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.
[This is a talk presented at the Game Culture conference in Novi Sad]
Italy has a strong political tradition, having also generated various related creative movements wisely mixing politics and art (like free radio in →
Home snoop CCTV more popular than Big Brother | The Register
Forget the web, we want to watch real crimes.
(tags: tv hacktivism media net video)
Diane Landry’s installation ‘Privileges’ consists of the readymade object ‘book’ semantic alteration. A dictionary is in fact changed into an automated flip book in order to animate the education privileges metaphor. The number →
CD – Illegal Art
In the ever-changing landscape of specific samples use in music, Illegal Art label represent a constant artistic challenge to copyright and its zealots. His roots are deep →
Amongst the art and technology international festivals, the Hong Kong’s based Microwave is one of the Asia oldest one, yet still not enough acknowledged internationally. Its 11th edition, titled →
Transmediale 08 Award, Nominees
Eleven runners
(tags: art media)
Spy cameras set up in Baghdad to counter insurgents – Yahoo! News
Iraq’s security forces have set up 250 “spy” cameras across the war-ravaged city to flush out insurgents and criminals, an official said.
(tags: hacktivism)
CD – Low Impedance
Retropop shards, unhealthy cyber blues, punk attitude or postmodern standing comedy, if you prefer: all this and much else (noise dissonances, extreme vocals and industrial culture) →
Photo set
Middle-nineties were undoubtedly a seminal period for the media arts with flourishing new international initiatives that boosted by the global telematic networks advent, connecting media history with the future of →
enter3
3rd international festival for arts, sciences and technologies, organized by Ciant in various locations in Prague
(tags: science art media)
2CD – Xi
Extremely dilated drones, sounds obtained by modulating bagpipes in suggestive tonal harmonies, warm, tangled in the melancholic spires of the serial envelopes, often crossed by inscrutable side variations. It’s →
Blip Festival 2007
The Tank + 8bitpeoples presents a 4-day modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world.
(tags: music videogame sound preservation)
Reflections on artificial life are mostly centered around the dogma of digital representation: only what can be represented on a screen can be tackled and understood. This kind of approach clashes with all →
CD – Potomak
Einstuerzende Neubauten are still capable of subverting every role, every musical certainty, putting nostalgies and ancient generational stereotypes aside, with renewed blood, involving their fans in a system of →
