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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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Melle Jan Kromhout – The Logic of Filtering, How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music

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Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0190070137, English, 200 pages, 2021, UK

The eternal quest of audiophiles is for the reproduction of sound as close as possible to the ‘original’ recording, or what has been defined as →

bookdigitalisationnoisesoundtheory 14 Apr 2023

Baldrian Quartett – Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy (1878 – 1907): Streichquartette – Entschlummern sollst Du, sollst entschlummern

baldrian-quartett-frieda-bertelsohn-martholdy

CD + booklet – Bruit

This is a very interesting release from Bruit, an association known for its engagement with contemporary experimentation. The source material of this work is four string quartets supposedly composed by the mysterious Frieda Bertelsohn →

audio artclassical/contemporaryexperimental 8 Apr 2023

Niklas Maak – Server Manifesto, Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

niklas-maak-server-manifesto

Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775750707, English, 112 pages, 2022, Germany

The aesthetics of server farms have been explored by artists since the 2010s as sites of monumental and hidden infrastructures. From Timo Arnall’s Internet machine, a →

aestheticsbookdigitalpublic infrastructure 3 Apr 2023

Various Artists – Urbsounds Unpolished Fidelity

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LP – Urbsounds

It’s the twentieth anniversary of this Bratislava DIY collective on Urbsounds, a label that has remained loyal to its punk roots – punk in the most political meaning of the word, reflecting the most desolate parts of →

electronicaidmtechno 27 Mar 2023

Claudia Costa Pederson – Gaming Utopia, Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media

gaming-utopia

Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0253054494, English, 280 pages, 2022, USA

The mental space of video games is a specific one. It is a virtual world in which we immerse ourselves, participate in its narrative and →

booktheoryvideo games 24 Mar 2023

Nula.cc – Cicadas | Bells

nulacc-cicadas

7″ – Staalplaat

Lloyd Dunn has been releasing work under the alias Nula.cc since 2009. As an artist he combines multimedia with a ‘traditional’ field recordist approach, this makes sense when we consider his career more broadly. In the 80s →

audio artfield recordings 20 Mar 2023

Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka – The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies

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Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-151790218, English, 328 pages, 2022, USA

It has become increasingly difficult to define what a laboratory is as the term is applied to any concentrated set of activities in →

bookmediatheory 15 Mar 2023

Atom™ – Neuer Mensch

atom-neuer-mensch

CD – Raster

The eleven compositions on this album were ‘programmed, engineered and mastered by an algorithm’ and arranged by Atom™, one of the many pseudonyms of the celebrated German composer, musician and electronic music producer Uwe Schmidt. Artificial Intelligence →

audio artelectronicaexperimentaltechno 6 Mar 2023

(edited by) Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhardt – Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition

chimeras

Onassis Foundation, ISBN 978-6188536180, English, 536 pages, 2022, Greece

In the current boom of books on the impact of AI, led by the urgency to better understand a rapid and pervasive shift in culture and →

artificial intelligencebooktheory 3 Mar 2023

Diogo Tudela – Tooling Vol. 1

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Cassette – CCSS++

Diogo Tudela is a media artist and independent researcher whose practice is informed by speculative IT, mechatronics and science fiction. He teaches sound art and creative programming at School of Arts — UCP since 2019, →

audio artfield recordingsoftware 27 Feb 2023

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