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.
YouTube – the reacTogon – chain reactive performance arpeggiator
The reacTogon is a multi-touch sensitive music arpeggiator based on the harmonic table.
(tags: art media music sound video interactive interface)
artificiel : POWEr
POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations, by Alexandre →
Video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band have certainly altered the way we interact with music by filling a quenchable void once solely occupied by air guitar and karaoke. →
[ BLANCHE PICTURES: Esther Johnson Filmmaker | Photographer | Curator ]
A portrait of the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, better known as HAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication
(tags: radio)
Crosswalk Sign Hacks « Urban Prankster
Make sure you read the instructions carefully next time you’re about to press the button at a crosswalk
(tags: art hacking mobile)
furtherfield review – The Freesound Project
The Freesound Project web site is a Free Culture sound repository similar to OpenClipArt for illustration, Project Gutenberg for text or the Prelinger Archive for film
(tags: music sound preservation)
12/09/2009 – 22:00-Mixed Reality Performance: una serata →
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. on Vimeo
Director Chris Cairn's latest video titled "Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc" staring turntablists the Scratch Perverts and hip-hop group Foreign Beggars as featured in today's Metro
(tags: music video robot vinyl)
Persistencebit Records, Italy, 2009
This is a product in the Bitmedia series, developed by the eclectic label Persistencebit. It is devoted to the production of multimedia works related to the ambient and modern →
CentrePasquArt . Kunsthaus, GENIPULATION
GENIPULATION, exposition internationaux qui révèlent la multiplicité des relations entre l'art et la science dans le domaine du génie génétique
(tags: art science exhibition)
YouTube – yokomono
YOKOMONO is a sound composition with 30 auto-rickshaws playing horn patterns in sync →
Tim Tate could truly be described as a mixed-media artist. His glass reliquaries are formed from combining glass cases, objects and electronic circuitry, such as speakers, with a small video screen. The screen →
stringTheory on Vimeo
Using the concept of String Theory (theoretical physics) to visualize email combining quantity and sound.
(tags: art visual sound)
GOGBOT 2009
focus on Art, Media, Music and Technology with this years theme: ATOMPUNK!
(tags: art media music festival robot)
"7 Websites In the Future" by Conor McKeon on CollegeHumor
Futuristic and sarcastic mockup of famous social networking websites
(tags: hacking hacktivism net copyright)
Digital Aesthetic Research Center, Aarhus University, ISBN 8791810086
, Denmark, 2009, English
This text is a summary of the author’s efforts (beginning in the late-nineties) to analyse and facilitate opportunities to link digital →
Eclectic Tech Carnival Istanbul
The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women & trans with a critical interest in Free Information and Open Standards technology. The event has been held annually since 2002 and creates an opportunity for women & →
CD – Nonvisualobjects
The hackbrett – or cimbalom – is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison →
