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.
xkcd: Devotion to Duty
Devotion to Duty, geek comic on sysadmin
(tags: humor hacking hacktivism)
The Brads – a comic about web design » The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work
The Brads – Why DRM Doesn’t Work, how to donwload an audio book from the cleveland public library
(tags: copyright humor)
The digital representation of reality is technically and conceptually a fake, and this “fake” is more and more what we’re used to. The process of reducing in pixels (causing a loss of details), →
BBC News – Tiny ear listens to hidden worlds
A micro-ear could soon help scientists eavesdrop on tiny events just like microscopes make them visible
(tags: sound science)
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Repeated melodies, drones and coagulated atmospheres, dark aural fluctuations, with a bias towards the mystical and evocative. In “Alphabet 1968”, Marc Richter (pseudonym: Black To Comm) takes these ingredients →
Hacker Space Festival: Welcome to the Hacker Space Festival!
The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe
(tags: hacking hacktivism →
Hard Drivin'
Hard Drivin' is a kinetic installation created by Ivan Twohig, Benjamin Gaulon and Brian Solon. The title of the piece references Hard Drivin' a video game released in 1989. The game featured the first 3D polygon driving environment.
The →
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Multifaceted sound implementations, abstract and formally impeccable, arranged in unstable fractured sequences, congealed in rhythmic and granular turns. “Black Telephone Of Matter” is the fourth solo album by Mika →
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0979966668, USA, 2009, English
Error, and even more importantly, its perception and visual beauty are at the heart of the “glitch art” movement. Be it ethereal, →
ElectroSmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
The ElectroSmog festival is a critique of the worldwide explosion of mobility, and an exploration of the new forms of connectedness with others offered to us by network and communication technologies
(tags: festival conference mobile net)
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Released under the moniker Tu M’ (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the →
With the installation Sonicity, the English artist Stanza adds another significant chapter to his quest for new metaphors to translate the countless interactions produced by data passing through an environment into a sensory plane. →
OMG TV – ch 14, vancouver | omgimon.tv
OMG I'm on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in Vancouver on channel 14. We're broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV transmitter. The website acts as an aggregator of →
Merz Akademie, ISBN-13: 978-3937982250, Germany, 2009, English
Olga Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have invested a huge amount of time in investigating something that others have simplistically dismissed as “mundane”. They have been →
