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.
A symbiotic encounter of frequencies. This is what stands out in this cd+, which features the collaboration between the australians Oren Ambarchi (honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Festival 2003) and Martin NG (avant-garde turntablist), and →
The arrow pointer on the screen is one of the first objects that are learned to recognize when you begin to use a PC. It is the point of contact between our desire, expressed by the →
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21.04.04 Evolution Control Committee, historical plagiarism.
One of the peculiar characteristics of musical plagiarism is to have a common goal, to protest against the absurdity of endless →
Urban territories have become the stage of modern times, the place where contemporarity is staged more than in theaters, following the trend to show more and more of our personal sphere. This CD gives an audiovisual →
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06.04.04 Spectroscopic Toolkit, nanotonal music.
One of the principal uses of a machine is to explore of the boundaries of computation, that is, to process sets of →
The component anthropomorphic undoubtedly plays a strategically important role in robotic installations, and act independently of the machines, especially if contextualized in specific performance, it is increasingly evident in the balance between programming and illusion of →
After arriving at the ' gold ', ie to version 1.0, dyne: bolic arrives at its last evolution (1.2), called Dyne: trax . The distribution of GNU / Linux that runs on cd with strong multimedia →
After more than five years from the experiments via the midi Rocket Surfer, and a stop in the community of musicians engaged in jam sessions online, formed and then destroyed in one of the many sad →
After more than five years from the experiments via the midi Rocket Surfer, and a stop in the community of musicians engaged in jam sessions online, formed and then destroyed in one of the many sad →
The Beijing government has decided to restrict the policies for wireless networks, promoting a local standard encryption. In a Business Week article , it is known as the Intel will stop selling its Centrino in China →
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24.03.04 Rasterbator, rastering for large spaces.
The rastering technique, that is, the rendering of a black and white image using dots, has been widely used in the →
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18.03.04 Life’s a User’s Manual: Argos Walk.
Bringing into reality elements of the most visionary science fiction is a characteristic of artists and hackers, with has the →
The creative attitude of the correct definition of hacker is inherent in the term itself, which presupposes a vitality expressed by the rejection of the rules imposed from above and the ability to reinvent the real →
In the multiple activities of the Belgian composer Godfried-Willem Raes, there is to assemble more than thirty years bizarre and intriguing robotic musical instruments and / or automatic. From Pneumafono (powered with compressed air) to Rotomoton →
