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.
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 →
CD – Kvitnu
Intricate rhythmic sequences, hovering techno-trance fascinations and noise attitudes are contaminated with an energetic and chaosmotic mood in “Piranha”, the latest release by Sturqen. The recording is imbued with →
http://locusonus.org/ -Symposium sonification.en
Symposium Sonification (what, where, how, why). The purpose of this symposium is to conduct a state of the art review of the use sonification* within art projects, with a focus on the use of data taken from our →
Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/19/2010
"engaged in improper behavior in [his] home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in [his] personal laptop issued by the school district."
(tags: privacy)
Umberto →
CD – Non Visual Objects
This new project by Richard Chartier stems from a collaboration with visual artist Linn Meyers. Chartier is an electronic composer engaged in a serious minimalist brand of →
The process of getting used to being constantly watched and monitored by webcams, social networks and unscrupulous invaders of our privacy has certainly had an effect on our expressions and movements. Our everyday →
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 →
