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.
On 30 and 31 May there is the media center of Helsinki on Lume READ_ME 2.3 Software Art Festival , a festival dedicated to software and its possibilities of artistic creation still to be discovered. At →
The generation of two-dimensional graphic has gained momentum from the historical system that Karl Sims had presented in 1991 ('Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics') allowing you to generate abstract images from another image of departure. The →
The sharing of historical sound sources is invaluable opportunity made possible by computer networks, through which you can access documents acoustic that is very difficult access. This is exactly the case of Sounds from the First →
Among the many branches of artificial intelligence, ‘stylometry’, one of the less known, investigates the problem of recognizing the sex of a writer by examining his/her style. Shlomo Argamon is a computer scientist at the Illinois Institute →
Banknotes 'realistic' printed inkjet? It is the alarm raised by De la Rue , a company specializing in security techniques in the reproduction on paper. According to a statement published by the New Scientist printers already →
Cosmophone is an installation of Frenchman David Calvet who tries to make a sound dimension to the elementary particles that surround us. These generated by cosmic rays do not affect in any way our body, yet →
Story Streams is a digital film created in real-time by some young independent filmmakers around the globe. One purpose was to implement the tradition of oral narrative with digital editing techniques. Each participant created his own →
The activity of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), comes from the reflection on the relationship between censorship, technology and strength. The project was born in the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory of the Munk Centre for International →
SuperCollider is a programming language for real time sound synthesis. The codes can be controlled with MIDI, a mouse, a graphic tablet or through a network. It’s compatible with the most common formats, it features a syntax →
Textual Tango is the new work of web art of Jessica Loseby, already among the authors of The Cyber Kitchen . To crowd the screen are texts that are composed by sequencing the dynamic arrangement of →
