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.
Sound Modulated Light #1 is a lights-and-sounds project designed by Edwin Van Der Heide, an artist from The Netherlands. Considering the dynamics triggered to activate the installation, Sound Modulated could be →
CD – Alku
This interesting projects of the Alku label has the layout and standard graphics of U.S. Army internal memos. It collects the contributions of many sound artists and its goal, →
Audiotapes, the medium that offered to millions of users endless possibilities to personally recombine sounds and emotions and introduced the concept of self-produced compilation, look like a distant memory. The MP3 generation, used →
CD – Amorfon
No electronic stuff, this time. Just an acoustic improvisation using different ‘steel pans’, very peculiar percussion instruments typical of the Caribbean, in Machida’s first projects, turned into audio samples →
Digital Art Weeks Festival ’07: Zurich, July 9 – July 14 2007
The Digital Art Weeks program is concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts
(tags: art sound media)
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Do we really need to mash up films to prove that they are ‘open texts’? As Umberto Eco wrote almost fifty years ago: artworks are texts, open to infinite interpretations and re-editions. →
From a semiotic point of view, sequences of 0 and 1 stored in a piece of physical computer memory code not only digital text data (images, animation) but also the instructions used to →
CD – Korm Plastics
This is the seventh release by Korm Plastics in the special series of rereleases dedicated to the Hafler Trio. This work was first published by Touch in →
CD – 23Five
An almost mystic sensitivity pervades, in this project, the multifaceted inspiration of Jean-Francois Laporte, a French-Canadian electro-acoustic experimenter. The first track, ‘Electro-Prana’, is calibrated on pretty ‘physical’ and ‘classical’ →
‘Broadband’ basically was implemented to bring video on the web. The pioneer stamp-sized quicktime shorts and the uncertainty of compression that often corrupted the frames reproduction was suddenly something of the past. YouTube was →
Check the DEAF photo set here
Deaf (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) has always been different from the other festivals, with a long time experience (The organizing institution V2_ celebrated 25 years of activity) →
CD – Apegenine
Very intimate sounds that evoke natural landscapes, these by Emanuele Errante in ‘Migrations’, confirming, after his previous experiences with the moniker Mais and the ‘Absolute’ EP (for Maetrixsolution), →
CD – Poeta Negra
What immediately stands out in the artwork of Keen, an audio-visual project by Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, Kostas Glazias and Haris Martis, is the setting of the cover photo, taken at →
Launched on May 1st 2006, Telekommunisten is the first proto venture communist enterprise, one hundred per cent workers’ owned and operated technology company. Based in Bootlab (Berlin), this self-declared ‘anti-war, against corporate globalization, against →
