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 – Persistence Bit/Audioglobe
Maybe this isn’t the best moment for the minimal scenes, due to a certain overexposure (particularly apparent in a metropolis like Berlin, the sacred land of most European techno →
CD – Sub Rosa/Audioglobe
This is a ‘concept album’, as people used to call them, or a metalinguistic operation (or metanarrative, if you prefer, in the spirit that, in cinema, made →
CD – Hibari Music
This album was recorded partly in Cristoph Amann’s studios in Wien and partly from live acts at the Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo, in 2003 and 2004, →
CD – Raster Noton
The Signal are Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai, practically the founders of this prestigious label themselves, born in 1999 by connecting their previous experiences with Raster Music and →
On August 11 the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei presents the exhibition ZONE V2_, summing up the last three major themes of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF): ‘Machine Times’, ‘Information is →
CD – Korm Plastics
These productions are the result of the collaborative work carried out in Extrapool’s studios, in Nijmegen, Holland. They are eight delicate compositions, improvisational guitar sequences →
NBC muckraker gets hacked at Defcon | The Register
At Defcon a woman fled the conference after being identified in front of hundreds as an undercover television reporter
(tags: hacking media hacktivism tv)
CD – Interval
Cello and electronica, a very delicate electroacoustic hybrid by Mem1, a duo composed of M. Cera, a media artist and sound manipulator, and Laura Thomas-Merino, a cello player from Los Angeles. →
Second Life parody – Draftfcb/paris
Simple but funny parody in real life.
(tags: video net media videogame)
CD – Kvitnu
From electronic Ukraine, supported by Dmytro Fedorenko’s label (Kotra) and with Zavoloka as the author of the artwork, here’s this ‘Xquisite. Xcerpt’, the second project of Dunaewsky69 (Olexandr →
Deletemp3.worm
The first worm whose payload is to delete any mp3 files found on the infected computer.
(tags: copyright hacking media hacktivism net)
BergmanBits
A tribute to Bergman just after his death in the form of links to bittorrent files of his movies
(tags: video net copyright media)
Joshua Davis said in a Wired interview: “Pollock showed that there was beauty in randomness”. But if Pollock argued that the process of abstraction, not the end result, is what is dynamic (in →
Hecq – 0017 – Hymen
Vogel/Mayas/Renkel – Perception Feedback – Absinth
KK Null – 0418 – Touch
Spyweirdos – Should be a spell – Poeta Negra
Radicalfashion – Shousetsu – Hefty
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