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.
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18.12.03 The Classic II Exhibition, art for old Macs.
Obsolete hardware surely is a resource, both from an aesthetical, a sort of ‘vintage’, and from a historical →
He was born Molleindustria , a site container of short Flash games with irony and cynicism that will accompany you in the contemporary worlds of atypical workers, the simulated sex, flexibility and the universe precarious cognitive →
L ' Helloworld Project by Johannes Gees ended Saturday 13 December, and consisted in projecting in four different places of the earth (Morro dois Irmaos in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations building in New York, →
He was born in the economic capital of the strike viewers, the right to turn off the television for a time, but voluntarily and collectively as a liberating practice to acquire. An operation far from trivial, →
From the research phase of the directional sound is moving towards that of production. The Holosonic , a company led by researcher Dr.. Joseph Pompei, is developing three transducers 12, 18 and 24 inches in width, →
After decades of speculation in science fiction literature and less clumsy attempts by the entertainment industry, the size of anthropomorphic machines are becoming more and more naturally in the social imagination, even if they are completely →
Some archetypes of the code are the basis of deep interpretations in a contemporary where the same code has pervaded more and more everyday life contexts. The algorithmic model, given by the sequence of instructions and →
The modification of everyday objects nel'arte reconsidering their use canon allows you to recode their role, now taken for granted by changing their characteristics to the purpose not so overtly functional. O Telephone is an installation →
Start today the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and a large group of activists, united under the name Geneva03 is organizing some days workshops and conferences alternatives, despite having accepted, by some of →
Now in its sixth edition, the ' International Conference on Generative Art which is held each year at the Milan Polytechnic, research continues in a broad spectrum of technology and culture that has developed around the →
The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-10101-7 The sudden change in the rules imposed from access simultaneous and equal information, obtained through the network, sparked the curiosity of many social scientists that the last five years have →
One of the personal dreams of ordinary people, as shown by one of the first interactive games present at the Sony Center in Berlin, is to be able to control an orchestra in a personal way. →
The sixth edition of Life / Vida , Madrid competition of artificial intelligence and art has produced its annual verdict on the best works, which are rewarded, if increasingly rare these days, with various cash prizes. →
The concept of public space in a city, even if originally intended as a physical place for debate and confrontation, has undergone a radical transformation during the years, and now fully contains all the immaterial production →
