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.
dvd video – Carpark
The collaborative dimension created by connected machines takes a different value when it’s part of a live performance, with its uncertain and unique nature. The 242.pilots, a close group of artists →
Wefail no art, no graphic design, does not build robots. It is a site from animation that recalls the visionary punkzines eighties. Powered by Jordan Stone and Martin Hughes, is a journey into an intricate digital →
Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-345-5 For several years, the net art has been a phenomenon fully enjoyed only by a small circle of initiates, most of which were themselves part or share in his creation and →
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27.02.04 Dot Matrix Synth, a dot matrix synthesizer.
Firmware hacking is a sophisticated practice which gives pretty good results to the courageous ones who do EPROM reprogramming, →
The Bastard Pop is one of the few radical movements that have managed to shake the system of industrial music to its roots, managing to discover the Pandora's box of copyright in all its paradoxical contradiction →
Were announced the winners of 'Bush in 30 Seconds ', a competition that involved more than 1,000 video-makers in the realization of short-themed video, as a commentary on the Bush policy. The contest, sponsored by the →
Going beyond the possibilities of the standard digital processing systems by developing techniques that transcend the usual representations on the screen and the film narrative. This seems to be the common thread that unites the ten →
The imaginative power of the word and its intense evocative capacity are still trumps digital artists, that whenever they can worthily compete with these elements contribute to the construction of meaning independent of machines. p0es1s, digital →
As you lose the schematic authors cataloged in albums and vintage years, in favor of individual songs floating in different genres, the user himself can decide, the archipelago of musical productions takes on a more magmatic →
There are all the elements to think of a real holding new-style economy. But in reality this project is a brilliant fake that makes a mockery of communication strategies and gets a big commercial success playing →
Artimo, ISBN 90-75380-46-1 Among the various silent and pervasive changes in the perception of the world that has brought Ebay, there is no doubt that induced aesthetics of photographic goods there in the auction. The →
Respect Bootleggers is a parody site officer Respect Copyrights , created by the MPAA, the lobby of the studios. Overturning the moralistic proclamations of industrial celluloid with the common sense of sharing files over the network, →
Dreamlike states of electronic abuse for Pedro Tudela, in a project commissioned by the coreographer Isabel Barros. ‘A space, on the scene, as open as it can be, because, just like in dreams, there are always →
After Personal Orchestra , begin to perceive other development initiatives for software emulation of a sphere, that of classical and symphonic music has always been difficult to technological innovation. Ivory Synthogy is a program that emulates →
