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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.

 

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Future Dance of Nostalgia, preserving history through dance

Rewire festival.; rewirefestival.nl

There is a whole history of dancing as a competitive game, from the early ‘Dance Dance Revolution’ to the popular ‘Just Dance’, where a machine is quantifying and then evaluating players’ moves. The physical involvement of the player and the →

gamenew media artperformancesocial history 29 Mar 2023

10000 li, 100 billion kilowatt-hours, reversing disorder

10000-li

Climate change is increasingly being studied through the lens of entropy. Entropy indicates a state of disorder that governs the exchange of energy between systems. For example, at room temperature, why does ice turn into water and then eventually air, →

climate changeinstallationnew media art 22 Mar 2023

Les 1000 vies d’Isis, as real as a photo

les-1000

Les 1000 vies d’Isis is a series of photographic portraits of a woman, Isis. We see her in a driveway looking towards the sea, in her bed, in front of the mirror, waiting for someone in a café. A warm →

digitalnew media artphotography 15 Mar 2023

Lyraei, hybrid chordophone played with magnetic pulses

PHOTO BY PIETER KERS PKERS@BEELD.NU

In the development of musical instruments today, traditional forms and systems are often combined with analogue or digital techniques, creating functional hybrids. Lyraei is a musical instrument of this kind by Mihalis Shammas. It is a chordophone with magnetic pulses →

audio artdronenew media artsound 1 Mar 2023

Arche-scriptures, tangible records

arche-scriptures

Sitting on the edge of a pit similar to an archaeological dig – this is the setting for exploring Arche-scriptures, by the artist Alberto Harres. At first glance, the work appears to be a simple square ceramic fragment decorated with →

audio artnew media arttheory 22 Feb 2023

Dispersions 0.2, organic orchestration

alex-brajkovic-dispersions

Since the enjoyment of sound has become largely mobile, we have embraced digital abstraction with all its computational enhancements as the main reward, sometimes using wirelessly connected speakers as the predominant method of entering physical space. This disconnection between sounds →

audio artnew media art 13 Feb 2023

Command and Control, against oculocentrism

command-and-control

The oculocentric concept of contemporary communications, which specialises in pleasing the eyes, can be profoundly challenged if we reverse the perspective and use the eyes as a site for the control of technological means. This concept seems deeply embedded in →

new media artperformancetechnology 5 Feb 2023

The Eternal Return, pre-Hispanic Interactions, blowing into the past

the-eternal-return

Archaeology has taken on a new role in recent decades. From being a discipline that could trigger an imaginary journey into a frozen past, it now acts as a type of time machine, with the past becoming increasingly materialised in →

audio artinstallationnew media art 27 Jan 2023

Arboreal Receptors, if trees could talk

arboreal-receptors

In our daily life, we are surrounded by an enormous quantity of electrical and electronic appliances and are immersed in an invisible and dense network of radio frequencies and electromagnetic fields. Discussions on the potential effects of such exposure on →

audio artinstallationnew media art 20 Jan 2023

Ventriloquist Ontology, the fabric is more alive than the skin

ventriloquist-ontology

In the dystopian play “The Ventriloquists’ School” by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a ‘free man’ falls into a deserted street and, panicked, takes refuge in a non-place populated by slaves and masters where puppets and manoeuvres live under the control of the →

cyberfeminismnew media artperformancepost human 13 Jan 2023

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