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 – Some Bizarre
Featuring many instrumental tracks, here comes this new edition of ‘Silk’. Originally, this double album by Foetus, released first in 1989, then in 1995 (in audio cd version) →
24th Chaos Communication Congress, 24C3
The annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club with a diverse audience of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians.
(tags: hacking hacktivism media net)
CD – Shitkatapult
Helped by Thomas Fehlmann, as the executive producer, the duo made by Max Loderbauer and Tom Thiel helped define the ambient-techno genre in the past decade. Halfway between experimentalism →
CD – Amazon Records
Improvisational sequences, great technical skill shown through tangled sound structures, multiplicity in rhythms, imaginative ‘polymorphism’ and ‘codes’ used in the collision-juxtaposition of active elements on several levels, searching for →
LOOK | Official Motion Picture Website
A movie shot entirely from a surveillance camera perspective
(tags: hacktivism art tv video media)
303 Orchestra @ UMF 2007
Juha Hulkkonen spent his sunday afternoon with his friends and ten 303s.
(tags: music sound)
Despite the increasing availability of megapixels and bandwidth, we have become used to the resolution and detail loss, often due to cheap and lossy image compression techniques. The most interesting content on the net →
CD – Cold Blue Music
Airy threads, piano melodies with percussions, played respectively by Stephen Drury and Scott Deal, in polyrhythmic constructions, with tempo variations and elegant improvisational overtones, divided in →
CD – Hymen
What’s piquing our curiosity, aside from the apocalyptic title ‘The Last Days Of Rome’ and the confusing art-cover, made by Chris Wood and Richard Grant (who craftily subverted the Cadillac →
CD – Musica Maxima Magnetica
Tangled tones, ‘organic’ instruments, organized in a resonating electroacoustic setting by Max Eastley, skilled in conjugating Martyn Bates’ intense voice, modulated on traditional →
Photo set
The Centro De Arte y Creacion Industrial Laboral of Gijon (in the Asturias), produces (in collaboration with the Fundación Telefónica) and hosts Emergentes, an exhibition of Latin American artists who communicate using the →
Researching the Future: aspects of Art and Technoetics 2007
conference in Prato (Italy)
(tags: art media)
ROM bomb ‘a misguided art project’ | globeandmail.com
Terror is a viral word
(tags: art hacking hacktivism)
The last Canadian Institute for Infinitely Small Things action is both provocative and funny. They distributed in the culturally exciting city of Vancouver public libraries and bookstores around 40 →
