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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07.10.03 dynEbolic 1.0, the operating system for media activists.
At last, version 1.0 of dynEbolic, the ‘portable’ Linux distribution, is out. It’s portable in that it runs →
Many years ago the debate on graffiti, seen as a unique phenomenon of contemporary art on the one hand and as a mere act of vandalism on the other hand, had opened the debate on how →
The remix of the famous songs were a 'must' for users from the first CD-ROM of a decade ago that promised to be able to freely manipulate traces of famous artists. In reality, then, it was →
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07.10.03 CopVision: I like to watch.
Is it possible to imagine a computer watching TV? TheI like to watch/CopVision project is based on a program which does →
The vast territory of the programming software offers endless possibilities of inspiration that allow both to simulate organic processes, but to reveal the fictitious nature of a set of rules encoded in binary form that they →
Schizo-Mouse is not a recent realization of the Japanese Ryota Kuwakubo included in its website 'Vector Scan', which placed at the center of his analysis of the mouse pointer and what it represents, which is the →
Embrace the Decay is the first online interactive work of the writer Bruce Sterling. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles consists of a simulated typewriter with which you can make a few →
Cryptorebels is a project born with the aim of providing tools to the community to ensure the rights denied by more recent measures of security and control, such as the right to anonymity, the right to →
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26.09.03 Audiogame, interactive visual sound.
Audiogame is a collection of experiments in interactively representing sounds, realized using Flash by the french marc Em. They’re ideas realized in →
WiFi-SM is a site-travesty that proposes the purchase of a non-existent product to mock the utopia to be connected anytime, anywhere, interfacing, in the data, one's body with the flow of news in the network (more →
SoundSlam is yet another project of the group in Cologne Fur, author of PainStation , LegShocker and Furninja . This time, to be the subject of the ironic humor of the group is the figure of →
Open Government Information Awareness (GIA) is a project created by the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab in response to the Total Information Awareness (TIA) System, planned by the Bush administration to monitor all →
book – Actar – ISBN 0789724103
An interesting collection of flyers which tell the not-so-official history of the electronic Barcelona (from the beginning of the Nineties to the present). This city has witnessed the birth →
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24.09.03 v2v, a Video Sharing Syndicate Conspiracy.
Moving pictures are the latest medium implemented on a computer, due to the computing power required. They are, nonetheless, the →
