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.
If the Japanese guys continue to amaze the West for their habit of dressing up (the so-called 'cosplay', ie 'costume play') as fictional characters (the protagonists of films, cartoons, and so on), the factor 'clothing' in →
Earshot was one of the first projects related to the composition of sound through the network, providing the opportunity to tap into the immense amount of files present in the countless servers around the globe. Available →
Simple mixer of sounds, combining many sounds to keyboard keys or scratch or effects, there are plenty of them were developed in the last ten years. Despite this there is still room for entertaining and products →
The collective's website Virtual Migrants, recently updated, presents a retrospective of the initiative Terminal Frontiers made at the Castlefield Gallery last fall. An event of digital art exclusion and globalization, which involved visual artists, musicians, performers →
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02.07.03 Casket, a software for laptop-based performances.
Casket is a software suite which allows to control videos, three-dimensional environments and animations on a laptop, using an audio →
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01.07.03 Neonlight, colored neon lights guided by sound.
Neonlight is an interactive music visualizer, made using Shockwave by the japanese Makoto Yanagisawa, which exploits the aesthetic paradigm →
According to a news report by ABC Australia , The Vatican has announced that it has hired a team of 'experts' to counter the reception every month about 10,000 viruses and attacks by thirty crackers perloppiù →
On 27 and 28 June was held at the Tate Gallery in London Digital Surface , an international symposium that explores the redefinition of 'surface' as a dimension of the work of art, and the various →
Abnormalities digital_arts, multilingual international journal under the direction of Emanuele Quinz, Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Numerical Arts Dance and Music at the University of Paris, continues an interesting and detailed investigation into the →
As reported by ' Associated Press , The Governor of the State of New York George Pataki signed a law that punishes with penalties of up to seven years in prison who takes pictures in the →
Ekpurosis, periodical regeneration of universe (stoic concept) is a work of the French artist submeta (aka Xavier Pehuet) commissioned by Turbulence.org. Starting from the representation of a micro-periodic regeneration is accomplished in a progressive distortion geometric →
Draws to a close in various places of the Ljubljana Festival Break 2.2 , an event that articulated theme this year is 'Invisible Threat', including all those activities which are not visible to some intrinsic hazards, →
Presented at the last edition of Sonar Audiopad is an interactive musical instrument developed at MIT Media Lab by James Patten and Ben Recht musician. Useful for both composition and live performance detects the position of →
The success of the television paradigm of 'Big Brother' scored one of the most notorious significant steps towards the spectacle of invasion of privacy and proclaim that the invasiveness of the television medium to the core →
