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.
If the performance of the vj are often characterized by sequencing of loops according to an impromptu personal aesthetic, without any contextualization that goes beyond the continuous movement of forms and the special effect, there are →
The collaborative dimension of the web allows you to coordinate data collection efforts and subsequent public communication difficult to achieve without these technologies, putting in the hands of citizens valuable opportunities to understanding the reality. From →
The addition of electronic features of acoustic instruments allows you to develop the ability to exponentially sound production and make it more thrifty control on the instrument itself. Metasaxophone Project by Matthew Burtner is a project →
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09.07.04 Let them sing it for you, fragmented plagiarism.
One of the undeniable advantages of creative musical plagiarism is its power to dispel the aura of the →
When Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble, called 911 (the 113 American), had already seen the death of his wife in his sleep of a heart attack. In the terrible tragedy that had just invested, →
It takes place in Vienna June 3 to 4 Free Bitflows , two days trying to investigate future strategies that they can build sustainable cultures network and open. Consists of a conference and an exhibition (which →
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05.07.04 Panos, Fakes Roadsigns.
Vector cutting technologies, thanks to special plotters, have greatly simplified the production of extremely precise artifacts which →
The session vj are many more enlightened and extremely heterogeneous materials used, but rarely refer to the same tools used, preferring to draw an imaginary film or television. Mathias Fuchs and Sylvia Eckermann, creators of the →
The market for military technology is one of the most coveted, thanks to the huge funds allocated by Western governments and often paranoid to unpreparedness of many of their leaders. The Forensic SF-5000 is a classic →
The accustomed methods of government censorship begin to creak under the possibilities in computing contemporaries, who can successfully apply appropriate statistical methods and probabilistic. With these techniques it becomes possible to reveal certain types of censorship, →
It takes place May 27 to 30 at the University of Toronto in the 2004 edition of Subtle Technologies (after those of 2001 and 2002 and 2003 ), which continues to plumb the complex and subtle →
One of the most exciting aspects of the huge community that develops shared projects, namely 'open source', is that it does not suffer from the self-restraint or censorship tackling projects as well as tiny improbi, →
If the dematerialization of the musical product, induced from files, network level playing field and put together by the online store is having the generational consequences, such as the gradual erosion of the concept album, →
Abbreviations, acronyms and emoticons only increase what is already rich emotional space that is created in the chat, with conflicts and affinities (or not) that are created and destroyed all the time. Trying to trace this →
