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.
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 →
Whilst based on some aesthetic archetypes of cyberpunk (Eastern reconfigured female body with the assistance of robots, the slums of the metropolis, smoke and neon lights, shiny surfaces and other organically dirty), the short films of →
The research points to wi-fi, as well as having triggered the urban sport of war-chalking, where users report the nodes open or semi-open in the vicinity of which you can connect to the network, sparked the →
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24.07.03 Domain Name Anarchy, self-government of DNS.
Presented at the Hackmeeting 2003, Domain Name Anarchy is a project of democratization of the domain name system, the system →
Transform data is one of the most interesting practices of contemporary electronic artists, they move from one domain to another domain of knowledge interfacing software and sometimes even pieces of hardware. Scratchrobot made by the Belgian →
Supported by Year Zero One The Battle Mario no.1 is a software design art Myfanwy Ashmore that altered the NES ROM by removing all the enemies and awards in the architecture of the game. Anything you →
'Share taste instead of files' reads one of the payoffs of Last.fm , broadcaster streaming in London which carries updated techniques to customize his plays. Drawing on the experience of years developed spontaneously in mailing lists →
The meeting 2003 of mailing-list Australian-Asian Fibreculture was titled Fibrepower, currents in Australasian Internet Research and Culture . After the success of ' edition last year and the subsequent publication of a full-bodied 'reader', the activists →
The model of remote surveillance is sadly permeating as a legitimate right to spy on scraps of the world, with the excuse of wanting to defend their private property. EyeSpyFX – Mobile is a product that →
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21.07.03 ArtBots 2003, artistic robots.
The ArtBots 2003 festival, held at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York, has just ended. It was the second edition of the →
