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 – Gruenrekorder
A simple white sheet, 51 by 84 centimeters, with the poetry of Stéphane Montavon spread over it. The CD is basically environmental field recordings, made by →
Network Research » Tectonic
a sound sculpture created in real time by earthquakes as they occur across the globe
(tags: art sound software green)
Cultural blogging in Europe: Interview with 'Queen of bloggers' Régine Debatty – LabforCulture
Interview with 'Queen of bloggers' Régine Debatty
(tags: design media net)
Ethernet Orchestra
Ethernet Orchestra, remote networked musical collaborations
(tags: net music sound performance)
News & Events | ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE
The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, →
Z I M O U N
97 polysiloxane hoses 3.0mm, compressed air | Zimoun 2010
(tags: art robot music sound)
A CIDADE DO HOMEM NU: Daria Martin
No filme de 16mm Soft materials [2004], de Daria Martin
(tags: sex robot art performance)
University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 978-0816666119, USA, 2009, English
Activism (or better hacktivism) usually conjugates with video games when a new political or highly controversial art-game (or artistic intervention in a game →
Art + Communication 2010 : TRANSBIOTICS
TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal stability points, XII International Festival for New Media Culture
(tags: art festival conference performance science sound)
psychogeophysics
The London Psychogeophysics Summit
(tags: psychogeography)
UnitedVisualArtists » Chorus Durham Cathedral
Chorus’, UVA’s kinetic installation with sound by Mira Calix, recently featured →
Artists Ethan Miller and Ethan Ham have made an art installation in the Schneider Museum of Art, at the University of Southern Oregon, that transforms their university into the University →
Daniel Temkin
YEEP!EEP!EEP!PROGRAM V0.1, Glitch Art generator for the Commodore 64
(tags: art software visual glitch)
edition mono/monochrom, ISBN 978-3950237269, Austria, 2010, English
Printing a 500-page book using the look and feel of a nineties xeroxed fanzine, with an impressive number of essays is a clear statement in →
.re_potemkin: » a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_
.re-potemkin: a copyleft crowdsourcing free/open source cinema project_
(tags: video visual mashup)
Tate Modern| Current Exhibitions | Exposed
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera (exhibition at Tate)
(tags: art design exhibition privacy)
In the multi-faceted world of digital imaging the ability to connect on a visceral level with an audience is becoming a main concern of any production. Often we hear the phrase, “It jumped →
CD – Touch
This is the third solo album by Bj Nilsen, an artist and experimenter who now, with “The Invisible City”, returns to Touch, a renowned label that has maintained a →
