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 – Entr’acte
Shaped into the form of scratchy recordings, extrapolated from the environmental sounds of a video arcade in Taipei, which were then heavily processed, the frequencies of the first part →
Empathy Box, by the Italian iocose collective, is a device that generates pain that is meant to be shared. This is a box made out of both metal and wood, and is reminiscent →
Vote for the Computer Engineer Barbie
Vote for the Computer Engineer Barbie
(tags: media gender)
ThinkGeek :: TV Poltergeist Phantom Prank Device
the TV Poltergeist! Annoy the crap out of friends and enemies by possessing their TV so it turns on and off at →
synthPond
synthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and audio toy by conceptual new media artist Zach Gage.
(tags: music software visual design sound)
Rhythm House: Kiss Voodoo | Ads of the World
Online Piracy is killing your favourite artist
(tags: design copyright visual interface)
Funny iPhone →
TheDieline.com: Package Design: Record Cover = Record Player
The self-sufficient packaging makes a very low tech, yet audio-capable record player
(tags: vinyl design music sound)
Report: Malware capital of the world is Shaoxing, China | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Computer security firm Symantec →
Viking Adult, ISBN 978-0670020843
, USA, 2009, English
Bill Wasik makes internet experiments on viral culture. He organized the first (pointless) flash mob in New York, and went on with other effective strategies, →
CD – Audiobulb
If the standard practice of sound recording is regarded as a “capture,” then in this abstract conceptual electronic music project, the representation of auditory reality happens through far more complex →
Neural 35, Friends? – Neural.it :: media culture, hacktivism
The new Neural issue (#35) is out, with 8 more pages and exclusive stuff for subscribers
(tags: neural.it art sound net media)
CD” – Interval
The dreamily ambient sequences of “+1”, a project by Laura and Mark Cetilia, constitute a fruitful and challenging colloborative work. The precision with which the duo compose has never been →
(Pic) Turntable Business Card – PSFK
Indian designers Nasheet Shadani and Deepak Nagar have created an remarkable business card for a DJ. The designers replicated a moving record in the center of the card, which reveals different pieces of information as →
Neural #35 extra (only for subscribers):
Move, new European media art festival official dvd.
Videos with artists presenting their work, sometimes helped by respondents with some artworks excerpts, including: Shu Lea Cheang, →
Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics | Rethinking the Political in a Digital Age
The project will explore the intersection of politics, networks and cultural practices
(tags: politics media net)
IOGraphica — MousePath's new home
IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements →
Clocks have their own aura. They quantify invisible and unstoppable time. And mechanical clocks have also interesting audio properties – in fact they scan time through their repetitive sounds. Coincidence Engines is a →
CD – Room40
Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and →
