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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25.03.03 Stop War, media resistance.
The importance of the media war front is demonstrated by the tremendous efforts on the big networks’ part, which chose to stake →
Hektor is a project of Lehni and Uli Franke, who after four years of software programming have decided to return to interact with concrete tools interfacing to the precious Computing Machinery. The result was this robot →
It is held on March 21 to 22 at the Deconism Gallery in Toronto 'Cyborg Echoes: Collective Consciousness beyond the Post-Cyborg was' a two-day event dedicated to reflection on art and cyborgs. In the early evening →
mp3stego is a new software developed by Fabien AP Petitcolas that allows you to hide data within a mp3 file. The information is distributed in a manner invisible and imperceptible within the file during the compression →
Inaugurated on March 20 in Sheffield on Lovebytes, International Festival of Digital Art . After the editions of 2001 and 2002 , this seems to be the richest ever realized effectively combining digital arts and electronic →
Held at the Congress Centre 'La Sapienza' Rome liberiEbinari , Labcom a conference organized by the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" of free software, social movements and international law. →
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21.03.03 adonnaM.mp3, Filesharing, the Hidden Revolution in the Internet.
Opening on March 20 at the Museum fŸr Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, ‘adonnaM.mp3 – File Sharing, the Hidden →
Premiered at ' Evolution Festival Leeds QQQ is a good example of video games as art thought of as performance. Powered by Tom Betts, project manager Nullpointer, is based on the Quake engine multi-user, putting it →
The underground scene who edits toy instruments, which includes experiments Casperelectronics. , and Carrionsound. expands as more virtuous of the welder put to the test circuits of colored plastic playthings and circuits. David Steinberg is the →
Chinatown is the latest video games artfully edited by Brody Condon. The original hacking software consists of code changes such as distorting the visual apparatus, but it sets the other hand, a non-spectacular gameplay. The intent, →
In continuity with the fervent activity of the discussion list , the project AHA founded by Tatiana Bazzichelli organized a video projection of Activism-Hacking-Artivism under Ex-Cathedra – Movements cultural night , an event that inaugurates the →
Powered by Doron Golan Computerfinearts.com, this' nyc2 canal '? a 'quicktime project', ie one digital video usable with any platform under flash. The recovery in a pseudo real-time one of the crossroads pi? busiest of the →
Human Capital vers. 0.1.017 is the first product of the imaginary Human Capital Software Solutions formed by Beatrice Gibson, Sejal Chad, Adrian Ward and Mukul Deora. It is an alleged tool designed for voice dialing call →
Nostalgia, memories and reminders of the low-tech of the past. Perhaps none of this has to do with who in the past have had shouldered the archaic rigid plastic boxes pleased aduse technologies and has interfaced →
