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.
Longplayer – Recent News
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999
(tags: sound generative music)
HBO Imagine – Art Heist
HBO's Cube breaks a film into more than 35 scenes each presented from four angles
(tags: video tv interface)
E L E C T R O H Y P E
Exhibition with Ben Woodeson at Skånes Konstförening
(tags: art media →
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery, thread, and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution
(tags: art exhibition media)
Disturb Me: Hotel Room Interactive Art – PSFK
The White Hotel in Brussels →
It's adieu, .yu as web watchdog Balkanises domain name | Technology | guardian.co.uk
With the virtual bulldozers closing in on its online home, the former Yugoslavia is about to become even more former
(tags: net media)
m y b i e n n →
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, English
Despite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media →
<CopySouth Research Group and Network>
this unique dossier contains more than 50 articles examining many dimensions of the issue across the global South, such as access, culture, economics, libraries, education, software, the Internet, the public domain, and resistance
(tags: hacktivism copyright)
As the availability of copyrighted files online increases exponentially worldwide, artists and hackers are finding ways of distributing and making this data available without intentionally breaking international copyright laws. The “Pirate Kiosk“, based →
Nothing To Do With Arbroath: G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon
Pittsburgh officials said that it was the first time the "sound cannon" had been used publicly.
(tags: sound hacktivism)
Gamers are more aggressive to strangers – life – 28 September 2009 – →
BEK – projects: show
The Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors
(tags: music sound)
50 things that are being killed by the internet – Telegraph
The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.
(tags: net media)
Mixed Relations – Banglab
performers engaging →
ABANDON NORMAL DEVICES : FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND DIGITAL CULTURE
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a new cross-regional festival that questions the normal and champions a different approach
(tags: art video festival design media)
Art of Digital – Conference (CrowdVine)
The conference is →
Urban Screens and Public Space Seminar – Medialab-Prado Madrid
Seminar about urban screens and public space directed by architect Nerea Calvillo takes place on September 28, 29 and 30
(tags: media video visual)
Conflux 2009
Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice
(tags: mobile psychogeography festival performance art)
YouTube – 8-bit trip
1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of →
Over 1,200 NYC Trash Cubes Sold – PSFK
To date, over 1,200 of his ‘Garbage of New York City’ cubes have sold to residents of more than 25 different countries worldwide
(tags: art hacktivism)
TSM
The Turbulence Sound Matrix or TSM is a truly →
