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.
The blade of the prior cansura has struck again, and previously, on a pair of American researchers Billy Hoffman and Virgil Griffith. The two have acted showing the weaknesses of the system of the Blackboard Transaction →
Drapé , ie 'drapes', is the title of the exhibition organized by online incident.net, French portal web art, which, while taking inspiration from the classical , has assembled works in one way or another correrabili to →
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18.04.03 Atmospherics, sounds reconstructed from data.
Atmospherics/Weather Works is a performance, an installation and a distributed software project aimed at extracting sounds from storms and other weather →
The The Collective Unconsciousness Project (TCUP) is a fascinating project Simon King and Josh Dahl did for a collection of collective dreams, without an end goal, but with the air to collect and organize as many →
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17.04.03 Attacking spammers by drowning them in paper.
The worst attacks made using computer networks are those able to influence our daily lives. On this subject Aviel →
Sonata for the Unaware is the most recent project of Carbonated Jazz alias Alexander Chen, who manages once again to install in reality the conventions of the software. In this long 'sonata of unsuspecting', programmed in →
Der the modern electronic sounds more current is gradually recognized also by the art system, The Moderns / The Moderns , is an exhibition organized at the Castello di Rivoli (Turin) on the various artists who →
Made dalo author of the software Tuboid, Tickle Salon is an installation which occurs on one of the more difficult to emulate: the touch. The work consists of a gimmick to the ceiling, and interfaced with →
After PainStation , LegShocker , is an interface device to PlayStation2 that, while working with many other video games, is designed especially for video games such as football Sport's FIFA 2002 Electronic Arts FIFA World Cup →
Amorphone is the name of the musical instrument created by Yoshio Machida, to make even live its particular compositions of pre-recorded sounds, expressed in a series of releases entitled 'Hypernatural' and designed to be viewed comfortably →
