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.
Begins today in Bologna, at the Links , Hops! festival of visual arts and performating. It will last until Saturday, and includes four themed rooms, with shows almost simultaneously, including one called 'digital room', where artists →
Leonardo Chiariglione has announced he will leave within three months of the post of executive director of the ' SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), the organization of the majors of the disc and the film formed →
The electro-industrial group Rammstein decided to pruomoversi with material previewed on the web. The new video 'Sneak Preview' is visible today on the official website, but accessible only to subscribers to the official newsletter fans, who →
Begin today's tour Le Hammond Inferno , authors of the latest 'My First Political Dance Album'. Today in Milan at Magazzini Generali, tomorrow in Turin at the Fabrik, 26 in Imola at Cap Creus and finally →
The University of California, Berkeley is working on OceanStore , a network file system-free made of 10 billion computer with 100 billion terabytes of data. Funded by IBM, EMC and Research Agency for Defense Military, aims →
Last Future of Music Conference, in the face of objections that any technique of protecting digital data must be explained publicly why you can be sure that does not infringe the fundamental rights of the user, →
A new system of protection of music content in digital format was announced by IBM . According to the specifications the system would allow the free broadcasting of songs but, in contrast, a limited listening (30 →
A collaboration between ZapMedia and Harmon Kardon is to produce a device capable to rake in 10,000 songs in mp3 or wma. The Harmon Kardon DMC 100 Digital Media Center, it comes with a 30-gigabyte hard →
Re.sound is a sound sculpture (also playable in some examples on the web) created by the artist Jody ELFF for the Moving Image Gallery in New York. Through a Mac G4 suitably concealed and Max, a →
For three days (from today until Sunday) at the Teatro Multipurpose Busy, in Lenin Avenue 3 in Bologna, continue their meetings for free access and free movement of knowledge. Today we talk about SIAE, ricampionature and →
