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.
The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 on Vimeo
clear graphics, first person perspective and mazes.
(tags: visual, videogame, software)
Midas project on Vimeo
presented by Paul Thomas, nano art
(tags: art science music sound)
[KONTEJNER] – Touch Me Festival 2008 – Feel better!
Touch me festival →
The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 on Vimeo
clear graphics, first person perspective and mazes.
(tags: visual, videogame, software)
Midas project on Vimeo
presented by Paul Thomas, nano art
(tags: art science music sound)
[KONTEJNER] – Touch Me Festival 2008 – Feel better!
Touch me festival →
Topless Robot – The 10 Types of Videos That Make Up 90% of YouTube
Ah, YouTube. One of the three most popular websites in the world, and probably the most dangerous, since the only thing you can do on YouTube is →
Working with the theme, “the future of the interface,” the latest exhibit (“minimal interface“) at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) evaluates interface communication design while reflecting on the cultural diversity →
CD – Klang Elektronik
This is a selection made by Alter Ego’s Roman Flugel based on the Klang Elektronik catalogue. The album consists of tracks which are not mixed, but often almost ‘juxtaposed’ →
Self Destructing Webpages: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You | Anything Tech
(tags: hacking net)
The jazz of animals: Musical collaboration between dolphins, humpback whales, sea lions and jazz guitarist Jim Nollman | Art Threat
An excerpt from one of Interspecies CD recordings of →
CD – Angry Vegan
Recorded at Brooklyn and Trenton (New York), Deep Sound Channel 1, for all its mixing of electronic bleeps, dub grooves and last generation clicks, certainly doesn’t surrender to →
Reviewing Fauxtography
A blog–driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity
(tags: hacking hacktivism media visual)
BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | ‘Lost’ Dad’s Army show back on TV
A vintage Dad’s Army episode, thought to have been →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262101202, U.S.A., 2007, English
There are plenty of scientific facts which testify to the pervasiveness of television, and to the ease with which it affects our consciousness, creating →
Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing
Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262113113, U.S.A., 2008, English
The cover of Mechanisms shows a hard drive recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Centre, a scorched and partially destroyed ‘black box’ from which data was nevertheless successfully recovered →
Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing
Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the →
Visualizing Artikulation at Bad Assembly
After years of hunting around online, and surely I was looking in all the wrong places, I finally procured the holy grail of electronic music scores, György Ligeti’s Artikulation
(tags: art music video visual sound)
The Agrippa Files →
It is a matter of fact that in the Web 2.0 era people live their second existences diving into the so-called metaverse, the meta-universe populated by avatars as described by Neal Stephenson (1992). →
