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 generative sound is conceptually tied to a kind of 'black box' that churns out tunes plausible depending on the parameters set. The algorithmic construction of the melodies is so connected with the change of →
Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674015436 The prospect of hackers as a social class is undoubtedly fascinating. Think, in fact, to the global community that has a common denominator pragmatism in handling everyday social →
Make the data according to visual coordinates unpublished, giving them a meal in the software to interpret them as if they were his specific inputs, offers a different perspective, and sometimes enlightening, on the data →
The practices of VJing are born from the use of digital tools at first only to coordinate the flow of materials analog, then evolving to manage the entire process of production and performance. The same →
The sound installations in recent years are discovering, thanks to the techniques of receiving, analyzing and manipulating digital sounds that lurk in our surroundings. Frequencies obtained from bodies and sounds that vibrate at a short →
Already the artistic avant-garde of the early twentieth century attempted, in reference to science, what we now attempt an architect and a Japanese artist with a technological device much richer: represent € →
The annual awards Vida, an art competition and artificial intelligence sponsored by the Spanish Fundación Telefonica, arrives this year to the seventh edition . Keeping the pattern of the previous ones (such as 4.0 →
O'Reilly, ISBN 0596007329 Spam is one of those peculiar phenomena of the network by exploiting its tremendous transmission techniques has come to be actively involved (willingly or not) the vast maggiornaza of its →
The visual compositions made with artificial intelligence techniques, albeit with some exceptions, have been linked to an aesthetic 'scientific', reflecting phenomena complying with the rules in some way 'natural', with precise canons of overlap, sometimes →
The music sequencing generated by sequences of objects materializes one made by some luster with the software programs, transferring the habits of juxtaposition of the sound samples in a physically accessible, and fulfilling from →
Digital Aesthetics Research Center, University of Aarhus, ISBN 87988444040 The pervasive presence of the software in everything we use daily, did not involve the same capillary diffusion of a culture of software, expanded and →
The awareness of the dramatic environmental problems need to be innovative communication mechanisms kept afloat and not drown the indifference of news streams to handle daily. The display of the highlights, in fact, can →
The materiality of the body, the bulwark of the physical size and touch while everything around us seems to dematerialize and bounce between cables and antennas, the last decade has been one →
The interpretation of the sounds through different domains of knowledge is a practice that flourishes thanks cultural abstraction imposed by the new media and their ability to reduce all knowledge to poison information. This perspective →
