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.
BHQFU – Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art
Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art
(tags: art preservation media)
24 Hour Market: A network of local markets from around the world – Core77
Linda Liu & Michael Leung, two designers based in Hong →
The sounds of everyday objects can be quite extraordinary at times. The din of a pan, the hum of a refrigerator or the barely audible metallic rattle of a neon light tube cooling →
Tracing Mobility
Cartography and Migration in Networked Space, Symposium #1 of 3, 15 May, Nottingham Contemporary
(tags: conference mobile urban net)
Word on the Street (Graphics) « PRINTERESTING
Ny-based Artist, Jason Shelowitz has been postering the new york subway tunnels with these faux MTA →
Arteleku Audiolab, ISBN 978-8479086221, Spain, 2009, English
This book is an exception to the rule that a product can be judged from its price. It is free (either →
Networked_Performance — “Sufferrosa” by Dawid Marcinkowski
Four years in the making, Sufferrosa is a non-linear, interactive web-based movie made by Dawid Marcinkowski
(tags: video art media net software)
Google buys UK startup Plink | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Google buys UK startup Plink that produces →
White noise is usually used for a couple of its unique properties: its being able to cut through background noise, which leads to it being implemented in emergency vehicle sirens, and the →
NIMk | Witty, lo-fi works with knotty thoughts
The exhibition ‘witty, lo-fi works with knotty thoughts’ shows video, animation and film by Mounira Al Solh, Keren Cytter, Shana Moulton, Ola Vasiljeva, Emily Wardill and Nina Yuen
(tags: exhibition video)
Live Video Ensemble
Live Video →
Illegal Satellite TV in China Brings CNN to the Masses – Yahoo! News
A black market for satellite TV is booming in China as the middle class grows there, bringing foreign channels like CNN and MTV to a much wider →
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Mimosa by Jason Bruges Studio
Milan 2010: interactive designers Jason Bruges Studio of London have sent us a video of their Mimosa installation, featuring light panels that open and close like flowers
(tags: design)
Lighthouse
Berlin Horse – Malcolm →
C505, Content004, USA, 2009, English
This DVD is a real visual and sound trip. Master of visualization concepts, Yoshihide Sodeoka, is here enjoying the freedom of experimenting with both visual forms and ideas. →
