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.
SOVIET UNTERZOEGERSDORF / the adventure game
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced «oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing client republic of the USSR.
(tags: art videogame)
Joseph_Nechvatal_Complete_Viral_Symphony.rar – FileFactory
His visual and sound works since then has been concerned with ‘viral’ techniques, ie: computer-assisted complex structures, heavily processed →
Cambridge News Home – Students register delight at new face-fit check-in
HIgh-Tech facial recognition technology has swept aside the old-fashioned signing of the register at a school. Sixth-formers will now have their faces scanned as they arrive in the morning at →
DNA-Radio – DNA rainbow
After some thinking and lots of tests, we are converting the whole human genome to audio and streaming them now to the Internet, 24/7.
(tags: science radio sound)
The Greatest Internet Pioneers You Never Heard Of: The Story of Erwise and Four Finns Who Showed the Way to the Web Browser | Xconomy
if matters had turned out a little differently, these men—and a former colleague named Kati Suominen →
Lulu, U.S.A., 2008, English
What happens when skilled Floss activists decide to embrace the printed medium? Adam Hyde, known as one half of the pioneering Radioqualia internet and radio art →
Noriko Yamaguchi and Daisuke Ishida’s first collaborative work, Decryptopattern, is the result of team play between a fine artist, whose artworks use Japanese washi paper, and a sound / media artist investigating previously →
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2CD – Hibari
Harsh digital sounds intertwine with improvisations structured as a percussive matrix. With audio-abuse, distortions and an extreme use of the human voice, Tim Goldie severely →
pixelbreaker : PolarClock
visual clock as a screensaver for Mac and PC
(tags: art software visual)
pixelbreaker : PolarClock
visual clock as a screensaver for Mac and PC
(tags: art software visual)
Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections Conference
Art.Media.Design | Writing Intersections offers a two day conference space to explore and theorize the theoretical and applied consequences of this text|artefact intersection
(tags: literature art media)
Public Avatar
An interactive social experiment, March 9 2009 in Nove Mesto
(tags: →
The beginning of December saw the release of the DVD version of the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’, based on the best selling book by Roberto Saviano. This piece of news wouldn’t be that extraordinary, if →
Copy-It-Right!
COPY-IT-RIGHT: The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive
(tags: art media video tv)
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262026383, U.S.A., 2008, English
Privacy is one of strangest beasts of our time. It’s something we are supposed to defend strenuously, but also something we give away →
Gijs Gieskes is an incredible machine inventor (as well as an esteemed VJ and performer). Among his latest creations Strobovj deserves particular attention: it’s a sequencer for vjing that uses the working principle →
