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.
Electrohype 2010
The sixth biennial for electronic art
Ystad Art Museum
(tags: art exhibition media)
New Media Caucus: Current Issue
Dynamic Coupling
(tags: art media)
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. – The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine – 16(9):965
A Randomized Trial of Nature Scenery and Sounds →
Dvd – Flux
As the third episode of a digital, esoteric and contemporary tetralogy, which began with “Ghost Of New York”, in “Birth Of Primary Cinema From The Spirit Of Sound” →
LabforCulture,
English,
2010,
96 pages,
ISBN-13: 978-1906496500
The two editors of this book define blogging as a “cultural seismograph” – a fascinating definition, looking at the regular activity of cultural blogging →
Slashdot Idle Story | The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs
The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs
(tags: politics social design)
Playbutton
wearable mp3 albums with a player
(tags: design music mobile sound)
Candy Chang
fill-in-the-blank stickers to give us an easy tool to voice what →
Christopher Steinweber / you are a performance
interactive performance of people who are looking at a piece of paper
(tags: art media)
Meet The Man Who Just Made A Half Million From The Sale Of Virtual Property – Oliver Chiang – SelectStart – →
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 →
