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.
The signals / data in transit in the urban space and multiply the possibilities of crossing streams and organize temporary network or 'ad-hoc' as they are called technically, creates new scenarios of interaction. Umbrella.net is an →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0262134365
One of the cornerstones of hypertextual literature are text ‘adventures’, which lured in front of the monitor many users of the first personal computers. The value of computer programs as tools →
Among the items to remember the eighties is certainly the place 'Simon' simple but very effective game through four large buttons of many colors allowed players to compete on the basis of musical sequences longer and →
Among the items to remember the eighties is certainly the place 'Simon' simple but very effective game through four large buttons of many colors allowed players to compete on the basis of musical sequences longer and →
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31.03.04 The Sculptural User Interface, language’s scultures.
Undoubtely, this artistic project by Michael Rees, based on the mix of sculpture and new media, looks very ambitious. His →
The concept that has been characteristic of the studies of sound spatialization assumes that the listener is in a situation of passivity. But for the mobility and fluidity of contemporary society would be more useful a →
The subliminal images (shown for an infinitesimal time on the screen, and then perceived but not consciously) are one of the oldest tricks unfair broadcasting and film, to cause or induce needs attention, but rarely are →
Karsten Schmidt, aka toxi, author of the experiments' Macronaut 'and' The Well ', continues to divide between the commercial collaborations and projects published (complete with source code attached) on its website. The last in order of →
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 historical period when →
The codes multiform expression media are far from common heritage in their mechanisms, resulting still the preserve of specialists mate happily new technique and previous experience. The analysis of this kind of literacy necessary media narrative →
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19.03.04 News 14 Carolina, weather forecast hacking.
Modifying the omnipotent TV signal and its programmed messages is one of the most ambitious challenges of the antagonistic communication, →
The level of truth attributed to photography has seen over time weakening its natural perception of alteration built, thanks to the possibility of extremely sophisticated digital interventions that arrive to create an artifact indistinguishable from true →
The gesture of the scratch and more generally of manual manipulation of vinyl is a physical act related to the organic and the physicality of vinyl. The naturalness of these acts and dexterity that develop over →
One of the innovations introduced by mobile phones, inherent in their technology, digital sound processing is done inside the units. This exponentially increases the possibilities for simulation of sound, light years beyond the handkerchief on the →
