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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The yearly issue of Acoustic Space, a publication more similar to a book than to a magazine, this time hosts a large collection of essays on →
This is “user friendly” even in its name. The ‘Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC)‘ collective has made an operating system really for the users, as opposed to a view of software →
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30.04.03 Playing Card Deck, western criminals playing cards.
The activists of gatt.org have struck again, releasing a new product ‘which openly ridicules the arrogance of the american →
The role of the curator to select and emphasize the work of an exhibition is so essential? And above all, infinite in the free online accessibility and interconnectivity of electronic works, what sense have the 'restrictions' →
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29.04.03 Boston Cyberarts 2003.
On April 26 opened the 2003 edition of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, an awesome exhibition with a lot of events covering the whole →
The music and video games have a crucial factor in common: both are enjoyed as a function of time. The videogame music more focused, therefore, have the characteristic of marrying sound and game play into a →
The lack of interactivity plays accustomed patterns of the narrative, but the control of the flow of images filmed and not the choice of the dimensions (ie size) of the narrative allow archittettare sequences from the →
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24.04.03 Weekender: 72 Hours of cultural resistance, Eyes of Kassandra, Rennie Pilgrem, Andy Smith, David Holmes, Sister Bliss, Insiders.
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See, also mentally countless connections hypertext network is no mean feat, attempted, among other things, in various ways by different net artists. An interesting parallel in this daunting task has been developed by the Japanese Haruka →
In a fit of protectionism, Madonna did disseminate peer-to-peer its traces counterfeit , similar to the single of the new album freshly baked, American Life, in which instead of the actual song there is a silence →
User Friendly? This really is, starting with the name. The collective Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC) has developed an operating system that wants to be really close to the user, in opposition to the idea →
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24.04.03 IanniX 0.54, a software dedicated to Iannis Xenakis.
Considered one of the most infuential musicians of the 20th century, Iannis Xenakis died in 2001 and, due →
Larger than Life is the title of this year's European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in Germany. In growing to the previous events in 2001 and 2002 , this time the event is divided into the →
Three different events are celebrating these days the mutations of the word through new media and the significant possibility of recombination semiotics and semantics they offer. It has just ended, in fact E (X) literature , →
