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.
"In the beginning was the word …" and the verb could be a sound. Cymatics is the name given to experimental studies that investigate the various phenomena associated with sound waves. A pioneer in this research, →
Inaugurated on May 22 at the Kunsthalle in Vienna ATTACK! Art and War in the Media Age , an exhibition dedicated media aspect of the conflict, more important than the reality of the drama of mutilated →
The first edition of PEAM2003 Pescara Electronic Artists' Meeting is taking place at the Ecoteca of Pescara. Organized by Artificialia, the event is designed primarily as a place of encounter and exchange of experiences, bringing together →
With an unexpected decision the direction of the Walker Art Center, one of the major American museums devoted to the visual arts, performing and media, dismissed the initiative program in new media, laying its curator Steve →
. book Nell'abnorme amount of books that strive to interpret the unwritten rules of online communication, this text seems to emerge for the quality of empirical research and the historical roots that form the backdrop, →
One Trees is the latest project by Natalie Jeremijenko, who continues to develop the idea her works are based on. The subject is cloning and the understanding of biotechnologies, in a time where the public perception of →
A new VoIP (Voice over IP) service is catching the attention of phone companies, but also of FBI and the american Department of Justice, who demand new laws to extend their power of control and interception on →
Thanks to a sequencing anthropomorphic anyone can build a band by choosing your favorite musicians among a large group of suitors (it will be difficult to put together something worse than Lunapop). Designed by Paul Stroot →
Somnambules is the new work of web Nicolas Clauss, author of Dervish Flowers , Cinq Ailleurs and Jumeau Bar . Like the latter is made with Jean-Jacques Birge, and the participation of Didier Silhol. In twelve →
IoTuAltro is a web application that plays happily with individual identities quite intuitive. The call of Matthew Peterlini is to share their own passport, so they swapped the faces through an overlap in the two sequences →
