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 counter-current with an ancient scientific determinism, and in full agreement, in contrast with the theories of chaos introduced in the mid-seventies, the strange attractors (strange attractors) describe the nature of the turbulence and patterns that →
Connect spaces is a practice that has yet to overcome the primordial sharing images or verbal description, more or less in real time of them. The RemoteHome: a new home for the mobile society is a →
Leegte.org is the site that collects the experiments Dutchman Jan Robert Leegte, which has moved its facilities to the coordinates of the network architecture. His abstract compositions have the advantage of playing with the 'volume information' →
Seventy are the very short web movies selected for the first edition of nanofestival v.01 , an international festival that has collected online videos made for the web, including some software work, all of a maximum →
The fascination of mathematical abstractions has always attracted musicians, especially for its world populated by imaginary entities and extended in infinite spaces. Numbers like pi greek, then representing a further mystery with their impregnable number of →
Varese also has its own well-nourished group of archeology enthusiasts, computer science, and this year an event dedicated to them: on April 27, in the frame of the park of Villa Toeplitz and is held at →
Lowtech was born from the minds of the group Redundant Technology Initiative in 1997 and is one of the few company where technology, creativity and education are associated with accessibility. Headquartered in Sheffield, UK, aim to →
Inaugurated on April 30 in Wroclaw (Poland) the tenth Media Art Biennale this year entitled Globalica, conceptual and artistic Tensions in the new global disorder , which shows in a variant of the original leitmotif of →
120 Years of Electronic Music is a site that attempts a compilation of the history of electronic musical instruments from early experiments with electricity by the end of the last century →
The application of generative algorithms to specific phenomena, not yet precisely coded is one of the most interesting challenges of software art. That's what I tried to do the eclectic and celebrated group of Swiss Büro →
