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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05:10:01 Maschinenfest 2001.
In Aachen, Germany, from today until Sunday is held on the international festival of electronic music and experimental industrial Maschinenfest 2001 . →
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05:10:01 Avanto Festival.
From tomorrow until the 11th of September there is the ' Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival , an international event of electronic →
. Hacktivism 
05:10:01 plug'n'politix.
Over the weekend will take place in Zurich plug'n'politix , a congress of internet cafes busy, open access initiatives and digital activism. Collective →
. Art 
05:10:01 Slampoetrypictures.
A collective work developed by jimpunk, ro27 sim and soy, Slampoetrypictures makes use of some techniques of dynamic programming of the web to →
. Hacktivism 
10/05/01 Privacy in the age of tecnocontrollo in Palermo.
Tonight at 21:30 at the hacklab zet (A) of Palermo free seminar will be held on →
. Hacktivism 
05:10:01 Zeroknowledge: reverse on anonymity.
The Canadian ZeroKnowledge Systems has ceased the provision of anonymous web surfing and e-mail encrypted with pseudonyms. The company has →
. Art 
04:10:01 123456789px.
123456789px is a work of net.art that seem to suffer from post-industrial aesthetics of the past decade, with a minimal approach every →
. EMusic 
10/04/01 Report on the SIAE.
Tonight's episode Report (RaiTre at 20:50) will be entitled 'The background of the SIAE'. Curated by Bernardo Iovene proposes an →
. Art 
04:10:01 Res Fest.
The Gate was inaugurated today at the cinema in the Notting Hill area of London Res Fest , the traveling festival of →
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03:10:01 Cult2001.
They open today at the Danish National Gallery in Copenhagen (Denmark), the conference Cult2001 , dedicated this year to the theme: 'New visions →
