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.
book + cd-rom – Christoph Merian Verlag – ISBN 3856162380
After more than a decade of artistic practices tied to new media, the digital and media art world is still confined within its bounds and has →
Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500512175 The sensory association between sound and vision is explicitly born about a century before the advent of multimedia, through a new musical sensibility that accompanied the emerging avant-garde. →
In the line of structural views of the tracks, the algorithms that combine the sounds and their range to as many graphic variations can express a vision of the songs themselves unpublished and →
Phaidon Press, ISBN 0714843741 The type of artistic experience that Christian Marclay door with his works is the objectification of sound in its reiterpretati emitting body. The 'mixing physical' work, for example, is →
recognition of the applicability of the criminal law is not for copyright infringement actions (such as persecution for the exchange of films and music), or support for crimes 'common', (such as the fraudulent transfer →
Advertising, in its desperate expansion towards the minds of potential buyers, constantly teaches how to exploit every possible square millimeter of public places to ‘communicate’, under the illusion (unfortunately supported by statistics) that every repetition of →
The role of software in digital art production plays a strategic role, namely the encoding of operations of interactive machines. In the concept of generative art, the role it plays an even more →
The strength of the global business is to develop a business model with substantial funds and aesthetic abstract and familiar at the same time, easily exportable to similar cultures, it is locked in its outlook →
The uncertainty on the nature of a written piece, that is, how much it looks ‘human’ even if it was generated by a machine, is one of the issues raised by text generation software. The refinement →
The concept of fluid space, ie the organization of information in a three-dimensional environment, summarizing graphics, images and sounds in an environment navigable in three directions is the pivot around which the Belgians →
The mechanisms of generation of musical software, pass in most cases through artificial intelligence techniques, more or less sosfisticate. Generally, the broken promises of AI, namely the simulation still too immature neuronal processes is reflected →
One of the peculiar aspects of streamed transmissions is the immediate delocalization of informations, thanks to the pervasive structure of the net which allows a personal and continuous ‘international telecast’, bringing any local content to →
The representativeness of a national culture, which make it seem familiar or exotic, no longer depends on the cultural similarities or geographic proximity, but by its frequency of presence in the media that invade →
Even the messages in a bottle abandoned at sea may be regarded as a medium, poetic and niche as you want, and especially with a feature easily replicated, namely the lack of →
