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.
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 9780262541961
During the second half on nineties net activist had no fear of censorship because they believed in the power of alternative internet →
Telematic Drum Circle
A distributed percussion jam session through the net.
(tags: art music robot net)
DADAMETER, Christophe Bruno (2002 – 2008)
Language transmutation into a global market ruled by Google et al, inspired by the work of Raymond Roussel, considered as a precursor of Dada
(tags: art net literature)
Karl Klomp
Karl Klomp modded video samplers,video descramblers and sync generators that change their visual output based on audio feeds, completely customizable.
(tags: art hacking music sound video)
The “Logo_Wiki” project by Wayne Clements catalogs some of the institutions (companies and government agencies) involved in editing Wikipedia pages in order to expose how these entities are skewing the information on the free, →
CD – Flux
Since the early nineties Frank Rothkamm has crossed different music domains with sporadic releases. He was involved in artistic territories primarily devoted to the avant-garde with industrial or experimental →
cre.ations.net – Creation: Tap Tap Revolution: the fast-tapping iPhone music game
Dance Dance Revolution for fingers and iPhone.
(tags: mobile music media videogame)
DVICE: Go Amish with the Hand-Crank USB Power Charger
Charging with muscles activity instead of electricity.
(tags: hacking media hacktivism)
The Japanese artist Kenichi Okada works a lot with how the perception of the moving image interlaces with the viewer’s emotional state. Emotoscope, for example, is a sort of portable camera device, which is →
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
Mort Aux Vaches series artworks are more and more sophisticated. This artwork has been commissioned to Piotr Mordel, graphic designer founder of the atypical “The Club of Polish →
Nine Inch Nails – the slip
New Nine Inch Nails album under Creative Commons free download.
(tags: copyright music)
YouTomb
YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
(tags: copyright video tv hacktivism)
It is twenty four years since four students from Livorno played their part in one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of Italian art. Their childish prank involving the rescue of →
CD – Recycling Records
This is in the round sound recycling, a project born to support the plunderphonic idea. It revolves on a meticulous summation →
Homo Ludens Ludens photo set
Videogame “buzz” alone (that has never stopped in the last five years) would have been a good reason to push the monumental Asturian institution “Laboral” (dealing with art, →
CD – Staubgold
Klagwart duo (Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber) is based on both Cologne and Berlin. The two members are extremely balanced in using new combinations obtained from a well acquire catalog →
