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.
Inverting the epic of the famous brothers hydraulic (Super Mario Bros), sisters Mary of the Global Arcade, social gaming is not very recent, rewrites the classic rules of interaction of one of the most popular arcade, →
Among the roles of live music performances is to show in front of their eyes the performance of a piece by the artists, note that over time more and more like a proof of the truth →
News is, in their widespread dissemination and replication network, the species of organisms, with a life of its own, which are reproduced in a precise ecology of diffusion including primary and secondary canals depending on the →
The struggle for liberation from the clutches of the copyright is being fought mainly on practices, and there are many approaches that are emerging day after day, to counter the monopoly on intellectual conceptually. Eric Doeringer, →
An uproar because the first release of They Rule, put on by Josh On in 2001, he quickly made the rounds of the globe for the immediate readability that gave the complex power relations that cross →
The habit interactivity allows you to rethink the past in perspective reactive medium expanding what were the experiments of their time and implementandone new uses. The magnetic tapes are at the center of Sonic Fabric a →
One of the problems related to the sound memory of the twentieth century is to wear and the fragility of the materials used in the early stages and, therefore, precious, of sound recording. Vinyl, 'pans', lacquers →
The perception of a (wrong) and a universal knowledge (exaggerated) control the evolution of reality is increasingly caused by the proliferation of information available and their easy access. Common sense, as evidenced by, among other game →
Here comes the second edition of the festival's New York psychogeography Psy.Geo.Conflux 2004 . After the success of 2003 , in fact, a new series of events, performances and conferences conceptually put upside down the fascinating →
If the 'mobility' seems to be the watchword of contemporary technology, not always the most creative solutions come from the integration thrust of the chip. This is demonstrated by projects such as The Public Broadcast Cart →
The vision of the code, and the grammars of programming, such as language in all respects to linguistics often requires an attitude demonstrated by hackers and artists who are comfortable with the manipulation of signs. Commissioned →
The video accessible online has inherent characteristics which have streamlined custom experience introduced historically from the VCR, ie the possibility to vary the unstoppable flow of images. As compression technologies have refined their algorithms moving images →
book – Harvard University Press – ISBN 0674008898
Even if these years there’s a sort of mythology of analog instruments, which are seen as a passage towards the radical digital transformations, one can say that →
The atavistic game of 'wireless phone' (chinese whispers to the Anglo-Saxons), try as communication channels unclear cause an involuntary conversion of the transmitted information, which can lead to sensational discoveries. Data and algorithms applied to this →
