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.
Misa Digital Guitar replaces strings with touchscreen | MusicRadar.com
The Misa Digital Guitar is quite unlike any other 'electronic axe' we've seen, being designed not to replace your traditional guitar, but to complement it as a completely different instrument
(tags: sound music)
The Wand Remote Control – IWOOT
A turning motion (it's all in the wrist) will control the volume, a sweep up or down will move the channel forward or back a step, and even double-tapping on the side will perform whatever →
2CD – Mego
Compositions recorded between 1997 and 1999, often in different studios and cities (New York, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö), and originally published on Mego in 2001 constitute this fascinating →
Junkfunnel Labs
Chatterboxen is two wooden and brass boxes with large brass horns; one speaks of war, political corruption, and environmental crisis, the other speaks of celebrity misbehavior, acting awards, and hit movies.
(tags: voice literature art sound)
Cymatic Ferrofluid
studies for replicating cymatic →
CD – Uzu Sounds
Francisco Meirino – under the pseudonym Phroq – continues unabashed in his fascination with bugs and micro-sounds. His is a meticulous investigator, pushing the limits of the audible, cataloguing →
YouTube – Need For Speed SHIFT – gaming in the city
Guerilla projekce Need For Speed SHIFT in Prague
(tags: video tv urban videogame)
Tesserae White Cloud Medanos Turbines on Vimeo
Shot at the Medanos plant, ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA3463/ near Antioch and Pittsburg, California in spring →
CD -!K7
Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This →
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Street Art vs. surveillance camera in Frankfurt
(tags: hacktivism privacy urban video)
Make: Online : Google files patent on Streetview billboard ad replacer
Google has just filed a patent application for a method to automagically detect billboards in →
Kenji Kojima / RGB MusicLab
RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image and surface points (X, Y, Z) of 3D object to chromatic scale sounds
(tags: art sound music visual software)
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U B U W E B – Film & Video: William S. Burroughs – Burroughs The Movie (1985)
Burroughs The Movie (1985)
(tags: literature video tv art hacking media performance)
YouTube – The Human Reactable – Nirvana: Smells like teen spirit
Hilarious Human Reactable →
U B U W E B – Film & Video: "American Masters" John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
TV Series: "American Masters" (1983)
(tags: TV Series: "American Masters" (1983) art sound music video performance)
Bienvenue :: make art 2009
The fifth of make art – chmod +x art – will take place in Groningen (NL), from the 2nd to the 7th of March 2010
(tags: hacking hacktivism art festival software)
F.A.T. PHOTOS – tsa communication
Evan Roth Tsa Communication, leave a message in your scanned bag
(tags: art visual design hacking)
Low-Cost Solar Invades Kenya — WhiteAfrican
solar power cheap products for Kenyan customers
(tags: green design)
BBC News – The US virtual economy is set →
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, German
The work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to →
