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.
How much public space is sold for advertising purposes is difficult to estimate it. Our visual landscape is crowded with logos, names that will directly or indirectly trying to sell something. The combination of all →
The 'sonoluminescence' is the phenomenon, discovered in 1929 by H. Frenzel and H. Schultes, which chemically converts the sound into light. The (accidental) discovery revealed that dissolving oxygen in water, this brightened if irradiated →
ICC Intercommunication Center, ISBN 4757170289 If the perception of nature in history has been decidedly conditioning from time to time by the state of the art production technology and communication (as is evident →
That the copyright is one of the most pressing issues of our times is out of the question. But them to unite fresh energies and the public face of the free circulation of knowledge is →
The Originality Engine was created and developed by New Media class III Emerson College. The field of investigation is the question of originality and more specifically try to prove if today you can →
The form of the game, especially the consolidated arcade, and its communication patterns of the various stages that make up (start, end level, increase the score, start new level, end game) are a simple →
The design, understood as artistic production process, has evolved its own techniques constantly, transforming both thanks to the possibility that new tools have realized, for both theoretical deviations that these have stimulated. The computer, →
V2_Publishing – NAi Publishers, ISBN 9056623893 How far is the art electronic representation, narrative and aesthetic manipulation, and how far, however, constitutes an unprecedented humus pure research, able to exploit the integration of →
The invisible world around us the information encoded in the data associated to our person, ie in the 'cloud data' that (more or less dense) is formed whenever our coordinates identifying emerging. Magnetic cards →
The exponential proliferation of access to information has bulimizzato also our desire to never seen before images and more and more surprising. Moreover, the entertainment he married in a stable union of the →
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 →
