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.
Continue republicart updates, online magazine that provides twelve numbers on public art and has called the last exit ' Art Sabotage ', dedicating it to the movement Neoist, one of the most vital and prolific ideas →
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14.03.03 Perry Hoberman, error messages art gallery.
Perry Hoberman is an artist from New York who makes installations where the technology is a target for irony, a →
On March 5 at 21:00 at the EM ARTS Naples, held a performance of Living Cinema project created by the multimedia artist Pierre Hébert and musician Bob Ostertag plagiarist. Entitled 'Between Science and Garbage' uses scraps →
Even the tabloids begin to deal with thorny issues such as surveillance cameras, albeit with their peculiar angle. In an article in the New York Post of February 27, we are told of that, Stephanie Fuller, →
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31.03.03 NGV and Viral Video Project: independent TV channels on the Net.
NGV, New Global Vision is a constantly updated visual database where anybody can add his →
After Dervish Flowers and Cinq Ailleurs , the former painter Nicolas Clauss made accessible online the interesting Jumeau Bar , created in tandem with Jean-Jacques Birge. The work consists of an interactive video that through technology →
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13.03.03 Gameboyzz Orchestra Project, the Nintendo sound.
In the sparkling ‘micromusic’ scene there are more and more artists who can manipulate primitive technologies to obtain neat results. →
Desktop Subversibles is the site that collects different software developed by Jonah Brucker-Cohen's Media Lab Europe, already the author of Clipit! , the author has subsequently developed mini applications can outline the continued operation of the →
Nine(9) is the name of the latest work by the artists collective Mongrel, from London, already well-known for investigating the paradoxes of identity and truth in the ‘database culture’. Referring to a number which represents, among →
The digital theater company Troika Ranch presented last week at 'The Duke' in New York his last work, entitled ' Future of Memory '. Interpreting a surreal world of memories blurred, distorted and destroyed. The piece →
The sorrow of every record label medium-large is always to find the new 'hit', the crock of notes, rhythms, and (perhaps) voices / texts splashed topped the charts without a shot being fired. Succeeding in quest'improbo →
From 27 February to 18 May, in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, kicks off " Hardcore, Towards a New Activism ", an event that involves numerous international artists. Hardcore, a name that wants to emphasize →
The online performance are beginning to experience the spaces of public communication, public chats, the real agora of the network. After attempts as more conceptual books Baudillard in BaudriR and an episode of 'Friends' in the →
– Friday, February 28, 2003: Alex Blacks (Planet Funk) + Stylophonic, the Maffia, Reggio Emilia, for Miss America, and the Maffia Soundsystem moves to Bologna in the evening Frame, dj hype Club Amplified project, different styles →
