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.
ISaidIf is a work in the very tradition of Lia, the famous Viennese artist developing abstract interactive art from a decade now on the web and other digital digital supports. In recent years her →
CD – Spekk
Simple as simple but brilliant ideas can be, this record can tune your mind accordingly with simplicity and absolutely no need to attract your attention first. Two tracks recorded in →
DVD – Manipulatto Splendid
Since the very first frames, in Messy, an audio-video project by Jorge Castro, published by Manipulatto Splendid, the author’s genius shows through. He puts together striking →
CD – Touch / Family Affair
The sounds composed by the Norwegian Nils Henrik Asheim, shooting out from the awesome organ in the seventeenth-century cathedral in Oslo, and those obtained by Lasse Marhaug →
CD – Pogus
A project by Al Margolis, a veteran of the ‘cassette scene’ and the presence behind Pogus, Xi, Deep Listening and Mutable – also well-known as If, Bwana – a →
AT&T and Other I.S.P.s May Be Getting Ready to Filter – New York Times Blog
Network-level filtering means your ISP could soon start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on someone’s copyright.
(tags: copyright media net hacktivism)
2MiniCD – Koyouki
A release mastered in just 100 copies of a double mini CD, an acute and conceptual excursion in the most abstract and silent paths of minimalist aesthetic. It is an →
DVD – Lightrhythm Visuals
La cultura vj comprende oramai espressioni in cui è facile il sedimentarsi d’un estetica ampiamente condivisa ma spesso alquanto uniforme negli esiti. Ben vengano, allora, come in questo caso, i progetti che offrono l’opportunita’ di un →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 9780262072823
In a “neutral” more than activist analysis this book tries to outline how the U.S. culture industry lobbyist have tried to build a “trusted →
CD – Sudamerica electronica
A very calibrated mix, with fifteen tracks, all rigorously experimental and digital, this one by Jorge Haro for Sudamérica Electrónica, a label founded in 2004 and →
book – Isbn Edizioni
Manufatti artigianali, semplici ed utili, nati da esigenze d’uso quotidiano, realizzati da gente comune nella Russia Sovietica e durante gli anni della Perestrojka, prima dell’avvento delle nuove oligarchie post-comuniste. E’ questo il campo operativo, solo in →
Book – OpenMute – ISBN 9780955479601
Public space is a “common” and “common” has to be its representation / interpretation. This seems to be the the inspired ground rule of the Depford.TV →
Yannis
Kyriakides – Wordless – Unsounds
Mattin – Proletarian Of Noise – Hibari
Kim Cascone – Statistically Improbable Phrases – Anechoic
Chris
Watson/BJ Nilsen – Storm – Touch
Peter
Rehberg →
A portable ‘Guitar Hero’ turntable controller | Crave : The gadget blog
Turntable vs. guitar, the endless cultural war
(tags: music media videogame hacking)
