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.
CD – Artkillart.Tk
Scratch is presented in the guise of an installation incorporating the world’s fastest industrial robot, modified, according to Michael Sellam’s concept, to interact precisely with the vinyl surface of →
CD – Choose
Microtonal articulations and noise concretions form the expressive stylistic elements of this extremely organized network of audio emergencies. They include the spurious frequencies apparently produced by hissing devices and →
COSMOPOLITES DE TOUS LES PAYS ENCORE UN EFFORT
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana in collaboration with the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) presents: Société Réaliste, Cosmopolites De Tous Les Pays Encore Un Effort
(tags: art literature psychogeography)
Videos
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[KONTEJNER] – Device_art 3.010
After last year’s introduction of the amazing Japanese Device Art scene at the Device_art exhibition in Zagreb, the newest version of the project, Device_art 3.010 is going to Tokyo! It includes a selection of projects by artists →
CD – Matter
The result of collaboration between the Italian sound-artist David Sani (Shinkei) and the Israeli artist Shay Nassi (mise_en_scene), Scytale introduces itself with truly dark atmospheres that are sensitive, →
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Check the ISEA2010 photo set here (140 pictures).
The 2010 edition of the “nomadic” ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) was even more nomadic this year, traveling through three cities: Essen, Dortmund (where the core →
interactivos? '10 BH
Interactivos?'10 Belo Horizonte: High End Low Tech. Call for Projects
(tags: call media exhibition software)
Cut & Splice: Transmission | Sound and Music
Cut & Splice: Transmission is a three-day exploration of the avant garde’s use of radio as a dramatic stage and a performance instrument
(tags: festival performance radio)
CD – Audiobulb
Shortly after releasing his second album, Complex Tone Test, David Newman, a British composer and sound designer better known under the moniker Autistici, is back at work with a new →
Cybernetics | exhibition | ARTLINKART | Chinese contemporary art database
Xu Wenkai's Cybernetics exhibition @ V Arts Centre (Space 1) (Shanghai, China)
(tags: art exhibition media)
CrawfordCatalogue.pdf (application/pdf Object)
David Crawford retrospective @Pace Digital Gallery/Turbulence
(tags: art video exhibition net)
Perspective Glitch | Troy Innocent
Perspective Glitch, →
At the beginning of 20th century Eastman introduced the No. 1 Kodak camera with the catchy slogan “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”, and revolutionized photography by providing the public a photo →
YouTube – portamento (synthesizer) digest ver.
portamento (synthesizer) digest ver.
(tags: art music performance vinyl video sound)
DVD – Aural Terrains
Behind the acronym KGB hide Kim Cascone, Guido Henneböhl and Brendan Dougherty, all well-known musicians and researchers in the contemporary digital-electroacoustic scenes. This combo – founded in 2004 – →
WIKITOPIA
The First Tinyfest on Collaborative Future in Hong Kong
(tags: art festival urban net)
