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.
Inaugurated on April 30 in Wroclaw (Poland) the tenth Media Art Biennale this year entitled Globalica, conceptual and artistic Tensions in the new global disorder , which shows in a variant of the original leitmotif of →
The application of generative algorithms to specific phenomena, not yet precisely coded is one of the most interesting challenges of software art. That's what I tried to do the eclectic and celebrated group of Swiss Büro →
120 Years of Electronic Music is a site that attempts a compilation of the history of electronic musical instruments from early experiments with electricity by the end of the last century →
Panse is a platform created by Pall Thayer for the development of net art audiovisual and open to all. It basically consists of a program of streaming audio to mp3, with a tcp server running on →
Inaugurated on April 29 at the City Museum Zagreb <dis.location> , an exhibition of art students Croats Beeldende Rijksakademie van Kunsten in Amsterdam. Curated by Darko Fritz shows how an invisible thread binds the common territorial →
A prize for those who violate the privacy of citizens, with great zeal and senzavergogna: In England and the Privacy International Association haannunciato the winners of the sixth edition of the Big Brother Awards . Lemedaglie →
Artstream ? an experimental project of New Media Scotland, designed to explore the artistic potential of streaming media, and that in turn supports artists to produce works that take advantage of the flow of data in →
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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 →
