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 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 →
book – Indipendent Curators International – ISBN 0916365719
The experiments on the relationships between sound and images have their roots in the analogue Seventies, and many of those ideas are →
The systems data transformation, namely, that draw a data type from a source and convert it into another, are one of the frequent sources of inspiration in the works of electronic art. Let alone the →
Life and Thought, ISBN 8834319710 Result of a thesis, this study takes on the story of äda'web object in one of the first attempts, specifically New York, to establish a sustainable model (also →
The 'fake website' is a kind of net art established, which provides for the creation of a site, accompanied by appropriate domain, such as to mislead the users as possible by the professionalism of →
dvd video – I.M.C.C. / Metropolis Records
‘Making the revolution sexy’ is the catching slogan that David Trussell, songwriter from Melbourne, has followed for twenty years with his band, the Snog, a unique example of →
book – Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ISBN 3883758914
The exceptional imagination of Carsten Nicolai has gained much popularity in the contemporary art world, which clearly interpreted the codes used by the artist for →
book – The MIT Press – ISBN 0262633159
Laibach and the Neue Slowenische Kunst have represented in eighties and nineties a brilliant and controversial project, a visible jump in the future with no shield, →
dvd – C0C0S0L1DC1T1
Serial projects, those where an information travels from person to person and is progressively modified until it reaches its final state, or a documentation of this transformation process, are the domain of →
book – Actar – ISBN 8495951134
In its double role as ‘genre’ and ‘tool’, electronic music has pervaded the music culture for the last fifteen years. Fulfilling the ambitions to work ‘directly’ on the →
