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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27.08.01 Borderhack 2.0.
Rethinking the physical boundaries of two states through a hacking cultural places with difficult conditions. This is what it proposes the Borderhack →
. Hacktivism 
27.08.01 Another seizure.
A boy of Palermo has been the search of his home with its seizure of a hard disk of his computer and →
. Hacktivism
Seized 13:08:01 netstrike.it.
On August 10, a measure that is unbelievable, the courts of Genoa, in an investigation generated by the unrest of the G8, →
. Hacktivism 
10:08:01 HAL 2001.
Begins today and will continue until Sunday the HAL (Hackers At Large) 2001 , mega international hacker convention. The quadrennial event (after →
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10:08:01 File 2001.
Inaugurated today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, File 2001 , an 'Electronic Language International Festival' held at the Museu da Imagem do Som →
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10:08:01 Fushigi Jungle.
Inaugurated a few days Fushigi Jungle , mastondontica exposure of sixteen interactive artwork, created in Kobe, Japan, at the World Exhibition Hall. →
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09:08:01 EFF defends anonymity.
In an escalation of lawsuits concerning the defense of the rights of the citizen electronic, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has →
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9.8.01 Anti-piracy Soviet Union.
A delegation ukraina will be in Washington next week to try to prevent the sanctions of the institution for the American →
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09:08:01 Conexion Remote.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona was inaugurated Remote Conexion , an exhibition of net.art, section 'Antagonismos.Casos de Estudio', an →
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Garage 08:08:01 2001.
It was inaugurated a few days the fifth Garage Festival in Stralsund, Germany, which is explicitly the relationship between image and sound. →
