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.
CD – Cronica
With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of →
Mashup has been one of the innovative techniques to take over the massive pop productions, breaking the borders established by the industry around every song released. “Love Songs” by Chris Han is an →
CD – Firework Edition
Il materiale di base per questo progetto di Gregory Büttner è costituito da registrazioni storiche effettuate su cilindri di cera (in tedesco: ‘Walze’), provenienti direttamente dall’archivio del museo →
Cd 3″ – Herbal International
In a very atypical manner, this work magnifies a euro cent to the size of a CD 3”, before attaching it to a sophisticated booklet of →
U2 ALBUM COVER…HAVE I SEEN THIS BEFORE?? « 12k
Seems to be forged by a Richard Chartier & Taylor Deupree one.
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CD – Aagoo
A long while has passed since the time of Blectum From Blechdom, the digital duo composed of Kevin Blectum and Blevin Blechdom, which formed at Mills College between the →
CD – Deep Listening
A recording of Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch’s 2003 performance at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston (New York), ‘Voice Coil’ is structured as an extended →
CD – Aesthetics
Suspended between dub and restless electronica, with flashes of jazz and spoken word, this new album by Daniel Mercellus Givens dispenses a handful of groove experiments following a →
Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper | The Social – CNET News
Fast-food chain Burger King has created “Whopper Sacrifice,” a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from →
CD – Solitary B
Joan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan →
Internet Archive: Details: The Conet Project – Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059]
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of →
CD – Nexsound
Strange hybrid sound jumps, somewhere between pop, glitchy folktronics, psychedelia and more contemporary soundscapes are some of the specific ideas that meet in the work of atypical composers like →
CD – Extreme
Claudio Parodi, inspired by the sounds of Pauline Oliveros (a sensitive composer and accordion virtuoso), takes up the theme of harmonic tuning procedures, producing a mix of assonant, gloomy, →
andrew garton » Sensorium Re-Connected
On 11 January 2009 KunstRadio (11.03pm – 11.45pm (CEST & CET) & Online) broadcasts an entirely new version of this work. Sensorium Re-Connected, a generative composition for for 5 PCs and 2 voices, commemorates the work →
