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 visionary of overlapping elements, also historically dissonant, is the distinctive style of People Like Us century to Vicki Bennett, sound artist who for fifteen years has been producing music and radio programs →
Video activism has a strategic role to nell'assuefazione increasingly concentrated doses of content in broadcasting: to break the chain of attention, reactivating our critical sense of what the multinational intellectual property considered a done →
The dramatic transformation of the news has gone from small quantity morning and evening until the early nineties to a perennial flow and constant (from then on) that defines the reality according to a continuous →
Arrived at ' eighth year the prize for works of art and artificial intelligence Vida continues to distribute funds for the purpose by the Spanish Fundación Telefonica. As in previous editions (such as the →
The 8bit scene owes a tribute to the creators of the moral community Micromusic , not only for evolution, debate and discussion that it represents, but also for the products that it can express. →
The importance of collaborative dimension of the writing on the network has been synthesized from the Wiki, a tool that, born in 1995, began to spread like wildfire since the early 2000s. This tool has →
book – Hatje Cantz – ISBN 3775716599
The hybrid as symbol of evolutionary change was used as the main theme of Ars Electronica 2005, subdivided into the ‘cultures’, ‘politics’, ‘ecologies’ and ‘creatures’ sections. Hybridization is →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262072602
The ‘Open Source’ concept, even if often made ambiguous and cannibalized by the same industry whose exploiting principles is shattering, is one of →
Reproposing an ironic vision of an out of fashion past is one of the prerogatives of videogames, which have the possibility to recreate historic systems through simulations and keep afloat memories which the fury of information →
Inaugurated on November 4 at the Stadt Dortmund und Landesbibliothek the Readme 100, temporary software art factory , the 2005 edition of the festival culture of the software that already in the other three →
Syngress, ISBN 1932266860 This is the first text that speaks of spam seen through the eyes of a spammer by profession. The perspective of those living in the golden and insecure world of a →
The time consumed by a screensaver is a dissipated time, interrupted and resumed in its segmented and indefinite manifestation. It’s a marginal time that automatically flows and silently accumulates its wealth of images shown on →
If certain sounds have entered the collective imagination, it is thanks to this that manage to evoke. The Big Ben, for example, is not only the city of London, but the memory of →
The production of electronic artifacts is increasingly confronted with the technology as such, the state of the art hardware and software that often offer good opportunities for new interpretations. The more complex the comparison with →
