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 effort by multinational corporations to create ‘unique’ products that can characterize them more than the usual indiscriminate propaganda of their brand seems to be growing, and also to →
The materialization of the interfaces and make the 'physical' abstract elements that are firmly part of our daily lives is one of the recurring themes in the art of new media, which →
After more than a decade of artistic practices related to new media, the world of digital art and media is still confined to its spaces, and has not yet made inroads into the culture linked to →
The use of physical interfaces to produce sound compositions is a practice that draws on the endless possibilities of connecting and programming of electronic devices to a PC. Among these are objects to which →
cd+dvd – Ninja Tune
The language of videoclips has undergone many semiotical revolutions in the 90s, the years when the possibility of video editing landed on home computers. The consequential big increase in the number →
Nothing to do with Mecca Cola & Co, fizzy drinks that are placed on the market as an alternative to the U.S. monopoly in some cases coming to devote a percentage of →
One of the results that artificial intelligence was able to obtain in many years of study is a good generation of evolutionary relationships among different entities. This recognizes common features in the same entity on →
The aesthetics of science can take on significant aspects beyond the spectacular image of a galaxy or an image microscopic properly colored. The significance of adequate visualization of the processes is not merely →
There is a space on the web to confess never said that it is a regret, a hope, a desire or a fear, PostSecret welcomes any contribution provided is genuine and not yet revealed. Users →
The search engines have entered strongly into our lives and in our imagination. Through the use of these valuable tools we can in fact jump from question to another, seemingly without any effort. This all-pervasive →
How much privacy is a key issue for electronic communications is seen clearly in the practices and in daily episodes, such as the one resounding only found out yesterday by the heads of serveri of →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262182424
The meanings that emerge from hypertextual links are one of the real languages of the Web, where links and their density, as sublimated by Google’s ranking →
book – ZRC Publishing/Revolver – ISBN 3937577408
Marina Grzinic, an artist and media theoretician is one of the foremost experts of media art in the former ‘East Europe’ countries. This collection of essays is →
Also this year the serratissima three days of electronic music and digital art in Barcelona takes place in the usual weekend overflowing with proposals, June 16 to 18. The Sonar 2005 , in fact, →
