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.
dvd video – Sonic Acts
This rich anthology of works has been produced for the eleventh edition of the homonymous festival and probes deeply the mutual relationship between sound and image through the accumulation →
Sonic Acts opens on the 23rd February at the Paradiso and De Balie in Amsterdam. It’s an international festival that investigates the use of sounds and images in the digital arts. After a decade →
2CD – Die Stadt
If shape really derived from function (as stated during the first modernist wave by functionalist architects), the elaborate package of this double release would be enough to provide a →
kuda.read / The Notebook, ISBN 3865882110
The data and their free flux through the network nodes are the core of the Stalder’s research, that during almost a decade has analyzed the forms of organization →
Sonic Acts opens on the 23rd February at the Paradiso and De Balie in Amsterdam. It’s an international festival that investigates the use of sounds and images in the digital arts. After a decade →
Human Avatars, a multimedia installation created by Andrea Zapp with the Vini Reilly’s music, plays on two classic levels: the real and the virtual. The visitors have to walk through the installation’s space, discovering a →
As a consequences of the recently introduced strict laws concerning the public institution’s websites accessibility in Italy, the ‘Multimedia Art’ department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara has started a new course →
Confess.or by Gerhard Schwoiger is one of the ample range of ‘ReReligion’ projects. It is an interactive installation that places a basically lay interpretation on the catholic sacrament. The confession, instead of being a private request →
Confess.or by Gerhard Schwoiger is one of the ample range of ‘ReReligion’ projects. It is an interactive installation that places a basically lay interpretation on the catholic sacrament. The confession, instead of being a private request →
The ‘live cinema’ concept, or the real time creation of a cinematic narrative, has been developed in the last years with a specific characteristic: the direct ‘manipulability’ of the sound and pictures that evolves in →
The easy access to the audio-visual production and publishing machines generated not only thousands of easy-to-obtain experiments, but also many interchange possibilities based on an objective evaluation of the respective skills. The musicianAGF and →
dvd video – Worm
The ‘live cinema’ concept, or the real time creation of a cinematic narrative, has been developed in the last years with a specific characteristic: the direct ‘manipulability’ of the sound →
Il brivido della sorpresa che si concretizza nell’aprire un pacco è una delle immagini più sfruttate dal marketing anche per la sua efficacia diretta. L’ignoto che ha premesse piacevoli e promettenti, infatti, accumula immediatamente un →
The icon that combines the western democracies and that self-legitimizes them in a millennial historical tradition is the parliament, the physical place where the people’s designated representatives rule. This icon has also become the →
