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.
Innovation, at times, passes through the rethinking of ancient models, setting aside the consolidated fruits of progress and inventing new prototypes. This is the principle followed by Earglasses , a protest of plastic that adds two →
It ends today in Berlin on twentieth Chaos Communication Congress , the annual meeting sponsored by the Chaos Computer Club As always active in the later editions (including those of 2000 and 2002 ) are the →
Yoshi Sodeoka, from New York, has made his first ‘physical product’ after years of prolific visual experiments, such as those of ASCII Rock, where he reprocessed in ASCII characters some vintage rock videos, and those of Casket, →
The aesthetic 8bit sound, after a posthumous and progressive development of the last two years (Malcolm McLaren has noticed also that attempted to label it with the disgusting term 'chip music') is evolving towards land even →
Edition Selene, ISBN 3-85266-194-3
Publishing a collection of essays under the disguise of a dictionary is hardly a novelty, but it’s not simple to present it with agile and comprehensive ‘definitions’ of a popular yet still →
A ' revised edition of the original exhibition Future Cinema , held at ZKM, was held at the ICC in Tokyo to a year after its first realization. Starting from the observation that all the tools →
Printed for the WSIS in Geneva, this anthology sttrikes at the heart of the problem of the freedom of the flow of information and the free access to humanist and scientific culture in particular. Completely detached from →
Inspiration of the devil, probably. We Want Your Soul , is a sham corporation with enormous potential, 250 million souls subject to hypothetical trades into a non-indifferent, if it is remembered that was born only to →
In the culture of video games the screenshot, that the frozen image of the screen when viewing a moment of the game, is conventionally proof of actual placing on the market of a new title, as →
After the time of the pioneers of generative music, they begin to make their way experiments targeted and thematic fields which are able to bring the first signs of more design possibilities in a position to →
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16.12.03 Superbot, an army of pro-privacy bots.
With the mysterious slogan ‘machines will eat itself’, Franz Alken’s operation Superbot is one of the most remarkable in the →
The relationship between music and images has received a boost with the possibility to elaborate the images with a PC, multiplying the number of productions and experiments, but at the same time widening the difference between →
Momisdrunk is a book and a website created by Globalgroove, an association founded in the late nineties the brainchild of Michele and Fabio Andreoni Toffolo. The book consists of text and images derived from the manipulation →
The data layers that accumulate in the folds of the hard drives can be surprising how much a box of old clippings clippings and photos, reopened after a few years. A Portrait … Netochka Nezvanova of →
