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.
Digital TV Dinner, glitch video art (generated by cartridge video game) from 1979. “Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created by Raul Zaritsky, Jamie Fenton, and Dick Ainsworth using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns. The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with power-on. When pressing the reset button, it was possible to remove the cartridge from the system and induce various memory dump pattern sequences. DIgital TV DInner is a collection of these curious states of silicon epilepsy set to music composed and generated upon this same platform. ”
SYN-Phon, graphical notation for contemporary sound performances. “Budapest Art Factory (BAF) is pleased to present to you SYN-Phon; sound performance based on graphical notation by Candaş Şişman featuring Barabás Lőrinc & Ölveti Mátyás. Candaş Şişman resided at BAF for the month of June as part of its cross-cultural fertilization residency program. SYN-Phon will be exhibited to act, as a visual linguistic delivery through a cogitation segment followed by the sound performance on June 29th.”
http://www.csismn.com/SYN-Phon
iPhone music by Shintaro Miyazaki, (sound)waves emissions from Apple mobile. “In this video you can hear the in general inaudible electromagnetic emissions of a smart phone. Each action on the touchscreen produces a audible feedback. You can also hear many background processes of the smart phone.”
Noah, recording the spirit of today’s computer screens, a short film by students Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg,
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3017108/you-need-to-see-this-17-minute-film-set-entirely-on-a-teens-computer-screen
Composing through teletext, with print options by Goto80 http://goto80.com/blog/my-teletext-music-software
Gesture Piece is a 15-minute film created by Vicki Bennett with a new score by seven sound artists (Gwilly Edmondez, Matmos, Ergo Phizmiz, Andrew Sharpley, Dave Soldier, Jason Willett and Wobbly). Each composed a score for a chapter of Gesture Piece, without any knowledge of who else was collaborating on the project or what the rest of the film would look or sound like. http://www.gesturepiece.com/
What if the phone button layout standard would have been different? The 1960s Phone Button Layouts That Never Were http://gizmodo.com/look-at-the-insane-number-layouts-our-telephones-could-1223966486/1226907485
Rhizomatiks inspired by Perfume, exhibition at ICC Tokyo http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2013/Rhizomatiks_inspired_by_Perfume/preface_j.html
I am Unable to Fulfill Your Wish by Owen Mundy, applying network graphing tools to social network data, http://owenmundy.com/site/i-am-unable
Aluminium by Bruno Levy, optical distortion from aluminum foil scans http://brunolevy.com/videos/2013-2/aluminum-scans
Apple 1 project, rebuilding the first Apple computer piece by piece, a successful project built at “Museo dell’Informatica Funzionante” Computer Museum, Palazzolo Acreide (SR), Italy http://museo.freaknet.org/en/presentazione-progetto-apple-1/
Immaterials, the visible network exhibition, for Brighton Digital Festival with Timo Arnall, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Jørn Knutsen, Jack Schulze And Matt Jones at the Lighthouse, Brighton, 5 September – 13 October 2013 http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/immaterials
Packetbrücke, injecting the internet space into the geographical one, installation by Gordan Savičić and Bengt Sjölén at Aksioma 11 – 27 September 2013 http://www.aksioma.org/packetbruecke/
Audible Forces, wind-driven sound art, eight installations on the seaside, produced by OCM and Oxford Brookes University Sonic Art Research Unit http://vimeo.com/68288804
