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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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Novi_sad – Inhumane Humans

Novi_sad

Sub Rosa

Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical “sculptural integrity” in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede →

audio artdroneexperimentalfield recordings 5 Dec 2011

Neural 40 extra (2/2), P2P Credit Gift Card by Paolo Cirio –SOLD OUT —

Neural 40 extra

Neural #40 extra (1/2), P2P Gift Credit Card, (only the first 50 subscribers) credit card instructions:

A limited edition of physical plastic a P2P Gift Credit Cards by Paolo Cirio.

By issuing a visionary type →

neural 30 Nov 2011

Neural 40 extra (1/2), new exclusive Newstweek flyer

Neural 40 extra

Neural #40 extra (only for subscribers) Newstweek flyer:

A limited edition flyer of the Golden Nica winner Newstweek project by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, with their latest version of propaganda.

neural 30 Nov 2011

Mark Templeton – Mort Aux Vaches

Mark Templeton

CD – Mort Aux Vaches
“Mort Aux Vaches” (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue →

acoustic/digitaldroneexperimentalimpro 29 Nov 2011

edited by Song-Ming Ang, Kim Cascone – 
The Book of Guilty Pleasures


Song-Ming Ang

Song-Ming Ang, 
English
, Pages 208
, ISBN 978-9810880699
Published on the occasion of the Singapore Biennial, 2011, this book is a collection of “confessions” from a selection of one hundred artists, curators, musicians, →

bookmusic 28 Nov 2011

CM von Hausswolff – 800 000 Seconds in Harar

CM von Hausswolff

CD – Touch

When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of →

audio artdroneexperimentalfield recordings 24 Nov 2011

Sounding Juggling Balls, minimalist music in projectile motion

Byungjun Kwon

At Patterns + Pleasure Festival in Amsterdam STEIM presented the premiere of several pieces written by Tom Johnson for the Gandini Juggling company. For these pieces STEIM developed a set of interactive juggling →

interactivemusicperformance 18 Nov 2011

Kate Mondloch
 – Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art


Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art

208 pages
, Universuty Of Minnesota Press
, 2010, 
English, 
ISBN 978-0816665228
How many screens do we face in our daily lives? How much time each day do our eyes spend →

artbookvideo 16 Nov 2011

Philip Corner – Pieces from the Past

Philip Corner

CD – Pogus
Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in →

experimentalfree formimpro 15 Nov 2011

Electronic Instant Camera, minimal unsaved polaroid

Electronic Instant Camera

The volcanic mind of Niklas Roy seems to produce an unending flow of surprising ideas. After animating the curtains of his studio, he has now turned his attention towards a bizarre camera. →

artmedia 11 Nov 2011

Mirko Tobias Schafer, Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production

249 pages

249 pages, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-9089642561
Internet has been since the beginning of its commercial diffusion a popular medium, but only recently has there been a rising interest in →

bookhacktivismnet 8 Nov 2011

AAVV – Table For Six: All Quiet? #3

AAVV

CD – EE Tapes

EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. →

ambientdroneexperimentalfield recordings 2 Nov 2011

Poser, invading digital photo frames

poser

In a very short time since they appeared, digital photo frames have become so popular that they now regularly invite aesthetic experimentation. In his recent project Poser, Constant Dullaart has offered an ironic →

artnetprivacy 28 Oct 2011

Eisuke Yanagisawa – Ultrasonic Scapes

Eisuke Yanagisawa

CD – Gruenrekorder
Eisuke Yanagisawa, an audio-artist interested in field recordings and researching ethnographic matrices (the latter also explored through interesting cinematic experiments), has been studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 25 Oct 2011

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