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.
Fix a Warped Record – Wired How-To Wiki
If you've got warped LPs in your collection, there are several things you can try to get them spinning flat again
(tags: vinyl music sound)
iTVGoggles Simulate a 50 or 80 Inch TV Screen in →
this is tomorrow – Lisson 7, curated by Cory Arcangel
For Lisson Presents 7, New York based artist Cory Arcangel has been invited to select works from Lisson Gallery's exhibition history, spanning more than 40 years
(tags: art exhibition net media)
Something Wrong is Nothing Wrong: Jodi.org | Motherboard
meet the obscure collective behind this strange, subversive and darkly comical code: a pair of soft-spoken artists named Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans
(tags: art net)
To celebrate the role of the public domain in →
Parodies of social networking services started to appear since the Friendster boom in the early 2000s. Anti-social networking platforms as introvertster, snubster, enemybook or isolatr playfully subverted online community dynamics targeting →
Alexei Shulgin and the Art of No Brain | Motherboard
video interview with Alexei Shulgin
(tags: art media tv video net)
4CD – Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose →
Francis Hunger Irmielin.org
Choir of the dead Space Travelers
(tags: art media science music)
YouTube – Student Brings Typewriter to Class
Student Brings Typewriter to Class
(tags: media hacking)
YouTube – Making Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
How to make Prodigy's legendary →
Rage Against the Machine beats X Factor's Joe to Christmas No 1 | Music | The Guardian
After a Facebook campaign against Simon Cowell's chart domination, music fans celebrate their victory
(tags: music tv hacking media)
Network Research » Social Murmurs
Social Murmurs by →
Water drop sequencer on Vimeo
The Water drop sequencer is an interactive sound installation. It creates sound by water drops falling on suspended iron bars with piezo elements attached
(tags: art sound)
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, English
Starting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role →
A Class Reaches Out and Touches High-Tech Art – NYTimes.com
Chicago Art Department, is in a position to do something useful with his internal conflict. And so he has, introducing a five-week class called “iPhone Art”
(tags: art mobile)
CD – Deep Listening
Sounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, →
Roboexotica
radical hedonism in man-machine communication
(tags: art festival robot)
Scope
TREEHOUSE: A Found e-mail Romance designed for the iPhone in four Appisodes™
(tags: mobile literature)
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam | threatpost
The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have →
CD” – Evol/Entr’acte
The fifth work in the ‘EVOL’s Punani’ series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the →
