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.
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12/02/02 The Secret Life of Numbers, algebraic net art.
The historic organization patron Turbulence, New York, announced a few days ago, the last of the →
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12:02:02 SongSpy.
SongSpy is another network of equal exchange of files that currently has a base made up of about 10,000 users who exchange about →
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2/12/02 Trigger Words, words of activists.
During the last meeting of the World Economic Forum in New York, several associations that challenged the meeting itself →
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12:02:02 Utopian Parkway, net art about art history.
Founded in 1999 by Brad Todd, the collective Canadian Mobile Gaze is dedicated to the production and →
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08:02:02 frequencies [Hz].
From tomorrow (09/02) until April 28 held at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (Germany) frequencies [Hz] , exhibitions and concerts on the →
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08:02:02 AHA.
Inaugurated today (08/02) at 18:00 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Workshop, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', the exhibition AHA: Activism-Hacking-Artvism curated by →
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08:02:02 'From the aesthetic chronicle', performative poetry in webcasting.
Today (08/02) and tomorrow at 18:00 will be broadcast via webcast performance poetry performing ' From →
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07:02:02 The bright future of the compact disc.
Strength in numbers is the basis for some of the considerations by Elliot Carpenter, pictured, cfo of →
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07:02:02 Fakedegrees.com, too graduated.
Fakedegrees.com is an American site that emulates a video graduation certificates and doctoral degrees of the major Universities worldwide, allowing you →
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07:02:02-empyre-, new mailing list of net art.
' -empyre-' is a new international mailing list that comes to the theory and practice of media art, →
