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 
28.12.01 Abducted Hackerzine.org.
On the morning of 21 December five policemen came to the house of Mr.Wolf, young webmaster Hackerzine.org , seizing computers and computer →
. Art 
28.12.01 Clip.fm, icons narrative for mobile phones.
The need to extend the communication mode on mobile phones and the natural evolution to which they are →
. Hacktivism 
28.12.01 Carnivore in the next XP.
According to Bob Null, a spokesman for Microsoft, "Magic Lantern (software built to spy and record user activities, ed) →
. EMusic 
28.12.01 Morpheus for XP and cd-r more expensive.
– MusicCity is about to release version 2.0 of Morpheus, one of the most used programs for →
– Friday in Turin, the Notorious
. Valletta Coccoluto + + Ricciardone, house. I
– Saturday in Reggio Emilia, the Maffia
. Maffia Sound System, jungle. I
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. Art 
28.12.01 'You are Late', Nosferatu, in pixels.
Taken from his performance 'Muscle and Blood Plan', ' You are Late 'is a work in shockwave defined →
. Art 
27/12/01 Last updated Sept 11, 2001.
Among the conceptual works dedicated to the September 11 tragedy, ' Last updated Sept 11 2001 'by Ivan Pope →
. Hacktivism 
27/12/01 Hacking Is Not A Crime: CCC Congress 01.
Hacking Is Not A Crime , the 18th congress of the Chaos Computer Club, begins today →
. EMusic 
27/12/01 Videogame online on Abbey Road Studios.
To celebrate their seventy years of activity the Abbey Road Studios have launched a fun interactive game to →
. Art 
27.12.01 Auctions of net art and conceptual art.
ConceptBid is one of the first independent sites that tries to take money from conceptual works and →
