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.
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)
Reel to reel tape machines are dinosaurs compared to the digital audio workstations we use today and old timers are usually grateful not to have to resort to scissors when an edit →
CD – Room 40
This record presents natural and artificial events; brittle audio emergencies that seem conditioned by the same sound frequency registries. In Zone Sensible 2, only apparently converging oscillations, →
Galerie [DAM]Berlin – mlExhibitions
C.E.B. Reas, Compendium 2004-2010 @ Galerie [DAM]Berlin
(tags: art design software exhibition visual)
Biennale Mediations 2010
Biennale Mediations 2010 in Poznan
(tags: art exhibition festival)
CD – Ahornfelder
Provinces, the seminal 2005 album with which Jochen Briesen, using the moniker Semuin, triggered his personal research, was a collaboration with Anne Laplantine (aka Angelika Koehlermann), and was mastered by →
YouTube – Atom™ – Wellen und Felder
Atom™ – Wellen und Felder
(tags: music visual sound video)
Cantoni e Crescenti
Infinite Cubed installation by Rejane Cantoni
(tags: art visual design)
U B U W E B – Film & Video: Christian Marclay – Record Player: Christian Marclay (2000)
Record Player: Christian Marclay (2000)
(tags: sound art video)
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
For Mort Aux Vaches, surpassing itself with even more extreme modulations of the characteristic “riveted” format doesn’t happen often, given how many highly original packages have →
