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.
Gail Zappa (pictured), the widow of Frank Zappa, EMusic has sued for breach of copyright. The story refers to a small collection of songs of her husband sold online in 1999, under license from Rykodisc, the →
Video games for Playstation danceable (such as Spice World, the Spice Girls) have an interface to interact with it more eventful. The Beat Pad , in fact, is a mat laid on the ground, with the →
The site of the Parisian gallery Vélodrome, space is the last installation thermodynamics of fifty-five Danielle Wallers , which draws shapes 'organic' exposing fax paper to different amounts of heat.
When the going gets tough, the play must continue. The Chief Executive Hank Barry calls a technical report to the court, stating that all the efforts made by his company to lock files 'prohibited', stating that →
In one of his last articles for SecurityFocus.com, Kevin Mitnick shows how effectively without puncturing any server, but simply accessing the data and some public databases raccontado a bit 'of lies, in the U.S. we can →
There are already the very first artists to compose songs through the sequences of genes discovered in the genome project. Brent D. Hugh, a music teacher from Missouri Western State College, for example, has made some →
While Napster's lawyers insist that everything works and will be ready to verify the removal took place in the 'prohibited material' on their sites, the New Media Pulse of Toronto has put up Nap Came Back →
Last meeting this afternoon at 18:00 at the Milan Triennale with the exhibition 'Stories of identity'. Eija-Liisa Ahtila is an artist and filmmaker who processes the language of television and film, with appropriate irony for their →
Use '2 'instead of' to ', add' the 'which in reality is not there, write the title of the song exaggerating the pronunciation, or simply on the contrary, are just some of the loopholes created on →
Steganography is a very old method (it goes back to the Greeks and Persians) to hide information in a image that the eye without noticing, as originally the tattoos done on the heads of slaves (invisible →
