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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24.04.03 Weekender: 72 Hours of cultural resistance, Eyes of Kassandra, Rennie Pilgrem, Andy Smith, David Holmes, Sister Bliss, Insiders.
– On 25, 26 and 27 →
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 , →
The China Internet Network Information Centre, which is the Chinese bureaucracy that dictates the rules compelling technical adjustment to all Internet Service Provider of the densely populated country, has issued the directives for all servers that →
From April 21 to 27 returns one of the highlights of the most important media activism in the USA. It is the TV Turnoff Week , the week of 'voluntary fasting television' given by the Culture →
For fans of vinyl collector 's ELP Laser Turntable is a device that innovates play discs of black lacquer. It is a laser scanner for vinyl hand-built with extreme care, with each of five laser to →
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23.04.03 Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time, 10th Digital Salon.
For its tenth anniversary, the international festival of electronic art ‘New York Digital Salon’ has organized a →
Conversation Map is a java software that creates an interface for conversations at a very large scale. Developed by Warren Sack of Social Technologies Group at the University of California – Berkeley, and nonostanta is still →
Atmospherics/Weather Works is a performance, an installation and a distributed software project aimed at extracting sounds from storms and other weather events. The sounds are generated directly from the original data of the event in a →
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18:04:03 Weekender: Rainer Truby, Dj Die, Francesco Farfa, Ralf, Zu, Synthomatic Squad.
– Friday, April 18: At Csoa Cox18, Milan, concerts Ex-Girl (Japanese female trio →
