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.
After the technologies announced in February by the American Clear Channel , another project of burning and sale of live concerts is taking shape. HearItAgain.net , in fact, is developing a web service for ordering and →
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18.03.03 Next Italian Hackmeeting to be held in Turin.
The people attending the pre-hackmeeting meeting held last weekend at the Strike social center in Rome, during the →
Presented at the last Dutch Electronic Art Festival , the project Exactitudes is constituted by a series of multiple portraits snapped by Dutch photographers Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. The duo have always been interested in →
Among the different experiments in flash collected from New York Manny Tan on his website Uncontrol.com, Plant Experiment 2 is one of the most interesting, since it manages to combine synthetic forms with the fluidity of →
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17:03:03 No War: America Brand, auteur freeware posters, song by the Beastie Boys.
The few groups and collectives who did not do Already know, are →
The experiments of the design put in place through the standard flash and shockwave represent valuable resources in the complex capable of enclosing in a few kbyte signs and meanings automatic. I.do , for example, is →
Conceptual works on the web there are now several, ready to turn into a grotesque the premises and clichés of most web-based communication. One of the historical sites in this sense is' An Empty Website 'of →
For the first time a major studio has decided to promote the preview of new music products not sending them, as established practice, to a limited list of radio journalists specialized, but making include in a →
The refusal to the Iraq war, even suggested a few crumbs of common sense, are added by the hour public acts and strategies put in place by the few artists and collectives that still were missing. →
– From 13 to 16 March 2003 to Cox18, Milan, 'Afrikan From Rap to Global Hip Hop', four days with the people of hip hop with live performances, demonstrations, dj, work of insiders, music videos, cartoons →
