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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02.04.03 Annotations, narration by a photo album.
Annotations is the first web work by Glenn Ligon, an artist who loves african-american culture and who, until today, had →
by Alessandro Ludovico.
[This text is part of the ‘adonnaM.mp3 – Filesharing, the Hidden Revolution in the Internet‘ exhibition curated by Franziska Nori and the digitalcraft.org team into the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, opened to the public from →
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02.04.03 Twentythree, pixeled body.
Made by the canadian Babel, twentythree is an interactive linear Flash video featuring some digitized images and sequences taken from movies made in →
Tuboid ? software that generates tunnel that is constantly changing and modeling trimensionali the structural form of the tunnel from the outside. The program, of which ~ you can download a free demo for Windows to →
In an absurd spiral of unnecessary violence in Iraq, the conflict goes on, reported by television and newspapers in an equally absurd race for who screams louder titles of terror and horror. In the branching network →
Although frequent changes in aesthetic and technical hardware music (from the speakers boosting amplifiers), there are few practical innovations that promise to change the habitual user categories. Among these certainly ranks SoundVu , a fascinating technology →
After ' Waste of Time 'and' Cryptographever ', <the SIX O> is the new online work of the team of K-hello.org. Even more rooted in the maze concept, this time the authors have minimized the apparatus →
Ravi Jain already used in very difficult times the voice mail as a compositional tool, sampling sounds from the street through cheap phone calls made by the public phones. The concept behind ' Concerto for Voicemail →
Catalogue is another work of web art that puts to shame the paradigm of ecommerce websites. Produced by the New York Kate Armstrong, makes use of the typical interface and how to use an online sales →
At the Visual Arts Laboratory of the University La Sapienza in Rome, Friday at 21:00 an exhibition of photo theme , created by Selin Alemdar and projected onto the cyber-creature HUMI BK10. Moreover, as from Friday →
Skin / strip ? the result of an explicit invitation, which circulated among experts in the beginning and in most network? Later, he invited the community to express the digital identity of his naked body. The →
Re-Code is a free web-service that allows its users to share some information about mass-produced goods and create bar codes ready to print and re-use in department stores, overlapping the official ones to determine the price →
Is held in S-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, the 2003 edition of ' Earational Festival , an event that brings together many areas of electronic musical experimentation, with players new and old. Enough, in fact, have a browse →
For the inauguration of the first in Bangkok Chiangmai New Media Art Festival have chosen a collective performance enabled network with poor means. On April 28th at noon (Italian time) are all invited to manifest itself →
