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.
.re_potemkin: » a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_
.re-potemkin: a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_
(tags: video visual mashup)
Tate Modern| Current Exhibitions | Exposed
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera (exhibition at Tate)
(tags: art design exhibition privacy)
In the multi-faceted world of digital imaging the ability to connect on a visceral level with an audience is becoming a main concern of any production. Often we hear the phrase, “It jumped →
The Swinger « Music Machinery
The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing
(tags: mashup music software sound)
V2_AR: Artistic Explorations — V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media
The first edition of the V2_AR Ecosystem event series brought together a lot of people involved with Augmented Reality in The Netherlands
(tags: augmentedreality art exhibition)
Próximos
Symposium of Medialibraries and Archives for the →
Between Play and Politics: Dysfunctionality in Digital Art – Marie-Laure Ryan
on Electronic Book Review
(tags: art media)
Meara O’Reilly – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
Chladni Singing, by Meara →
HP says 10,000 cows can power 1,000 servers – Computerworld
Researchers at Hewlett Packard Co. Labs researcher says there's interest in a cow power project
(tags: green)
The Particle v1.0 on Vimeo
"The Particle" is a kinetic sculpture that experiments with color, sound and movement. Around the space occupied by the sculpture defines a surround sound system that reacts and becomes one with the movement and light.
(tags: art →
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262013147
, USA, 2009, English
Since John Cage we have started to prefigure what is now called the “aesthetics of failure.” Reconsidering accidents as opportunities has been the conceptual →
Multiplace — art, culture, networks
The 9th edition of Multiplace, decentralized festival for new media art and culture
(tags: art festival hacking music sound)
