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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11.11.03 MindGuard, fake software on psychotronic control.
Conspiracy theories have always gained a following in the western countries, a fact which demonstrates an active vigilance on the →
A promising fake in the name of 0100101110101101.org was unveiled shortly after its launch through the usual massive communication campaign. In a statement very similar to those that are usually branched from the duo, in →
The rapid succession of images on the screen is one of the principles of hypnotic television, as well as those of expansive consciousness of brain machines. A solicitation of our visual perceptions, then, that leads us →
Conceived as a project pre-opening of the new Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, recently opened, OpenMind is a CD with eight audio tracks and four software, made to represent a cross-section of members of the historical →
Designed by Roland Henss for Plazm, Capitalis Pirate is a font in which each each letter, number or sign is extracted from the corresponding letter of the logo of a multinational. This selection will reflect on →
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11.11.03 Bass-Station, a music server in a ghetto blaster.
The external look of the hardware possesses a strongly symbolic component in the representation of its contents, and →
The text produced and stored on the network is the raw material more easily manipulated, from a technical point of view, and so far a large number of works have used it to construct new meaning →
Sunday, October 23 at the Space Archive of Contemporary Art in the Venice Biennale will take place the conference What is net art? , which will attempt to define a topic such as this second magmatic →
Dance and computer science, materiality of bodies and apparent fading of circuits and connections, which may seem worlds away instead contribute to defining new horizons of confluence articulated in contemporary artistic practices. All digital information →
The Sims Online is one of the most successful online virtual environments, able to attract a diverse audience made up of women and men in front of the screen will take care of their avatar, in →
From 16 to 25 October IRCAM in Paris is home to Réseaunances a unique electronic music festival that has only a remote audience. The choice of the organizers was in fact to organize this festival in →
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07.11.03 Ping Melody, dueting with the Net.
Using the uncatchable data flow of the Net as a process for transforming information is a more and more common →
Among the conceptual works that base their appeal on the paradox, NaDa well represents the world's commercial software industry and its representation in a browser window. NaDa, in fact, is presented as a product 'that does →
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Fact, ISBN 0-9541604-9-5
Curated by Armin Medosch, this ‘introduction to the free software world and to copyleft culture’ collects in an agile and graphically nice booklet, with cd-rom included, texts, works and software →
