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.
While the Vatican attacks the videogames yet another time, accusing them of pushing the youngsters towards satanism, an apparently american company proposes a system to turn them into educational products. Mindbending inc., Inc. offers a →
CD – Illegal Art
Oh Astro, aka Jane Dowe, an american artist known for her collaborations with Terre Thaemlitz (‘Institutional Collaborative’, published by Mille Plateaux) and her plagiarist raids (‘Deconstructing Beck’) is →
Actar, ISBN 8495951134 In his dual role as 'kind' and 'tool', electronic music has permeated musical culture to its roots in the past fifteen years. Fulfill her aspiration to work 'directly' on the →
Eugenio Tisselli, Mexican-born artist based in Barcelona, is known in the net art as a founder of the interdisciplinary team Vaina Systems and have earned, together with M. Antunez, an honorary mention in the →
The definition of the organic matter according to 'patterns' of data is a concept generated the information age, it is replaced dynamically to materials and maps of processes. ICC in Tokyo will be inaugurated →
Since the beginning of the twentieth century until today, the artistic research on linguistic codes of written communication reveal strong affinities, though the specific intent are different depending on the means used for the expression. →
Place the TV set out of tune or tuned to a dead channel creates that particular combination of 'emptiness' of images and sound, which in our times of continuous transmissions (24 hours out of 24) →
'Making the revolution sexy' is the effective slogan that David Thrussell, songwriter of Melbourne applies for almost twenty years with his band, the Snog, a unique example of political activism is not ostentatious, and applied →
Powered by Luis Hernandez, Eric Werkhoven and Gabriel Acevedo, Oversaturation is a video game based on the standard in 3D openGL, derived in particular from the source code GL Tron, written by Andreas Umbach. The →
The construction of the space implemented by the interface standard is given by a sequence of structures that are alternated in the vision of the user. These same structures disappear when not in use →
Computer viruses incorporate numerous innovative features of electronic communication. First of all, the rapid spread of information in a way, in fact, 'viral', ie the use of language as a code that spreads replicating, →
The pioneers and avant-garde electronic musicians have traced a furrow of theories and practices most of the time away from the lights of museums and large institutions. But just to be learned →
In an almost amused the London-based group, made up of artists and designers trained at the Royal College of Arts, invents objects 'intelligent'. One of these 'devices' is the TV Predator , a seemingly →
Computer twenty years ago (like the Commodore and Atari) are the tools of the trade of a large community of composers, which is recognized under the label of music '8-bit 'and consists considerable amount →
