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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15:06:01 Archipelago 2001.
This year's edition of the Archipelago , the International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Rome begins today and will continue →
. Art 
15:06:01 nonSymposium.
Today at the Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee is held on ' nonSymposium ', an international debate on the consequences of converged →
. Art 
15:06:01 SEAFAIR 2001.
Inaugurated today at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje in Macedonia, Seafair, 2001 – Society and Genomic Culture an exhibition of →
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. EMusic 
14:06:01 FullAudio Agreement and BMG.
The first agreement between a major and a distributor of music on the Internet. The BMG has signed a three-year →
. EMusic 
14:06:01 Piracy growing.
According to the annual report of IFPI ( International Federation of the Phonographic Industry ) music piracy grew 25 percent last year →
. EMusic 
14:06:01 Sonar 2001.
Inaugurated today in Barcelona Sonar 2001 , a festival of music and digital arts related. The three-day dense to see the appointments →
. Hacktivism 
13:06:01 GNUtemberg!.
GNUtemberg! is a movement that is to search for and list all those facilities that sell paper copies printed or photocopied documents protected →
. Hacktivism 
13:06:01 Dating in Turin.
From today until Saturday 16 within the party Radio Blackout in Turin , meetings every night at 22:00 on new law →
. Art 
13:06:01 Noema.
Today, the Media Lab Salara of Bologna, from 17:00, workshops NOEMA.Lab , edited by Pier Luigi Capucci and his staff on: the art →
