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.
Story Streams is a digital film created in real-time by some young independent filmmakers around the globe. One purpose was to implement the tradition of oral narrative with digital editing techniques. Each participant created his own →
Banknotes 'realistic' printed inkjet? It is the alarm raised by De la Rue , a company specializing in security techniques in the reproduction on paper. According to a statement published by the New Scientist printers already →
Cosmophone is an installation of Frenchman David Calvet who tries to make a sound dimension to the elementary particles that surround us. These generated by cosmic rays do not affect in any way our body, yet →
Textual Tango is the new work of web art of Jessica Loseby, already among the authors of The Cyber Kitchen . To crowd the screen are texts that are composed by sequencing the dynamic arrangement of →
SuperCollider is a programming language for real time sound synthesis. The codes can be controlled with MIDI, a mouse, a graphic tablet or through a network. It’s compatible with the most common formats, it features a syntax →
The activity of the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), comes from the reflection on the relationship between censorship, technology and strength. The project was born in the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory of the Munk Centre for International →
– Friday, May 23, 2003: At Bluecheese Factory in Rome, Juggling with Pecoz Academy, DJ Indi, St. Paul, Golden Dais Bass and Macro Marco mc Lampadred + Ginko. At Brancaleone, also in the capital, those of →
It is held at the University of Toronto, the sixth edition (after those of 2001 and 2002 ) of Subtle Technologies , the international festival that seek to blur the boundary between art and science by →
Kicked off on May 17 the exhibition-event Kairos – the virtuality of art and the reality of the images, at the Center of Contemporary Art Piacentini palace of San Benedetto del Tronto. Open until June 22, →
A drum machine steam in England in the late nineteenth century might suggest to the fantastic environments developed by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in 'The Difference Engine', instead of true question (similar) document in proof →
The first edition of PEAM2003 Pescara Electronic Artists' Meeting is taking place at the Ecoteca of Pescara. Organized by Artificialia, the event is designed primarily as a place of encounter and exchange of experiences, bringing together →
"In the beginning was the word …" and the verb could be a sound. Cymatics is the name given to experimental studies that investigate the various phenomena associated with sound waves. A pioneer in this research, →
Inaugurated on May 22 at the Kunsthalle in Vienna ATTACK! Art and War in the Media Age , an exhibition dedicated media aspect of the conflict, more important than the reality of the drama of mutilated →
One Trees is the latest project by Natalie Jeremijenko, who continues to develop the idea her works are based on. The subject is cloning and the understanding of biotechnologies, in a time where the public perception of →
