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.
MY PHONE IS OFF FOR YOU
We may be sitting at the same table, but we are not together: a common condition of our over-wired world. It is time to question what truly nurtures the human spirit. MY PHONE IS OFF →
Mp3 – Sub Rosa
The sixth and penultimate episode of the Subrosa anthology dedicated to noise and electronic music (they are not in chronological order – we remind you) that encompasses the years →
Neural #37 extra (only for subscribers):
(edited by Omar Vulpinari) Making Things Move, 64 pages booklet.
a Fabrica Workshop Project directed by Zachary Lieberman.
04 Foreword, Zachary Lieberman
06 Brief, Zachary Lieberman →
CD -Free Software Series
The collective of experimenters involved in the Free Software Series project continues to churn out new and interesting releases. This time, Peruvian Christian Galarreta, a “self-taught transdisciplinarian”, composer →
Francoise Gamma
(tags: art design visual)
Marta Minujin Official Web
Minu-Phone
(tags: art preservation media)
Openbook – Connect and share whether you want to or not
Openbook lets you search public Facebook updates using Facebook's own search service
(tags: media privacy social net)
The Ethical Robot « UConn →
Routledge,
2009,
English, 160 pages,
ISBN-13: 978-0415547628
Focusing on the processual nature of computer art and purposely omitting all the strictly digital-related issues, this book tries diligently to define a philosophy of computer →
Francoise Gamma
(tags: art design visual)
Marta Minujin Official Web
Minu-Phone
(tags: art preservation media)
Openbook – Connect and share whether you want to or not
Openbook lets you search public Facebook updates using Facebook's own search service
(tags: media privacy social net)
The Ethical Robot « UConn →
Object | Museet for Samtidskunst
REFRAMING REALITY: Glimpses into the Lowave video archive
(tags: art video exhibition)
A wrist-worn, automatic music-maker – The Boston Globe
Toscanini Interface
(tags: music mobile sound)
Cinémathèque de Tanger
films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), a pioneer of abstract cinema and grand master →
Cd – Port
Eccentric, reverberating frequencies, unconventional propagations and resonances, environmental auditory influences and field recordings come together in a work that insists on unusual topological transformations that are suspended in an →
Immersive audiovisual environments are often associated with elaborate and cutting edge technologies. From Imax theaters to works such as Filmachine by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami, impressive amounts of equipment are deployed to →
CD – Faitiche
Introspective, dreamy and dense sounds, intense but restrained, are intertwined in a very calibrated way in ‘Bird, Lake, Objects’. Using only one microphone to capture the →
Fan Club – Microdrama for Objects – SoundKino
Matteo Marangoni, Fan Club, Microdrama for Objects
(tags: art sound)
YouTube – The World's Biggest Drum Machine
Propellerhead's world's biggest drum machine
(tags: sound music urban performance)
CD – Cronica
Mathias Delplanque was born in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, later moving to Nantes, France – the town where he currently lives and works. Composer, performer and music critic, Delplanque →
