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.
Newton Virus Download | troika.uk.com
Named after the father of modern mechanics, the Newton Virus introduces the concept of gravity causing your desktop to behave exactly as it would in the real physical environment.
(tags: virus art software)
philia01
Create your own personal art →
University of California Press, ISBN 9780520255975, USA, 2008, English
This is an anthology of eight essays plus four case studies on the curatorial practices in digital art. The carefully selected →
CD – Hyperfunction
Impossible Music is made out of sound constructions that only apparently can be improvisational, actually based on a ‘strange attractor’. This is a geometric-mathematical set which evolves towards a →
CamSpace.com: Kiss Your Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick Goodbye! Play Games With Your WebCam!
Forget your joystick, keyboard and mouse — with CamSpace you can use your WebCam to control your game play!
(tags: software interface videogame)
CamSpace.com: Kiss Your Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick Goodbye! Play Games With Your WebCam!
Forget your joystick, keyboard and mouse — with CamSpace you can use your WebCam to control your game play!
(tags: software interface videogame)
Jon Cohrs is a visual artist and recording engineer whose work has focused on exploring technology and how it can promote connections that invoke a sense of development and growth. His last project, →
CD – Free Software Series
In clip_clap_crisis Rubén Patiño, aka Pato realizes an extreme audio-abuse. He’s a sound-designer from Barcelona, a city that he says should be placed – in terms of its →
The Rhizome 50,000 Dollar Webpage
In homage to The Million Dollar Homepage, one of the web’s great memes, Rhizome presents “The Rhizome 50,000 Dollar Webpage.” Equal parts fundraiser, art collaboration, billboard, classified ad and community builder, the initiative aims to raise →
The Rhizome 50,000 Dollar Webpage
In homage to The Million Dollar Homepage, one of the web’s great memes, Rhizome presents “The Rhizome 50,000 Dollar Webpage.” Equal parts fundraiser, art collaboration, billboard, classified ad and community builder, the initiative aims to raise →
Hacker Space Festival: About
Hacker festival at the /tmp/lab # Paris # 26-30 June 2009
(tags: festival hacking hacktivism)
VV Split, Program Update | Video Vortex
On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place in Split, Croatia. The Department →
Hacker Space Festival: About
Hacker festival at the /tmp/lab # Paris # 26-30 June 2009
(tags: festival hacking hacktivism)
VV Split, Program Update | Video Vortex
On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place in Split, Croatia. The Department →
Awake Are Only The Spirits – On Ghosts and Their Media
HMKV in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 16 May – 18 October 2009, the exhibition is based on the audiotape archive of Friedrich Jürgenson who discovered the so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon →
What Goes Around Comes Around | The Inspiration Room Daily
Four posters were designed to wrap around poles, campaigning for an end to the war in Iraq, pointing to the Global Coalition for Peace web site.
(tags: art hacktivism media)
What Goes Around Comes Around | The Inspiration Room Daily
Four posters were designed to wrap around poles, campaigning for an end to the war in Iraq, pointing to the Global Coalition for Peace web site.
(tags: art hacktivism media)
World-Information.Org
In/Visibility, Access and →
