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.
The Personal Active Radio / Audio Terminal (parat) is a kind of headphone + microphone that 'filter' effectively some waveforms, leaving others to pass. Developed by laboratories Norwegian SINTEF has been developed to allow soldiers to →
DJ Maseo of De La Soul put up for auction on Ebay , an hour of his time, exploitable as a personal lesson in DJing. "It's a little 'how to make the booking of myself," he →
While in Rome were acquitted of immigrants caught red-handed while selling illegally copied cd, due to poverty in which they pay, Bertelsmann announced new protective measures that it intends to integrate the files exchanged on Napster →
Today there is a netstrike against the eviction of the CPA in Florence, the self-managed center that organized in 1998 the first hackmeeting. The time is always from 18:00 to 20:00 and the 'place' is the →
In Belgium between December and January, were raided three houses with suspected piracy. Marcel Heymans, general manager of the local association of industrial music, denounced four other people on the basis of a tracking software that →
– Friday in Rome, the Palace of civilization 'Italian
. Metamorphoses, show by Roberto Paci Dalò (pictured)
– Friday in Milan, La Casa 139
. Cat Food, breakbeat-hip-hop
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Tonight at 21.00 the tea room of the Forte Prenestino , Rome, Jet-Net meeting titled Getting Started with Linux (Part 1) by Mag-ONE. An excellent opportunity to get a better idea of how it works, technically →
Approved by the European Community legislation on copyright that, thanks also to any amendments, among others, by the socialist Boselli well Rapporteur, makes it much less absurd than what was announced a bit 'of days ago, →
It opens today in San Francisco the second edition of Art In Motion , an international festival of 'time-based' media organized by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts. Will continue until Saturday with →
According to some legal experts, after the ruling yesterday could be established mega fine against Napster, similar to that imposed long ago at mp3.com. Figures are assumed as $ 100,000 in damages for each CD copied, →
