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.
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 →
The external look of the hardware possesses a strongly symbolic component in the representation of its contents, and the makers of music machines have known this for a long time. Reinterpreting this axiom, the artists Mark →
A compilation commemorative typically pays a tribute of recognition to an artist, an event or a concept particularly important, but reversing this mechanism can stage a spectacular protest that has as its symbol the attack the →
recycling concept can be applied to immaterial smile, as ephemeral from a physical point of view. But on closer inspection the reuse of ideas and algorithmic routine is already an established practice in the programming code →
As reported by The Times of India, in response to the detention by the authorities to access Yahoo Groups is a cyber been called satyagraha , which is a form of protest that they can carry →
At the base of each electronic image processing, however, there is a construction based on mathematical calculation, almost always designed for the specific final effect to be obtained. But just as interesting processing can be achieved →
The book Net.Art Loarte Connection, published by the publishing house Shake has always been attentive to the emerging realities of the underground culture (and not only) Italian and international, traces the history of international net.art →
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20.11.03 Nano guitar, inaudible nanosounds.
A Nano guitar, that is, a guitar built on a nanometric scale, has been built by Harold G. Craighead and Dustin W. →
The machine of the truth as it is known to the general public is started at sunset. The feverish activity of the polygraph which decreed the veracity or otherwise of the claims examiner is going to →
The conceptual possibilities of a work of art on the web have always been prosperous, for the abstraction easily estrinsecabile by the medium and its extreme flexibility fiction, also linked to new combinations between aduse and →
Experiments like Gymnopédie No.1 demonstrate how the mixing of media obtained from the web can easily transform artifacts acquired, transporting, reviewed and changed into a new dimension. The popular music of Erik Satie here is enriched →
Is it possible to reproduce the experience of an electronic art festival filmed in a documentary? Abiding by a sort of moral obligation, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2003 of 2003 dubbed 'Date Knitting', has produced →
L ' ASPCR (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots) is a company that since 1999 is responsible for ensuring basic rights to 'all sentient beings created in an artificial way'. Playing in advance →
