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 – Raster-Noton
This latest Alva Noto production is quite excited and rhythmical, especially in the first part (tracks 1 to 10), shaking the audience through multiple communication codes, modulated in sound →
CD – Pogus
With a degree in English literature at King’s College in London, Simon Wickham-Smith is certainly not concocting. In his album’s title he places a fairly explicit reference to the →
Welcome :: make art 2008
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), open practices and free culture in digital arts.
(tags: art hacktivism software festival)
Phonagnosia
The first known case of someone born without the ability to recognise voices has been reported in a paper by UCL (University College London) researchers, in a study of a rare condition of a woman who is unable to →
Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show [Jacobs School of Engineering: News & Events]
Copying keys from a distance with tech
(tags: hacking media)
SSRG – home
SSRG – Sicilian Soundscape Research Group, studying the Sicilian acoustic environment
(tags: art sound →
CD – No Label
As in an ageless world, thwarted by indecipherable atmospheric energies, the diaphanous sounds of Andrea Polli & Joe Gilmore, digital translations of weather station calculations →
DVD – Domizil
In “Studie 18”, a work by Martin Neukom, series of sounds are constructed in a regular pattern through space and parametric sound space. There are simple rules that →
CD – Cock Rock Disco
In the most extreme electronic dance music scenario, new street-oriented impulses are “floating” irresistibly in the air. Deeply sensual and metropolitan, soaked in technoid wisdom and ultra-low →
Rage Wireless Guitars Recalled Due to Chemical Burns | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday announced a recall for Rage Wireless Guitars — a controller for the Nintendo Wii version of the popular music game →
e-motions
Present emotions and sensations through the expression of drawing and 2D digital animation technology
(tags: art visual)
data glove concert
Audiovisual concert for data glove and computer
(tags: art visual sound music)
Electroacoustic Music Days 2008 – Rethymno
posterThe Electroacoustic Music Days 2008 is the 6th annual gathering of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association
(tags: music sound art)
Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of →
Electroacoustic Music Days 2008 – Rethymno
posterThe Electroacoustic Music Days 2008 is the 6th annual gathering of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association
(tags: music sound art)
Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired Keyboard – Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini
Computer keyboards are often used →
/haip/ 08
3rd International Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies HAIP 08.
(tags: hacking hacktivism festival)
book – Univ Of Minnesota Press – ISBN: 9780816650446
Manuel Castells once offered the provocation, “the network is the message”. Networks, he claimed, have become the dominant mode of →
