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.
2CD – Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley’s sound installations, a prolific artist who’s been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the →
NIKE78 – Nick Marsh | ‘NIKE Wiis’ on Vimeo
NIKE Wiis
(tags: videogame hacking)
System simulates effects of spaceflight by tricking the brain – fabric | rblg
System simulates effects of spaceflight by tricking the brain
(tags: science neural)
“Images are meant to render the world accessible and imaginable to man” Villem Flusser wrote in his well-known 1983 book “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” which analyzed the transition from prehistoric, traditional images →
Piracy Is Promotion, Says CEO of Porn Multinational | TorrentFreak
Piracy Is Promotion, Says CEO of Porn Multinational
(tags: copyright sex)
<nettime> Ten Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
Ten Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
(tags: net hacktivism)
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CD – Entr’acte
Based in New York City, Michael J. Schumacher focuses his research primarily on electronic and digital media, computer-generated sounds that iterate over fairly long periods of time, serializing →
Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers | Piratpartiet
Swedish Pirate Party to Host New WikiLeaks Servers
(tags: hacktivism hacking net)
CD – w.m.o/r
Loic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he
has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold
reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no →
2CD – Pogus
A pioneer of avant-garde experiments, well defined between electroacoustic and improvisational influences, the Peruvian composer César Bolaños, in this double CD, releases the pieces composed in Argentina during his →
cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010
This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the →
10″ – Onomatopee
A transparent 10-inch record, rarefied digitalisms and several texts weaving more suggestions and trajectories (Freek Lomme, Daniela Cascella and Willem van Weelden). A stylized 32-page color insert, a →
In the field of expanded cinema the two-dimensio- nality of the projection screen has long been a limitation that artists have attempted to overcome through many different strategies. Rotterdam-based Joris Strijbos, member →
YouTube – Chelpa Ferro: Microfônico Vasos
Chelpa Ferro: Microfônico Vasos
(tags: art sound)
CD – Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there’s nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. →
Japan Society, New York – Vital Signals Japanese & American Video Art from the 1960s & ‘70s
Vital Signals Japanese & American Video Art from the 1960s & ‘70s
(tags: art preservation video)
Brett's Footnotes¹: My Divorce
The Divorce art video game
(tags: art videogame →
