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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23:05:01 E-phos.
Inaugurated in Athens today the third edition of E-phos , International Festival of Films on Art and New Media, dedicated to the theme →
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23:05:01 Italian Landscape.
Tonight, at the Gallery of Modern dÕArte Torino, 'Italian Landscapes', a performance of 'lounge theater'. Three distinct groups with as many new →
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22:05:01 Dj traded live as before.
The dj culture has always been ahead of the sterile copyright issues, following the flow of the music, ignoring →
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5/22/01 Scans of photos of other photos.
At the end of the seventies Sherrie Levine, performed as a work of art of the photos taken →
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22:05:01 Vivendi acquires mp3.com.
Vivendi Universal, digital arm of the major label Universal, bought for $ 372 million mp3.com, in order to enhance Duet, the →
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21:05:01 Genes artist in stream.
Genesis has a network installation by Eduardo Kac that explores the relationships between "biology, perception of reality technology and dialogical →
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21:05:01 Napster: MusicNet, spyware and LiquidAudio.
MusicNet, the system 'safe' for the sale of online traces developed by RealNetworks with funds from three of the →
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21:05:01 Squarepusher and Plaid, tracks on the web.
On the site of the Warp are acoltabili streaming 'My Red Hot Car', the new single of →
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18:05:01 E-literature awards 2001.
Assigned to the E-literature awards in 2001 , for hypertext fiction, the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in Chicago. Jobs are still →
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18.05.01 Seizure of a server radio in Treviso.
The Guardia di Finanza seized in Veneto a server that contained about ten thousand songs. The machine →
