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.
Identity Theft Preventing Privacy Wallet
Identity Theft Preventing Privacy Wallet
(tags: privacy)
Invisible Woman (part 1)
Marianne Petit's Interactive Pop-Up Playhouse
(tags: design media visual)
TruePower UCS Power Outlet With Built in USB Ports
patent pending
(tags: design)
100 años de histeria ‘antipiratería’
For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster
(tags: copyright sound music)
World of →
CD – Strukto
This is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word ‘Black’ in an impeccably neutral →
Get your iPhone Dummy Display Phone! – iPhoneDummy.net
iPhone Dummy Display Phone and the Super Glue iPhone Prank
(tags: mobile)
SuperCollider » sc140
In conjunction with The Wire magazine, a unique collection: 22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with →
CD – Kranky
Drones and subdued frequencies, structured in a kind of meditative psychedelia. Gregg Kowalsky is not new to sounds with such characteristics, using analog recordings, manipulating oscillators and managing purposefully →
mark napier at DAM Berlin december 2009
mark napier's PAMStanding at [DAM] Berlin
(tags: art visual software)
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626006, The Netherlands, 2009, English
The slow and almost unavoidable disintegration of pieces of early electronic art is part of a broader problem that involves the preservation of both their →
CD – Kesh
Dilated and charming tonal sequences, micro-sonorities and patterns that gently intersect, ticks, acoustic and more synthetic structures arise in this new work by Autistici (David Newman), a sound-artist based in →
Stylophone synthesizer at Restoration Hardware – Boing Boing
(tags: music sound)
The Lappetites
Fathers – a new opera by the Lappetites
(tags: video music sound art)
Star6 Introduction on Vimeo
Use the iPhone's accelerometer to control Star6's powerful granular synthesis engine to change the Pitch, Speed, →
“Arcs21”, Lia’s new iPhone app is now available (and free)
“Arcs21”, Lia’s new iPhone app is now available (and free)
(tags: visual mobile software art)
YouTube – Yann Tiersen on 6 iPhones
Yann Tiersen – Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi from the soundtrack →
Turning common sense upside down is one of the most effective strategies in art, especially when dealing with hot social topics. Swine Flu (H1N1) has been the big viral outbreak of 2009. The few →
CD – Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, →
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, Germany, 2009, English, German
Condensing thirty years of the Ars Electronica festival history into six hundred pages is the challenge of this book. It’s a tough task to →
CD – Mort Aux Vachez
The audio compact disk is presented rigidly bolted between three different rectangular wooden blocks, held together by metal hinges, then fixed through the usual split pin, the symbol →
