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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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Electrohype 2010 – Report from Ystad (Sweden)

Electrohype 2010

Check the Electrohype 2010 photo set here.
After a fascinating snowstorm, the sixth edition of Electrohype, the biennial for electronic art, opened at the Ystad Art Museum in Ystad (Sweden). A point of →

artReports 16 Sep 2011

Quantum Parallelograph, quantistic parallel lives

Quantum Parallelograph

The ‘ Quantum Parallelograph ‘, designed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating, is a bizarre medical-looking white device made to translate our invisible inner workings into various languages interpreted by industry experts. The information produced →

artinteractivenetsciencesoftware 12 Sep 2011

Jussi Parikka – Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

Univ Of Minnesota Press

Univ Of Minnesota Press, English, 320 pages, 2010, ISBN: 978-0816667406
For networked societies, emergent intelligence and swarms have taken on important explanatory power in terms of highly distributed modes of →

bookmedianetscience 9 Sep 2011

People Staring at Computers: the discreet gaze of the commodities

Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald is well-known for exploring the boundaries of public and private space in our post-privacy world. With his Keytweeter he placed himself under digital surveillance for an entire year, →

arthacktivismmediaprivacy 7 Sep 2011

Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello – Age of Insects

Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello

CD – Dragon’s Eye

This latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl →

droneexperimentalfield recordingssound 6 Sep 2011

Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Søren Bro Pold, Interface Criticism – Aesthetics Beyond Buttons

Aarhus University Press

Aarhus University Press, ISBN: 978-8779345041, 2011, 296 pages, English
Working on interface aesthetics since the early 2000s, the Digital Aesthetics Research Center at the University of Aarhus never gave up its →

artbookmedia 5 Sep 2011

TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots

TinyRiot

With most demonstra- tions and street protests it’s hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated →

mediamobilemusicnetvideo 29 Aug 2011

edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer, Lars Spuybroek – The Politics of the Impure, Towards a Theory of the Imperfect

V2_ Publishing/NAi Publishers

V2_ Publishing/NAi Publishers, ISBN: 978-9056627485, 208 pages, English, 2010
Did technology historically foster the concept of “purity”? If we look back, we find in mechanical sounds and visual reproduction an attitude →

artbook 26 Aug 2011

Finger-nose, extended nose features

Finger-nose

The touchscreens used by smartphones can sometimes undermine the agility of these devices as they often require the use of both hands. But for the (many) people for whom the smartphone is an appendage →

artinteractivemobile 24 Aug 2011

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon – Counterblast: 1954 Facsimile

counterblast_marchall_mcluhan.jpg

Gingko Press, Inc, English, ISBN-13: 978-1584234524, 32 pages
McLuhan “zine”?!? This must be the first reaction once exposed to Counterblast. In the early golden era of the mimeograph, which also lead to a →

hacktivismmagazinemedia 22 Aug 2011

Vivo arte.mov 2010 – Report from Belem

vivo_artemov_Belem_2011.jpg

Check the Vivo arte.mov 2011 photo set here.

arte.mov has been a major Brazilian fes- tival of art and new media in the last few years. It’s especially focused on mobility, in part because it’s →

artcircuit bendingmediaReports 19 Aug 2011

Untiled Faces, fascinating maths

Nathan Selikoff

At first glance the work “Untiled Faces” by Nathan Selikoff looks like a primitive videogame, a veteran of the ’70s games room. By interacting with its toggle switches, however, one senses that what →

artsciencevisual 16 Aug 2011

Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello – Moss

Molly Berg

CD – 12k
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, have created an interesting live project recorded in the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California. The audio performance, part of →

acoustic/digitalexperimentalfield recordingsimpro 10 Aug 2011

Brandon LaBelle – The Sonic Body: Figures 1-12

Brandon LaBelle

Errant Bodies, ebr_06, cd + booklet
Are there limits to the sounds that can be packed as a product (i.e. a label release)? Noise, field recordings, silence, disturbing or pure frequencies, sounds →

musicsound 9 Aug 2011

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