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.
Nifca Publication, ISBN 951-8955-74-3
The definition of ‘software art’ still has a long way to go to enter the Oxford Dictionary, but the Read_me festival is doing a good work in defining its characteristics and cultural →
The margins of expression of those who build animations with the standard flash dilate as the techniques that transcend the traditional tools and perspective comes out of the box the most popular. InsertSilence is the site →
Fluid, arena of identities is the project of a video game where you have to find / destroy their identity mistaking, stealing or facendosela pay by another person. The player starts off as a complete 'no', →
According to a rough estimate, 10,000 webcams are present only in the territory of the Member States. Who do they belong? Where are you bet? And especially because it has been activated? Camera Watch is a →
Active until 28 September Sounding Spaces is a current exhibition at the ICC in Tokyo composed of nine sound installations. The almost common feature of these works is to involve the viewer as an integral part →
The charm of the text flowing unstoppable network is second only to the research directions indicated by the key words that are continuously subjected to the search engines, one concrete cross-section of interests and curiosity of →
Powered by piscogeografica abbreviation Man of the Crowd / Glowlab Graffoto02 is an excellent intervention in the urban space, with a disarming simplicity that technique fails to produce a transformation of the usual visual perceptions of →
Part of the research projects at MIT Medialab, the Corporate Fallout Detector is a portable barcode reader that emits a sound similar to that of Geiger counters, of varying intensity, based on the social or environmental →
An interesting collection of flyers which tell the not-so-official history of the electronic Barcelona (from the beginning of the Nineties to the present). This city has witnessed the birth and evolution of a local scene linked →
The so-called Bastard Pop, or mesh-up, or plagiarist pop, that is, the art of freely remixing famous songs protected by copyright, is more and more practiced by musicians and hobbyists alike. ‘I →
