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 mobility of mobile not only has slowly become addicted to environmental noise, attributable only to a public telephone before the advent of cell phones, but it has also altered our perspective as a result of →
The project Italian_Hacktivism_and_Art , realized by Tatiana Bazzichelli (AHA) for Read_me Festival 2004 , consists of a plagiarism of the work made by the famous map.jodi.org netartisti jodi.org. The map shows the different connections between Hacking →
Inaugurated on September 23, the tenth edition of Sonic Acts , electronic music and arts festival which this year has chosen to emphasize the futility of the taxonomy of information arts (visual, sound, performance, etc.. etc..) →
The mobility creative in the West often makes use of elite gadgets and technologies that leverage the infrastructure already put forward potential of the metropolitan area. But in less-developed regions will adopt low-tech solutions that, for →
How much spam has entered in our lives is difficult to quantify, but the daily exposure to the terminology and slogans messages invasive has certainly affected the mental ecology of network users. The bombing of unwanted →
The concept of software implemented in the real processes was collected and developed in different ways, but rarely with the actual ability to be incarnate structures and algorithms of the code to people and social processes. →
One of the methods to avoid the eternal conflict of forensic involving public to copyright is to use the sharp weapon of irony, stimulating large-scale popular reactions that make clear the paradox between the obsession with →
The simplification of the information objects that are sensitive to remote data streams is not only one of the trends of contemporary industrial design, but also the luxury of objects that reduce a color change lighting →
The vehicular sound through other physical structures (whether teeth , bones of the skull or screens ) is a practice that tries to exploit the vibration of bodies to play melodies without the use of conventional →
When the images are interpreted as data undergo a radical conceptual transformation, by an indivisible whole designed to be received in its entirety, to a set of data related to other possible relationships derived from the →
Self-organization of events, highlighted by the media to the short season of the 'trend' of smart mobs, is really just the beginning, in the sense that technology in real time refers to the concepts of ancestral →
Inaugurated on September 17, the third edition of ArtBots , robotic exhibition of works in the broad sense, ie that share an independent component of production of artifacts, which this year exhibits a more accurate selection →
Despite a decade of visions, posters and declarations of intent are still few concrete attempts to exploit the network infrastructure to properly implement its intrinsic nature of sharing and collaboration, especially in the production of original →
After more than three years of flourishing international productions, the first hit ('I wanna dance with numbers', who married Whitney Houston and Kraftwerk) to the sensational case raised a few months ago by the Grey Album →
