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.
In the north of Italy, from Milan to triveneto, as a response to the policies of zero tolerance and progressive closure of the national border, were born hacktivist new realities that continue to survive despite numerous →
Somehow capture the sound environment that surrounds the users of the network provides an aural perspective that photographs somehow tastes and vibrations of space otherwise the almost impossible to combine. This seems to be one of →
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10.12.03 Esc@you, the human interface.
Among the many young talents who use Flash to produce their code, there’s somebody who goes beyond aesthetic research and tries to →
The eye sees what the mind wants, and never as in a gallery of images of abstract eroticism this axiom applies to explain the instinctive feelings. Using the virtuosity possible software ArtMatic, a 'graphic synthesizer' can →
The effectiveness of protest that the organization of a relatively small amount of people can express has increased tenfold with the use of mobile technologies strategically employed. During the current Bush's visit to London was turned →
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04.12.03 The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as a Crisis in Practice.
Sometimes, grafting concepts one on top of another can clarify, or at least correlate, complex →
It is difficult regimented the possibilities of the software, especially when you offer opportunities for expansion through standard overt. MyTunes is specially fill a void left by Apple and its popular iTunes music player software that →
Comes from the editors of Adbusters the latest initiative aimed at protecting the right to communication, for it to be constitutionally accepted in all countries. It's called Media Card Manifesto , and is a powerful stance →
Following the latest summer trends Yorkers in London there is a monthly event dedicated to iPod owners who want to try as a DJ, or, as stated in the last neologism, such as 'MP3J'. At Dreambagsjaguarshoes →
The spaces of street advertising are in fact visual harassment, a part of our daily visual space that is rented to business communication and its vacuous market of dreams. The intervention of these spaces is becoming →
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13:11:03 Faith Converter, theologic plagiarism.
In this was of globalization of commerce and disneyfication of cultures, religious differences are hard to tame even for a →
It opens November 12th Usine C in Montreal 's Elektra Festival 03 , an event dedicated to electronic music, digital imagery and robotics, which each year assembles an attractive program of installation and performance. Continuing the →
The Banff Centre Press, ISBN 0-920159-94-X
A long personal journey through the media mutation of the end of the Seventies to the dawn of the new millennium, describing a natural visionary nature, consequence of an artistic →
'Docs from the darkest side of the empire' is the subtitle of this production archive OVNI (Observatori De Video No identificat) in Barcelona, documenting an impressive collection of military propaganda and technological research that describes the →
