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.
Renga is a collaborative and distributed net.art project with the participation of 11 artists, each of which has developed a hand, without that there is no single reference site. Renga in Japanese means 'connected to' and →
The success of the television paradigm of 'Big Brother' scored one of the most notorious significant steps towards the spectacle of invasion of privacy and proclaim that the invasiveness of the television medium to the core →
The preservation of media art, video art from the net and software art, is one of the crucial problems to transmit to future generations the large number of poetic ideas and contradictions →
A few still are the limitations of the software for music production, already advanced in simulating different realities or just playable. But even those few are meant to be overcome. TerminatorX , for example, is a →
Celebrate ten years of activity, the Sonar , crowded festival of music and electronic art that takes place every year in Barcelona. A retrospective exhibition, a commemorative book and the usual festival of multimedia products, record →
Christian Ristow builds his robots with the intent to destroy him (symbolically or physically) part of our conventions, articulating his perspective on issues at the same time holy and perverse. The public performance of the robots →
Developed at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Block Jam is an innovative prototype made of modular tools for music composition. At the center of these tools to design, now widely accepted, the music no longer understood →
The Wartime Project was born in December 2002 in view of the imminent attack of the U.S. and Britain against Iraq. It 's the result of a collective effort by several artists who use digital and →
More of the brutal hacking techniques could practice and social distraction. John Hargrave has put online Credit Card Prank , his personal practice regarding the use of personal credit cards. This research concerns individual actually one →
Sbeat is a tool for musical composition that applies to sound the same techniques of genetic programming and 'simulated breeding' already present in sbart where they were applied to the graphics. This software, made by the →
