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.
. Hacktivism 
11:01:02 Hacker in trouble.
Jon Johansen, the Norwegian eighteen (pictured), has been indicted by a court in Oslo for violating national laws on cybercrime in →
. Art 
11:01:02 The art electronic irregularity.
The Glitch Symposium and Performance Event is the first festival to deal specifically with the 'glitches', a term which defines →
. Hacktivism 
1.11.02 Communication work and citizenship in the age postfordist.
Saturday and Sunday at the Sala dei Consoli, the Guelph palace in Florence, will host the →
. EMusic 
11:01:02 Are You Experienced, art club.
Are You Experienced is an exhibition of 'art club', that will be launched tomorrow at the Netherlands Media Art →
. Art 
11/01/02 Net art Italian: RGB Project.
In a sort of vectorization of pop art, the work of Mauro Ceolin expressed in its RGB Project rehashes →
. Art 
1/11/02 Sibling Revelry, net art with sound samples.
Sibling Revelry is a 'sound toy' developed by Greg and Peter Traub to be heard online. It →
– Friday in Reggio Emilia, the Maffia
. Santos House.
– Friday in Bologna, the former stables Bentivoglio
. Nark Bkb, ambient, the
– Friday on RaiRadio2, to →
. Hacktivism 
10:01:02 Autistici.org and Inventati.org presentation in Rome.
Today the Fort Prenestino Rome at 21:30, AvANa.net presents 'Autistici.org and Inventati.org, socialize knowledge base without powers', the →
. Art 
10:01:02 Jetty, visual remix of 'La Jetée'.
Another remix of view of a historical film was developed by Hidekazu Minami, artist and designer of interactive →
. EMusic 
10:01:02 Gameboy Pocketnoise.
Gameboy Pocketnoise is an experimental software for the generation audio on the Nintendo Gameboy and then installed on cartridge. Manufactured by Christoph →
