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.
The obsession with the memory that the unstable computer networks have inculcated turns, in certain cases, serial filings, not all inclusive, which attempt to preserve evidence and documents for future ethereal digital →
The art of 'field recordings', also called 'phonography', ie of environmental records manages to focus our attention to the sounds accidental, which typically escape the consciousness in the flow of everyday life. The idea of →
Digital culture, as several other areas related to innovation, has always lived the dichotomy between technical and academic, who sometimes have raised their fences to recognize and distinguish. The alleged sterile contradictions that are sometimes generated →
The project Ballettikka Internettikka the Slovenian Igor Stromajer since its first version has examined the role of the body in real-time broadcasts of the network is brought back to the properties of broadcasting staff →
Control techniques are elusive by their very definition and use technology almost invisible in order to retrieve information useful for the identification and subsequent repression. To do this for some time →
Inaugurated on October 20 at the Mediatheque Santa Teresa di Milano, Connections Legendary , net.art exhibition that the intention of the curator Luca Lampo tries to retrace the effervescent past ten years the phenomenon →
The continuous fluctuation, a networked information has rarely been captured effectively, and the static nature of most pages, as updated frequently does not render the continuous and steady flow of new information on the net. →
After years of tedious and intricate software tools, standards to compile regular text contributions (ie, blogs) have released the graphomania of certain cross and writing of others, through a non-exclusive use of the text, bring →
The automatic generation of musicians through the software typically generates two opposite and complementary effects: attribute anthropomorphic characteristics to the car, or as an aesthetic influence on the authors automatic. The →
Features amphibious for this video that starts emerging from the primordial soup-far-advertising and continues moving steps inquiring about the dominated territories and, to be honest sometimes saturated, net art. The hybrid nature of the project →
Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852428120 As for the contemporary has shocked the use of sounds than they were ten or twenty years ago is a matter of fact, documented in a considerable number of →
It seems far away the time when video directors were perfect strangers, anonymous journeyman in the service of the big stars of music. Do clip was considered a fad, a diversion ennobled by authors such →
Electronic musical instruments have historically been constructed with the features of most electronic equipment that tracing those of musical instruments. The gesture and the feedback obtained from the instruments is often summed up in interfaces →
The characteristics of the paradigmatic vinyl (sequential and random access at the same time, manual gestures, data and legible thanks to a 'pointer' to the almost positioned at will) make it very close to the →
