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.
Another client enters the arena of the successors of Napster for peer-to-peer exchanges. It's called Swaptor , and is freely downloadable beta V. 1.0 for Windows, which focuses on direct links between users and the formation →
The European Parliament approved a directive on copyright, that trying to harmonize the legislation of different countries, inaspririsce the persecution of the free dissemination of intellectual works, prompting companies to protect the upstream, through appropriate technologies →
Dibidus_Straight is the first project of Slobodan Miladinov and Dusan Pavlic, whose work owes much to their aptitude for typographical juxtaposition of characters and signs. The structure of the mixed style of the old socialist propaganda →
Agreement between American Vitaminic.com (recent American subsidiary of the Italian company) and Universal Music Group (UMG) for the dispensing fee of tracks. The group owns Universal artists such as Blink 182, Marvin Gaye, Steely Dan, Luciano →
Myplay.com , active since 1999, is another of the sites that have had to interact with the official documents of the music industry, but now seems to have gained their trust. Each user (the site has →
From today until Wednesday 7 you can follow in Bologna seminars Simon Frith, one of the most auterevoli scholars and critics of popular music, which will treat of 'Industrialization of music, genres, critics and the public', →
Opens today's edition of the annual festival of arts and new media Transmediale in Berlin. Subtitled DIY [do it yourself!], Has sections on: New Media Art in Belarus, workshops on hacking the gameboy and how to →
Bearshare is a new client (freeware) to Gnutella dedicated to Windows systems that promises to become the most popular for simplicity and usability. Another step towards the ultimate alternative to Napster?
The new Rio Volt , the latest model in the series Rio, the first mass mp3 player, includes for the first time a CD player. Supported formats relate to the audio CD and CD-R containing both →
February 2 at 23:00 today you can follow the live scanner, and an interview with the presentation of his new project Scannerfunk live from the Paradiso in Amsterdam through the server Fabchannel , in collaboration with →
