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.
Dirty Milk is a poem that makes use of recombinant PC microphone to activate a dynamic interaction with the user, which in this way is able to catalyze the transformation induced by the software. Created by →
NetNoise is the fourth section of the historic CTheory, put on by Arthur Kroker and Marilouise, this time dedicated to the 'noise', acoustic and conceptual immense telematics infrastructure. The reflections of the spouses Kroker, ranging in →
With an introduction by Vint Cerf, historical developer of TCP / IP has always been sensitive to freedom of expression on the net, The Internet Under Surveillance, obstacles to the free flow of information online is →
In an ironic html coding styles of some famous painters of the last century, Untitled Paintings HTML is a foretaste of the Italian artist ego that proposes a reduction of mathematics in CSS eleborazioni of some →
Developed by the team of Erational.org, Flexplorer v1.00 is one of the latest tools for visualization of the structures of websites. The 'X-ray' of the site under analysis is illustrated with a dynamic interface, which also →
Derived from the thriving scene of 8bit music, devoted to machines and processors of low resolution or antiquated, OverClocked ReMix is an additional tool reworking of that subgenre, prey perloppiù of fans, which is the soundtrack →
It was held in Judenburg, Graz (A), the sixth edition of Liquid Music , media art festivals organized and curated by Heimo Ranzenbacher. 'The 3rd place' is the theme of questÕanno and indicate a place, obviously →
The ArtBots 2003 festival, held at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York, has just ended. It was the second edition of the successful exhibition of creative robots which, last year, was held at the Pratt →
The sound of different languages has always been a special charm, so much so that many have shared in youth the experience of enchanted listening to the music of a radio station that broadcast in an →
BananaSlug Steve Nelson is another example of Google-creative art that uses semantic combinations to query the vast database. The concept is at the center of the 'serendipitous surfing', ie the navigation guided by the 'serendipity', a →
