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.
By mapping the movements of the body into a state of meditation, you fill out a approximate numerical model of a complex system of forces which are made in the symbiosis between the physical control of →
Is the medium used enough to define an artistic practice? That is, does it make sense to look for unifying characteristics in artistic expressions which share only the medium used? Probably not, but in the history →
Where is the computer with the IP number of the next higher or lower than your own? Looking at all the networked computers in an abstract way this machine is the next or previous song, the →
It is being held in New York, Hotel Pennsylvania, the Fifth HOPE , which is the fifth edition in more than ten years dell'Hackers On Planet Earth, the conference put on by the collective behind the →
The representations of the sounds through signs represents an abstraction of their acoustic efficiency through a unique display. Sonic Wire Sculpture of Amin Pitaru is a software which allows to represent the sound through lines that →
That tshirt is a medium like many other spaces of communication is a fact widely recognized now for a couple of decades. But though it has been used extensively by marketing to contaminate our minds logos →
The myth of ‘real time’ and of the supposed reliability of the transmission of information through the net are concepts made up by commercial propaganda and are reminiscent of the advertisements for the first TV sets →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262134241
The necessary contributions by female artists in the creation of media art hasn’t yet received the contexualization and place in history they deserve. The realization of artifacts which can →
The formalization of a practice through a system of signs becomes, in fact, the creation of a language, with which you can communicate complex meanings in their abstract symbols. The turntablism, however, is a complex practice, →
Arizona State University, ISBN 0972429107
The possibility to ‘write’ informations in living beings is one of the characteristics of transgenic art, an art form which Eduardo Kac (see the interview on Neural n.20) →
The only way to stem the desperate natural reuse of existing information, whether they are music tracks or video images is shake the specter of the law, even if more time passes, the more duplication techniques →
Among the possible consequences of the simulation, there is also the ability to rework dramatic events. From the experiments of psychologists with symbolic worlds created artificially, it has gone in recent years through the experiences rebuilt →
The sounds have a crucial role in a social context, and their variation often leads to a consequent change in the relationships that exist in the environment at that time. The interaction between the different sensory →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262692864
The movie industry is one of the most conservative ones when it comes to new models of production and enjoyment. The historic ‘broadcast’ model, where few big companies handle →
