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.
From 14th to 17th of September New York another rich edition of the contemporary psychogeography New York festival Conflux (former Psy-Geo-Conflux as it was called in 2003 and 2004). This is one of →
During the weekend we’re at Struttura, studies and visions on the digital sea, an event taking place in San Vincenzo and Campiglia Marittima (Italy): three days of video, panels and installations.
Autonomedia – ISBN 1570271739
Few professions has been directly affected by the digital revolution as the curator. The contemporary art exhibitions’ responsible started to move out of the institutional →
CD – Baskaru
Lush destructurations by the Italian Salvatore Borrelli, here with his moniker (Etre) to give birth to an acute synthesis of unconventional electronic music. →
The pharmaceutical industry’s advertisement and communication is based on the promise of a physical faintness’ elimination and the consequent general well-being achievement, that seem then to be →
Books on Demand GmbH – ISBN 3833443693
The software culture investigation made in the last four years by Alexei Shulgin and Olga Goriounova has never stopped nor stalled going deep into →
dvd video – OVNI
Is it true that sometimes reality exceeds fantasy and leaves astounded more than any elaborated construction? In this new outcome of the research →
CD – 12K/Microsuoni
Suspended and refined sound acrobatics for Taylor Deupree in ‘Northern’, from the State of New York, much quieter than Brooklyn, where this artist worked and lived for several years. →
There has always been a ‘natural’ gap between digital and physical environments. Sometimes you get a high level of immersion without a proper involvement of your body, while some other times you are a →
The Italian Hackmeeting is a very special kind of event. It’s very different from the other European or American hacker meetings because it’s compeltely self organized and decided through a public mailing list. →
The 2006 edition of Ars Electronica is taking place in Linz from 31 August to 5th September. Blessed this year even in its title/topic (‘Simplicity’) by John Maeda (one of the regular →
Which world would be without electricity? No mobile phone, no net, no pc, no tv, not even light after dark. And what about recorded music? No iPod at all, nor radio or →
Yale University Press – ISBN 0300110561
The social changes caused by the networked communications global use has not been yet researched as deeply as we need it. Nevertheless we’re already used →
Digital and organic are never antonyms at Interferenze, the annual festival of new arts taking place in San Martino Valle Caudina (Italy). In the middle of a beautiful chestnut trees forest the 2006 →
