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.
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626631, The Netherlands, 2009, English
How can gentrification, free culture, pornography and Baudrillard coexist in the pages of the same book? Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons is →
CD – Base
This work comes in an eco-friendly package, with a hardcover that pulls out the cd as if it was origami (Swedish Jakebox’s patent) and has a stencilled “window” →
VukCosicExhGuideDownload.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Out of Character | Vuk Cosic exhibition at Threshold Artspace in Perth, UK.
(tags: exhibition art net)
BayFF on August 3: Iranian Protests and Digital Media | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Iranians protesting the results of the recent election found an outlet →
VukCosicExhGuideDownload.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Out of Character | Vuk Cosic exhibition at Threshold Artspace in Perth, UK.
(tags: exhibition art net)
BayFF on August 3: Iranian Protests and Digital Media | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Iranians protesting the results of the recent election found an outlet →
Inhabitat » Cassette Tape Lamps Add Warm Analog Glow to Any Room
Ooomydesign’s cassette tape lamps are linked together with plastic ties and are available in various sizes of floor and table lamps.
(tags: music design)
555 KUBIK | facade projection | on →
Inhabitat » Cassette Tape Lamps Add Warm Analog Glow to Any Room
Ooomydesign’s cassette tape lamps are linked together with plastic ties and are available in various sizes of floor and table lamps.
(tags: music design)
555 KUBIK | facade projection | on →
CD – Room40
The idea that it’s impossible to sing some songs is persuasive. Do not expect – however – in these 47 small scores to face any ‘synthetic’ mixtures. The construction here →
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
(tags: art media)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
(tags: art media)
CD – Non Visual Objects
Textures dilated, millimetrically suspended in space such that only distracted listening could make appear neutral, together with field recordings and ambient tonal digressions. These are the sound confluences →
Taking a lesson from the advent of distributed mobile ad-hoc networks, “Netless“, is a home brew version of these systems that employs a small wireless device and with built-in storage, that swaps data between →
YouTube
At the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985.
(tags: art visual preservation)
YouTube
At the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985.
(tags: art visual preservation)
Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Sel
Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Sel
(tags: hacktivism hacking)
