering of Music, to compress=to know.
Tell me how you compress and I’ll tell you who you are. This is the apparent result of the →
Begins August 30 Interference – particles> frequencies> flows; sounds and visions of contemporary , festival to be held for two days at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di San Martino Valle Caudina (Av). The festival, organized →
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07.10.03 Phobias, fears on a screensaver.
Using an object in unintended ways is one of the peculiarities of hacking and of art and, besides the ingenuity of →
