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 '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 →
The intervention nell'ineluttabile stream of video images is one of the conceptual challenges and policies from the beginning of the era of broadcasting, and the different strategies that have been conducted over the years have highlighted →
Interconnect the amount of different data expressed by a mass-circulation newspaper can find precise information policies and media trend is not insignificant. The growing media necrophilia and morbid as well as constant documentation of tragedies fomented →
The myth of 'sound machine', ie the black box that produces music player has ancient origins, but systematically uses over the centuries, as a miraculous object capable of generating sounds ecstatic. Over the past thirty years, →
The interfacing of digital and mechanical technologies creates an emotional tug similar to that which accompanies the addition of integrated circuits on organic tissues, inseparably connecting worlds that we are used to keep strictly separated. Mincer →
(In) Security Camera , designed by Benjamin Chang, Silvia Ruzanka and Dmitry Strakovsky, is an interactive installation made by means of a video camera connected to a computer with a particular software, through which you get →
Letters and sounds are a combination that always works, because the habit to listen to the phonemes makes the association sign-sound very natural. Text-To-Noise Synthesizer of Bludgeonsoft, is a free online tool which converts a phrase →
Sometimes the artists conceptual initiative to exceed those figurative and develop with the only glaring paradoxes formalization of an idea, capable of generating immediate emotional reactions. One of the most recent operations of this kind has →
The algorithms underlying the generative artifacts constitute an authentic language of systematic creation, incorporating the unpredictability of organic reality with parametric control of the computer code. Dextro, Lia and the rest of the team of Viennese →
You have two of the biggest annual festival of electronic art on the European continent, which take place with considerable deployment of assets outside the major capital cities. In Bilbao, takes place Ciber @ RT , →
