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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22:01:02 Decrypting a problem to enter university.
One way to determine now widespread access to university is to submit the aspirants to a test. But →
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22:01:02 Affective Encounters: acts of Cyberfeminist technology.
Cyberfeminism has developed a level of consciousness and considerable international analysis, but unfortunately still not have permeated both →
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22/01/02 Net art of Mez in a solo exhibition of javamuseum.org.
First of three online exhibitions dedicated to the 'artist of the year' of JavaMuseum, →
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22:01:02 Videogame Art (3): Vote Machine.
In Vote Machine the last work of net art by Brian Judy we find ourselves in a surreal interactive →
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21:01:02 Jodi, new art of the video game.
'Untitled Game' is the title of the new compilation of video game art, made available online by →
. Hacktivism 
Australia 21.01.02, censorship occult.
Two years after the law on censorship of content 'offensive', the Australian Broadcasting Authority government, the main promoter of the text, →
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21:01:02 'Body', body and reality.
The body is a topical subject every time you enter in a 'disembodied' as the art electronics and the Web. →
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21:01:02 First number of NMEDIAC online, new media culture.
It is the first issue of online NMEDIAC, the Journal of New Media & Culture , →
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21:01:02 The so-called protected can not have the logo 'cd' and Kazaa autosospeso.
– Philips Electronics has put a heavy mortgage on the technologies of →
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18:01:02 Digital Culture conference.
It takes place today and tomorrow (18-19/01) at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the conference Digital Culture: Epistemologies Subjectivities →
