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 encoding of conceptual works in programming code is a particular form of 'digitization' which implies passages media (ie from one medium to another material immaterial) are not negligible, even if at the same time →
dvd video – Kiasma / Kinotar
The pioneers and the avant-garde electronic musicians have beaten a path that often strayed far from the museums and big institutions. But they have something important →
Designed by Jason Nelson, Speech / Media is a digital experimental poetry project, which, through the use of software, results varied media sources including speeches, music, recordings, films, radio programs, crowd noise or →
The most followed magazines' hacker '(such as '2600' or 'Blacklisted 411') have historically led the innovative and often ingenious techniques for handling electronic systems to public attention, emerging from an underground which have been linked salutariamente, →
The aesthetic consequences of collective projects deserve a specific study, which is still lacking in theoretical disciplines, but whose starting material becomes richer every day. And last of many projects that have found their way →
Computers from twenty years ago, such as those made by Commodore and Atari, are the tools of a large community of music composers that go under the label of ‘8bit music’ and compose a remarkable →
Arachne Publishing, ISBN 8854800287 Art in the network is not solely that which occurs iteratively in the texts and reconstructions of the most. There are several works, the artists and the currents of →
The music composition software are now a key component in most productions, and this has led to a development dictated more by the vastness and heterogeneity of users served by that specifically support the styles →
The urban area of Innsbruck hides two small wireless server that the windows of the Head of the store Wholly Cow Cafe and send, or rather trying to send pictures to other devices on the →
The Continuator is the name of a research project conducted by Francois Pachet at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. It is an experiment focusing on the interaction in real time with a system →
Garzanti, ISBN 8811600170 One of the (very few) texts published in Italian on digital arts, this substantial anthology (over six hundred pages) is characterized by the effort to embrace all the arts in →
The advertising in its overflowing expansion desperate for attention from potential buyers every day shows us how to exploit every possible square millimeter public to 'make communication', the illusion (alas supported by statistical studies) that →
Independent Curators International, ISBN 0916365719 If the trials of the relationship between sound and image have their roots in analog but equally effervescent seventies, many of those ideas are →
The Kinetic Image by Massimo Fiorentino, Italy-born and naturalized Danish, allegedly works on the one that you can define the boundary line, so the contact between different modes of visual representation of the →
