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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24.10.01 is the art numérique ou '.
Today, in Rennes, France, panel discussion titled ' Ouacute; goes the art numérique? ', a reflection on the →
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24.10.01 Viper festival.
Inaugurated today and will continue for four days in Basel, Switzerland, the twenty-first edition of the Viper International Festival for film, video →
. Hacktivism 
10/23/01 Theft of identity.
According to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States, the last year there has been a surge of identity →
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10/23/01 Net Art Museum.
The Net Art Museum is a new outlet for net.artists around the world, with an editorial that selects only jobs specific →
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23:10:01 net_user conference.
It takes place today at the U.S. Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, the international conference net_user , which explores the processes of collaboration →
. EMusic 
10.23.01 Sting, MOCA, Disney cartoon with Napster.
– Sting, after having obtained the ownership of the domain sting.com, overcoming different obstacles, given that 'sting' (literally →
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23:10:01 Virtual Incarnations.
Continue the performances of Virtual Incarnations 2001 , a series of dance and digital technologies. Tonight and tomorrow at the Queen Elizabeth →
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22:10:01 Now Festival.
Inaugurated today, but will continue until November 11 at the Future-Peace Center in Nottingham, England, the Now Festival . Among the artists →
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22:10:01 READ_ME 1.2.
It was inaugurated in recent days, the new premises of the Rosizo media art center in Moscow, Russia, the online portion of →
. Hacktivism 
22:10:01 unhinged anti-piracy at Microsoft.
A software distributed anonymously under the pseudonym of 'Beale Screamer' can effectively undermine the digital rights management (DRM) implemented by →
