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.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ISBN 3883758914 The exceptional personal imagery of Carsten Nicolai had a broad recognition in the world of contemporary art, which is able to clearly interpret the codes used →
One of the peculiar aspects of streaming broadcasts is the immediate relocation of the information, grace to the structure of the capillary network that allows a 'world vision' staff continues, bringing any local content →
Increasingly blurred the boundary between material objects and information assets resides more in the interpretations induced by our brain. The distance, especially by entities external to us is →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262033283 The 'media activism' translated into Italian as 'media activism' was born well before the computer networks and has manipulated the media, electrical and electronic equipment before then, with →
The habit of using search engines has slowly calcified habits and sequences of interaction that lead us to make automatic gestures when we look for something on the net. The impressive database of images of →
The ability of the electronic medium to make 'temporary' images of any kind through their digital display, consequently follows the temporary nature of the information of our time, and the transition from stable →
The perception of events and objects changes dramatically depending on the context in which they are located. The performance, in particular, are related to the atmosphere that surrounds them and the events that happened →
In the Furniture Works gallery, in London, opened Sequences, an exhibition that celebrates the art and history of chronophotography. Chronophotography was born in the end of the 19th century, mainly thanks to the works of étienne-Jules →
Track users in all their most intimate actions is the intent of the most hardened and marketing technologies that provide anonymity are one of the few banks that have been erected to curb the urge →
Ole Kristensen, a young Danish artist, divides his time between studies (Interactive Media at the University of Roskilde Cophenagen) and the development of interactive interfaces. Ole favors the development of applications in which the →
The relationship between sound and vision took on a clearer since both can be interpreted as sets of binary data. In their numerical abstraction these sets are identical in →
The running after one another of headline news in the big media causes an endless stream of words and names in the Net, most of which are part of contents that rapidly become stale. In their →
Stickyphone is an open source software that allows you to share your own audio samples on the Internet. Incidental music, ambient sounds, voicemails all made for a period of 25 seconds. The special feature of →
What to aseptic graphical interfaces miss something substantial is clear looking at all the customizations and aesthetic variations to which they are subjected by daring small software house. But these maquillage rarely go to touch →
