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 'point of contact' in telecommunication services, namely the feeling of being close to an entity real or imaginary, is a seemingly random factor, which in reality is revealed in the decisive involvement of the →
On October 27, in New York, was opened The Peoples' Portrait , a multimedia project conceived by the Chinese artist Zhang Ga and commissioned by the Festival Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) and →
If the American presidential elections are increasingly considered to be a media event ever, the armature of policy initiatives that they generate will be equal in quantity, but often not for courage and →
One of the decisive factors for certain is that anthropomorphic robotic mechanisms, ie as the automatic machine reflect human characteristics credible. This also applies to those automata that do not have a shape similar to →
The creation of fictitious identities, from digital anthropomorphic characteristics, is one of the great fascinations of the incorporeal world of data. The access to the creation of its 'alter ego' is a practice that →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262033127 The element 'magic' of cinema, namely the still image that suddenly you 'soul', as described in the report of the first screenings of Lumiere still there today, in the rooms, →
Reading the news online, from the web to the mailing list to ultra-efficient flows in RSS (which allow you to have an instant Glance general from multiple sources) has become a daily ritual that →
The interface of the electronic musical instruments, has always been a problem of language, that abilitasse the musical dialogue man-machine in order to make satisfactory interaction and the results produced. The conceptual problems that from →
The pixel, a key element of digital graphics, and the matrix, its structure, have long been out of the pages of manual graphics programs, to become cultural archetypes. On this is based aesthetic that exploits the →
The 'pong', which is the first video game that has made inroads through the origianle and various clones in the families of the years between the years 70 and 80 (at launch compared to the →
by Alessandro Ludovico
One of the most utopic aim is the definitive defeating of the consumerism model. This is really a scaring perspetive for any big-size business based on how economic actually works. But there →
The area in which you enjoy the sounds is often crucial to our environment and consequent judgment. The territory and its rules apparently unconsciously discounted guide us through the paths of movement through coordinated sound. →
Move information multiplied by the mass media hype and place them in new contexts instantly displaces the multitude of users accustomed to the fluctuation of news plausible. When then also display the protagonists undergo →
The hard disk containing a dozen national and local Indymedia sites were seized on October 7 provider Rackspace, in its UK office, putting offline most of the national and local branches including those of →
