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.
Stopped at the last moment the launch of the first satellite for digital audio broadcasting, owned by XM Satellite Radio in Washington. As soon as the launch has been carried out the company promises to enable →
The Swedish Elektron has launched the sale of Sidstation , a MIDI synthesizer based on the legendary MOS 6581 SID sound chip of the Commodore 64. Looking for a groovebox, emits fascinating bleeps, being full of →
The last album (A.XL No.1) of Diabolik 'The Invisible Thief' winds around a group of hackers, designed as 'any boys', which contrasts first and then help the heinous character. Note the screens of computers in style →
Occasionally even the Italian press seems to wake up about what happens in the rest of the digital world out of the stock market fluctuations. The number of Carnet the January cover and special features on →
The historic IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive), the first site to recruit unknown artists proposing clips and photos online, has closed its activities until further notice. Active since the end of 1993, had recently been taken →
The Sony announced the production of readers for a new MiniDisc format and mp3 files. The first is called MiniDisc Long Play which increases recording capacity, always using the same media, and using only new compression →
' Quartet for the Year 4698 or 5760 'is a sound installation artist Laiwan presented at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver that also includes a web component can be experienced directly. The intent →
– Friday in Milan, at Cox18
. Area Firecracker / Topolin.it party (image, self-financing issues Topolin)
– Friday in Venice, the Revolt
. Jollymusic
– Friday in Rome, →
Tonight in a webcast meeting with Mark Tribe (pictured), founder of Rhizome.org at the Jihui, a meeting space in that of New York. Meet at 7:00 PM local time (in Italy about one in the morning) →
After various vicissitudes Musikmaker.com is going to be liquidated. Famous for being one of the first to offer custom compilations through its 160,000 licensed tracks from 165 different labels, and for having made an initial agreement →
