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 – Winds Measure
With a title that looks like a captcha, a hardbound, all-white, material design (developed by the designer Ben Owen) and a publishing volume of only 300 copies, Gilles →
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3897902930, Germany, 2009, English
Cornelia and Holger Lund established and run the Fluctuating Images gallery in Stuttgart since 2004, and in 2009 they relocated to Berlin. Their activity was →
UCSB Press Release: "UCSB Art Professor to Show Work at Winter Olympics Digital Art Exhibition "
We Are Stardust is a two-screen projection installation that uses infrared sensors to connect the real-time location of the audience
(tags: art science privacy visual)
YouTube – Lego Augmented Reality
Really interesting kiosk at the Lego Store in Woodfield Mall, Schaumberg, IL
(tags: augmentedreality visual)
exquisite_code » About
exquisite_code is an algorithmic performance system for heterogeneous groups of writers.
(tags: art generative literature)
The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of “intelligence”. So “organic” qualities →
CD – Labor Camp Product
In this sparse but evocative electronica, mingled with tenor modulations, sound effects and melodic harmonies based on Eric Satie’s Vexations, we hear the words of soldiers →
YouTube – Raw Video: Man Smashes TVs at Wal-Mart
Police have arrested a man for smashing 29 televisions at a Georgia Wal-mMrt
(tags: tv)
Timothy Leary and William Gibson promoting a Neuromancer film Boing Boing
a promotional video featuring Leary, William Gibson, and others →
Montreal Tech Watch » Repurpose, a video documentary about hackers + foulab
A look into the hardware hacking community in Montreal, including the Foulab collective
(tags: hacking hacktivism)
BBC NEWS | Health | Out-of-body experience recreated
Two teams used virtual reality goggles to con →
Lovebytes 2010
Lovebytes is a cultural festival for the digital age. A season of extraordinary events taking place at some of Sheffield's landmark venues and public spaces.
Lovebytes explores the creative impact of computers, new technology and digital culture. Our theme →
http:// net art in space in london: If not you not me by Annie Abrahams
If not you not me at HTTP Gallery in London is Annie Abrahams exhibition where she creates an Internet of feeling – of agitation, collusion, ardour →
FLORIAN FUSCO | PullTheMetal
Florian Fusco, 28, graphic and textile designer from Berlin and fan of several vintage gadgets. From a cassette tape to a Casio watch or a Game Boy. All are part of his series Pretty Things, or what →
Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge – tech – 02 February 2010 – New Scientist
Our collective memory is relying too much on hard disks.
(tags: media preservation software)
Visualization Showcase – Elastic Lists of Interactive Art
A fluid, rich interface for facet browsing
(tags: →
Untitled Document
h.a.g.s., digital manipulations by bea fremderman
(tags: visual media)
Polish priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance | Oddly Enough | Reuters
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor →
CD – Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and →
