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.
4’04” is a tribute, made by Jon Meyer, to the famous piano musical piece 4’33” written in 1952 by John Cage in three movements. It was like a sonata of four minutes and thirty-three →
CD – Kilowatt / Karma
In the breaks scene, the drift to a more rock-band attitude is an unstoppable pandemic, which probably began with the great remix of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by →
Arabesk 24 by Gijs van Bon can be assimilated to the artistic works that in the 20s were categorized as ‘Kinetic Art’, and defined by Bruno Munari and Umberto Eco as “a plastic →
Does Wikipedia utopia wobble? Is the free content editing of the free encyclopedia in contraddiction with the oligarchic stucture of the community that coordinates it? The software artist Wayne Clements seems to reply to →
Arabesk 24 by Gijs van Bon can be assimilated to the artistic works that in the 20s were categorized as ‘Kinetic Art’, and defined by Bruno Munari and Umberto Eco as “a plastic art genre →
CD – Feld Records / Metamkine
Two long tracks (each of which longer than 25 minutes) recorded during a live performance in Hamburg, a title any electronic artist would like to come →
CD – Plop / Microsuoni
Strongly melodic acrobatics, field recordings and digital sounds, juxtaposed with vocal parts often evocative in nature, a vivid mix of a sensitivity with a penchant for organic instrumentation. →
Does Wikipedia utopia wobble? Is the free content editing of the free encyclopedia in contraddiction with the oligarchic stucture of the community that coordinates it? The software artist Wayne Clements seems to reply to all these →
Ten-sided is a project based on a blog (programmed using the r-Planet free software developed by Joel Watson, Phil Hagelberg e Andre Arko), that invited ten international artists (among them Francis Hwang
) with →
Ten-sided is a project based on a blog (programmed using the r-Planet free software developed by Joel Watson, Phil Hagelberg e Andre Arko), that invited ten international artists (among them Francis Hwang) with very different attitudes, →
CD – Pogus
Michael Gendreau and Suzanne Dycus have been active since 1983, with the Crawling With Tarts moniker. Their work, of conceptual kind, is mostly based on the investigation of →
Visiting the official website of a traditional piano-making company like Grotrian, you will be surprised by the presence of what is simply called ‘game’, the Pianolina, that is instead a real digital musical instrument. →
Visiting the official website of a traditional piano-making company like Grotrian, you will be surprised by the presence of what is simply called ‘game’, the Pianolina, that is instead a real digital musical instrument. The invitation →
If we watched with the suspicious eye of the modern spectator a film like ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, we would be right thinking to the huge amount of money spent by the New York jewelry →
