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.
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201745755 See the invisible, this is one of the tasks of the cartographers of the network, from the first insights of the vastness and complexity of the communication infrastructure worldwide have sought models →
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07.05.04 Winnoise, the sounds of Windows in a complete piece.
Reelaborating the daily sounds of computer spaces is a challenge rarely accepted by electronic musicians. These sounds →
Inaugurated on April 8, will run until June 6, the testing of spring_alpha, a project that involves the development of software in open source code during a series of workshops aiming at extending the practice of →
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05.05.04 Empire North, fake non-lethal weapons.
One of the lessons to be learned from history is that one of the raison d’etre of art is to anticipate →
Increasingly being used by online publishing platforms, which in more recent versions include them as default, polls and surveys are a constant invitation to express themselves and also a surrogate, often even more arbitrary, surveys a →
The different awareness of the sounds of the architecture, especially those that costitiscono examples of industrial architecture, has grown just at the stage, still in progress, post-industrial, during which it is possible to rethink the use →
The complex transformation project data of the duo behind Nybble-Engine after several years of evolution has reached a maturity that reflects the stratification of levels in dynamic interconnection between them. The complex interactions that involve the →
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29.04.04 txtkit, Visual Text Mining Tool.
The paths we ideally follow when we are reading a text, made of jumps, backtracks and interruptions, form a three-dimensional structure →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262201461 induced transformations inherent in traditional media and on their impact with scorporeizzazione and infinite reproducibility of digital media landscape continues to produce a liquid that mixes the cards continuously supplying →
The figure is closer to that hacker musician is that of the 'circuit bender', ie who edits old tools, often thought of as toys, amplifying or distorting the sound characteristics through a direct intervention on their →
The MIT Press, ISBN 026208321
How much is the flow of information incorporeal and detached from our relation with organic reality? How much is digital image, with its multidimensional possibility of distorsion and simulation, detached from →
The concepts of near and far sounds can be expressed in different ways by simply changing the intensity of the sound itself. Hlemmur in C is a project of Pall Thayer made at the conference 'Rethinking →
The visualization of processes with interfaces designed for other content reflects the ability to think in broad terms of the forms (or signs) and their interpretation. This attitude taken up by different artistic practices, is a →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262050730
Finding the data structure which describes a person through his public actions is the holy grail not only of marketing professionals, but also of police states and, more generally, any paranoid →
